We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award.
Daye Phillippo, of Attica, Indiana, with her collection, “Blue Between Owls.”
Daye Phillippo has lived her life backwards, first raising a large family and later earning degrees in creative writing from Purdue University (2011) and Warren Wilson MFA for Writers (2014). She is the recipient of a Mortarboard Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Grant for work in progress, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for poetry. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been selected by Educational Testing Services to be included in the AP English exam. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, LETTERS, Shenandoah, Cider Press Review, Twelve Mile Review, One Art, Natural Bridge, Presence, The Windhover and many others. She taught English at Purdue University and now hosts a Poetry Hour at her local library which Katniss the library cat also attends. Daye lives with her husband in a creaky, old farmhouse in rural Indiana where she tends a garden and a lively flock of Barred Plymouth Rock hens. Thunderhead, her debut collection of poems, was published by Slant in 2020. Read more of her work on her website: www.dayephillippo.com
Finalists
Christopher Munde, of Jamestown, NY
Mary Gilliland, of Ithaca, NY
Semifinalists
Kelly Vande Plasse, of Fort Collins, CO;
Nancy Keating, Babylon, NY;
Kate Kingston, Trinidad, CO;
Steve Lautermilch, Kill Devil Hills, NC.
Thanks to all of you who entered the competition. We could not have sponsored the award without your support.
The annual award is given for a full-length (48+ page) poetry manuscript. The next deadline is December 30, 2025. Please consider resubmitting your work this year. All manuscripts are read anonymously and at least twice.
Wishing you much continued success with all of your writing and publishing endeavors.
Cordially,
James Sherwood
Contest Coordinator
Susannah Appelbaum
Publisher
David Appelbaum
Founder