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Last Updated July 09, 2008
Contest Winner and Finalists of the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton in Poetry and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
Our contest season has come to a close, and the judges have made their decisions.
The winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Lynn Emanuel, is Karyna McGlynn for her collection, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl. Lynn also selected three runners-up: The Cold War, by Kathleen Ossip; Stories That Listen, by Priscilla Becker; and The Noisy Lostness, by Herman Beavers.
The winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Andrea Barrett, is Jerry Gabriel's Drowned Boy: Stories. Andrea Barrett chose one runner-up: Norma Rosen's The Lovemaking of IB Singer. Finalists for the McCarthy Prize included: Valerie Hurley, Steven 'Rudy' Wilson, and Lynn Kilpatrick.
Congratulations to Karyna and Jerry and a big thanks to all who entered our contest!
Recent Honors for Sarabande Titles
The Guyanese Wanderer by Jan Carew
* 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Multicultural Fiction, Bronze Medal
The New Year of Yellow by Matthew Lippman
* 2008 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist
Fragment of the Head of a Queen by Cate Marvin
* 2008 Texas Institute of Letters Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry
* 2007 Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Award
* 2007 Gregory Millard New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Making the New Lamb Take by Gabriel Fried
* 2007 Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
* 2008-09 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award finalist in Poetry
Connecting Lines edited by Luis Cortés Bargalló
* 2007 Latino Literacy Awards, 2nd Place for the Best Poetry Book (Spanish)
Exceptions and Melancholies by Ralph Angel
* 2007 PEN USA Award in Poetry
* Title poem selected for the 2008 Best American Poetry anthology
My Psychic by James Kimbrell
* 2007 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry
* Gold Medal Winner in Poetry in the 2006 Florida Book Awards
On Looking by Lia Purpura
* Finalist for a National Critics Book Circle Award in the Criticism category
* 2007 Pushcart Prize for the essay "On Form" from the book On Looking
Family of Strangers by Deborah Tall
*Runner-up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award.
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, edited by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin
*The 2006 American Poetry Anthology Award from Pudding House Publications.
White Sea by Cleopatra Mathis
*2006 Pushcart Prize for "Moonsnail"
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman
*2006 Winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from American Academy of Poets
*Received a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship grant
Sarabande Books Garners Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2008-2009
Sarabande is pleased to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the publication of the following titles from the 2008-2009 catalog:
Contents of a Minute by Josephine Jacobsen
Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods by Paula Bohince
Motel of the Stars by Karen McElmurry
The Art of the Word edited by Molly McQuade
Congratulations to Thomas Heise
Thomas Heise, author of the upcoming poetry collection Horror Vacui to be published in 2006, recently won the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, selected by Dean Young. Heise won for the title poem to his forthcoming collection and was chosen out of 1,700 entries.
Thomas Heise was awarded The Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry from Middlebury College for the 2006 Bread Loaf Conference.
Sarabande Books Announces 2006 Literary Contest Winners
For the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, judge Norman Rush selected Water: Nine Stories by Alyce Miller. Alyce Miller is an attorney specializing in animal law, and a professor in the graduate writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington. She has authored a collection of stories, The Nature of Longing (W.W. Norton), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, and a novel, Stopping for Green Lights (Anchor Doubleday). Her awards include the Lawrence Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review and The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction. Water: Nine Stories will be published in January 2008.
For the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judge Michael Ryan selected Making the New Lamb Take by Gabriel Fried. Gabriel Fried grew up in upstate New York. His poems have appeared in a number of journals, including The American Scholar, Drunken Boat, The Gettysburg Review, The Great River Review, and The Paris Review. He lives in New York City, where he edits the poetry series at Persea Books. Making the New Lamb Take will be published by Sarabande in May 2007.
This was the twelfth year of Sarabande's contests; more than 1300 manuscripts were submitted by writers throughout the United States and abroad. Manuscripts are read blind (writers' names are not available to first readers or judges). Winners receive $2,000 and a standard publishing contract. The deadline is February 15th of each year.
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