Assistant Editor
Sirpa Kaukinen
Poet and writer
ON, Canada
Kippis! A Literary Journal
Finnish North American Literature Association
Editor
Beth L. Virtanen, PhD
Professor and Paloheimo Scholar
Finlandia University
Hancock, MI
Associate Editor
G. K. Wuori
Independent Author
Sycamore, IL
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     2nd Annual
Kippis! Creative Writing Contest
  • 1st place:   Don Hagelberg for
    3 poems:   "Billed to Death,"
    "For Those of You    Who
    Know," and "The Rent Was Due."

  • 2nd place Wendy Anderson for
    nonfiction: "Growing Up 'Woods
    Queer'"

  • 3rd place Wendy Anderson for
    3 poems: "Little Miss," "Same
    Old," and "Can't Go Home
    Again."

  • 4th place Lynn Veach Sadler
    for 3 poems: "Anna's Sisu
    Shop," "Feathers in    
    Fortaleza's Cap," and "Giraffe
    Quintet."

  • honorable mentions
Fran Wiideman
 Michael Leroy King
Sheila Packa
Kaarina Brooks
Daniel McGlone
Brian Keith Foreman

The issue also includes additional
works by these authors:
  • Ernest Hekkanen
  • JoEllyn Belka
  • Jim Heikkinen
  • Christopher Linforth
  • Michael Leroy King
  • Bill Vartnaw