Poets & Writers – September 2019

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GRANTS & AWARDS

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chapbook. The next deadline is March

15, 2020.

Verse, Tomaz Salamun Prize, University

of Richmond, English Department, 106

UR Drive, Richmond, VA 23173. (804)

287-6431. Brian Henry, Editor.

http://www.versemag.blogspot.com

Washington Writers Publishing

House

POETRY AND FICTION PRIZES

Elizabeth Knapp of Frederick, Maryland,

won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize

for her poetry collection Requiem With

an Amulet in Its Beak. Nathan Leslie of

Fairfax, Virginia, won the 2019 Wash-

ington Writers Fiction Prize for his

story collection Hurry Up and Relax.

They each received $1,000, and their

books will be published by Washington

Writers Publishing House. The annual

awards are given for a poetry collection

and a short story collection or novel by

writers who live in Washington, D.C.,

or in Maryland or Virginia within a 75-

mile radius of the U.S. Capitol.

(SEE DEADLINES.)

University of Utah Press
AGHA SHAHID ALI PRIZE IN POETRY
Lindsay Lusby of Chestertown, Mary-
land, won the 2018 Agha Shahid Ali
Poetry Prize for Catechesis: a postpastoral.
She received $1,000, publication of her
book by University of Utah Press, and
$500 in travel and lodging expenses to
give a reading at the University of Utah
in Salt Lake City. Kimiko Hahn judged.
The annual award is given for a poetry
collection. The next deadline is April 15,
2020.

University of Utah Press, Agha Shahid
Ali Prize in Poetry, J. Willard Marriott
Library, 295 South 1500 East, Suite 5400,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Hannah New,
Contact. [email protected]
http://www.uofupress.com/ali-poetry-prize.php

Verse
TOMAZ SALAMUN PRIZE
Jennifer Liberts of Portland, Oregon, won
the 2019 Tomaž Šalamun Prize for Te n -
der Organs. She received $500, publica-
tion of her chapbook by Factory Hollow
Press, and a monthlong residency at the
Tomaž Šalamun Center for Poetry in
Ljubljana, Slovenia. Emily Pettit judged.
The annual award is given for a poetry

New from UNM Press

university of new mexico press

unmpress.com

Take Daily as

Needed: A Novel

in Stories

Kathryn

Trueblood

$19.95 paper

The Music of Her

Rivers: Poems

Renny Golden

$18.95 paper

to cleave: poems

Barbara

Rockman

$18.95 paper

Washington Writers Publishing House,

Poetry and Fiction Prizes, c/o Kathleen

Wheaton, 7127 Fairfax Road, Bethesda,

MD 20814. [email protected]

http://www.washingtonwriters.org

Waterston Desert Writing Prize

Nathaniel Brodie of Reno, Nevada, won

the 2019 Waterston Desert Writing

Prize for “Borderlands,” an essay from

his book-in-progress. He received $2,500

and a four-week residency at PLAYA in

Summer Lake, Oregon. He was also

invited to give a reading at the High

Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. The

annual award is given for a nonfiction

work-in-progress that illustrates “artistic

excellence, sensitivity to place, and de-

sert literacy.” As of this writing, the next

deadline has not been set.

Waterston Desert Writing Prize, P.O. Box

640, Bend, OR 97709. (541) 480-3933.

[email protected]

http://www.waterstondesertwritingprize.org

White Oak Kitchen & Cocktails

PRIZE IN SOUTHERN POETRY

Heather Elouej of Johnson City, Ten-

nessee, won the White Oak Kitchen &

Cocktails Prize in Southern Poetry for

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