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Awards Celebration and Writing Workshop
The 31st
Nimrod Awards
The Katherine Anne Porter
Prize for Fiction &
The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
The editors of Nimrod International Journal are delighted to announce the winners, honorable mentions, and finalists of the 30th Nimrod Literary Awards.
Nimrod Literary Awards: The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry
FIRST PRIZE: $2,000 Elyse Fenton, TX, “Clamor” and other poems
HONORABLE MENTION: Andrea Thorsen, MO, “Monograph” and other poems
Nimrod Literary Awards: The Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction
FIRST PRIZE: $2,000 Paul Mihas, NC, “This Is Not a Barren Place”
SECOND PRIZE: $1,000 Stephanie Soileau, CA, “The Camera Obscura”
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Anne de Marcken, WA, “Signs and Symbols”
Miroslav Penkov, AR, “Letter”
Richard Santos, DC, “Charles and Irma”
Nimrod extends deep appreciation to all who submitted. There were 691 poetry manuscripts and 588 short stories submitted to the 2008 competition. Selecting poetry finalists and fiction finalists from these was a task that dominated the lives of 42 Nimrod editors all spring. They approached their mission with dedication and discretion, reading and rereading the final group, comparing notes, and speaking for favorites. The finalists’ manuscripts, without cover letters or names, were sent to the judges for 2008, Mark Doty, poetry, and Anthony Doerr, fiction. They chose the winners and honorable mentions from the finalist group.
The 2009 Nimrod Literary Awards competition begins January 1, 2009; the postmark deadline is April 30, 2009. We welcome your submissions, knowing that each year brings new discoveries, often from those who have submitted to the competition before.
123, Susan Landgraf, WA, “Finding Light”
125, Joshua Wood, CA, “Nature’s Own” and other poems
138, Jude Nutter, MN, “Via Negativa” and other poems
166, Lenore Weiss, CA, “Tkhine in Sh’vat” and other poems
173, Patrick Moran, WI, “Hobo Poems”
177, Roseann Lloyd, MN, “April, Baby” and other poems
215, Mary Kay Rummel, MN, from “Like Blue Loves a Wing”
219, Daniel Becker, VA, “Bulkheads” and other poems
256, Jeff Simpson, OK, “Shrapnel” and other poems
259, Elyse Fenton, TX, “Clamor” and other poems
274, Andrea Thorsen, MO, “Monograph” and other poems
339, Steven Coughlin, MA, “The New Physics” and other poems
353, Kate Fetherston, VT, “Take Bitter for Sweet” and other poems
426, Angela Patten, VT, “Elements”
428, Glenn C. Shaheen, TX, “All the Evil in the Animal Kingdom” and other poems
473, Elizabeth L. Fogle, PA, “The Nazi Officer’s Wife” and other poems
498, Han-hua Chang, NY, “What is the Spirit of Thermopylae in the Modern Age?”
607, Myrna Amelia Mesa, FL, “The Closed Mouth Fish” and other poems
638, Chad Sweeney, CA, “The Osprey” and other poems
651, Kelly Michels, NC, “What the Owl Knows” and other poems
006, Sally Allen McNall, CA, “After a flood”
051, Gail Peck, NC, “The Visionary” and other poems
057, Susan Berlin, MA, “Black Plumage, Croaking Cry,” and other poems
069, Terry Hertzler, CA, “365 and a Wakeup” and other poems
077, Taylor Mali, NY, “The Entire Act of Sorrow” and other poems
115, Scot Siegel, OR, “The Day Father’s Shop Burned to the Ground”
120, Michael Campagnoli, ME, “Penobscot Voices: Kikukus”
126, Marjory Stone, HI, “Joy of Flight” and other poems
129, Jessica Harmon, MA, “I Am I”
