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Eligibility for 2009 Prize: all writers of POETRY
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2008
Shenandoah/Glasgow
Prize
Margot Singer of Granville, Ohio has been named recipient of the 2008
Shenandoah/Glasgow
Prize for Emerging Writers, awarded annually by Shenandoah and
Washington and Lee University, for her book The Pale of Settlement
(Georgia, 2007). Writers who have
published one book of short fiction were eligible for consideration for the $2,500
prize. Judge for the 2008 Prize was
Cathryn Hankla.
photo: Tim DeGenero
2007: Emily Rosko / Poetry
Raw Goods
Inventory (University of Iowa Press, 2006)
Judge: Sarah Kennedy
2006: Bret Anthony Johnston / Fiction
Judge:
Donald Secreast
The Riddle Song and Other
Rememberings (University of Georgia Press, 2002)
Judge:
Jeffrey Hammond
2004:
Catherine Barnett / Poetry
Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes are Pierced
(Alice James Books, 2004)
Judge: Robert
Wrigley
2003: Ann Pancake / Fiction
Given
Ground (University Press of New England, 2001)
Judge:
David Jauss
2002:
Christopher Cokinos / Creative
Nonfiction
Hope is a Thing With Feathers:
A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
(Tarcher/Putnam,
2000; Warner 2001)
2001:
Talvikki Ansel / Poetry
My Shining Archipelago (Yale, 1997)
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