SEPT OCT 2019 164She was also invited to give a reading
with prize judge A. Van Jordan in April
2019 at James Madison University in
Harrisonburg, Virginia. The annual
award is given for a group of poems. The
next deadline is February 9, 2020.
Furious Flower Poetry Center, Poetry
Prize for Emerging Writers, Cardinal
House, 500 Cardinal Drive, MSC 3802,
Harrisonburg, VA 22807. (540) 568-8883.
[email protected]
http://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/poetryprize/index
.shtmlGemini Magazine
POETRY OPEN
Partridge Boswell of Woodstock, Ver-
mont, won the 2019 Poetry Open for
his poem “Ode to the Umbrella.” He
received $1,000, and his poem was pub-
lished in the May 2019 issue of Gemini
Magazine. The editors judged. The
annual award is given for a single poem.
The next deadline is January 2, 2020.
Gemini Magazine, Poetry Open, P.O. Box
1485, Onset, MA 02558. (339) 309-9757.
David Bright, Editor.
[email protected]
http://www.gemini-magazine.comGhost Story
SUPERNATURAL FICTION AWARD
A. C. Koch of Denver won the Summer
2019 Supernatural Fiction Award for
“Cloudscape.” He received $1,000, and
his story was published on the Ghost
Story website and in the print anthol-
ogy 21st Century Ghost Stories—Volume
II. The editors judged. The award is
given twice yearly for a short story with
a supernatural or magic realism theme.
(SEE DEADLINES.)
Ghost Story, Supernatural Fiction Award,
P.O. Box 601, Union, ME 04862. Paul
Guernsey, Editor.
http://www.theghoststory.com/tgs-fiction-awardGlimmer Train Press
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS
Rachael Uwada Clifford of Baltimore won
the Short Story Award for New Writers
for “What the Year Will Swallow.” She
received $2,500, and her story will be
published in the final issue of Glimmer
Train Stories. The editors judged. The
award was given for a short story by a
writer whose fiction has not appeared
in a print publication with a circulation
of more than 5,000; the prize has been
discontinued.FAMILY MATTERS
Robin Halevy of Big Pine Key, Florida,
won the Family Matters Contest for
“Bright Ideas for Residential Lighting.”
She received $2,500, and her story will
be published in the final issue of Glimmer
Train Stories. The editors judged. The
award was given for a short story about
families of all configurations; the prize
has been discontinued.
Glimmer Train Press, P.O. Box 80430,
Portland, OR 97280. (503) 221-0836.
Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda
Swanson-Davies, Coeditors.
http://www.glimmertrain.comGriffin Trust
GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Kim Hyesoon of Seoul and Don Mee Choi
of Seattle won the 2019 International
Griffin Poetry Prize for Choi’s trans-
lation from the Korean of Hyesoon’s
Autobiography of Death (New Directions).
Eve Joseph of Victoria, Canada, won
the Canadian Prize for Quarrels (Anvil
Press). Hyesoon received CAD $26,000
(approximately $19,800), Choi received
CAD $39,000 (approximately $29,600),
and Joseph received CAD $65,000 (ap-
proximately $49,400). The finalists forGRANTS & AWARDSR
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