Editors' Prize Winners

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2009 Contest Winners:

Fiction

Winner:

Fiona McFarlane
"Exotic Animal Medicine"
Austin, TX

Finalists:

Diane Simmons
"Yukon River"

Mai-Lee Chai
"Tomorrow in Shanghai"
San Francisco, CA

Siobhan Fallon
"Remission"
Monterey, CA

Poetry

Winner:

Christina Hutchins
Albany, CA

Finalists:

Sarah Blackman
Greenville, SC/p>

Joseph Fasano
Middletown, NY

Brian Brodeur
Fairfax, VA

Essay

Winner:

Joseph Murtagh
"A Hive of Mysterious Danger"
Trumansburg, NY

Finalists:

Jonathan Starke
"What Happens to Heroes"
Fort Collins, CO

Rachel Riederer
"Patient"
Brooklyn, NY

David Bahr
"Bootstrapped"
New York, NY

 

2008 Contest Winners:

Fiction

Winner:

Roy Kesey
“Double Fish”
North Syracuse, NY

Finalists:

Jennifer Arnspiger
“Foie Gras”
San Diego, CA

Mike Murray
“The Underwater Man”
Pittsburgh, PA

Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner
“Jack and His Disappearing Act”
Concrete, WA

Poetry

Winner:

Frannie Lindsay
Belmont, MA

Finalists:

Matthew Fluharty
St. Louis, MO

Jennifer Grotz
Greensboro, NC

Christina Hutchins
Albany, CA

Nonfiction

Winner:

Deborah Thompson
“What’s the Matter with Houdini”
Fort Collins, CO

Finalists:

Gail Kezer Lowe
“Around the Rosy”
Brunswick, ME

David MacLean
“The Answer to the Riddle is Me”
Houston, TX

Robert Rebein
“The Sisyphus of the Plains”
Indianapolis, IN

 

2007 Contest Winners:

Fiction

Winner:

Otis Haschemeyer, “The Fantome of Fatma”
Knoxville, TN

Finalists:

Anna Solomon, Brooklyn, “The Lobster Mafia Story”
New York, NY

Cynthia Morrison Phoel, “Never Trust a Man Who . . .”
Newton Highlands, MA,

Natalie Sears, “Arctic Summer”
New York, NY

Poetry

Winner:

Jude Nutter
Edina, MN

Finalists:

Christina Hutchins
Albany, CA

Paisley Rekdal
Salt Lake City, UT

Scott Coffel
Iowa City, IA

Nonfiction

Winner:

Robert Kimber, “Big Jim”
Temple, ME

Finalists:

Anne Meisenzahl, “Thank You and Good-bye: A Meditation on My Breasts”
Tallahassee, FL

Elizabeth Logan Harris, “How Come?”
New York, NY

John Stazinksi, “Lesson in Amateur Stalking”
Cambridge, MA

 

2006 Contest Winners:

Fiction

Winner:

Jacob M. Appel, “Creve Coeur”
New York, NY

Finalists:

Jennine Capó Crucet, “And in the Morning, Work”
Champaign, IL

Erica Debeljak, “Biology”
Evanston, IL 

Elliott Holt, “Fem Care”
Brooklyn, NY

Poetry

Winner:

Jonathan Fink
Pensacola, FL

Finalists:

Adam Day
Brooklyn, NY

Ann Fisher-Wirth
Oxford, MS

Jane Springer
Tallahassee, FL

Nonfiction

Winner:

Cynthia Coffel, “Letters to David”
Iowa City, IA

Finalists:

Tom Carlson, “Mr. Tilley and his Twin (Neon Brothers) Wink and Grin”
Memphis, TN

John Fanestil, “The Freying of the Memoir”

John Price, “Dave and the Devil”
Council Bluffs, IA