Subterrain’s Volume 7 Issue 66 features the winners of the Lush Triumphant Literary Awards Competition 2013.
Fiction Winner
Janet Trull: “Hot Town”
Poetry Winner
Connor Doyle: “Under City Suite”
Nonfiction Winner
Aaron Chan: “A Case of Jeff”
The rest of the issue includes fiction from Brock Peters, Martin West, Dina Lyuber, Gary Barwin, Sandra Alland, and Jordan Turner; poetry from Amber McMillan, Terry Trowbridge, klipschutz, and Jen Currin; and featured artist Brit Bachmann.
Iron Horse Literary Review‘s latest review features only one writer: Michael Hemmingson, winner of the 2013 IHLR Single-Author Competition. His novella, Still Life with Iguana, “flies through a journalist’s life and career, uncovering the heart of an appealing protagonist and reuniting him with his one true love,” writes Bill Roorbach. It “is told in fragments and blocks and tesserae, a mosaic beautifully rendered.”
The Winter/Spring 2014 issue of The Southeast Review features the winners of the magazine’s 2013 contests:
World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest
judged by Robert Olen Butler
Winner:
Kat Gonso, “A Pinch of Salt”
Finalists:
Shannon Beamon, “The Skeletons That Make Your Closet”
Kelsie Hahn, “What My Daughter Is Holding”
Alisha Karabinus, “Begin Again With Heat”
Julia LoFaso, “The Envoy”
Heather Michaels, “These External Manners of Lament”
Eliot Wilson, “Costco”, “The Homeowners Association”, “Match.Com: A Lovesong in Two Voices”, and “Uncle Frank Meets Charlton Heston”
SER Poetry Contest
judged by Erin Belieu
Winner:
Elizabyth Hiscox, “Night Being the Consort of Chaos In Milton”
Honorable Mentions Selected by Erin Belieu:
Colette Gill, “Thoughts in a Russian Museum”
Elizabyth Hiscox, “Or What You Will”
Finalists Selected by the Editors of SER:
Rachel Contreni Flynn, “Gratitudes: Detasseling”
Jonathan Greenhause, “All Is Noise & Music”
Elizabyth Hiscox, “Cellular Physic”
Allan Peterson, “Lasting”
Christine Salvatore, “Betrayal”
Vivian Shipley, “No Gold Lamé for Me”
Kathryn Weld, “Seed Bed”
SER Narrative Nonfiction Contest
judged by Diane Roberts
Winner:
Pamela Balluck, “Parts of a Chair”
Finalists:
Elizabeth McConaghy, “Little Gods”
Sam Shaber, “I Am 40”
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their December Fiction Open competition. This competition is held twice a year. Stories generally range from 2000-6000 words, though up to 20,000 is fine. The next Fiction Open will take place in June. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
First place: Courtney Sender, of Baltimore, MD, wins $2500 for “Even Angels Are Astonished.” Her story will be published in Issue 93 of Glimmer Train Stories. This will be her first major print publication. [Photo credit: Summer Greer.]
Second place: Celeste Ng, of Cambridge, MA, wins $1000 for “Every Little Thing.”
Third place: Andrew Robinson, of Singapore, wins $600 for “Greater Love.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Deadline soon approaching! Short Story Award for New Writers: February 28. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5000. No theme restrictions. Most submissions to this category run 1500-5000 words, but can go up to 12,000. First place prize is $1500. Second/third: $500/$300. Click here for complete guidelines.
The Green Mountains Review Fall/Winter issue is in, featuring the winners from the Brattleboro Literary Festival Flash Fiction Contest and the Neil Shepard Prize.
Neil Shephard Prize Winners 2013
Poetry
Doug Ramspeck: “Sacred Music”
Fiction
Erin Somers: “The Melt”
Brattleboro Literary Festival Flash Fiction Contest Winners
Winner
Kathryn Nuernberger
2nd Place Winner
Karen Stefano
3rd Place Winner
Dorothy Bendel
The Fall 2013 issue of The Antigonish Review features the winners of the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest Winners:
Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest
First Prize: Patricia Young
Second Prize: B.L. Gentry
Third Prize: Sean Howard
Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest
First Prize: Michelle Berry
Second Prize: Heather Debling
Third Prize: Joan M. Baril
The 2013 River Styx International Poetry Contest winners, judged by Terrance Hayes, are featured in River Styx‘s latest issue:
First Place
Molly Bashaw: “A Talk With Chagall”
Second Place
Lois Marie Harrod: “Woman Finds Her Face”
Third Place
Robert Campbell: “Arrhythmia’
Honorable Mentions
Jennifer Perrine: “Confidence Game”
Robert Heald: “Twelve Dreams About You”
Hayes wrote that the winning poem “stood out because of its scale and range of tone. It is propelled by wonderful imagination, tone and imagery. Lines like this one stayed with me: ‘You would think someone watched over these scenes with a whip made of wheat.'”
