Paul A Witty Award Winners publishing in Carus Publishing Magazines

14 winners since the award was first given in 1986

2011 - Darienne Oaks for "Swing It!" (CRICKET, February 2010)

A dancer, musician, writer and educator from childhood to the present, (when she was six she set up a "school" for the neighborhood kids on her front steps in Freeport, Long Island), she has been immersed in education and the arts all her life. Inspired by numerous writers, artists and her mother, a poet, she treasures good stories and delights in sharing them.

2009 - Ann Parr for "Gordon Parks: Bigger Than LIFE" (CRICKET, February 2008)

2008 - Marianne Zebrowski for "Ten Thousand Krathongs" (SPIDER, November 2007)

2007 - Sheila Kelly Welch for "The Holding-On Night" (CRICKET)

2006 - Wendi Silvano for "The Inca Chaqui" (CRICKET, May 2005)

2004 - Susan R. Anderson for "Noah and the Crow" (CRICKET, July and Aug 2003)

2003 - Patricia Baehr for "Blizzard" (CRICKET, December 2002 and January 2003)

1997 - Teresa Bateman for "Trapped in the Arctic" (CRICKET, January and February 1996)

1993 - Shizuko Obo Koster for "The Day My Mother Sold the Family Swords" (CRICKET, August 1992)

1992 - Pnina Kass for "Five Words" (CRICKET, September 1991)

1991 - Anthony Holcroft for "Chen-Li and the River Spirit" (CRICKET, February 1990)

1990 - Eric Kimmel for "Four Dollars and Fifty Cents" (CRICKET, September and October 1989)

1989 - Diane Brooks Pleninger for "The Innkeeper’s Boy" (CRICKET, November 1988)

1988 - Sid Fleischmann for "The Scarebird" (CRICKET, November 1987)