Prism Review announced the winners of its 2016 poetry and short story awards, as chosen by Victoria Chang (poetry) and Bryan Hurt (fiction).
Fiction: “Messiah Complex,” Michael Olin-Hitt [pictured]. Judge Bryan Hurt writes, “I was drawn into the story by Josh’s kinetic voice and hooked by his spirited and smart digressions. The author carefully and subtly adds so many layers: there’s sadness and loss but it’s met with optimism and empathy.
Poetry: “Slow Motion Landscape,” Sam Gilpin. Judge Victoria Chang writes, “here, grass is ‘guillotines,’ speech ‘wrens us in its folding,’ and sunsets ‘thrum.’ The language is fresh and new in this sequence poem, but even more interesting is the mind behind the poem–one that both thinks and sees abstractions and paradoxes that make the reader read and re-read, think and re-think, see and see again.”
The winners’ works will be included in the 2016 issue, available in June at the Prism Review website.
Maria Tess Liem’s “Rice Cracker” was selected from among 179 submissions as the winning entry of the 
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The winner of Milkweed Editions’s 
In April 2016, Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria will start hitting bookshelves. Winner of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry, The Black Maria “investigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity.”
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With spare yet deeply evocative prose, “Floating Garden” sweeps us up into the span of a singular life, one that is as sacred as any other, one for whom “the words for things take us from what matters.” This story is a profound meditation on the nature of brutality – of man against man, of man against nature – yet it is also an unsentimental song of how we can be redeemed, “like dust into soil, so dark, so primordial.” This is a lovely gem of a tale.
Told in a rollicking, expressionistic voice, “The Hooligan Present” delivers that rarest of reading experiences; it actually makes you laugh, and then it makes you cry, and then it leaves you grateful for such artistry, for such a generous and humane vision of this dirty old world.
First place: Anthony DeCasper [pictured], of Chico, CA, wins $1500 for “Redshift.” His story will be published in Issue 99 of Glimmer Train Stories. This is his first story accepted for publication!
The 2014 Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry winner is Objects of Attention by Aichlee Bushnell and was published in Fall 2015. 
Anna George Meek’s The Genome Rhapsodies was chosen by Angie Estes last year as the winner of The Ashland Poetry Series’ 2014 
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Now in its 15th year, the 
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First place: S. P. MacIntyre [pictured], of South Florida, wins $1500 for “Pinch.” His story will be published in Issue 98 of Glimmer Train Stories.
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Kathy Flann’s second collection of stories Get a Grip was released last month from Texas Review Press. Winner of the 20145 George Garrett Fiction Prize, Get a Grip, according to the publisher’s website: “depict[s] a range of imagined lives . . . . All of the characters work out their struggles in the Baltimore region, channeling, in turns, the area’s charm, its despair, its humor, its self-doubt, its compassion. Get a Grip is a book about who we are when the cameras are off and the phone has died.”
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The Fall/Winter 2015 issue of 
Drea Brown’s dear girl: a reckoning was released last month. The 2014 poetry winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition revisits the biography of poet Phillis Wheatley, reimagining her journey through the Middle Passage to Boston.
Gold Line Press’s annual chapbook contest
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BkMk Press annually holds their 
Matthew Minicucci’s Translation was published in August 2015, winner of the 2014 
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Look forward to Christine Poreba’s Rough Knowledge, winner of the 2014 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, currently scheduled to be published by Anhinga Press at the beginning of 2016. Rough Knowledge is Poreba’s first book and was chosen from nearly 700 manuscripts by Peter Everwine.
The MacGuffin has announced the winners of their Poetry Prize, which was sponsored at the Detroit Working Writer’s Conference this spring.
In the September/October issue of The Kenyon Review, find the winners of the 2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers.
Halfway through November, Orison Books will release J. Scott Brownlee’s debut full-length poetry collection Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize.
First place: Caleb Leisure [pictured], of Martinez, CA, wins $2500 for “Atlantic on Sunday.” His story will be published in Issue 97 of Glimmer Train Stories.
Winner of the 2014 Able Muse Book Award, Cause for Concern by Carrie Shipers is now available. From the publisher’s website: “Full of incisive meditations on frailties and fortitude often delivered with visceral honesty, Cause for Concern is spellbinding from start to finish.” 
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Carissa Halston’s “Call It a Map” has been awarded the 2015 
1st place goes to Lauren Green [pictured] of New York, NY. She wins $1500 for “When We Hear Yellow” and her story will be published in Issue 97 of Glimmer Train Stories. This will be her first publication.