The editors of The Baltimore Review are pleased to announce the winners of their winter contest:
Brett Foster, 1st place, for “On the Numbness That Will Be Our Future”
Clay Matthews 2nd place, for “An Angel Gets Her Wings”
Roy Bentley, 3rd place, for “O, Kindergarten”
The final judge for the contest was Reginald Harris.
The poems are included in the online issue launched January 31. The issue also features poems, short stories, creative nonfiction, and a video by Kilby Allen, Janette Ayachi, Gaylord Brewer, Daniel Butterworth, Michael Capel, Valerie Cumming, Anne Goodwin, Peter Goodwin, John Goulet, Piotr Gwiazda, Matt Hobson, Michael Derrick Hudson, Amorak Huey, Brian Maxwell, Sheila O’Connor, Rebecca Orchard, and Margaret Stout.
The next submission period for The Baltimore Review is February 1 – May 31.
The Winter 2013 issue of SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review) features the winners of the 2013 Editors’ Prize Contest:
First Place ($1000): Jesse Nissim, “Fire”
First Runner Up ($100): Dante Di Stefano, “Praying to Ares After Listening to My Father’s Voice Message”
Second Runner Up ($100): Carol Matos, “Goodbye Charlie”
Honorable Mentions:
Leland James, “A Brief History of the Electric Chair”
Susan Charkes, “Conveyance”
Michael Sukach, “Poetry Critic: a Found Pastoral”‘
Arne Weingart, “Parenthetical”
Liz Windhorst Harmer was awarded with the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize for her piece “Blip” which is featured in the latest issue of The Malahat Review. It was chosen by the final judge John Vaillant from among 160 entries. Valliant writes, ” The author’s confidence in her story and her craft was evident throughout, revealing itself in the clarity and cadence of the sentences and by a notable (and refreshing) absence of simile and metaphor. The words and what they conveyed were strong enough on their own that there was no need for amping them up with adjectives or outside associations. There is also a lyrical quality in this piece that made me want to hear it read aloud, in other words ‘told’ to me, as opposed to written.”
Finalists:
Robert Colman, “The Word Is Man”
Abigail Gascho Landis, “Inside a River”
Madeline Sonik, “Dead Ewes”
Dale Scott Waters, “The Light, The Light, The Horror, The Horror”
Terence Young, “Almost Home Again”
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their November Short Story Award for New Writers. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation greater than 5000. The next Short Story Award competition will take place in February. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
1st place goes to Natasha Tamate Weiss [Pictured. No photo credit.] of San Francisco, CA. She wins $1500 for “What It Means to Rush” and her story will be published in Issue 93 of Glimmer Train Stories. This is Natasha’s first published fiction.
2nd place goes to Amy Evans Brown of Kalamazoo, MI. She wins $500 for “The Hudson.”
3rd place goes to Gabe Herron of Scappoose, OR. He wins $300 for “Uriah.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
FreeFall‘s latest issue features the poetry of Angela Simmons, winner of the Sharon Drummond Chapbook Prize. This prize was established in 2013 in memory of the Calgary poet Sharon Drummond and honors Alberta-based writers who have never before published a collection of poetry. Angela Simmons received a contract with Rubicon Press to publish her work in an edited chapbook. The issue includes several selections from this chapbook.
Able Muse‘s Winter 2013 issue announces and includes the winners of the 2013 Write Prize for Poetry:
Winner
D.R. Goodman: “The Face of Things”
Second Place
Jeanne Wagner: “The Unfaithful Shepherd”
Third Place
Richard Wakefield: “Keepaway”
Finalists
D.R. Goodman: “Our Late in Summer”
Tara Tatum: “The Nut House”
D.R. Goodman: “A Red-Tailed Hawk Patrols”
Anna M. Evans: “Prague Spring”
Melissa Balmain: “Two Julys”
SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review)‘s Editors’ Prize 2013 Contest winners are announced and published in the latest issue:
First Place ($1000)
Jesse Nissim, “Fire”
First Runner Up ($100)
Dante Di Stefano, “Praying to Ares After Listening to My Father’s Voice Message”
Second Runner Up ($100)
Carol Matos, “Goodbye Charlie”
Honorable Mentions
Leland James, “A Brief History of the Electric Chair”
Susan Charkes, “Conveyance”
Michael Sukach, “Poetry Critic: a Found Pastoral”
Arne Weingart, “Parenthetical”
The Colorado Review‘s latest issue features the winner of the 2013 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, the prize’s 10th anniversary. Judge Jim Shepard selected Edward Hamlin’s “Night in Erg Chebbi” as the winning piece. Editor Stephanie G’Schwind writes that it is a “hauntingly beautiful story.” And Shepard writes that it “deftly deploys the kind of flyblow and faintly absurd exoticism shot through with menace that was Paul Bowles’s specialty, but the observational intelligence of its portrait of a loving but exhausted couple at the end of their tether is all its own, and both its sense of place and its pained compassion are arresting.” To read more about the prize, click here.
