2006 Book Contest Winner | The 2006 Poetry & Flash Fiction Winners
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MMM Press is pleased to announce the winner of the 3rd Poetry Book Contest:
Anne-Marie Cusac, Silkie
Anne-Marie Cusac’s poetry has appeared in Poetry, Iowa Review,
TriQuarterly, The American Scholar, The Madison Review, and other
journals and is forthcoming from Crab Orchard Review. Her book of
poems, The Mean Days, was published in 2001 by Tia Chucha Press, and
won the Posner Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. A
recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and a
Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist's grant, Cusac was for ten years
an editor and investigative reporter for The Progressive magazine. Her
investigative reporting for The Progressive has won several awards,
including the prestigious George Polk Award. In the fall of 2006, she
will become a professor in the Communications Department at Roosevelt
University and a contributing writer for The Progressive.(See some excerpts of her winning ms. in the print issue of Vol VII.)
Runner-up: Cynthia Arrieu-King, People are Tiny in Paintings of China
(See some excerpts of her ms. in the print issue of Vol VII.)
Honorable Mention: Veronica Patterson, Close
Many thanks to our finalists, semifinalists and other entrants. Many thanks also to our final judge, Patrick Lawler, the author of the last prize-winning MMM Press book, Feeding the Fear of the Earth.
Finalists:
Sheila Black, Love/Iraq (See some excerpts of her ms. in the print issue of Vol VII.)
Lisa Lewis, Vivisect
Renato Rosaldo, Clockwise Modern
Semifinalists:
Charles Atkinson, Thumb Against the Sky
Michelle Bitting, Communion
Lorna Blake, Permanent Address
Laurie Blauner, The Age of Ventriloquism
Dana Curtis, Camera Stellata
Pat Falk, Crazy Jane
Daniel Lusk, The Bull on the Roof
Adela Najarro, The Swarming Background
Chad Sweeney, Salt Plain and Other Stories
Dona Stein, Evergreen
Congrats, also, to the poets who entered our contest and found other publishers:
Cathleen Calbert, Sleeping with a Famous Poet
Barbara Daniels, Rose Fever
Julia Lisella, Terrain
Lauren Rusk, Pictures in the Firestorm
Michael Robbins, The Next Settlement
Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Players In The Dream, Dreamers In The Play
2006 Poetry and Flash Fiction Winners
Poetry Winner: "Anniversary" by Gail Giewont
Runner Up: "You Would Not Exist" by Patricia Caspers
Her manuscript, Life with Fever, was the first runner up for the 2006 Tom and Stan Wick Poetry Prize, judged by Alberto Rios. Last year she won the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Limestone, Literary Mama, Comstock Review, Sow’s Ear, Slipstream, Facets, and Watershed. She is a member of Thicket Press, which recently released its second hand-sewn, letterpress printed chapbook, Box Wood & Shade.
Finalists (in alphabetical order)
"Daguerrotype: Portrait of Woman & Bird" by Maureen Alsop
"Home from Market" by Jennifer Chapis
"MARKS" by Rita Brady Kiefer
"Blended Woman and Man" by Kathleen Kirk
Flash Fiction Winner: "Beehive" by Lise Erdrich
Liselotte (Lise) Erdrich is the School Health Officer at the Circle of Nations Wahpeton Indian Boarding School in Wahpeton, ND. "Beehive" is from a collection of brief fictions titled Night Train, scheduled for publication by Coffee House Press in Fall of 2007. Lise has had essays and fictions published in several anthologies, and in journals and periodicals including Aboriginal Voices, Cream City Review, Flyway, North Dakota Quarterly, Minnesota Monthly (Tamarack Award Winner), Paragraph, Special Report: Fiction, South Dakota Review, Traffic, Tribal College, and xcp: cross-cultural poetics. Lise hates cats.
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)
"If you are Eliza" by Kasandra Duthie
"Electric Blue" by Christiana Langenberg
"The Bat Cave" by Peter Nash
Other Finalists
"Map" Margaret Simmons
"Cilia" D.L. Stein
"Three Sayonaras" Kathleen Hellen
"Lost Wax" Christiana Langenberg
"Tiny Tiles" Kelly J. Tate
Thanks to our great final judges, Alison Stone (poetry) and Thaddeus Rutkowski (flash fiction)
