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The Carter Prize for the Essay ($1,000)

Joy Passanante won the $1,000 Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay for her work, “Visitations,” published in Shenandoah 57/3. The Carter Prize, judged this year by Paul Crenshaw of Greensboro, North Carolina, is given in honor of the late Thomas H. Carter, an early editor of Shenandoah. Passanante is the Associate Director of Creative Writing at the University of Idaho and has published work in The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her collection of stories is The Art of Absence (Lost Horse, 2004); her novel, My Mother’s Lovers, was published by Nevada in 2002.

The Carter Prize for the Essay recipients:

2006: Paul Crenshaw, "Military Days," 56/3
2005: Paul Zimmer, "Living in the Trees," 55/2
2004: Margot Singer, "Lila's Story," 54/3
2003: Jeffrey Hammond, “Night Moves,” 53/4
2002: Rebecca McClanahan, “The Van Angels,” 52/4
2001: Judith Yarnall, “Forgiving Abraham,” 51/2-3
2000: Jeffrey Hammond, “The Bible Tells Me So,” 50/3
1999: Tony Whedon, “Becoming Ovid,” 49/3
1998: Andrew Hudgins, “Royal Ambassadors for the Lord,” 48/3
1997: Reginald Gibbons, “American Dreams: 1950's and 1960's,” 47/2
1996: Rebecca McClanahan, “The Uncles,” 46/1
1995: Sidney Burris, “Heaney’s Argufying: Subjects That Matter,” 45/1
1994: Carol Ascher, “My Father's Violin,” 44/4
1993: Karl A. Plank, “Unbroken Trains: Reflections on Michael Martin's Approaching
History,” 43/2
1992: Monty S. Leitch, “Driving by Water,” 42/3
1991: W. D. Snodgrass, “Shapes Merging and Emerging,” 41/4
1990: Fred Chappell, “A Choice of Romantics: Allen Tate's The Fathers,” 40/4
1989: Northrop Frye, “The Dialectic of Belief and Vision,” 39/3
1988: Brian Boyd, “Foretaste of Exile,” 38/4
1987: Seamus Heaney, “The Interesting Case of Nero, Checkhov's Cognac and a
Knocker,” 37/3

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