Codhill Press Chapbook Award

 

January 10, 2009

Barry Sternlieb of Richmond, Massachusetts won the 2008 Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for his manuscript Winter Crows. He received $500 plus 50 copies. Author of the poetry collection Thoreau’s Hat (Brooding Heron Press, 1994), his poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Midwest Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Wilderness. He is editor of Mad River Press, which specializes in handmade letterpress poetry chapbooks and prints.

Congratulations as well to our finalists:
   Sibyl James, Seattle, Washington
   Elizabeth Rees, Silver Springs, Maryland
   John Surowiecki, Amston, Connecticut

And to our semifinalists:
   Karen Wolf, Chicago, Illinois
   Steven Lautermilch, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
   Eric Nelson, Statesboro, Georgia
   Mike Jurkovic, Wallkill, New York
   David Scheler, Cross Plains, Wisconsin
   Keli Stafford, Aumsville, Oregon
   Leonore Hildebrandt, Harrington, Maine

Thanks to all of you who entered the competition. We could not have offered the prize without your support.

The annual award is given for a 20-30 page poetry manuscript. The next deadline is November 30, 2009. Please consider resubmitting your work next year. All manuscripts are read anonymously and at least twice. For complete details, please visit our website, www.codhill.com.

Wishing you much continued success with all of your writing and publishing endeavors.

Cordially,

Pauline Uchmanowicz
Contest Coordinator

David Appelbaum
Editor/Publisher