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Missouri Review Audio Contest Winners

Winners of the The Missouri Review Fourth Annual Audio Contest include:

Poetry – Greg Brownderville, “Sex and Pentecost”
Prose – Rachel Yoder, “I’m White and I’m Mennonite”
Self-Recorded Documentary – Ken Cormier, “Voices of the Dead”
Professionally Recorded Documentary – Anna Pinkert, “After the Flood”

All recordings, along with past audio entries, can be heard on The Missouri Review Audio Page.

Able Muse Write Prize Winners 2011

The Winter 2011 issue of Able Muse includes winners and finalists for its 2011 Write Prize contest:

Write Prize for Fiction – Final Judge: Alan Cheuse
Winner: Douglas Campbell – “Sunflowers, Rivers”

Write Prize for Poetry – Final Judge: Rachel Hadas
Winner: Jean L. Kreiling – “Waiting for a Helicopter”
Second: Susan McLean – “Teaching to the Test”
Finalists: John Beaton – “Your Voice”; Catherine Chandler – “This Dusky Arc”; T.S. Kerrigan – “Missing the Sunset at Sounion”; Joshua Lavender – “The Guest”; Gabriel Spera – “Bread and Fish”; Richard Wakefield – “Crossing”

An additional list of poetry honorable mentions can be found on the publication website.

Spoon River Poetry Review Contest Winners

The Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Spoon River Poetry Review features the 2011 Editors’ Prize Winners selected by final judge Cecil S. Giscombe:

First Place ($1,000): Jennie Ray
First Runner Up ($100): Craig Blais
Second Runner Up ($100): Ben Purkert

Honorable Mentions: Miles Waggener, Molly Tustison, Neal Shipley, Suzume, Laura Sherwood Rudish.

One winning poem will be awarded $1000 and two runners-up awarded $100 each in this annual contest. Winning poem, runners-up, and honorable mentions are published in the fall issue.

2011 River Styx Poetry Contest Winners

Winners of the 2011 River Styx International Poetry Contest are included in the newest issue of River Styx.

1st Place: Stephen Kampa, “Small Change”
2nd Place: Tara Taylor, “Sea Glass”
3rd Place: Julie Hall, “Octopus”

This annual contest awards $1500 First Prize plus one case of micro-brewed Schlafly Beer as well as publication of top selections. A complete list of winners and honorable mentions are available on the publication’s website.

Salamander 2011 Fiction Contest Winners

The newest issue of Salamander (v17 n1) includes the winning story of the 2011 Salamander Fiction Contest, “The Aerialist” by Hester Kaplan, and honorable mention, “The Blue Demon of Ikumi” by Kelly Luce. This year’s contest was judged by Jim Shepherd. A full list of finalists is available on the publication’s website.

2011 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Winners

The Winter 2012 issue of The Kenyon Review includes the winners of the 2011 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, previously for writers under the age of thirty. Final judge for the contest was Ron Carlson.

First Prize: Fan Li “Chiasmus”
Runner up: Anna Kovatcheva “September”
Runner up: Nichols Malick “The Boy in the Lake”

In a change from previous years of the contest, submissions will no longer be limited to writers under thirty. Starting in 2012, entries for the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest will be limited to writers who have not yet published a book of fiction.

Glimmer Train Family Matters Winners :: 2011

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. The next Family Matters competition will take place in April. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Joseph Vastano [pictured], of Austin, TX, wins $1500 for “Twinning.” His story will be published in the Spring 2013 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Second place: Aisha Gawad, of Ithaca, NY, wins $500 for “My Cousin Luna Sleeps on Super 8 Motel Beds.”

Third place: Nahal Suzanne Jamir of Tallahassee, FL, wins $300 for “My Mother’s Hands in My Mouth.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline soon approaching: Fiction Open, January 2.

Glimmer Train hosts this competition quarterly, and first place is $2000 plus publication in the journal. It’s open to all writers and there are no theme restrictions. The word count generally ranges from 3000 – 8000, though up to 20,000 is fine. Click here for complete guidelines.

Memoir (and) Prose/Poetry Prize Winners

Chosen from its regular pool of submissions, Memoir (and) has selected the following winners for their biannual prize in prose or poetry:

Grand Prize
Colette Inez for “Mother Country” (prose)

Second Prize
Arthur Bull for “End of the Rope march, February 1996” (poetry)

Third Prize
Jean LeBlanc for “Some Flemish Painters Walk Around My Grandmother’s Yard” (poetry)

In addition to publication, each winner receives a cash prize. Memoir (and) also considers outstanding submissions for Graphic Memoir and Photography.

