2010 AWP Quickie Announcement!
Monday, May 3rd, 2010UPDATE: See prose winner below
Thank you so much to everyone who made AWP Denver a big success: everyone who stopped by our table with prizes from the easter egg hunt, everyone who introduced themselves or said hello, and especially everyone who bought subscriptions/issues! For those of you who entered our Quickie contest, thank you for your submissions. The list of finalists and the winners are listed below–congratulations to all of you!
First Prize in our 2010 AWP Quickie Contest in Poetry goes to: John Paul Stadler, for his poem, “This is something.” The poem was chosen by judge Pablo Medina, contributor to issue 7.1, who had this to say about it: “This is Something” leaps out of the page with frittering energy and powerful imagery. No doubt there are “worse things to see,” but this poem avoids them. Instead it stands on its feet, sings, and offers its gifts.
UPDATE: First Prize in Prose goes, amazingly, to the same John Paul Stadler, for his story, “The Cloth.” Super double congratulations, John! The story was chosen by judge Robert Olen Butler, contributor to issue 6.1, who had this to say about it: John Paul Stadler’s “The Cloth” is authentically full of what is perhaps the most fundamental yearning in literary fiction: the yearning for self, for identity. This is an excellent accomplishment in what is, in some ways, the most demanding of fictional forms.
Finalists in poetry are:
Scott Van Pelt, “Genesis Poem”; Daniel Hales, “Untitled”; John Nieves, “Exposure”; Megan Roth and Neil de la Flor, “Under/Weather”; Matthew Gavin Frank, “Mercury.”
Finalists in prose (either fiction or nonfiction) are:
Juan Carlos Reyes – “Stories of a place called Landing”; John Paul Stadler – “The Cloth”; Sophia Kartsonis – “Crime Report”; Andrew Ladd – “Venn Diagrams are Popular These Days”; Daniel Wallace - “Untitled”; Ed Bull - “Untitled”; Sarah Gottlieb – “I Am Not Afraid to Stare”; Claire Burgess - “Untitled”; Alex Lumans - “Untitled”; Laura Dempsey - “Also in the Amazon”; Donna D. Vitucci - “Drink”; William Todd Seabrook – “Oppenheimer and Einstein”; Matt Baker - “Untitled”
