INFORMAL LOGIC congratulates Dr. Marcello Gurarini University of Windsor, Canada winner of the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) 1 sf Essay Competition and the US$500 prize for his paper, A Defense of Non-Deductive Reconstructions of Analogical Arguments & Ms. Lilian Bermejo-Luque University of Murcia, Spain winner of the J. Anthony Blair Award and the CDN$250 prize for the best essay by a graduate student at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) Conference held at McMaster University, May 2005 for her paper, Toulmin 's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism Both these essays will appear in the next issue of Informal Logic, vol. 24, no.2