contest winners

Contest Winners

Fineline Fiction Poetry Nonfiction AWP Intro Awards

Fineline Competition for Prose Poems, Short Shorts, and Anything In Between

2007 (v. XXVIII, no. 1)
   First Place
Salesses, Matthew. "How to Be a Conqueror"
      Selected by Ron Carlson
   Editors' Choices
Day, Cherie Hunter. "Mud Season"
Griffith, Kevin. "Bar-of-the-Month Club"
Michel, Lincoln. Two Selections
Russell, Benjamin. "Bird Brain"
Pearson, Rachel. Two Selections

2006 (v. XXVII, no. 1)
   First Place
Kartsonis, Ariana-Sophia. "Fish-Eye"
      Selected by Denise Duhamel
   Editors' Choices
Kartsonis, Ariana-Sophia. "Dear Rainer Maria Rilke"
Leising, Gary. "Dolphinese"
Rosser, J. Allyn. "Quick Little Tete-a-Tete With My Sould at the Car Wash"
Wilson, Eliot Khalil. "Chuck Norris"

2005 (v. XXVI, no. 1)
   First Place
Solomon, Jennifer Hodl. "Ten Thousand Lovers"
      Selected by Alice Fulton
   Editors' Choices
Carlson, Ron. "The Great Open-Mouth Anti-Sadness"
Day, Cherie Hunter. "In Vivo"
Freeland, Charles. "Deviled Ham and a Picture of Jesus"
Scarry, Siobhan. "Walker Evans Meets His Subject (Grave, 1936)"
Schmeidler, Lynn. "An Instinct for Survival"

2004 (v. XXV, no. 1)
   First Place
Klein Ross, Helen. "The Chicken"
      Selected by Pamela Painter
   Editors' Choices
Hunter Day, Cherie. "Swallow Over Chernobyl"
McGookey, Kathleen. "No Comfort"
Scarry, Siobhan. "St. John's Parish, Bronx"
Shumate, David. "Mannequins"
Turner, Alison. "Homo Sapiens"

2003 (v. XXIV, no. 1)
   First Place
Cokinos, Christopher. "Blue False Indigo"
      Selected by Stephen Dunn
   Editors' Choices
Perrier, Sarah. "Rattle Bones"
Scarry, Siobhan. "By Water"
Singer, Margot. "As Dawn Splits"
Woody, Chad. "The Ringing Payphone"

2002 (v. XXIII, no. 1)
   First Place
Smith, Maggie. "Unclassified Stars"
      Selected by Alberto Rios
   Editors' Choices
Johns, Wayne. "The Multiverse"
Vigderman, Patricia. "Eggs"
Woody, Chad. "The Wood-Stove"

2001 (v. XXII, no. 1)
   First Place
Kasper, Catherine. ""Etymology of Ytterbium"
      Selected by Michael Martone
   Editors' Choices
Green, Alex. Two Selections
Kasper, Catherine. "J'Abab's Cosmic Gown"
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. "Gulabjamoon Jar"
Pearson, Lisa. "Paradise Is Not Useless Though No One Lives There Now (Hortis Deliciarum)"
Shumate, David. "Hero"

Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award

2007 (v. XXVIII, no. 2)
   First Place
Brininstool, Andrew. "Peppermint Schnapps"
      Selected by Anthony Doerr
   Editors' Choices
Batt, Matthew "Power Ballad of West Allis"
Hollars, B.J. "Loose Lips Sink Ships"

2006 (v. XXVII, no. 2)
   First Place
Madden, David & Adam Peterson. "The Single Father"
      Selected by Aimee Bender
   Editors' Choice
Underwood, Tanya. "The Circus of the Black Hole"

2005 (v. XXVI, no. 2)
   First Place
Varble, Valery. "Bat"
      Selected by Steve Almond
   Editors' Choices
Goldfaden, Josh. "Disorder Destroyers"
Taylor, M. Glenn. "The Story of a Hateful Man"

2004 (v. XXV, no. 2)
   First Place
Yu, Charles. "Class Three Superhero"
      Selected by Jean Thompson
   Editors' Choice
Chapman, J.D. "Amanuensis"

2003 (v. XXIV, no. 2)
   First Place
Guerra, Michael. "Taco Night at the Jon Neimelmeier Memorial Drive-in"
      Selected by Stuart Dybek
   Editors' Choices
Davis, Michael. "Death and Texas"
Wilson, Andrew J. "Victor in the Club"

