ALAS, POOR ELVIS, I KNEW HIM, BUBBA (nonfiction, 50,000 words) examines the impact of Elvis Presley on the culture of America and the rest of the world. Its editor/commentator is Howard Denson, one of the leaders of the Florida First Coast Writers' Festival, which sponsored a whimsical contest similar to the Best of Bad Hemingway and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contests. Entrants invariably wrote about themselves as they recalled their encounters with...