| announcing the
2011
literary awards for writers |
preliminary judges
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(click here for the
2010 winners)
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| Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award |
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Catherine Browder
has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the Missouri Arts Council.
Her books include the short story collection
Secret Lives (Southern
Methodist UP, 2003) and The Clay
That Breathes: A Novella and Stories (Milkweed, 1993).
She teaches fiction writing at University of Missouri-Kansas City
and her book reviews appear regularly in New Letters, where she
serves as an advisory editor.
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| Ben Furnish is the
managing editor of BkMk press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |
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| Jacqueline Guidry's
novel The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town was the 2003 United We Read selection
in Kansas City, Mo. and the 2007 Community Read in Windsor, Conn. She
works part-time as an attorney representing applicants for Social
Security disability benefits.
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| Leslie
Koffler has worked as an editorial and rights director for
MacMurray & Beck (now a part of MacAdam/Cage publishing) and has worked
as a freelance writer/editor for The Bloomsbury Review,
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, and Fulcrum Publishing. |
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Michael Pritchett
is the winner of the 2009 Dana Award for a novel-in-progress.
He
is the author of the novel The Melancholy Fate of
Capt. Lewis (Unbridled Books, 2007) and of the award-winning
collection of stories, The Venus Tree
(U of Iowa
P, 1988). He
teaches fiction writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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| New Letters Poetry Award |
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Walter Bargen was the first poet laureate of Missouri. He was awarded
an N.E.A. poetry fellowship in 1991, the Chester H. Jones Foundation
poetry prize in 1997 and a William Rockhill Nelson Award in 2005.
He is the author of Days
Like This Are Necessary: New and
Selected Poems (BkMk P, 2009),
Theban Traffic (WorldTech
Comm, 2008), Remedies for Vertigo
(WordTech Comm, 2006), The Feast
(BkMk P, 2004), and The Body of
Water (Timberline P, 2003).
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Hadara Bar-Nadav’s
book of poetry A
Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007) won the
Margie Book Prize. She
is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City and is an editorial consultant for
New Letters.
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Trish Reeves
has received fellowships for her poetry from the National Endowment for
the Arts, Yaddo and the Kansas Arts Commission. Her first collection,
Returning the Question
(Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1988), received the
Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. Her book of poems In
the Knees of the Gods was published by BkMk Press in 2001.
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William Trowbridge's
latest poetry collection, Ship of
Fool, came out in February from Red Hen Press.
One of the poems in the collection, “Roll Out the Fool,” will
appear in the 2012
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small
Presses anthology. His other
collections are The Complete Book
of Kong, Flickers,
O Paradise, and
Enter
Dark Stranger.
He lives in the Kansas City area and teaches in the University of
Nebraska low-residency M.F.A. in Writing Program.
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| The Dorothy Churchill Cappon Nonfiction
Award |
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Steve Paul
is a writer and editor,
critic and teacher. His poems
have appeared in The Kansas City
Star and New Letters.
He also helps to coordinate the Hemingway Society’s international
conference. He currently lives
in Kansas City and is a senior editor and writer for the
Kansas City Star.
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Linda Rodriguez's novel, Every Last Secret,
won the Malice Domestic Award and will be published by St. Martin's
Press in May 2012. She has published two books of poetry, Heart's
Migration, winner of the 2010 Thorpe Menn Award for Literary
Excellence, and Skin Hunger. She has been the recipient of the
Elvira Cordero Cisneros Award and the Midwest Voices and Visions Award.
She is the vice president of the Latino Writers Collective and lives in
Kansas City, Missouri.
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