Awards
Allspaw Wins Elixir Press Award
Susan Allspaw (Aurora) won the Judge's Prize in the Elixir Press 12th Annual Poetry Award for Little Oblivion.
Codhill Press Chapbook Award
Claudia Putnam (Silt) was a semi-finalist and Bob King (Greeley) a finalist for the 2011 Codhill Press Poetry Chapbook Award.
Jared Smith Finalist for Snyder
Jared Smith’s book-length manuscript The Weather Maker was a finalist for this year's Richard Snyder publication prize from Ashland University.
Conde Wins DeMarinis Prize
Kathy Conde’s short story “Georgia Nights” won CutThroat’s 2011 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, it was announced on January, 2012.
Winograd Wins Chautauqua Prize
Kathy Winograd's poem, "The Lives of Cells," has won first place in the Chautauqua Poetry contest on the theme "War & Peace." Todd Davis was the judge. She receives $1000 and publication in Chautauqua.
Carr Wins Sawtooth Prize
Julie Carr’s 100 Notes on Violence won the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and is now available for purchase.
Shavin Pikes Peak Performance Poet
A jury of peers selected Julie K. Shavin as Pikes Peak Performance Poet of the Year. She, along with others in many art genres, was honored Sept. 23rd, 2011, by the Pikes Peak Arts Council with an award. Julie, also known as Julianza, has been performing her poetry "out of pure love of connecting with an audience via the spoken word" over the past four years. Criteria for this award is both quality of writing and its delivery. Julie also runs an open mic, The Live and Breathe (Poetry) Society, twice monthly in Manitou Springs.
Winograd:Notable Essay
Kathryn Winograd's essay, "Bathing," published in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, has been named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011.
Winograd Wins Writers Digest Award
Kathryn Winograd's poem, "Migrations," has won first place in the non-rhyming poetry category of this year's Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition. She wins “a thousand dollars and a bunch of other stuff”.
Beer Wins Colorado Book Award
Nicky Beer won the 2011 Colorado Book Award in Poetry for her book The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Maria Melendez,Flexible Bones (University of Arizona Press), and Barbara Ellen Sorensen, Song from the Deep Middle Brain (Main Street Rag Publishing Company) were finalists.
Bridger Wins Fischer Award
The top prize winner of the 2011 Mark Fischer Poetry Award, judged by David Feela, is Kiersten Bridger, a Telluride local.
Patterson Finalist for Hull Prize
Veronica Patterson was a finalist for the 2011 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry prize, sponsored by Crazyhorse magazine.
Guenther Wins 2011 CAL Award in Poetry
Dan Guenther’s collection of selected poems, The Crooked Truth, won the Colorado Authors’ League 2011 Award for a Poetry Book.
Steensen Wins Flying Guillotine Contest
Sasha Steensen's chapbook, A History of the Human Family, recently won Flying Guillotine's chapbook contest and was published in February, 2011.
Dorr at Colorado Art Ranch
Sandra Dorr has won a Colorado Art Ranch Residency and will be in Salida during May to work on a novel containing poet characters and poems. The theme of the residency is “Dwellings: Habitat, Symbol & Art”.
Winograd Finalst for Steinberg Essay Prize
Kathryn Winograd’s lyric essay, “Heresies of the Holy,” was one of ten finalists for Fourth Genre’s 7th annual Michael Steinberg Essay Prize.
Wagner Buyer Finalist
Laurie Wagner Buyer’s memoir When I Came West (University of Oklahoma Press) was named a finalist for the ForeWord Reviews 2010 Book of the Year Awards. Wagner Buyer, formerly of Colorado, now lives in Texas.
Visit the book at http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/books/9780806140599/
Tomlinson Wins Stevens Competition
Rawdon Tomlinson has won the 2010 Stevens Manuscript Competition for Lines from the Surgeon's Children, 1862-1865. He received $1,0000 and the book will be published by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Lola Haskins judged.
ACC Writers Studio Awards
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer won first place in the 2011 ACC Writers Studio Literary Contest with "Because Sometimes I Get that No Gets Me Nowhere" and Kathleen Willard won second with "Reanimation Experiment: Final Observations".
Cooperman and Holland Prize
Robert Cooperman won a Holland Prize from Logan House for his book My Shtetl appearing in 2010.
King Wins Chapbook Contest
Robert King won the 2011 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest with his manuscript, Rodin & Co. King received $500. To order, send your name, address, and a check for $12 made out to: Grayson Books, PO Box 270549, West Hartford, CT 06127. $
Finalist Andrea Watson
Andrea Watson was a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize in 2010. One of the poems considered in the competition, "Tia Lupita's Recipe for Raven's Wing Soup", is forthcoming in Nimrod.
Notter Wins High Plains Award
William Notter's book Holding Everything Down (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009) won the 2010 High Plains Book Award for Poetry, which is sponsored by the Parmly Billings Library in Billings, Montana.
Paulson Nomination
Beth Paulson received her third Pushcart Prize Nomination for her poem "Driving North," published in The Aurorean, Fall-Winter 2010-2011.
