2008 NEW WOMEN’S VOICES CHAPBOOK COMPETITION RESULTS

Winner: Hawk Weather by  Anna Ross of Dorchester, MA   

HM 1:  Chrome Island by Jessica Johnson of Portland, OR

HM  2:  To Love the World This Way  by Maureen Micus Crisick of Walnut Creek, CA

HM  3:  Visionware by Caridad Moro-McCormick of Miami, FL

Winner received a cash prize of $1,000 and publication. 

Judith Montgomery was the final judge. 

Next deadline for the NWV is February 15, 2009

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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We accept general submissions and read year round.  To submit your manuscript without entering our chapbook competition:

Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a $12 reading fee to

The Editors
Finishing Line Press
P.O. Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324

All manuscripts are selected by editorial process.  Response time is 3-6 months.

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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher. 

Recent winners and notables: Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air has been selected as the Belles Lettres Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature.  Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians. Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC.  Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only). Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report.