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Bridget Pelkie, who recently earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College, also recently earned third place in Bukowski Tavern's Pint and Pen Writing Contest (co-sponsored by Harpoon and the Dig). The awards ceremony took place on Wednesday; Pelkie won a large boot-shaped pint glass filled with a set of steak knives. In between bouts of enjoying her prize, Pelkie took the time to answer a few of our questions. (Disclosure: this Bostonist also attends Emerson College and knows Pelkie, who lives with another Bostonist. But it's not like we judged the contest.)

Bukowski Tavern, Harpoon, and The Weekly Dig have teamed up again for the “Pint and Pen” writing contest. The premise is simple: write a short-short story between 500 and 750 words long. The hard part is including these four essential words: pint, pen, Bukowski, and Harpoon. The harder part is competing against dozens of other word lovers who revel in the romantic notion of being a hard-drinking genius of letters.