2011 Codhill Press Chapbook Award

 

January 15, 2012

Tom Boswell of Evansville, Wisconsin won the 2011 Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for his manuscript Midwestern Heart. He received $1,000 plus 50 copies. Recipient of a poetry fellowship from Fishtrap in 2006, his work has appeared in Blue Earth Review, The Dos Passos Review, Front Range Review, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Rattle, Sojourn, Wisconsin Academy Review, and elsewhere. Currently a grant writer in Madison, Wisconsin, Tom Boswell is also a freelance photographer and journalist.

Congratulations as well to our finalists:
   Nikia Leopold, Ruxton Heights, Maryland
   Sonia Greenfield, Los Angeles, California
   Robert King, Greely, Colorado
   Sally Molini, Omaha, Nebraska

And to our semifinalists:
   Lucile Burt, South Wellfleet, Massachusetts
   Brian Heston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
   Jeanine Stevens, Sacramento, California
   Elizabeth Swann, Charlotte, North Carolina
   Claudia Putnam, Silt, Colorado
   Jack Lindeman, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
   Gary Lark, Ashland, Oregon
   Cherise Wyneken, Albany, California
   T. J. Harrison, Lawrence, Kansas
   David Olsen, Oxford, England
   Norma Westwood, Alexandria, Virginia
   J. Lorraine Brown, Mashpee, Massachusetts
   Monica Adams, Ruckersville, Virginia
   Mary Bass Poulin, Carrabasset Valley, Maine

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, 2012.

Please consider resubmitting your work this year. All manuscripts are read anonymously and at least twice.

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

Cordially,

Pauline Uchmanowicz
Contest Coordinator

David Appelbaum
Editor/Publisher

 

Quarter finalists:
   Kurt Olsson, Germantown, Maryland
   David Sloan, Brunswick, Maine
   Jennifer Tappenden, St. Louis, Missouri
   Joan Siegel, Blooming Grove, New York
   Francis Klein, Glen Ridge, New Jersey
   Bern Mulvey, Morioka-shi lwate-ken, Japan
   Josiah Bancroft, Wilmington, Delaware
   Mark McKain, Altamonte Springs, Florida
   Ron Mohring, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
   Karen Maceira, Slidell, Louisiana
   Patric Pepper, Washington, DC
   Jim Tilley, Bedford Corners, New York
   Daniel Lusk, Burlington, Vermont
   Carol Tyx, Iowa City, Iowa