Black Warrior Review SLS Contest Winners

Black Warrior Review has teamed up with Summer Literary Seminars for their annual contest. Judges Jayne Anne Phillips and Matthew Zapruder selected winners for the 2011 contest: Blair Bourassa, for his story “Love is Such an Old Fashioned Word,” and Lillian Bertram, for her poem “I Believe the Far Fields.”

Each received tuition, airfare, and accommodations to the 2011 SLS program of their choosing (Montreal, Lithuania, or Kenya), plus publication in the most recent issue of Black Warrior Review (Fall/Winter 2011) and online in The Walrus.

[BWR Fall/Winter 2011 cover art “Liquid Ground I” by Helen Pynor.]

2011 Gulf Coast Prize Winners

The Winter/Spring 2012 issue of Gulf Coast includes the 2011 Gulf Coast Prize winners.

Poetry
Winner: “A New Vessel” by Amaranth Borsuk
Poetry judge: Ilya Kaminsky

Fiction
Winner: “The Window” by Brian Van Reet
Fiction judge: Frederick Reiken

Nonfiction
Winner: “The Suturing of Wounds or Words” by Arianne Zwartjes
Nonfiction judge: John D’Agata

A full list of winners and runners up is available on the Gulf Coast website.

Glimmer Train September Fiction Open Winners :: 2011

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their September Fiction Open competition. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers for stories with a word count range between 2000 – 20,000. The next Fiction Open will take place in December. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Janis Hubschman [pictured], of Demarest, NJ, wins $2000 for “Wilderness of Ghosts.” Her story will be published in the Winter 2013 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in November 2012.

Second place: Abe Gaustad, of Germantown, TN, wins $1000 for “Buch and the Snakestretchers.” His story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Third place: Andrew Tibbetts, of Kitchener, Ontario, wins $600 for “My Sister in Eleven Shots.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline for 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 2000-6000 words, but can go up to 12,000. Click here for complete guidelines.

Carolina Quarterly Contest Winners

The Fall 2011 issue of The Carolina Quarterly includes the winners of the Riding a Gradient Invisible Contest, “an experiment in ‘Show, don’t tell.'” Editors sought submissions of writing to transition us into a “post-genre world.” Judge Amy Hempel made the following selections, all of which are included in the issue:

First Place: “American Desire” by James McFatter
Runner-up: “epitaph #26” by Matthew Vollmer
Runner-up: “Lift” by Courtney Sender
Honorable Mention: “Conditions” by Aaron Krol
Honorable Mention: “Catasrophilia” by Caroline Young

Gemini Flash Fiction Contest Winners

The winner of the Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest is Xavier McCaffrey for his work “Drinks on the Doctor,” with second place awarded to “Death in Nairobi” by Agatha Verdadero. These as well as honorable mentions by Todd Benware, Geoffrey Uhl, Heather Sappenfield, Laura Loomis, and Corey Ginsberg are all available to read on the Gemini Magazine website.

Narrative Poetry Contest Winners

Winners of the Narrative Third Annual Poetry Contest have been announced, with poems available to read on the Narrative website:

FIRST PLACE
Willa Carroll “No Final Curtain”

SECOND PLACE
Emma Gorenberg “Miscellany”

THIRD PLACE
Shivani Mehta “Twenty-One People between My Legs (and Counting)”

FINALISTS
Melissa Barrett
Rebekah Bloyd
Heather Gibbons
Shane Lake
Jodie Marion
Kristina McDonald
Maya Pindyck
Diane Seuss
Allen Speed
Sarah Wedderburn

NOR Contest Winners

The Fall 2011 (#10) issue of New Ohio Review includes their 2011 Contest Winners. The poetry winners, selected by Nancy Eimers, are Julie Hanson (“A Mile In”), awarded first prize of $1,500; and Angie Mazakis (“Pretending to be Asleep” and “Owen and Paul”), awarded second prize of $500. The fiction winners, selected by Don De Grazia, are Daniel Larkins (“The Rush of Losing”), awarded first prize of $1,500; and Emily Nagin (“The Truest Thing”) awarded second prize of $500.

Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Winners :: October 2011

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their 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.

First place: Karen Malley [pictured] of Springfield, MA, wins $1200 for “Roof Dog.” Her story will be published in the Winter 2013 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in November 2012.

Second place: Anne Walsh Miller, of Eleebana, Australia, wins $500 for “The Rickman Digression.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700. This is her first story accepted for publication.

Third place: Adva Levin, of Tel Aviv, Israel, wins $300 for “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700. This is also Adva’s first story accepted for publication.

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

The next Short Story Award competition will take place in November. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

Family Matters: October 31
This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories about family. Most submissions to this category are running 1500-6000 words, but up to 12,000 are welcome. Click here for complete guidelines.

Rescue Press Contest Winners

Rescue Press has announced Blueberry Morningsnow as the winner of this year’s Black Box Poetry Prize. Blueberry’s manuscript, Whale In The Woods, was chosen by Sabrina Orah Mark. Rescue Press also selected Philip Sorenson’s Of Embodies for publication as the Editor’s Choice. Both of books will be available Spring 2012.

Finalists for the contest were Michael Rerick, Rochelle Hurt, Brenda Sieczkowski, Lesley Yalen, Laressa Dickey, Nicole Wilson, Lily Ladewig, Eileen G’Sell, and Phil Estes.

McCabe Poetry Prize Winner

Issue 21 (Autumn 2011) of Ruminate Magazine features the winners and honorable mentions of the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, sponsored by Steve and Kim Franchini with finalist judge Naomi Shihab Nye.

First: Adrianne Smith, “In Bridgewater, my room”
Second: Kendra Langdon Juskus, “Suspension”

Honorable Mentions
Mathhew Burns
Michelle Tooker
Christopher Martin

It appears that the Ruminate Magazine is undergoing a digital redesign on their website, but you can find them active on Twitter.

Nimrod Literary Awards 2011

Judges Amy Bloom and Linda Pastan selected the winner and honorable mentions of the 2011 Nimrod International Journal‘s 33rd Annual Literary Awards. Each are published in the Fall/Winter issue.

The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry
FIRST: Hayden Saunier, “Sideways Glances in the Rear-View Mirror”
SECOND: Suzanne Cleary, “Italian Made Simple” and other poems

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Patricia Hawley, “Transmutation” and other poems
Brent Pallas, “My Dear Emma” and other poems
Robert Russell, “Heaven” and other poems

The Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction
FIRST: Sultana Banulescu, “Beggars and Thieves”
SECOND: Kellie Wells, “In the Hatred of a Minute”

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Judith Hutchinson Clark, “Girlfriend”
Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark, “The Pygmy Queen”
Stephen Taylor, “Jolly Old England”

A full list of winners and finalists in available here.

2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner

Our congratulations to Shannon Cain for being awarded the University of Pittsburgh Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her manuscript The Necessity of Certain Behaviors was selected by senior judge Alice Mattison and is now available for purchase from the press.

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recognizes and supports writers of short fiction and makes their work available to readers around the world. The award is open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals.

Frances Locke Memorial Prize & Sze-Lorrain

The newest issue of The Bitter Oleander (v17 n2) includes The Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award Winner for 2011: Gardenia’s Scent by Sunghui Chang.

Also featured in this issue with an in depth interview and a large selection of her poetry is the French poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain, as well as translations from the Chinese of poets Yi Lu and Bai Hua likewise translated by Sze-Lorrain. The Bitter Oleander includes both original language texts as well as translations in English.

2011 New South Contest Winners

The 2011 New South Contest winners appear in the newest issue:

Poetry, judged by Rodney Jones
First Place: “Benthos” by Bruce Bond
Second Place: “Archery With Alex” by Maya Jewell Zeller

Prose, judged by Karen E. Bender
First Place: “Who’s Akela?” by Gregory J. Wolos
Second Place: “Palimpsests” by Jill Kronstadt

New South is Georgia State University’s Journal of Art and Literature.

Creative Nonfiction Winning Essays

Issue 42 of Creative Nonfiction features a number of winning essays. Cosponsored by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies for best essay related to the them of “The Night,” Bud Shaw’s essay “My Night with Ellen Hutchinson” was selected by Susan Orlean from among 350 entries. Also included in this issue is Minh Phuong Nguyen’s “Suffering Self,” the 2010 Norman Mailer College Nonfiction Writing Award winner, and S.J. Dunning’s “for(e)closure,” the winner of the Creative Nonfiction’s MFA Program-Off.