139, Jessicca Daigle, TX, “Inheritance”
141, Cheryl Dumesnil, CA, “In Praise of Falling”
142, Rosalind Pace, MA, “Snow in Paghman, with Wolves” and other poems
146, William Orem, MA, “five crucifixions”
148, Judith Barrington, OR, “Lost Lands”
149, Geri Radacsi, CT, “Greening the Blast Zone” and other poems
151, Erinn Batykefer, PA, “Snowmelt” and other poems
152, Mary Minock, MI, “Seventy-Eight Mostly Glossy Pictures” and other poems
163, Mary Van Denend, OR, “Carol at Eighty-Five” and other poems
169, Jim Tilley, NY, “Half-Finished Bridge” and other poems
174, Laurie Junkins, NJ, “Spilled” and other poems
176, Rhett Iseman Trull, NC, “Rescuing Princess Zelda”
189, Michelle Bitting, CA, “They Are Kissing, in a Pub, Under One” and other poems
233, Lori Stoltz, MN, “root beggars”
237, Carolyn Moore, OR, “Memento Mori Poems”
241, Jabez W. Churchill, “Orchid/Orquidea” and other poems
242, Patricia Clark, MI, “Splinter”
245, Rich Spencer, IN, “Hymns for Sailors” and other poems
249, Sarah Getty, MA, “As The Observer Wills” and other poems
252, Simon Peter Eggertsen, NY, “The Steep Path” and other poems
261, Ellen Wise, MD, “Snow Geese” and other poems
253, Katie Kingston, CO, “Bonilla’s Portrait” and other poems
264, Justina Boyd Wiggins, PA, “The Seventh Daughter” and other poems
281, Lynne Knight, CA, “The Dread Essay”
289, Meena Alexander, NY, “Flesh Rose”
336, Penelope Scambly Schott, OR, “Poor Dear” and other poems
338, Marilyn Ringer, CA, “Dea Abscondita”
340, Greg McBride, MD, “Music Lady” and other poems
375, Christian Teresi, VA, “What Monsters You Make of Them” and other poems
400, Robert High Guard, OH, “The Wife of Narcissus” and other poems
470, Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, OR, “Superstition” and other poems
482, Tyler Moore, TN, “The Puerta America” and other poems
488, Karen Chamberlin, CO, “My Father’s Vise” and other poems
538, Kirsten Casey, CA, “The First Piece of Everything Else”
604, Douglas Goetsch, NY, “Nameless Boy” and other poems
622, Nan Becker, NJ, “At Last It Snows” and other poems
641, Fox DeMoisey, CA, “The Second Third” and other poems
645, Shane Omar, CO, “San Luis, CO” and other poems
652, Teresa J. Scollon, MI, “The Invitation”
653, V. L. Schwab, FL, “Rooms Like These”
655, Christine E. Black, VA, “Prayer for Andrea Yates” and other poems
656, Mark Wagenaar, VA, “Lamentation” and other poems
659, Christina Woś Donnelly, NY, “Love Song” and other poems
667, Elin Beck, MN, “For Nonny” and other poems
678, Jane Ellen Ibur, MO, “Mrs. Noah — 3:27” and other poems
150, Jessica Pitchford, FL, “The Pinch Hitter”
188, Stephanie Soileau, CA, “The Camera Obscura”
302, Benjamin Arda Doty, MN, “Velvet Wolves”
357, Heather Brittian Bergstrom, CA, “All Sorts of Hunger”
472, Anne de Marcken, WA, “Signs and Symbols”
476, Miroslav Penkov, AR, “Letter”
548, Paul Mihas, NC, “This Is Not a Barren Place”
551, Rachel Hall, NY, “What Is Forgotten”
552, Richard Santos, DC, “Charles and Irma”
588, Teresa Milbrodt, OH, “The Shell”
084, Melissa Pritchard, AZ, “Pelagia”
140, Catherine Griffiths, NY, “Amplification”
266, Amalia Gladhart, OR, “Stones, Buoys”
286, Jill Widner, WA, “The Guest House at Old Camp”
305, Matt Mendez, AZ, “Twitching Heart”
325, John T. Biggs, OK, “Revival”
346, Joan King, FL, “Christmas Song”
400, K. D. Wentworth, OK, “The Snow Queen”
485, Leslie Pietrzyk, VA, “Just Another Abortion Story”
505, Leni Fleming, CA, “Signs and Symptoms”
522, Eleanor Swanson, CO, “Lucia on Fire”