Congratulations to all of the winners of 2015 Tupelo Press Awards and Contests!
2008 Dorset Prize
Winner: Joshua Corey for Severance Songs
Tupelo Press is happy to announce the results of the 2008 Dorset Prize.
Judge Ilya Kaminsky has selected the manuscript Severance Songs by Joshua Corey of Evanston, Illinois, which will be published in early 2011.
In addition, we extend our appreciation and congratulations to the runner-up, honorable mentions, and all finalists and semifinalists for giving us so much terrific work:
Runner-up:
Sanderlings by Geri Doran of Eugene, Oregon
Honorable Mentions:
Mule by Shane McCrae of Iowa City, Iowa
Landscape, Not Fable by Rusty Morrison of Richmond, California
Other Finalists:
K.E. Allen, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Woman in a Boat
Desirée Alvarez, New York, N.Y.: Paintings Hidden Upstairs
Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kansas City, Missouri: Architecture at the Mouth
Mark Conway, Avon, Minnesota: Dreaming Man, Face Down
Landon Godfrey, Black Mountain, North Carolina: Labor in Vain
David Hawkins, Salt Lake City, Utah: Dark Adaptations
Christina Hutchins, Albany, California: World Without
Dale M. Kushner, Madison, Wisconsin: More Alive Than Lions Roaring
Jynne Martin, Brooklyn, N.Y.: We Mammals in Hospitable Times
Jennifer McClanaghan, Tallahasse, Florida: The Cairo Letters
Mary Molinary, Memphis, Tennesee: The Supine & Other Burials
Addie Palin, Chicago, Illinois: The Cautery
Michael Robins, Chicago, Illinois: Ladies & Gentlemen
Juliet Rodeman, Columbia, Missouri: Tropics of Petticoats
Rob Schlegel, Missoula, Montana: Wrack Line
Robert Strong, Canton, N.Y.: Bright Advent
Kerri Webster, St. Louis, Missouri: Anodyne
Nance Van Winkel, Liberty Lake, Washington: Night to Which We Were Party
Semifinalists:
David Axelrod, La Grande, Oregon: What Next, Old Knife
Susan Briante, Dallas, Texas: Jerusalem
John Randolph Carter, Los Alamitos, California: Bureau of Lost Continents
Carl Casinghino, Hatfield, Massachusetts: The Heathen Cartographer
Adam Dressler, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ithakas
Matthew Gavin Frank, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Egoli Exhaustress
Sarah Estes Graham, Charlottesville, Virginia: La Meuse Mississippi
Gabrielle Jesiolowski, Portland, Maine: Ohio From the Fleeting
Stephen Knauth, Charlotte, North Carolina: Keeperless Light
Jacqueline Kolosov, Lubbock, Texas: An Impasse of Angels
Christi Kramer, Bonners Ferry, Idaho: Reading The Throne
Shara Lessley, Edenton, North Carolina: Two-Headed Nightingale
Frannie Lindsay, Belmont, Massachusetts: The Urn Garden
Joy Manesiotis, Redlands, California: Revoke
Abby Millager, Newark, Delaware: Space Botany
William Orem, Waltham, Massachusetts: Our Purpose in Speaking
Irena Praitis, Fullerton, California: One Woman’s Life: A Youth Between the Wars
Jay Rogoff, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Enamel Eyes
Ravi Shankar, Chester, Connecticut: Truth or Pretense
Martha Silano, Seattle, Washington: The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception
Shirley Stephenson, Chicago, Illinois: Partial Toll
Alison Stine, Athens, Ohio: Persephone In Hell
John Surowiecki, Amston, Connecticut: The Vomiting Bride
D.H. Tracy, Champaign, Illinois: Impressions of the Tribeless
Stacey Waite, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: When Someone Asks If You Believe What You Just Said
Daneen Wardrop, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Perhapsed
First Book Award
Winner: Megan Snyder-Camp for The Forest of Sure Things
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce the results of the 9th annual First Book Award, in conjunction with the journal Crazyhorse.
This year the editors of Tupelo Press and Crazyhorse have chosen The Forest of Sure Things by Megan Snyder-Camp of Seattle, Washington. Megan’s book will be published by Tupelo Press with the generous support of The College of Charleston in autumn 2010.
