The 1985 New Era Contest Winners:
Kaleidoscope of Your Creation

Last September we asked you to seal the brightly colored fragments of your experience and insight into the kaleidoscope of your talent and training and turn, turn, turn them until something wonderful happened. You did, and it did, and the results are breathtaking. Through your eyes and your craft we have seen the world transformed.

The kaleidoscope of your poetry sparkled with licorice-sticky puddles; boulders of thunder; the bright-green, well-fed snake of an irrigation tube; and an old man whose fingers balance sea, air, and stars.

Your art kaleidoscope created wonderful pastel still lifes, and your photography delivered, as requested, a kaleidoscope full of people.

The bright patterns of the winning article chronicled the maturing of a childlike faith in prayer, and the shifting colors of fiction taught us the importance of never giving up on those we love.

In music, the kaleidoscopic images took on the solemn grandeur of stained glass. The winning hymn sings praise to Zion’s King, and the winning song testifies that “He is not here, for he is risen.”

This issue is full of the light which shines through your art. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have.

Poetry

1st Place

Rebecca J. Abramson (18)
Alexandria, Va.

2nd Place

Keena Pack (17)
Nampa, Idaho

3rd Place

Laurie D. Smith (16)
Provo, Utah

Honorable Mention

Mary Kathryn Ballard (16)
Murray, Utah

Teresa Bateman (26)
Issaquah, Washington

Adrienne L. de Jager (26)
Orem, Utah

Traci Ann Hogan (17)
Salmon, Idaho

K-onna Mason (16)
Sandy, Utah

Dayle King Searle (25)
Shelley, Idaho

Rex Strother (23)
Seal Beach, California

Article

1st Place

Vivian Harmer (19)
Bountiful, Utah

2nd Place

Kay Lynn Mangum (15)
Bountiful, Utah

3rd Place

Jolee Kay Lloyd (22)
Sandy, Utah

Honorable Mention

Lisa Garff (16)
Salt Lake City, Utah

Janis Porter Hayes (26)
Cedar City, Utah

Kristi M. Johnson (25)
Caldwell, Idaho

K-onna Mason (16)
Sandy, Utah

Fiction

1st Place

J. Scott Henrie (26)
Ogden, Utah

2nd Place

Benson E. Misalucha (22)
Cebu City, Philippines

3rd Place

Weldon Smith (25)
Salt Lake City, Utah

Honorable Mention

Michelle C. Andrews (23)
Aurora, Colorado

Tori M. Cornwall (19)
Las Vegas, Nevada

Bryn McGrew (15)
Vancouver, Washington

Vicki Lynn Renfroe (26)
Livingston, Texas

Dayle King Searle (25)
Shelley, Idaho

Song

1st Place

Steven Kapp Perry (24)
Provo, Utah

2nd Place

Brent N. Jorgensen (26)
Mesa, Arizona

3rd Place

Cori Lynn Davis (16)
Caldwell, Idaho

Honorable Mention

Amy Marie Ballstaedt (14)
Salt Lake City, Utah

Kevin Olson (14)
West Jordan, Utah

Hymn

1st Place

Brent N. Jorgensen (26)
Mesa, Arizona

2nd Place

Rebecca Woodworth (19)
Bountiful, Utah

Honorable Mention

John Charles Duffy (12)
Orem, Utah

Erik Magnus (17)
Sacramento, California

Photography

1st Place

Lynn Howlett (22)
Anchorage, Alaska

2nd Place

Brian Williams (15)
Idaho Falls, Idaho

3rd Place

Marc K. Marriott (17)
La Mesa, California

Joanne D. Wade (23)
Santa Rosa, Ca.

Honorable Mention

Kelly Frehner (15)
Mesquite, Nevada

Alan Hills (17)
Ogden, Utah

Stacy Holiday (20)
Los Angeles, California

Eric Olson (23)
La Mirada, California

Karen Pomeroy (18)
Santa Barbara, California

Bobbi Jane Rice (20)
Salt Lake City, Utah

Karen Rookhuyzen (19)
Lompoc, California

William Jared Scott (13)
Wichita, Kansas

Art

1st Place

Karen Bennett (22)
Sandy, Utah

2nd Place

Christina Graff (15)
Ogden, Utah

3rd Place

Shane Worrell (17)
Sugar City, Idaho

Honorable Mention

Julie Carpenter (19)
Safford, Arizona

Dina Olson (17)
La Mirada, California

Kerry Soper (18)
Provo, Utah

Carrie Strong (17)
Salt Lake City, Utah

Devon Wesenberg (21)
Puyallup, Washington

Rebecca J. Abramson; Keena Pack; Laurie D. Smith

Vivian Harmer; Kay Lynn Mangum; Jolee Kay Lloyd; J. Scott Henrie; Benson E. Misalucha; Weldon Smith; Steven Kapp Perry; Brent N. Jorgensen; Cori Lynn Davis; Rebecca Woodworth; Lynn Howlett; Brian Williams; Marc K. Marriott; Joanne D. Wade; Karen Bennett; Christina Graff; Shane Worrell