2010 Codhill Press Chapbook Award

 

January 17, 2011

Matthew Nienow of Port Townsend, Washington won the 2010 Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for his manuscript The End of the Folded Map. He received $1,000 plus 50 copies. Author of poetry chapbooks The Smallest Working Pieces (Toadlily Press, 2009) and Two Sides of the Same Thing (Southeast Missouri State Press, 2007), his poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Atlanta Review, Best New Poets 2007, Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, New England Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and Willow Springs. Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the University of Washington, and Seattle’s 4Culture, Matthew Nienow holds an MFA from the University of Washington, where he was the Lauren D. Milliman Fellow. He currently attends the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in preparation for opening his own boat shop.

Congratulations as well to our finalists:
   Michael Miller, Northhampton, Massachusetts
   Ruth Holzer, Herdon, Virginia
   Becky Kennedy, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
   David King, Greely, Colorado

And to our semifinalists:
   Jesse Nathan, San Francisco, California
   Deborah Kroman, Kansas City, Missouri
   Ellen Young, Las Cruces, New Mexico
   Arthur Ginsberg, Seattle, Washington
   Michael Desilets, Los Angeles, California
   Judson Simmons, Yonkers, New York
   Gail Segal, New York, New York
   Gordon Preston, Modesto, California
   Leslie Shinn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
   Steve Lautermilch, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

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 December 10, 2011.
Please consider resubmitting your work this 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:
   Matt Schumacher, Rhododendron, Oregon
   Margo Wizansky, Brookline, Massachusetts
   Mary Jablonski, Saratoga Springs, New York
   Nikki Leopold, Ruxton Heights, Maryland
   Lois Harrod, Hopewell, New Jersey
   Bern Mulvey, Morioka-shi lwate-ken, Japan
   Valentina Gnup, Portland, Oregon
   llmars Uldis Purens, Daytona Beach, Florida
   Jessica Daigle, Lubbock, Texas
   Francine Witte, New York, New York
   Michael Fallon, Baltimore, Maryland
   Jnana Hodson, Dover, New Hampshire
   Lois Edstrom, Coupeville, Washington