Co-runners-up:
Mule by Shane McCrae of Iowa City, Iowa
Fuse by Marc McKee of Columbia, Missouri
Other finalists:
Matthew A. Andersson of Barrington, Illinois: What a Vessel in a Stem
Beth Bachman of Nashville, Tennessee: Temper
Colin Cheney of Brooklyn, N.Y.: Here There Be Monsters
Adam Fell of Madison, Wisconsin: Human Resources
Paul Legault of Charlottesville, Virginia: With
Erin Lyndal Martin of Newport, Virginia: Hive Mind
Rob Schlegel of Missoula, Montana: flame & fern between our fingers flow
Matthew Shindell of La Jolla, California: In Another Castle
Amanda Rachelle Warren of Kalamazoo, Michigan: Ridge Runner
All manuscripts were read by Carol Ann Davis and Garret Doherty, Editors of Crazyhorse, and the winner was selected by a panel of three judges consisting of Carol Ann Davis, Garret Doherty, and Jeffrey Levine, Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press. Tupelo Press is grateful to all poets who gave us the opportunity to read, enjoy, and consider their fine work.
Snowbound Series Chapbook Award
Winner: Stacey Waite for the lake has no saint
Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that judge Dana Levin has selected Stacey Waite of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as winner of the 2008 Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Her manuscript the lake has no saint will be published by Tupelo Press in 2010.
Co-runners-up:
Jamie O’Halloran of Los Angeles, California: The Visible Woman
John Surowiecki of Amston, Connecticut: Mr. Niedzwiedzkis Pink House
Deb Casey of Eugene, Oregon: Spit & Purr
Other Finalists:
Lisa Beskin of Belchertown, Massachusetts: Shadow Globe
Remica Bingham of Norfolk, Virginia: The Body Speaks
John de Stefano of New York, N.Y.: From: Critical Opalescence and the Blueness of the Sky
Mary Helen Molinary of Memphis, Tennessee: The Book of 8:38
Howard Robertson of Eugene, Oregon: Three Odes to Gaia
Robin Beth Schaer of New York, N.Y.: Almost Tiger
Suzume Shi of New London, Connecticut: Ao
Jacob Shores-Arguello of Fayetteville, Arkansas: John Barleycorn Must Die
Janet Sylvester of Kittery, Maine: The Unbinding
Semifinalists:
Hadara Bar-Nadav of Kansas City, Missouri: Fable of Flesh
Colin Cheney of Brooklyn, N.Y.: Here There Be Monsters
Mark Conway of Avon, Minnesota, Dreaming Man, Face Down
John de Stefano of New York, N.Y.: From: Three-Body Problems
Joanne Diaz of Chicago, Illinois, Violin
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs of New York, N.Y.: Mongrel Angels
Matthew Hittinger of Astoria, N.Y.: Spectacular Reflection
Christina Hutchins of Albany, California; Dark Creek
M. Smith Janson of Florence, Massachusetts: Letter Written in this Life, Mailed from the Next
Jesse Lee Kercheval of Madison, Wisconsin: My Life as a Silent Movie
Sandra Kohler of Dorchester, Massachusetts: Final Summer
Gary Copeland Lilley of Swannanoa, North Carolina: Wade In Da Wahtuh
Matthew Lippman of Claverack, N.Y.: Moses
Mike Maniquiz of Clovis, California: Cooking Frutti Di Mare on This Early Evening Before theNight Falls on Kentucky Hillsides
Mary Helen Molinary of Memphis, Tennessee: This Book of Sun
Rusty Morrison of Richmond, California: Insolence
Teresa Pfeifer of Chicopee, Massachusetts: Little Matryoshka
Joseph Radke of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: A Source of Reasons
Boyer Rickel of Tucson, Arizona: reliquary
Reginald Shepherd of Pensacola, Florida: Photos of the Fallen World: Poems
Page Hill Starzinger of New York, N.Y.: Black Tongue
Barry Sternlieb of Richmond, Massachusetts: Winter Crows
Jonathan Weinert Concord, Massachusetts: Charged Particles