2016 WINNERS & FINALISTS

2016 POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

JUDGE: SARAH VAP

WINNER
F.J. Bergmann, A Catalogue of the Further Suns

 

FINALISTS

  • Desiree Bailey, What Noise Chafing Against the Cane
  • Laynie Brown, Everyone and Her Resemblances
  • Kristi Carter, Daughter Shaman
  • Dante Di Stefano, endless duende
  • M.J. Gette, dig (absence): and archaeological sequence
  • Eve Linn, Album of Not
  • Melissa Pulin, Rupture, Light
  • Sean Rhys, Fires of Unremarkable Nights
  • Haley Sledge, Continuous Arousal/ Nothing to Hear
  • Ellen Welcker, The Pink Tablet

SEMIFINALISTS

Mark Baumer, Big Fern; Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Endearments; John Fry, some people actually inhabit their bodies; Heikki Houtari, You Will See Neutrinos; Kathleen McGookey, Nineteen Letters; Jason Rusch, Problematic Queer Love; Kami Westhoff, Your Body a Bullet; Patrick Willis, Manuel Random Hill; Sarah Ann Winn, Every After End Matter; Devon Wotten, Gimme the Pretty        

2016 FICTION CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

JUDGE: VIET THANH NGUYEN

WINNER
Laura S. Distelheim, We

 

FINALISTS

  • Katharine Haake, Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld
  • Emily Flamm, Small Territory Fires
  • James R. Gapinski, Migratory Patterns
  • Bownwyn Mauldin, Spartacus Machines
  • Wendy Oleson, Floating Rooms

SEMIFINALISTS

Tim Catlow, At the Mercy of Gravity; William Hoffacker, Secret Machines; Richard Krawiec, What We Learn; S Asher Sund, Self-Portrait in B Flat

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