Howard Brown's "Pariah" won the first-place prize in poetry in the Faulkner Literary Competition hosted by the Union County Historical Society and Heritage Museum in his hometown of New Albany, Mississippi which is also the birthplace of William Faulkner. His short story "The Transient Salvation of Buster Mitchell" was awarded third-place in fiction. Howard Brown is a retired attorney, who currently lives in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. He has published short fiction in Louis