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 Animals; Emily Kiernan, Todos Vuelven; Jen Knox, Rattle: Three Stories; Harmony Neal, This Is What It's Like to Die