2002 (v. XXIII, no. 2)
   First Place (4-way tie--only the selections by Malkus and Parsons were printed)
Doud, Sally. "Lela and the Swan"
Malkus, Leland. "When the Wind Stopped Blowing in the Town of Saudade"
Ober, Damien. "The Number Goff, the State of Templeton, Somewhere in America--or--
   The Preface to the Intentional Killing of Dr. Rodgers Blink
Parsons, Alexander. "Thunderbird"
      Selected by Dan Chaon

2001 (v. XXII, no. 2)
   First Place
Smith, Dominic. "The Hazelbrook Herald"
      Selected by Peter Ho Davies
   Editors' Choice
Ochsner, Gina. "Last Words of the Mynah Bird"

2000 (v. XXI, no. 2)
First Place
Tabor, Mary L. "To Swim?"
Selected by Melanie Rae Thon

1999 (v. XX, nos. 1 & 2)
First Place
Beaulieu, Nancy. "Venus de Milo"
Selected by June Spence

James Wright Poetry Award

2007 (v. XXVIII, no. 2)
   First Place
Walpert, Bryan. "Thank You, Persia"
      Selected by David Kirby
   Editors' Choices
Barker, Wendy. "Why I Dread Teaching The Sun Also Rises"
Bode-Lang, Katherine. "Lament for Pluto"
Notess, Hannah Faith. "The Multitude"
Teitman, Ryan. "The Cartographer Revises His Premise"

2006 (v. XXVII, no. 2)
   First Place
Meyerhofer, Michael. "Ode to Dogs"
      Selected by Rafael Campo
   Editors' Choices
Journey, Anna. "Ars Poetica"
Winrock, Cori A. "[Bias 1]"

2005 (v. XXVI, no. 2)
   First Place
Auchter, Amanda. "Alfred Eistenstaedt Holding His VJ Day Negative With Two Hands, 1945"
      Selected by Virgil Suárez
   Editors' Choices
Ballard, Teresa. "What a Strange Machine"
Fawson, Shawn. "Servant of the Inarticulate"
Glaser, Elton. "Prayer From the Back Pew"
Journey, Anna. "Elegy: After Filling Out Egg Donation Forms"

2004 (v. XXV, no. 2)
   First Place
Everett, Nancy Taylor. "Glossolalia"
      Selected by Michelle Boisseau
   Editors' Choices
Pursley III, John. "Through the Slats of a Hay Truck"
Smith, Maggie. "Ohio"

2003 (v. XXIV, no. 2)
   First Place
Stallings, Andy. "Elegy With the Striking of a Single Note on Piano"
      Selected by Bob Hicok
   Editors' Choice
Balma, Kathleen. "An Amnesiac's Letter to Herself"

2002 (v. XXIII, no. 2)
   First Place
Samyn, Mary Ann. "Under It"
      Selected by Kathy Fagan
   Editors' Choice
Meek, Sandra. "On the Modifications of Clouds"

2001 (v. XXII, no. 2)
   First Place
Purpura, Lia. "Sudden House"
      Selected by Timothy Liu
   Editors' Choice
Gray, Kate. "On September 12, I Can't Stop"

2000 (v. XXI, no. 2)
   First Place
Irwin, Mark. "A Vase of Clouds for My Father"
      Selected by Allison Joseph
   Editors' Choices
Blaiklock, Stephen N. "Lost Herodotus"
Gundy, Jeff. "Second Morning Song from Oneonta"

1999 (v. XX, nos. 1 & 2)
   First Place
Jacobstein, Roy. "Swale"
      Selected by Scott Cairns
   Editors' Choice
Van Cleave, Ryan G. "El Autobus, or Ode Without Lament"

Creative Nonfiction Award

2007 (v. XXVIII, no. 2)
First Place
Buntin, Simmons B. "The Sum of All Species"
Selected by W. Scott Olsen

2006 (v. XXVII, no. 2)
   First Place
Fawson, Shawn. "Poplars"
      Selected by Phillip Lopate
   Editors' Choices
David, Ashley. "How to Hunt & Gather"
MacInnis, Margaret. "Carrier"

2005 (v. XXVI, no. 2)
First Place
Silverman, Sue William. "That Summer of War and Apricots"
Selected by Josip Novakovich

2004 (v. XXV, no. 2)
   First Place
Murtagh, Joseph. "To Noah Daniel Kooperman"
      Selected by Robert Olmstead
   Editors' Choices
Mathes II, Jerry D. "An Absence of Motion"
Miller, Brenda. "Virtuoso"