Big Muddy 2010 Contest Winners in Print

Winners of the Big Muddy 2010 contests appear in the newest issue (11.1) of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. A full list of finalists is available on the Big Muddy website. Published winners include:

Mighty River Short Story Winner: Kathleen Knutsen Rowell, California – “The Resolution”

The Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Winner: Natalie Hamm DeVaull, New York – “In the Kitchen”

Glimmer Train July Very Short Fiction Winners :: 2011

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 with no theme restrictions. The next Very Short Fiction competition will take place again in January. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Sanja Jagesic [pictured], of Chicago, IL, wins $1200 for “Bibby Challenge.” Her story will be published in the Winter 2013 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in November. This is her first story accepted for publication.

Second place: Meredith Luby, of Springield, VA, wins $500 for “Boxes.” Her story will also be published in a future issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700. This is also Meredith’s first story accepted for publication.

Third place: Rafael Alvarez, of Linthicum, MD, wins $300 for “The Spaniards.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline for the September Fiction Open is September 30. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers. Most submissions to this category are running 2,000-8,000, but up to 20,000 words are welcome. No theme restrictions.

Bacopa 2011 Literary Review Prizes

The newest edition of Bacopa: A Literary Review from the Writers Alliance of GAinesville, includes the winners of the 2011 Bacopa Genre Awards:

Fiction
1st JoeAnn Hart, “Open House”
2nd Mandy Manning, “Growth”
Honorable Mention Q. Lindsey Barrett “Toro-nado”

Nonfiction
1st Amanda Skelton, “Warding off the Monkey”
2nd Carolyne Wright, “Los Olvidados: The Forgotten Ones”
Honorable Mention Ed McCourt, “Watching Rocco”

Poetry
1st Colleen Runyan, “me or the tea”
2nd Erika Brumett, “Fight Overheard in Sign Language”
Honorable Mention Carolyne Wright, “Acrostic: Evcharistoic Eulene”

Sycamore Review Editor Changes & Contest Winner

The Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Sycamore Review features the winner of their annual Wabash Prize for Fiction: Joe B. Sills, “the Duck.”

There are also a number of staff changes taking place: Editor-in-Chief Anthony Cook is stepping down (congratulations on the new baby!); the new editor will be Jessica Jacobs. Poetry editors Mario Chard and Josh Wild and nonfiction editor Chidelia Edochie will also be moving on, with replacements yet to be announced.

Puerto del Sol Contest Winners

The Summer 2011 issue of Puerto del Sol features works by the winners of their Poetry and Fiction Contests:

2011 Fiction Contest (Dawn Raffel, judge)

1st Place: Joe Aguilar, “The Flood”
2nd Place: Jen Bergmark, “Boyle Heights”
3rd Place: Kellie Wells, “The Incinerating Place”

2011 Poetry Contest (Julie Carr, judge)

1st Place: Amy Woolard, “The Housewarming”
2nd Place: Amy Woolard, “The Petty Arsonists”
3rd Place: Denise Leto, “Jaw Simulacra”

Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award Winners

E.J. Levy, of Washington, DC, and Hugh Sheehy, of Brooklyn, NY, have been named the winners of this year’s Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. Levy’s collection MY LIFE IN THEORY and Sheehy’s collection THE INVISIBLES will be published by the University of Georgia Press and will be available in Fall 2012.

The competition, now in its twenty-eighth year, seeks to encourage the writers of excellent short stories and bring their work to a wider audience by offering publication of a book-length collection and a $1,000 prize. The Flannery O’Connor Award has helped launch the literary careers of such previous winners as Ha Jin and Antonya Nelson.

Malahat Long Poem Prize 2011 Winners

“The Constant Gardener” by Maggie Schwed and “The Sun Estate” by Julie Joosten were selected as the Malahat Long Poem Prize 2011 Winners. Each receives a $1000 cash prize as well as publication. Their poems appear in the most recent issue of Malahat (Summer 2011), and an interview with each appears on the Malahat Review web site.

The Malahat Long Poem Prize is held every second year. The deadline for the next contest is February 1, 2013. Malahat Review sponsors a number of contests, guidelines for which can be viewed here.

