Schiff Prize Winners and Notables

Thanks to all of our amazing entrants in the 2012 Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose.

We are delighted to announce that Emily Hipchen is the winner of the Poetry Prize for “Boy into Polished Concrete,” and Carey Cameron is the winner of the Prose Prize for “Thursday.” Cameron and Hipchen will each receive a $1,000 prize, and their pieces will appear in the Summer 2013 issue of The Cincinnati Review, due out in May.

The judges, Don Bogen for poetry and Michael Griffith for prose, have also named the following honorable mentions:

Jacob Appel

D. M. Armstrong

Renee Ashley

Aaron Burch

Andrew D. Cohen

Petrina Crockford

Kathy Flann

Janis Hubschman

Janet Joyner

Earle McCartney

Susan McCarty

The editors would like to thank Heather Hamilton and Becky Adnot-Haynes for their invaluable help with the judging.

(Tune in next week for comments by the writers on their winning pieces and from the editors who chose them.)