2014 WINNERS & FINALISTS

2014 POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

JUDGE: DOUGLAS KEARNEY

WINNER
drea brown, dear girl: a reckoning

 

HONORABLE MENTION
Cameron Awkward-Rich, Transit
Maggie Queeney, In Pioneer Times and Other Poems 


FINALISTS

  • Chen Chen, Kissing the Sphinx
  • Dante Di Stefano, Fighting Weather
  • Dante Di Stefano, Ill Angels
  • LA Johnson, Little Climates
  • Julia Maher, On/Off Island
  • Erin Mullikin, You Can’t Come Back to This Violet Time
  • Christina Olson, Weird Science

SEMIFINALISTS

Ruth Baumann, these tornadoes; Jenn Blair, The Ailing Hotel; Chen Chen, Set the Garden on Fire; Melissa Ginsburg, Analysis; Nathan Kemp, Gnomic Verse; Kevin McLellan, Hemispheres; Erin Rodoni, Rotating Exhibit; Sarah Sousa, If It Weren’t for the Girls with Pocket Knives; Ryan Vine, Rules; Harold Williams, Shape Notes

2014 FICTION CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

JUDGE: AIMEE BENDER

WINNER
Anna Kovatcheva, The White Swallow

 

HONORABLE MENTION
Yu-Han Chao, Writing on the Basement Wall
Dennis James Sweeney, When He Comes Home from the War

FINALISTS

  • Nora Brooks, How to Boil an Egg and Other Recipes
  • Ivelisse Rodriguez, The Belindas

SEMIFINALISTS

Taira Anderson, The Woman Leaves; Carrie Bennett, Water Ghosts and Other AnimalsEmily Kiernan, Todos VuelvenJen Knox, Rattle: Three Stories; Harmony Neal, This Is What It's Like to Die

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