Also featured in this issue are Miki Arndt, Corey Campbell, Molly Patterson, Jen Hirt, Keane Shum, Sarah K. Lenz, Karen Leona Anderson, Mario Chard, Mark Conway, Robert Dannenberg, K.A. Hays, Michael Heller, Nabil Kashyap, and more.
In the latest issue of New Letters, they announce the readers favorites for Volume 19 Issues 1-4, 2012-2013:
Readers Award for Fiction
Douglas Trevor: “Slugger and the Fat Man”
Readers Award for Poetry
Claudia Serea: “My Father’s Quiet Friends in Prison, 1958-1962”
Readers Award for the Essay
Walter Cummins: “Roth’s Complaint”
Green Briar Review held its first annual Federico Garcia Lorca Poetry Prize judged by Sean Thomas Dougherty, who notes, “In judging the poems submitted for this contest, I looked foremost at language on the level of the line. This was the difference in deciding which poems were most successful. Then at meaning, then at guts. It was this last one that showed some poems were just braver emotionally than others.”
Dougherty selected the top three poems and then ten Honorable Mentions. Each of the three Green Briar Review editors then selected one poem from those ten for publication.
First Prize
What the Other Eye Sees
Christina Clark
Second Prize
Whiteness
Cary Waterman
Third Prize
Tattoos and Birthmarks
Patrice Melnick
Honorable Mention Editors’ Pick
Spiders and Big Gear Talk
Harlow Crandall
Tearing Down the Horseshoe & Star
Gentris L. Jointe
O Dochartaig, Ar nDutcas
Kevin Dougherty
Honorable Mentions
April Aubade
Richard Foerster
Soledad
Monica Teresa Ortiz
Cake
Trish Harris
Tarke al Yayeb Mohamed Bouazizi
Josh Gage
Lilacs
Mary Golias
Break On Through
Jeanne Sirotkin Haynes
State Park
Abigail Chiaramonte
The only thing not surprising about Ninth Letter is that it is always surprising. The latest issue comes with a pair of disposable 3D glasses. But careful where you put them, you’ll want them to view the cover, design, and artwork throughout (though I’d recommend taking them off for reading purposes). The issue also holds large, foldout portfolios of artwork.
Included is the winners of the 2013 Literary Awards:
Poetry winner
R. A. Villanueva, for his poems “Aftermaths” and “Sacrum”
Fiction winner
Caitlin O’Neill, for her story “The Change Over Day”
Creative Nonfiction winner
Jessica Wilbanks, for her essay “On the Far Side of the Fire”
Literature in Translation
Eleanor Goodman, for her translation of excerpts from Shen Wei’s A Dictionary of Xinjiang
Other honors accorded by the judges include:
G. C. Waldrep selected “Three Expressions of El Tio” and “Five Characteristics of the Genus Tragelaphus” by Zoey Farber as the Runner Up entry in poetry
Alexis Levitin selected Olga Nikolova’s translations of “A Birthday Between Two Seas,” “A Formula for Infinity,” and “Toast” by Krasimira Zafirova’s as the Runner Up entry up in translation
Margot Livesey named “Pinprick” by Christie Heinrichs, “Charcoal” by Rachel Unkefer, and “Here Where the World Is Greening” by Rachel May as Honorable Mentions in fiction.
Ruminate‘s 30th issue features the winner of the 2013 Kalos Foundation Visual Art Prize, which was judged by Joel Sheesley and sponsored by the Kalos Foundation. Sheesley writes about the winning piece by Alla Bartoshchuk, “The human body is the empirical core in these paintings. By fixing states of being in deft representation of the body, Alla Bartoshchuk translates ethereal states into physical encounters. Thus psychological and emotional conditions are given an undeniable veracity, we feel them and know them as our own.” Here are the winners:
First Place
Alla Bartoshchuk
Second Place
Steve A. Prince
Honorable Mention
Ashley Norwood Cooper
Finalists
Robyn San Anderson
Jonathan Aumen
Rebecca Calhoun
John Chang
Jenne Giles
Susan Hart
Zacheriah Kramer
Janet McKenzie
Barry Motes
Sydney Sparrow
Krista Steinke
Melissa Weinman
Rachel Yurkovich
The artwork of the top three winners are featured on the cover and throughout the magazine.
Spittoon is happy to announce their “best of” winners for 2013. For more information about the authors, and to read their selected pieces, click here.