2003 (v. XXIV, no. 2)
   First Place
Marquart, Debra. "Agricultural Mysticism"
      Selected by Lee Martin
   Editors' Choice
Clements Lambeth, Laurie. "Fluid on the Brain"

AWP Intro Journals Award

Adair, Gavin. "Fire in the Streets" v. XXVII, no. 1
Bandy, J.W. "A Marine's Last Leave" v. XIV, no. 1.
Buege, Amanda E. "Dancing With the Fat Lady" v. XIV, no. 1.
Buffington, Marcia. "Brothers" v. XIV, no. 1.
Cell, Kate. "The History of Women in Space" v. XII, no. 1.
D'Aoust, Renee E. "Graham Crackers" v. XXVI, no. 1.
Dean, Debra. "The Queen Mother" v. XIII, no. 2.
Dombrowski, Chris. "Larry Levis' Motel Room" v. XXII. no. 1.
Doolittle, Deborah. "Trees From My Windows" v. XII, no. 1.
DeGroote, Jerusha. "Memoirs of the Mississippi Gulf Coast" v. XVIII. no. 1.
Driskell, Kathleen. "Leaving the Argument" v. XII, no, 1.
Elizabeth, Martha. "The Ending" v. XIII, no. 2
Foust, Graham. "Erosion in a Stolen Country" v. XIII, no. 2
Good, Steven. "In the Grocery" v. XXVI, no. 1.
Greer, Jeffrey. "The Manager of the Apollo Drive-In Prepares for Winter" v. XIV, no. 1.
Guillory, Stella Jeng. "My Voyage to Mecca" v. XIII, no. 2.
Hoerter, R.C. "Modi Tchaikovsky Names the Sixth Symphony" v. XIV, no. 1.
Hippler, Michelle. "Chatter" v. XIII. no. 2.
Jones, Dan. "The Brick" v. XII, no. 1.
Kaplan, Dan. "Bill's Formal Complaint" v. XXIII, no. 1.
Kocher, Jennifer. "Our Words" v. XXIII, no. 1.
Lerman, Jonas. "The First Poem You Wrote" v. XXII, no. 1.
Leung, Brian. "Kinesiology" v. XXI. no. 1.
Levy, E.J. "Supernatural Powers" v. XXI, no. 1
Loewen, Nancy. "Harvest" v. XXVII, no. 1
Maxwell, Justin. "Nostalgia" v. XX, no. 1 and 2.
Nielsen, Kristy. "Watching a Man Work" v. XIII, no. 2.
Neville, Jon. "Piglets" v. XVIII, n. 1.
Pagnac, Kelly Joe. "Hair" v. XXI, no. 1.
Pierce, Catherine. "Retribution" v. XXIV, no. 1.
Pritchard, Sara. "The Piano" v. XXIII, no. 1.
Pugh, Denzil R. "The Great Sleepers" v. XX, no. 1 and 2.
Purdy, Matthew. "Yard Work" v. XXIV, no. 1.
Raebeck, Shelby "Dream Girls" v. XIV, no. 1.
Ramin, Hester. "The Fuse" v. XVIII, no. 1.
Ramjerdi, Jan. "Virginia Woolf Collage 3" v. XIII, no. 2.
Rieckelman, Harry. "A Few Panasonics" v. XIII, no. 2.
Reese, Rita Mae. "The American on His First Honeymoon" v. XXIII, no. 1.
Rodriguez, Hugo. "The Onion" v. XXI, no. 1.
Rosen, Deena. "Coyote" v. XX, no. 1 and 2.
Skeen, Tim. "Gameday Saturday Afternoon" v. XIV, no. 1
Snodgrass, Lucie Lehmann. "Ohma" v. XXIV, no. 1.
Spinner, Jenny. "Block Island, 1998" v. XXIV, no. 1.
Steffen, Mary. "Night Drive" v. XII, no. 1.
Thompson, Cole. "Advice" v. XII, no. 1.
Trent, Tiffany L. "The House That Jack Built" v. XVIII, n. 1.
Vandenberg, Katrina. "The Problem With the Pills" v. XIV, no. 1.
Varallo, Anthony. "The Summer He Was Seven" v. XXII, no. 1
Voisine, Connie. "Home From School" v. XIV, no, 1,
Wharton, Betsy. "The Rabbi's Garage" v. XXII, no. 1
Whitman, Teresa. "Jennifer" v. XII, no. 1.
Wolfe, Lois. "Bawling Song" v. XX, no. 1 and 2.