We at First Inkling magazine are thrilled to announce Ryan Cannon, Ryan McLean, and Minh Phuong Nguyen as this year’s winners of the $750 Sammy Award—the highest honor our publication offers, and one of the highest award amounts paid to students anywhere in the world. We named the Sammy Awards after our late benefactor, Sam Draper, without whose generous contributions our efforts would not have been possible. We offer the awards to those writers whose work demonstrates exceptional maturity, craftsmanship, and creative talent—the “first inklings” of future greatness. After literally hundreds of hours of discussion and deliberation, our editors chose Cannon’s “The Pump House,” Mclean’s “Daniel Gunther at Lot Y,” and Nguyen’s “The Rock That Sweats” as just such works, among the best in the 2012 issue of First Inkling....