Members attending the December meeting judge the submissions for the Art Contest. Winners are announced at the Member's Dinner in January, where beautiful hand-made awards made by Linda Mahan are presented for First, Second and Third prizes in this competition.

Contest entries have to be an astronomy-related original short story. Submissions may be fact or fiction, humor or opinion. You may have a favorite story about an observing experience, a trip or about people who have crossed your astronomical path in one memorable way or another. Share the stories of your astronomy observing and/or travel experiences, enable us to appreciate them with you and enhance our own appreciation of the amazing and endless interest of astronomy.

Here are the contest entries entered for the 2007 SFAA Literary Contest:

Revisited: Genesis of Astronomical Interest, by Jim Webster

The One-Handed Astronomer, by Elan Morpurgo

From a Dreamer's Pen, by Cheryl Schudel

APOCALYPTO-APOCALIMPO-APOCALIMBO-APOCABIMBO - APOCA…, by John Dillon