Fiction
Patrick Kelling, “How to Teach Disgorgement”
Poetry
Theresa Sotto, “hippocampus–for etching and retrieving long-term memories”
Creative Nonfiction
Irene Turner, “The Lessons”
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their October Family Matters competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories about family of all configurations. The next Family Matters competition will take place in March. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
First place: Barbara Ganley, of Weybridge, VT, wins $1500 for “Language Lessons.” Her story will be published in the November 2014 issue of Glimmer Train Stories. This is her first print publication! [Photo credit: William Roper]
Second place: Natalie Teal McAllister, of Overland Park, KS, wins $500 for “That Old Mess.”
Third place: Michael Rosenbaum, of Austin, TX, wins $300 for “Daily Double.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Deadline soon approaching! Fiction Open: January 2
Glimmer Train hosts this competition twice a year, and first place is $2500 plus publication in the journal. This category has been won by both beginning and veteran writers – all are welcome! There are no theme restrictions. Word count generally ranges from 2000 – 8000, though up to 20,000 is fine. Click here for complete guidelines.
Ploughshares‘s latest issue features the winners of the Emerging Writer’s Contest:
Fiction Winner
Memory Blake Peebles: “The Sugar Bowl”
Nonfiction Winner
Mary Winsor: “Rock-a-bye, Ute”
Poetry Winner
Josephine Yu: “Never Trust a Poem that Begins with a Dream”
“Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory”
You can read all of these pieces as well as info about the authors in the winter 2013 issue.
Each year, Atlanta Review hosts a poetry competition in which the grand prize winner earns $1,000. For 2013, it goes to Dane Cervine. The Fall/Winter 2013 issue features his poetry as well as that of the other winners.
Poetry 2013
International Publication Prizes
Judith Barrington
Susan Browne
Lucas Carpenter
Susan Cohen
Patricia Davis
Keith Eisner
Rose Gottlieb
Pauletta Hansel
Margaret Hoehn
Carol Stevens Kner
Robert Koban
Lisa C. Krueger
Steve Lautermilch
Roy Mash
Ellen Peckham
Eve Powers
Caroline Sposto
Jeanne Wagner
Scott Williamson
James K. Zimmerman
To view the winners of the International Merit Awards, go to Atlanta Review‘s website.
So to Speak‘s latest issue features the winners of the Fall 2013 Fiction Contest, judged by Asali Solomon. Taking first place is Rebecca McKanna’s “Watch Out for Lions,” and Tamar Altebarmakian takes the honorable mention with “Sit Still and I’ll Weave.”
About McKanna’s piece, Solomon writes, “There’s not a false moment in this story of Delia, a middle schooler who must wrestle with changes in her body win the absence of the mother who abandoned her and her father. . . . I was also thrilled by the surprising but emotionally authentic climax of the story. I think, however, what I loved best about this story was McKanna’s incorporation of sinister background detail, which gives the story unusual texture.”
And Solomon writes that Altebarmakian’s piece “is fresh in its exploration of heritage, history, generation gaps, and genocide. Altebarmakian’s matte-of-fact and lucid prose style and the deadpan humor of the story work extremely well with the tragic and dramatic subject matter.”
The issue also features nonfiction by Jane Eaton Hamilton and Stephanie Dickinson and poetry by Alice Notley, Jenifer Browne Lawrence, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Danielle Pafunda, Laura Davis, and more.
The latest issue of Rattle features the winner and finalists of the Rattle Poetry Prize. Robert Ascalon of Seattle, WA took the prize for “The Fire This Time’ and was awarded $5,000. The editors write, “With blazing language and a pounding rhythm, ‘The Fire This Time’ poses hard questions—and leaves us longing for answers.”
Winner
Roberto Ascalon
Finalists
Chanel Brenner
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Courtney Kampa
Stephen Kampa
Bea Opengart
Michelle Ornat
Jack Powers
Danez Smith
Patricia Smith
Wendy Videlock
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their September Fiction Open competition. This competition is held twice a year. Stories generally range from 2000-6000 words, though up to 20,000 is fine. The next Fiction Open will take place in June. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
First place: Mark Hitz, of Austin, TX, wins $2500 for “Shadehill.” His story will be published in Issue 92 of Glimmer Train Stories. This will be his first published writing. [Pictured. Photo credit: Ryan Reasor.]
Second place: Elizabeth Kadetsky, of New York, NY, wins $1000 for “What We Saw.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
Third place: Brenda Peynado, of Tallahassee, FL, wins $600 for “We Work in Miraculous Cages.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Next Deadline: Short Story Award for New Writers: November 30
This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5000. No theme restrictions. Most submissions to this category run 1500-5000 words, but can go up to 12,000. First place prize is $1500. Second/third: $500/$300. Click here for complete guidelines.
