2009 Codhill Press Chapbook Award

 

January 12, 2010

Elizabeth Rees of Silver Springs, Maryland won the 2009 Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for her manuscript Tilting Gravity. She received $500 plus 50 copies. Author of the award-winning poetry chapbooks Now That We’re Here (Spire Press, 2008), Hard Characters (March Street Press, 2002), and Balancing China (Sow’s Ear Press, 1998), her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Agni, Hanging Loose, Ironwood, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, New England Review, The North American Review, Partisan Review, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, River Styx, Southern Poetry Review, and Third Coast. Elizabeth Rees has taught creative writing at the U.S. Naval Academy, Johns Hopkins, Howard University, Boston University, and Boston College. Currently, she works as a Poet-in-the-Schools for the Maryland State Arts Council and serves as a writing consultant to PBS/Scholastic.

Congratulations as well to our finalists:
   Jesse Nathan, San Francisco, California
   Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, California
   Michael Miller, Northampton, Massachusetts
   Deborah Kroman, Kansas City, Missouri

And to our semifinalists:
   Don Colburn, Portland, Oregon
   Ruth Holzer, Herdon, Virginia
   Judith Hemshmeyer, Winter Park, Florida
   Travis Brown, Robinson, Illinois
   Early Metras, Easthampton, Massachusetts
   Kathleen Novak, Minneapolis, Minnesota
   Guy Reed, Saugerties, New York
   Rachel Flynn, Mundelein, Illinois
   Edward Carvalho, Indiana, Pennsylvania

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- to 30-page poetry manuscript. The next deadline is November 30, 2010. Please consider resubmitting your work next year. All manuscripts are read anonymously and at least twice. For complete details, please visit 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

 

Quarter finalists:
   Myron Ernst, Vestal, New York
   Mark Smith Soto, Greensboro, North Carolina
   Sibyl James, Seattle, Washington
   Janet Taliaferro, Leesburg, Virginia
   Jeanette Barnes, Pineville, California
   J. R. Thelin, Buena Vista, California
   Benjamin Vogt, Lincoln, Nebraska
   Ellin Dudis, Pocomoke City, Maryland
   Lynda Self, Waynesville, North Carolina
   Jeff Ingram, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
   Ted Gilley, Bennington, Vermont
   Marcia Casey, Wilson, New York