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Spring, 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition Results

Black Lawrence Press is very pleased to announce the winner and finalists for the Spring, 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition.

Congratulations to David Rigsbee for winning the contest with his manuscript The Pilot House. The poems in this chapbook made us ache; that’s how good they are. David will receive a cash award and publication.

Also, Black Lawrence Press often chooses an exceptional finalist manuscript for publication. Congratulations to Mary Biddinger for having her manuscript Saint Monica named as a finalist and chosen for publication.

Now…drumroll please…here is the complete list of finalists and semi-finalists for the Spring, 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition:

Spring 2009 Finalists

Brad Ricca - Nuclearmagnetic

Craig Davis - The Dog Ballerinas

Cynthia Marie Hoffman - A Skeleton Stirred into the Paper

Joshua Robbins - Suburban Hymnal

Leora S. Fridman - Telenovela Pregnancy Hoax

Lisa Fay Coutley - Back-Talk

Mary Biddinger - Saint Monica

Matt Schumacher - Blueprints for Spiderwebs

Samantha Bell - Disarticulations

Steve Wiegenstein - Kingdom of Brass

Sean Lovelace - Face Down

Kelly Luce - Ash

Seth Michelson - A Crown for Sonia

Spring 2009 Semi-Finalists

Benjamin Vogt - Without Such Absence

Dan Nowak - Of A Bed Frame

David Serafino - Our Choices Are Limited

James Bradley - Wells Ordinary Splendor

Jane Ellen Glasser - In Good Company

Jasmine Bailey - Love Songs Men Sing to Each Other

Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon - City and Field

Julie Hensley - The Language of Horses

Kathy Flann - Leaving Reno

Kristin M Keegan - Faded Blue Houses

Nicole Steinberg - Birds of Tokyo

Rebecca Givens - Everyone Is Alive Now

Rick Alley - Roof-Boy, Come Down