The newest issue of Gulf Coast features the top winners for the 2013 contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition to publication, they received $1,500. Honorable mentions received $250. Here is the complete list of winners:
2013 GULF COAST PRIZE IN FICTION
Judged by Maggie Shipstead
WINNER:
Alexander Lumans, “Power and Light”
HONORABLE MENTION:
Syed Ali Haider, “I’ll Take It Neat”
Ravsten Cottle, “The Young Mormon’s Guide to Not Having Sex in the 1980s”
2013 GULF COAST PRIZE IN NONFICTION
Judged by Darin Strauss
WINNER:
JR Fenn, “Where We Went and What We Did There”
HONORABLE MENTION:
Daisy Pitkin, “Scattering Theory”
Alessandra Nolan, “Guilt Letters”
2013 GULF COAST PRIZE IN POETRY
Judged by Stanley Plumly
WINNER:
M.K. Foster, “Fugue for the Sky Burial of Your Father”
HONORABLE MENTION:
Scott Challener, “Maine”
Melissa Barrett, “If I Were the Moon, I Know Where I Would Fall Down”
Nimrod‘s latest issue features the winners from their Literary Awards for 2013, under the issue theme “Hunger & Thirst.” Winners were selected from among 560 poetry manuscripts and 406 short stories.
The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry
FIRST PRIZE: Sarah Crossland, “Safranschou” and other poems
SECOND PRIZE: Lynn Shoemaker, “In My Native Home” and other poems
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Don Judson, “Chemo” and other poems
Daniel Lusk, “Weights and Measures” and other poems
Julie Taylor, “Hungry Lake” and other poems
The Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction
FIRST PRIZE: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, “Boys on the Moskva River”
SECOND PRIZE: Jacob Appel, “Paracosmos”
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Roberta Haas George, “A Small Fortune”
John Haggerty, “The Last Detail”
Alison Moore, “Safe House”
See a list of finalists and semi-finalists here.
The most recent issue of The Malahat Review includes the winner of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, Kerry-Lee Powell for “Palace of the Brine.” The award “celebrates the achievement of emerging writers who have yet to publish their fiction in book form.” It was chosen by Alissa York from among 295 submissions. Congrats to Powell. You can read an interview with Powell about her winning piece on Malahat‘s website.
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their August Short Story Award for New Writers. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation greater than 5000. The next Short Story Award competition will take place in November. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
1st place goes to Samsun Knight of Brookline MA. He wins $1500 for “Family of Four” and his story will be published in Issue 92 of Glimmer Train Stories. This is Samsun’s first off-campus print publication. [Pictured. Photo credit: Grace Lu.]
2nd place goes to Tamar Jacobs of Akron, OH. She wins $500 for “The Wall Between.” This story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700.
3rd place goes to Julie Zapoli of Ketchum, ID. She wins $300 for “The Last to Know.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Deadline soon approaching for Family Matters: October 31
Glimmer Train hosts this competition twice a year, and first place has been increased to $1500 plus publication in the journal. It’s open to all writers for stories about families of all configurations. Most submissions to this category run 1200-5000 words, but can go up to 12,000. Click here for complete guidelines.
The current issue of The Nassau Review is a special ekphrastic themed issue. “One art is all art: all art is one art,” writes Editor Christina M. Rau. “In keeping with this mantra, I wondered if other poets would agree that ekphrasis could relate to more than writing a description about one piece of art. I wondered how prose writers would approach this idea. What I found was simple. Artists find inspiration in all forms of creativity.” The issue also features the winners of the 2013 Writer Award for Prose and Poetry: Wayne Scheer’s “The Love Song of Langley Moran” and Jennifer Woodworth’s “Crows Over Wheatfield” (after Vincent Van Gogh’s last painting).
Big Fiction‘s latest issue features the first and second place winners for the 2013 Knickerbocker Prize, which is awarded to two novellas. “There were plenty of wonderful stories in the bunch, ” writes Lauren Groff, the final judge, “. . . but I was waiting for the ineffable, the flare in the gut that told me I was in expert hands. I found this lightning pulse in both [Steve Yates’s] ‘Sandy and Wayne’ and [Sandra Gail Lambert’s] ‘ Half-Boy’ . . . These stories thrilled and moved me; in both cases, at tense moments in the stories, I had to stand and walk around the room in agitation, in order to clam myself enough to go on. Though they could not be more different—’Sandy and Wayne’ a love story on an Arkansas road-building crew, and ‘Half-Boy’ taking place in the humid Florida of the last century—the authors of both of these stories won me over with their dedication to the precise detail, the perfect description, and the largeness of their characters’ longing.”
There were more than 1,000 entries to Carve Magazine‘s Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. The top five winning pieces are printed in the latest premium edition and online; they will also be sent to three literary agents for review and representation consideration.
First place – $1000
“Tu quoque” by Jake Andrews in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Second place – $750
“No Translation” by Mona Awad in Manhattan, NYC.
Third place – $500
“Heisenberg” by William Shih in Queens, NYC.
