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Congratulations to the winners of the Answers.com Creative Writing Challenge and thank you to everyone who participated.

1st Place
Sandra Hanks Benoiton
Paradise Preoccupied

2nd Place
Patrice Eastham
RumbleStrip

3rd Place
Sarah McIntyre
Sarah McIntyre

Classroom Edition Winner
Carolyn Phelps’ class from The Learning Academy of Teton Valley
Middle School Pages: Abi

For a full list of winners, visit the Hall of Fame.

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The entries are rolling in for the 3rd Answers.com Creative Writing Challenge. What’s the Challenge? Write an original composition (poetry, prose, fiction, essays or any other form of creatively written expression) using no more than 750 words and post it in your blog or on your web site. Each submission must contain each of the words or phrases below used correctly and hyperlinked to the corresponding Answers.com entry.

• a lick and a promise
• ataraxia
• contraband
• halva
• mantic

• praxis
• sapid
• semilunar
• serendipity
• zeitgeist

Can you meet the Challenge? Lots of folks already have! Give it a shot…you could win an Amazon.com gift certificate or Answers.com link love!

Check out some of your competition:

• 8gurl’s blog: Serendipitous Freedom
• Clean Slate: Taste of Love
• Paradise Preoccupied: Sweet Polska
• Sarah McIntyre: A Lick and a Promise

What do ataraxia and halva have in common? They’re both on the list of words you’ll need to use when submitting your entry for the latest Answers.com Creative Writing Challenge! Can you meet the Challenge?

What’s in it for you? Prizes include:

• 1st Place - Fame and fortune! $100 Amazon.com gift certificate plus links to the winner’s blog in the
  Hall of Fame
• 2nd Place - $50 Amazon.com gift certificate plus blog links in the Hall of Fame
• 3rd Place - Blog links in the Hall of Fame

Go on. Do it! Write something!