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