Editor’s Choice (Matthew Limpede) – $250
“The Gymnast” by Jennifer Harvey in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Editor’s Choice (Kristin S. Vannamen) – $250
“Twenty-Nine Ingredients” by Lesley Quinn in Oakland, CA.
The Fall 2013 issue of New Ohio Review features the winners of their fiction and poetry contests for 2013:
Fiction (selected by Stuart Dybek)
First Prize: Brian Trapp, “The Best Man”
Second Prize: Bradley Bazzle, “Crimes of the Video Age”
Poetry (selected by Barbara Hamby)
First Prize: Michael Derrick Hudson, “Feeling Sorry for Myself While Watching a Really Bad World War II POW Movie on TV”
Second Prize: George Kalogeris, “Ambassador of the Dead”
The Florida Review, Volume 37 Number 1, announces and publishes the winners of the first Annual Jeanne M. Leiby Chapbook Award. “We began this award in honor and memory of Jeanne M. Leiby, who edited TFR before becoming the first woman editor of The Southern Review,” writes Editor Jocelyn Bartkevicius. “Her tragic death in a car accident left the writing community in Central Florida and across the country deeply saddened. . . . We were honored to have David Huddle, long-time mentor and friend of Jeanne’s, as our judge . . .”
The winning piece “Rubia” by Patricia Grace King does not appear in the journal because it has been published as a chapbook, but it can be purchased through The Florida Review‘s website. The two finalists’ pieces appear in the issue: “Foreign Service” by Julia Lichtblau and “The Geometry of Children” by M. R. Sheffield.
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their July Very Short Fiction competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories with a word count not exceeding 3000. No theme restrictions. The next Very Short Fiction competition will take place in January. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
First place: Kimberley Bunker, of Brooklyn, NY [pictured], wins $1500 for “Number 41.” Her story will be published in Issue 92 of Glimmer Train Stories. This will be her first print publication.
Second place: Analisa Raya-Flores, of Los Angeles, CA, wins $500 for “The Boys Like Bones.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700.
Third place: Natasha Friedman, of Orem, UT, wins $300 for “The Holy Spirit Descends Over Kansas.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Deadline soon approaching! Fiction Open: September 30.
First place prize has been increased to $2500 for this competition. It is held quarterly and is open to all writers. No theme restrictions. Most submissions to this category are running 2,000-6,000 words, but up to 20,000 are welcome. Click here for complete guidelines.
The introduction to the Patricia Good Poetry Prize for Young Writers in the latest issue of The Kenyon Review states that the prize, “now in its tenth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by a high school sophomore or junior . . . As always, we are grateful to Ms. Grodd for endowing this series, which would not be possible without her generosity. We are also consistently impressed by the initiative and passion of all the young poets who submit their work, and we are thrilled to present the following three commanding and inventive poems to our readers.”
First Prize Winner
Ian Burnette: “Full Blood”
Runners-Up
Alicia Lai: “Saung”
Anne Hucks: “Mobile”
In this issue, you can also find new stories by T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, and Alex Miller; “Captain Robert Bly, Ortega Y Gasset, and the Buddha on the Road” by Mark Gustafson; and more poetry, stories, and essays.
Editors Laverne and Carol Frith announce in the latest issue of Ekphrasis that the winner of the 2013 Ekphrasis Prize is Susanna Rich of Blairstown, NJ for “Shoes Along the Danube Promenade.” Here are the first few stanzas:
Budapest, 2005, sixty years
past Hitler’s blitzkriegs, death camps,
and the Hungarian Arrow Cross Militia
lining up and roping together Jews
to face the red river that received them
as they were shot (the body tipping forward,
the falling away from tight eyes).
Sixty pairs of cast iron shoes are anchored
into the concrete embankment . . .
Each year Black Lawrence Press awards The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes awarded on publication. Black Lawrence Press has announced the winner of the 2013 Hudson Prize: PATIENT. by Bettina Judd [pictured]. In addition, the judges were so impressed with the submissions for this year’s prize that they’ve offered a contract to another finalist, Brandi George.
The results are in for the 2013 Booth Story Prize, and Lenore Myka has reason to celebrate. Selected for first prize with “Real Family” by judge Roxane Gay, Myka received publication as well as $1,000. Here’s all about her: “Lenore Myka’s fiction was selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories by The Best American Short Stories and won the 2013 Cream City Review fiction contest. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, Massachusetts Review, H.O.W. Journal, upstreet Magazine, Talking River Review, and the anthology Further Fenway Fiction. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College.” You can read this winning piece on Booth‘s website.
And here’s the complete list of winners:
Winners
1st Prize: ”Real Family” by Lenore Myka
2nd Prize: ”Little Miss Bird-in-Hand” by Annie Bilancini
Shortlist
“Some Helpful Background for the Incoming Tenant” by Jacob Appel
“Their Own Resolution” by David Armstrong (story withdrawn by the author)
“Little Miss Bird-in-Hand” by Annie Bilancini
“Plush” by Jennifer Caloyeras
“Real Family” by Lenore Myka
Camera Obscura‘s Equinox 2013 issue features the winners of their photography competition. The editors write, “The breadth of skill and artistic diversity made deciding a winner in this competition a unique challenge for all involved.”
