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| announcing the 2009 literary awards for
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| First Place Winners receive $1,500.00
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Thank you to our
preliminary judges.
View this year's finalists.
View our 2010 contest guidelines.
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| Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award |
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Siobhan Fallon
was a finalist in the Spring 2007
Glimmer Train Award for New Writers. She received her M.F.A. from the
New School in New York City in 2000.
Her stories have appeared in the
Crab Orchard Review, River
Oak Review, Madison Review,
Meridian,
Chautauqua Literary Journal,
Briar Cliff Review, Roanoke Review, and
Salamander.
Finalists:
First Runner-Up: Virginia Hartman, Md.
Second Runner-Up: Jamey Bradbury, N.C.
Honorable Mentions: Sue Shin, Fla.; Bonnie Roop Bowles, Va.
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Winner: Siobhán Fallon, Calif.
for "Riding the Waves" |
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Benjamin Percy
teaches creative writing (fiction and nonfiction) in the M.F.A. program
at Iowa State University. Prior to joining ISU’s faculty, he
taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Marquette
University. He is the author of
a novel, The Wilding
(forthcoming from Graywolf in 2009), and two books of short stories,
Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf,
2007) and The Language of Elk
(Carnegie Mellon, 2006).
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Benjamin Percy, fiction judge |
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| New Letters Poetry Award |
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Heather Bell
is the author of two books of
poems Nothing Unrequited Here
(Verve Bath Press, 2009) and the self-published,
How to Make People Love You.
Her work has been published in
Barnwood, Rattle, Diet Soap
and Grasslimb, among others
journals.
Finalists:
First Runner-Up: Salita Bryant, N.Y.
Second Runner-Up: Maya Jewll Zeller, Wash.
Honorable Mentions: J.L. Conrad, Wis.; Cheryl Whitehead, N.C.;
Sketer Wiliams, Calif.
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Winner: Heather Bell, Arizona
for "Aunt Marjorie & other
poems." |
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Kim Addonizio
is the author of four poetry collections including Tell Me
(BOA,
2000), a National Book Award Finalist. Addonizio's awards
include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a
Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry
Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her fifth collection, Lucifer at the Starlite, will be
published by W.W. Norton in October 2009.
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Kim Addonizio, poetry judge |
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| The Dorothy Churchill Cappon Nonfiction
Award |
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Rose Bunch
was a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee. She was also awarded third prize in
the Playboy Fiction Contest,
was an honorable mention in The
Atlantic's College Nonfiction Contest, and was a 2009 Tennessee
Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writing Conference.
After receiving her M.F.A. at
the University of Montana, she is now completing a Ph.D. and teaching at
Florida State University.
Finalists:
First Runner-Up: John C. Benson, Ill.
Second Runner-Up: Lizzie Hutton,
Mich.
Honorable Mention: Michelle Hoover, Mass.
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Winner: Rose Bunch, Fla.
for "Norman Mailer is Coming to Dinner" |
Robin Hemley
is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on
DO-OVER! (Little,
Brown & Co, 2009).
He has
published seven books and his stories and essays have appeared in
The New York Times,
New York Magazine,
Chicago Tribune, and many literary
magazines and anthologies.
Hemley received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1982; he
currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of
Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.
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Robin Hemley, essay judge |
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