Friday, September 02, 2011

Winners!

I’m just gonna lead with the goods because you’ll skip the rest anyway.

This year’s chapbook contest winner is Maurice Burford with Rimbaud’s / Poems.  The second place chapbook was Mike Sikkema’s Wander Rooms and Outside Noise.  We ended up with five other finalists, including:

Matthew Lippman, Don’t Harrass the Garden
Nicholas Liu, Failure to Apply the Method
Lily Ladewig, Shadow Boxes
Zeke Hudson, People
j/j hastain, Riding the Lace Barometer Through

Honestly, I haven’t contacted ANY of the finalists directly about publication details but, officially, the winner gets a full run and the runner-up gets a limited-edition run (see post from July 14 below).  Beyond that, I will (very) likely be contacting other finalists about publication. I’ll know more in the next week or so.  I foresee doing planning and promotion for the next month and then coming out with a schedule for the fall and into 2012.  Anyway, congratulations for all the winners and finalists.  We enjoyed reading your work.

Speaking of, I have to thank Elisabeth Workman for taking this journey with us (me).  She is so gracious and great, and I’m sure we’ll do another book with her down the road.