Codhill Press Chapbook Award

 

January 1, 2008

Michael Meyerhofer of Muncie, Indiana won the 2007 Codhill Poetry Chapbook Prize for his manuscript The Clay-Shaper’s Husband. He received $500 plus 50 copies. Winner of the Liam Rector First Book Prize for his poetry collection Leaving Iowa (Briery Creek Press, 2007) and author of three previous chapbooks, his work has appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Verse, Margie, and elsewhere.

Congratulations as well to our finalists:
   Amy Nawrocki, Hamden, Connecticut
   Kent Nielsen, Grand Island, Nebraska
   Michael Carmen, Yonkers, New York

And to our semifinalists:
   CB Follett, Sausalito, California
   Gay Baines, East Aurora, New York
   Richard Amelar, Wanaque, New Jersey
   Shawn Fawson, Salt Lake City, Utah
   Emma Miniscalco, Washington, DC
   Katherine Edgren, Dexter, Michigan
   Charles Atkinson, Soquel, California
   Marco Dominguez, Lubbock, Texas
   Dave Seter, Petaluma, California

And to our quarterfinalists:
   Mark Terrill, Hafenstraße, Germany
   Shane Seely, St. Louis, Missouri
   John Miller, Lexington, Virginia
   Judson Simmons, Houston, Texas
   Martin Willitts, Syracuse, New York
   Nick Lantz, Madison, Wisconsin
   Daniel Terry, Wilmington, North Carolina
   Nancy Carlson, Silver Springs, Maryland
   Bonnie Lee Widerman, Irving, California
   Mark DeFoe, Buckhannon, West Virginia
   Ellen Kirvih Dudis, Pocomoke City, Maryland
   Jeanine Stevers, Sacramento, California
   Royal Potter, Mt. Kisco, New York
   E. K. Mortenson, Stanford, Connecticut

Thanks to all of you who entered the competition. We could not have offered the prize without your support.

The annual award is given for a 20-30 page poetry manuscript. The next deadline is November 30, 2008. Please consider resubmitting your work next year. All manuscripts are read anonymously and at least twice. For complete details, please keep an eye on our website, www.codhill.com.

Wishing you much continued success with all of your writing and publishing endeavors.

Cordially,

Pauline Uchmanowicz
Contest Coordinator

David Appelbaum
Editor/Publisher