Barker wins Crab Orchard Series
Brian Barker was one of two winners in the 2010 Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Awards. His book, The Black Ocean, will appear in June, 2011.
Melendez: Editor's Choice
Maria Melendez’s poem, "Recipe for When You're Tired of Feeding Your Family Life Cereal from a Box," which appeared in the recent New Poets of the American West (ed. Lowell Jaeger), was the Colorado winner of an Editor’s Choice Award. She will receive a certificate and $200.
Cather Finalist: Buyer
Laurie Wagner Buyer’s Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal was named a Finalist for the Willa Cather Literary Award by Women Writing the West.
Uschuk Wins 2010 Amer. Book Award
Pam Uschuk's latest book of poems, Crazy Love , has just won the 2010 American Book Award. She will receive the award in San Francisco in September.
Uschuk Wins New Millennium Award
Colorado poet Pam Uschuk has received the 2010 New Millennium Poetry Award for her poem, "Shostakovich: Five Pieces." The award provides a $1,000 prize. Uschuk, editor of the literary magazine Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, lives outside of Bayfield with the writer William Pitt Root.
Mason New Colorado Laureate
David Mason of Colorado Springs has been selected as the new Colorado Poet Laureate, replacing long-serving Mary Crow. His biography is listed under his name on the Colorado Poets Center website. Other information at:
http://www.cpr.org/article/Colorados_New_Poet_Laureate
Ramke Wins Colorado Book Award
Bin Ramke of Denver has won the 2010 Colorado Book Award in Poetry for his volume Theory of Mind: New and Selected Poems published by Omnidawn Publishing. The 19th annual book awards ceremony was held in Aspen on June 25.
Finalist Matthew Cooperman
Matthew Cooperman's new manuscript Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move was a finalist for the New Measure Prize.
Authors League Award to Guenther
Dan Guenther’s novel Glossy Black Cockatoos was selected as the 2010 winner of the Colorado Author’s League Award for Genre Fiction.
Cooperman Wins Holland Prize
Robert Cooperman’s book, My Shtetl, has won this year’s Holland Prize from Logan House Press.
Wagner Wins Slapering Hole Contest
Lynn Wagner of Denver won the 2009 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest for No Blues This Raucous Song, receiving $1,000 and publication. The annual prize is sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
Julie Carr, Sawtooth Winner
Julie Carr’s book of poems, 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press) was selected by Rae Armantrout for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize 2009. For more info and ordering, go to: http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/carr/carr.htm
Conde in CutThroat Fiction Prize
Kathy Conde received an Honorable Mention in CutThroat’s 2009 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Award.
Jared Smith Finalist
Jared Smith’s book was a finalist for the Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland University in 2009. The competition was judged by Elton Glaser.
Julie Carr, of Denver, won one of the slots in the 2009 National Poetry Series Open Competition. Her book, Sarah--of Fragments and Limes, selected by Eileen Myles, will be published by Coffee House Press.
Katie Kingston has won the 2010 W. D. Snodgrass Fellowship given for Poetic Endeavor and Excellence. The cash prize is for tuition at the San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende in January of 2010. Snodgrass lived seasonally in San Miguel with his wife Kathy, a translator in her own right, both of whom were regular presenters at the conference.
Jake York’s book A Murmuration of Starlings has received the 2009 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. The book “is part of an ongoing project to elegize and memorialize the martyrs of the Civil Rights movement”. Finalists were Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s Holding Three Things at Once and Pattiann Rogers’ Wayfarer. The awards were announced June 22, 2009, as part of the Aspen literary festival.
J. Michael Martinez, a writing instructor in English at the Univ. of Northern Colorado and, currently, the Univ of Colorado, has been awarded the 2009 Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets for his book-length collection of poems, Heredities, which will be published in spring 2010. Luis Lopez’s Each Month I Sing (Farrolito Press, 2008)has received the EVVY 1st place award for poetry by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) at their 15th annual awards presentation.
Veronica Patterson’s manuscript Thresh / Hold has been selected by poet Lola Haskins as the winner of the second annual Kenneth and Geraldine Gell Poetry Prize. The prize, for 2009, includes publication of the work in trade paperback by Big Pencil Press, an honorarium of $1000 payable upon publication, and a two-week fellowship at the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes, a retreat center in the Bristol Hills, Naples, New York.
M. D. Friedman’s audio poem, “A Good Dog,” was the overall winner of the Book Habit & New Zealand Poetry Society‘s 2008 Poetry Contest. http://www.poetscoop.org/media/GOODDOG.mp3
Luis Lopez of Grand Junction won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Each Month I Sing (Farolito Press, 2008). Of the book, John Nizalowski says: “In this celebration of the yearly round, we find mythology, religion, art, culture, politics, nature, astronomy, the human condition, humor, and yes, even baseball. The poems ‘Salvador Quintana,’ ‘Encounter with La Lorona,’ and ‘Campbell’s Soup: A Villanelle for Andy Warhol’ are alone worth the price of admission. By giving us over 140 more poems, Lopez has presented us with a lyrical feast — his finest book to date.”