Outstanding Professional Photography Award
Nude Meaning by Omer Chatziserif
Editor’s Choice Award for Professional Photography
Untitled (horse) by Saeed Rezvanian (featured on the cover)
Professional Photography Honorable Mention
In Search Of by Christopher Ruane
Auschwitz No 14 by Cole Thompson
The Collective by Micahel Bilotta
Outstanding Amateur Photography Award
Riddles In the Dark by Michael Bilotta
Editor’s Choice Award for Amateur Photography
Tree Reflection by Daniel Butcher
Amateur Photography Honorable Mention
The Line by Goran Jovic
Rain Boy by Goran Jovic
Also in this issue is prose from Sarah Scoles, Jacqueline Kolosov, Ricardo Nuila, Julie Lekstrom Himes, Gail Hosking, Eric Magnuson, Stephanie MacLean, Barrett Bowlin, and Jael Montellano.
Paisley Rekdal has selected Yes Thorn by Amy McCann [pictured] of Minneapolis, Minnesota as winner of the Tupelo Press 2013 First/Second Book Award, naming Sleep Sculptures by Michael Homolka of New York, New York as runner-up.
Amy McCann’s poetry has recently appeared in the Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, and West Branch, among other journals and magazines. She was a 2012-2013 McKnight Artist Fellow in Poetry and 2012 fellowship recipient from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She received her M.F.A. in poetry from Eastern Washington University and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches at the University of Northwestern—Saint Paul.
Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Kate Braverman of Santa Fe, New Mexico for Acts of Autumn
Tina Cane of Rumford, Rhode Island for Archipelago
Noel Crook of Kittrell, North Carolina for Salt White Moon
Brent House of Grove City, Pennsylvania for The Lightered Prophecy
Steve Lautermilch of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina for Moth on a Window Pane at Dusk
S. D. Lishan of Marion, Ohio for The Archeology of Startled Light
Joy Manesiotis of Redlands, California for Revoke
Chad Parmenter of Lewiston, New York for Vivienne’s Recovery
Jeremy Pataky of Anchorage, Alaska for The Smallest Ice Age
Juliet Patterson of Minneapolis, Minnesota for Threnody
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer of Saint Louis, Missouri for Clarkston Street Polaroids
Sarah Sousa of Ashfield, Massachusetts for Split the Crow
Sharon Wang of Queens, New York for Republic of Mercy
Susan Settlemyre Williams of Richmond, Virginia for Navigating the Belly of Night
The Museum of Haiku Literature Award of $100 goes to the best previously unpublished work appearing in the last issue of Frogpond, selected by vote of the HSA Executive Committee. The winner from Issue 36:1 is announced in the latest issue (36:2):
porch swing my feelings come and go
by Ce Rosenow from Eugene, Oregon
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their June Fiction Open competition. This competition is held quarterly. Stories generally range from 2000-6000 words, though up to 20,000 is fine. The next Fiction Open will take place in September. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
First place: Philip Tate [pictured], of Cortland, NY, wins $2500 for “Reading Hemingway.” His story will be published in Issue 93 of Glimmer Train Stories.
Second place: Vera Kurian, of Washington, DC, wins $1000 for “The Bleeding Room.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories. This is her first story accepted for publication.
Third place: Geoff Wyss, of New Orleans, LA, wins $600 for “Misty.”
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Deadline soon approaching for the Short Story Award for New Writers: August 31. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5000. No theme restrictions. Most submissions to this category run 1500-5000 words, but can go up to 12,000. First place prize is $1500. Second/third: $500/$300. Click here for complete guidelines.
The winners of The Malahat Review‘s Long Poem Prize are Claire Caldwell for “Osteogenesis” and Kim Trainor for “Nothing is Lost.” The final judges Elizabeth Bachinsky, Dave Margoshes, and Lorri Neilsen Glenn chose these pieces among 193 entries. Finalists include Michael Prior for “Marie (I-XII),” Genevieve Lehr for “the latter half of the third quarter of the waning moon,” Kim Trainor for “When they come to that country swept with light,” Eric Folsom for “The Senryu of Solomon,” and Chad Campbell for “February Towers.
About Caldwell’s “Osteogenesis,” the judges said, it ” is a different beast altogether. This narrative poem takes place in a university town and weaves together three stories: that of two young lovers; their friend M (a medical student) and her cadaver; and the decomposition of a great blue whale. These stories, as told by a young woman to her lover, unfold like a mystery that we can never quite solve.”
