A slew of good news for our talented contributors!
Fellowship News:
Ari Banias (5.1) has been awarded a fellowship in poetry to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Sarah Rose Nordgren (6.1) will be a second-year fellow.
Laura Eve Engel (8.1) is the 2011-12 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist. (Read an appreciation of Engel’s poem from issue 8.1 here.)
Dana Koster (7.1) and Mira Rosenthal (5.2) are Stegner Fellows in poetry this year. (Read an appreciation of Koster’s poem from Issue 7.1 and her description of that poem.)
Book News:
Stephen Haven (5.1) won the 2010 American Poetry Prize from New American Press for his book The Last Sacred Place in North America, chosen by T. R. Hummer.
Ted Sanders (5.2) won the Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for fiction for his novel, No Animals We Could Name.
Jane Springer (3.2, 6.2) won the 2011 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books for her book Murder Ballad. The title poem (a Pushcart Prize winner!) appeared in Issue 6.2, and you can read an interview with Jane here.
Chase Twichell (6.2) won the Balcones Poetry Prize for her book Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been (Copper Canyon Press).
Congratulations to all!