Main Street Rag 2011 Poetry Book Award Winners

Elegies for New York Avenue by Melanie Henderson of Washington, DC. won the Main Street Rag 2011 Poetry Book Award.

The deadline for the next Poetry Book Award is January 31, 2012. All entries are considered for publication.

Finalists/Runners up (in alphabetical order) are:

Banjo String Theory by Lynn Pattison, Kalamazoo, MI
Devil’s Messengers by David Allen Sullivan, Santa Cruz, CA
Dopplegangster by Patrick Moran, Fort Atkinson, WI
Heinz 56 by Amanda Reynolds, Pittsburgh, PA
Silver by Jason McCall, Tuscaloosa, AL
System of Hideouts by Heather McNaughter, Pittsburgh, PA
Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night by Becky Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA

Because the primary purpose for the MSR contest is to select manuscripts for publication, all of the finalists have been offered publication.

MSR also welcomes back Foster C. Hunter, who will be helping “Build Better Books” in the print and bindery operation.

The Hudson Prize 2011 Winners

Black Lawrence Press has announced that B.C. Edwards has won The Hudson Prize with his short story collection The Aversive Clause. Edwards also submitted his poetry collection From the Cyclopedia of Recipes for the prize and Black Lawrence has also optioned to publish that manuscript as well.

Finalist Valerie Bandura was also offered a contract for her entry Freak Show.

Poetry Finalists
Emily Rosko – Prop Rockery
Lindsay Illich – Anatomy Lessons
Rae Gouirand – Open Winter
Tony Trigilio – White Noise

Fiction Finalists
Elizabeth Kadetsky – The Poison That Purifies You
Emily Doak – Hatchlings
George McCormick – Salton Sea
Jennifer Cranfill – The Last of the Small Town Girls
Jessica Barksdale – Tuna for the Apocalypse
Randal Gentry – Evenings with Johnny Carson
Ron Tanner – Boom, Like That

Gemini Magazine 2011 Short Story Contest Winners

“My Beautiful, Brash, Beastly Belfast,” by Seamus Scanlon, wins the Gemini Magazine 2011 Short Story Contest and the $1,000 prize.

The second place prize of $100 goes to Paul Hellweg for “Little Chang.”

Honorable Mentions:

“Eyes Wide Open” by Colleen Quinn
“Cecilio Breaks the Law” by Mary E. Nelson
“The Stone Carver” by Ann Marie Samson

Read the winning stories and more at www.gemini-magazine.com.

Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Winners :: July 2011

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their 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.

First place: James Smart [Pictured], of Hull, England, wins $1200 for “Building Butterflies.” His story will be published in the Fall 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Second place: Andrew Bales, also of Wichita, KS, wins $500 for “The Empire Builder.”

Third place: Craig Barnes, of Portsmouth, NH, wins $300 for “The Sky and the Sun Coming Over the Earth.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline soon approaching for Very Short Fiction Award: July 31

Glimmer Train hosts this competition twice a year, and first place is $1200 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.

Camera Obscura Photo Contest Winners

Regularly packed with amazing images, the Summer-Fall 2011 issue of Camera Obscura features photographs by the winners of the Summer 2011 Photography Competition, judged by Carl Caylor, Carol Andrews Jensen, and Joel Grimes.

Rafal Maleszyk – Outstanding Photo Award, Professional
Bonnie Jones – Editor’s Choice Award, Professional
Kalliope Amorphous – Outstanding Photo Award, Non-Professional
Hugh Jones – Editor’s Choice Award, Non-Professional

Finalists – Professional
Alan Brown, Bonnie Jones , Catherine Martinoff, Chan Kwok Hung, Claudio Allia, Daniel Haeker, Jana Asenbrennerova, Jeremy Fokkens, Juergen Lechner, Marcella Hackbardt, Matt Walford, Nicholas Bardonnay, Patrizia Burra, Peter Ciccariello, Sabato Visconti, Svetlana Batura

Finalists – Non-professional
Daniel Haeker, Daniel L Camacho-Sanchez, Estelle Joannou, Habeeb Ali, Haeker Daniel, Hugh Jones, Jacqueline Langelier, Jenn Verrier, Jörgen Rönn, Louis Staeble, Nitin Budhiraja, Sabato Visconti, Scarlett Rooney, Tom Maciejewski