And about Trainor’s “Nothing is Lost,” they said, “explores the aftermath of the Srebrenica genocide in 1995 in which thousands of Bosnian Muslims were massacred. Such profound cultural and personal loss is almost beyond language. Taking as inspiration the International Committee of the Red Cross Book of Belongings, a publication of photographs and personal effects, the poet creates an alphabet of loss, weaving images of a glove, a marble, notebook, buttons – exquisitely particular personal items – with insights into the ways artifacts themselves become saturated with human sentience.”
Click here to read more about the pieces, the judges, and the authors.
Paterson Literary Review‘s 2013-2014 issue features the winners of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards for both 2011 and 2012. Here are the top winners for each:
2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
First Prize
Christopher Bursk
Charlotte Muse
Second Prize
Mark Hillringhouse
Sander Zulauf
Third Prize
Antoinette Libro
2012 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
First Prize
Dante Di Stefano
Second Prize
Donna Spector
Carole Stone
Third Prize
Jim Reese
To see a list of honorable mentions for each (also included in this issue) as well as the 2013 winners, please visit this link.
Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their May Short Story Award for New Writers. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation greater than 5000. The next Short Story Award competition will take place in August. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.
1st place goes to Gillian Burnes of Gardiner, ME. She wins $1500 for “Transit” and her story will be published in Issue 92 of Glimmer Train Stories. This is Gillian’s first fiction publication. [Photo credit: Deirdre Gilbert.]
2nd place goes to S. A. Rivkin of Minneapolis, MN. He wins $500 for “How to Survive a Non-Funeral.” This story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing his prize to $700. This is his first fiction publication.
3rd place goes to Aaron Guest of Grove City, OH. He wins $300 for “The Hecklers.” This story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing his prize to $700. This is his first fiction publication.
A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.
Deadline soon approaching! Very Short Fiction Award: July 31
Glimmer Train hosts this competition twice a year, and 1st place has been increased to $1500 plus publication in the journal. It’s open to all writers, no theme restrictions, and the word count must not exceed 3000. Click here for complete guidelines.
The winner of the second annual Poem of the Year Contest put on by Arc Poetry Magazine is Shane Neilson for “The Barn.” The judges said, “the poem plays between two worlds, a derelict barn and a body in sickness, without losing its focus or giving the allusion up to a simple denouement. Its syntax is synaptic and full firing. This is a complex and arrhythmic poem that eschews easy vocabulary and cursory readings but, given the space full attention, its meanings build and twine together like DNA.” Along with this poem, you can also read, in the Summer 2013 issue, both the editor’s and the readers’ choices among the submissions.
The issue also features Mike Algera, Jesse Anger, Tammy Armstrong, Gerard Beirne, andrea bennett, Gregory Betts, Mike Caesar, jesse chase, Margaret Christakos, and many more.
The winner of the 2013 Willow Springs Fiction Prize, featured in the Fall 2013 issue of the magazine, is Robert Long Foreman with his piece “The Man with the Nightmare Gun.” Here is a small excerpt:
I am not a serious man. I thought Carol understood this about me by our fifth date. I thought it was something I’d established the night of our third date, after we had sex the first time. We lay together for an hour afterward, discussing the vast range of bra sizes and the prehistoric giant sloth, extinct now for thousands of years. It stood twenty feet tall and had massive claws, Carol said.When she added that people who lived when the sloths roamed the earth didn’t wear bras, I said, “They were the Greatest Generation.”
She laughed.
The rest of the issue features poetry by Kim Addonizio, Warren Bromley-Vogel, Denver Butson, Nicole Cooley, Sara Henning, Nora Hickey, Kate Lebo, Cate Marvin, Mark Neely, Keith Ratzlaff, and Ginny Wiehardt; fiction by Maxim Loskutoff and Aurelie Sheehan; and interviews with Steve Almond and Susan Orlean.
Tupelo Press has announce that Kathleen Jesme has selected Chad Parmenter’s Weston’s Unsent Letters to Modotti as winner of the 2012 – 2013 Snowbound Chapbook Award.
Chad Parmenter’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and Harvard Review. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Niagara University.
Finalists in alphabetical order:
John de Stefano of New York, New York for From: Three-Body Problems
Eric Elshtain of Oak Park, Illinois for When Will We Begin?
Gabriel Jesiolowski of Seattle, Washington for entry for silos
Karen Kevorkian, of Culver City, California for Improbable Proximities
Y. Madrone, of Portland, Oregon for stripe
Matt McBride of Columbus, Ohio for City of Motels
JoAnna Novak of Greenfield, Massachusetts for Secrets
Heather Sellers of Holland, Michigan for The Vine
Page Hill Starzinger of New York, New York for vortex street
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
for Thyroid and Other Matters
Sharon Wang of Queens, New York for Microphones, Bread, and Love
Margaret Young of Beverly, Massachusetts for Blight Summer