2013 WINNERS & FINALISTS

2013 POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

JUDGE: SUSAN McCABE

WINNER
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Her Human Costume

 

RUNNER UP
Amie Whittemore, Dream of the Ark 

FINALISTS

  • Mary-Kim Arnold, Awake, Location
  • Jeffrey Bean, Loud God
  • Carrie Bennett, The Lost Letters
  • Rachel Bennett, Mural Quadrant
  • Julia Maher, On/Off Island--A Play in Parts
  • Erica Mena, Featherbone
  • Robert Perchan, Musing Miss Kim: 19 Prose Poems
  • Treasure Redmond, chop: 30 kwanasabas for fannie lou hamer

SEMIFINALISTS

Caroline Crew, Your Stupid Fortune Gives Me Stupid Hope; Adam Crittenden, Alter State; Tara Deal, Living, Etc.; Melissa Holm, Ab. Sin. The; Christopher Munde, Specula; Michael Trocchia, The Fathoming People; Yim Tan Wong, Hypnopompia

2013 FICTION CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

JUDGE: TRINIE DALTON

WINNER
Iver Arnegard, Whip and Spur

 

RUNNER UP
William Kelley Woolfitt, Rattlesnake Springs

FINALISTS

  • Tim Catlow, Pulling Children From  A River
  • Racquel Goodison, Skin
  • Rachel May, The Vermont Studio Center Experiments: A Legend

SEMIFINALISTS

Nora Boydston, Object Lesson; Erica Plouffe Lazure, Dry Dock; Sean Lovelace, One Year; Donna Vitucci, twisted. 

 The cover images of both Whip and Spur and Her Human Costume are original watercolor paintings created for the chapbooks by artist Axel Wilhite, who worked in collaboration with the Gold Line Press editorial team and authors Iver Arnegard and Cynthia Marie Hoffman to develop these highly personal reflections of the chapbooks. See more of Axel Wilhite's work at www.axelwilhite.com.

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