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Each year Black Lawrence Press will introduce one new writer to the literary world with the publication of a first full-length collection of poems or short stories.

Coyla Barry, Swimming Woman

Anthony Bell, Poems

Bob Brooks, Three-Season Views

Joshua Butts, The Ap.

David Campbell, Animal and War Industries

Kellie Cannon, War Games

E. R. Carlin, Embrace

Patrick Carrington, The Garden of the Missing

Jessie Carty, Fat Girl

Susan Stevens Chambers, Not Far from the Source

Jeanne Clark, Gorrill’s Orchard

James Cooper, Kite Flying with Icarus

Heather Cousins, Cocker Spaniel

James Crews, Touch & Go

Darren Demaree, Poems

Deborah Diemont, What the Water Will Take

Darren Dopp, Poems

Brenna Dugan, Motherland

Kelly Madigan Erlandson, Reliquary

R. G. Evans, The Man Who Ran

Gil Fagiani, In Reptilopia

Noah Falck, Life as a Crossword Puzzle

Stephanie Gehring, Foghorn Call

Gail Gerwin, Around the Corner

Holly Guran, Tears on the Mother’s Trail

Jenn Habel, In the Little House

Daniel Hales, Ablations

Constance Hall, The Mass of Artifacts

Colleen Harris, Carving Your Name

Brian Hayter, Partial

Lisa Hickey, Lucifer’s Tuesday

Leonore Hildebrandt, The Next Unknown

Nathan Hoks, The Divided States of Proemia

Christina Hutchins, Our Passing

Cheri Johnson, Fun & Games

Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Poems

Ellaraine Lockie, Love in the Time of Electrons

Greg McBride, Back of the Envelope

Marilyn McCabe, The Human Equation

Amy MacLennan, Poems

Thomas Mallouk, Walking the Aging Spaniel

Jory Mickelson, Cold Mountain Blues

Iris Miller, Angels Flying Backwards

Peggy Miller, Shards and Minims

Susan Bucci Mockler, You Could Almost Hear the Sand Shift

Natasha Kochicheril Moni, The Cardiologist’s Daughter

Carolyn Moore, The Seven Deadlies

Peter Moore, Airborne Leaflet Propaganda

Mike Munro, Poems

Lylanne Musselman, Tapped Out on Vintage

Karen Neuberg, The Spoke of a Word

Terry Oparka, Stories

Terry Oparka, Poems

T. P. Perrin, Come to Always

Kenneth Pobo, Get Out Now

Harold Quinn, Piecework

Sam Rasnake, Inside a Broken Clock

Jessica Bane Robert, Scarred Seasons

Laura Sobbott Ross, A Tiny Hunger

Karla Rusch, Fireflies in the Curve of a Summer Road

Maryann Russo, Unbound

Lynn Veach Sadler, To Shake Hands with Mountains

Cindy St. John, People Who Are in Love Will Read This Book Differently

Alex Schmidt, Gossip

E. M. Schorb, Argonauts & Other Poems

Glenn Shaheen, Film

Noel Sloboda, Of Things Passed

Christopher Stanard, Water and Light

Carolyn Steinhoff, All the Still Still World

Margo Stever, Drought

Dorothy Stone, Time Space You Me

Jennifer Sullivan, Beggars of Some Sort

Maxine Susman, Creamery Road

Pia Taavila, Tales from Vermont

Steve Trebellas, Punk Denver

Kim Triedman, Bathe in It or Sleep

Tony Triglio, With the Memory, Which Is Enormous

Elisabeth von Uhl, Oceansea

Cornelia Veenendaal, On the Other Hand

William Winston, Two Stories

Robert Wood, Movies & Magic

Diana Woodcock, In the Shade of the Sidra Tree

Dale Walkonen, Journey

Spring 2008 Finalists

Deadlines: May 31 & October 31

Contemporary Literature & Non-Fiction

T.J. BEITELMAN of Pelham, Alabama, has been chosen as the winner of the Spring 2008 Black River Chapbook Competition. His chapbook, Pilgrims: A Love Story, will be published in 2010.

Linda Albert, Helping to Chart a Lost Continent

David Beard, In the Spring

Ben Berman, Interruptions

Ben Berman, Moving On

Dayna Bradley, If Photons Could Give Us More

Brandel France de Bravo, Provenance

Ron Burch, Menagerie

Catherine Carter, The Swamp Monster at Home

John Colasacco, Zip Code Where You Park at Night

Chauna Craig, Children, Gamblers, Drunks, and Saints

Marco Dominguez, A Small Loss

Julie Gard, Thin Bits of Evidence

Wheston Chancellor Grove, Baiting the Line

Steve Himmer, No One’s West

Joseph Kerschbaum, How I Lost My Arm (evolving into ashes)

Helga Kidder, Wild Life

Chris Laing, Misadventure, They Said

Ron. Lavalette, Fallen Away

Wes Lee, Crash Test Dummies

Wes Lee, This Night, This Day

Laura Loomis, Lost in Translation

Claire McQuerry, In the Final Descent We’re Weightless

Letitia Moffitt, The Revolution to Free Beatrice

Simone Muench and Philip Jenks, Little Visceral Carnival

Kevin Oberlin, God of No Sky

Michael Ogletree, Weeding the Monument

John Pursley III, Supposing, for Instance, Here in the Space-Time Continuum

Paul-John Ramos, Becoming Thirty and Other Poems

Steven Reese, American Dervishes

Erica Rösi, 9 Arrivals

Jorge Sanchez, Curved World

Erin Elizabeth Smith, The Chainsaw Bears

Phillip Sterling, First Service

Maxine Susman, Wartime Address

Christian Teresi, Like Shining from Shook Foil

Dan Tremaglio, With Wandering Steps & Slow

Sarah Voss, Oxygen

George Young, Razors of Bright Light

Spring 2008 Semi-Finalists