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Congratulations to the following Finishing Line Press authors!

2024 Pushcart Prize Nominations:

“Flight Path” by Sarah W. Bartlett

“After Forty Years of Swimming and Ten Years Surfing” by Susan Bruce

“Feather, body, bone” by Stacey R. Forbes

“Breathtaking Sweetness” by Claudia May

“The Slave’s Descendant Addresses King Cotton” by Chavonn Williams Shen

“Hard Labor” by Rex Wilder

Finishing Line Press is thrilled to announce that Dustin Grinnell’s The Healing Book has been named a winner in the Short Stories category of the 2024 Best Indie Book Awards.

The Healing Book is a collection of short stories that delves into the complexities of modern life, weaving narratives of healing and self-discovery. From a neurosurgeon seeking ayahuasca in Peru to a burned-out office worker finding solace on the Appalachian Trail, each story examines the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of personal growth. In a time of rapid change and uncertainty, this collection offers readers moments of reflection and hope.

Learn More: https://bestindiebookaward.com/live/product/the-healing-book/

Congratulations to Anastatia Caraballo and Finishing Line Press!

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Congratulations to Anastatia Caraballo and Finishing Line Press!

Growing Pains by Anastatia CaraballoG (Finishing Line Press) has won the International Impact Book Award for “Death, Grief, and Loss Poetry.” https://internationalimpactbookawards.com/about-international-impact-book-awards/

Congratulations to Liza Porter and FLP! Del Bac, by Liza Porter, is a Finalist for The WILLA Literary Award for Poetry from Women Writing the West.

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Kinship by Maxim D. Shrayer (Finishing Line Press) is a Finalist in 2024 International Book Awards: for Religious Poetry: 2024 International Book Awards

Cold Remembered and other poems by David R. Altman

Finalist in 2024 Georgia Author of the Year Awards in Poetry (Chapbook).

Congratulations Rebecca Dietrich!

Winner of the Literary Titan Book Award

Deirdre Fagan‘s poetry collection, Phantom Limbs (Finishing Line Press, 2023), is a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards!

https://www.indieexcellence.com

“Part celebration, part elegy, Phantom Limbs is about living fully, arms wide open, despite or perhaps even because of repeated loss. Each depiction is grounded in survival and yet there is often unanticipated joy juxtaposed with heartbreak as the collection reveals intimate moments from childhood trauma to marriage, divorce, parenting, terminal illness, disability, caregiving, widowhood, remarriage-mortality itself.”

Off the Wall by Kari Wergeland (Finishing Line Press) has been named a finalist in the Novella category of the 2024 American Fiction Awards. Novelist Patricia Santana notes, “Off the Wall is a rich and nuanced portrayal of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world.”

Off the Wall by Kari Wergeland (Finishing Line Press) has been named a finalist in the Novella category of the 2024 International Book Awards. Novelist Patricia Santana notes, “Off the Wall is a rich and nuanced portrayal of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world.”

https://www.internationalbookawards.com/2024awardannouncement.html

2024 Open Chapbook Competition results:

Winner: Fleda Brown of Traverse City, Michigan for Doctor of the World

Fleda Brown’s tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm (2021) won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press and is an Indie finalist. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems, chosen by Ted Kooser for his University of Nebraska series, 2017. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her new memoir is Mortality, with Friends (Wayne State University Press, an MIPA Winner and Midwest Book Award winner in memoir). She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07.

1st HM: Anita Feng of Issaquah, Washington

2nd HM: Don Colburn of Falmouth, Maine

3rd HM: Latorial Faison of Chester, Virginia

4th HM: geo staley of Aloha, Oregon

Judge: Leah Huete de Maines

461 entries

In addition to the finalists, we selected some of the best entries for publication.

Thank you to all who entered the competition.

Finishing Line Press has no reading fee in November. FLP is a proud member of CLMP.

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Blood Lies: Race Trait(or) by Karla Brundage, was awarded honorable mention in the 2024 San Francisco Book Festival. Published by Finishing Line Press, Tongo Eisen Martin says “In this collection, double consciousness is revisited and interrogated fiercely by an inspired, confident hand and unbroken psyche.”

Link:

http://www.sanfranciscobookfestival.com/winners_2024.htm

Betsy Bolton‘s new book Mouth Art of the Bald-faced Hornet has been selected as an editor’s pick in Philly Poetry Chapbook Review. Congratulations Betsy!
https://phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-titles-5-14-24/

Correction: The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories won Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival, NOT the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

Finishing Line Press is proud to announce that Judith Dancoff‘s debut collection of short fiction The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories has won Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival for her debut collection of short fiction The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories, FLP 2024. Each of the stories is based on a famous work of art, spanning the seventeenth century to the present day. You can find out more about the collection and read one of her stories at www.thecalamityofdesire.com.

Western Writers Association Spur Award/Shelley Armitage, A Habit of Landscape

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Shelley Armitage, author of the poetry collection, A Habit of Landscape, has been named the 2024 poetry awardwinner for her poem, “Counting Cattle with the Fathers.” According to the award letter, “Since l953 the WWA Spur Awards have honored the best in Western fiction, nonfiction, poetry, song, and film scripting. We are honored to add Shelley Armitage to this list of the most distinguished Western authors in America.” The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the WWA in Tulsa, Oklahoma in June.

SMA Announces Semifinalists in 2024 Awards Competition: Congratulations Patrick Cabello Hansel for Breathing in Minneapolis (Finishing Line Press), and all who were selected.

SMA Announces Semifinalists in 2024 Awards Competition

The Midland Authors is pleased to announce that the books in the six categories listed below have been selected as semifinalist entries for our awards competition, which honors books by Midwestern authors published in 2023.

Remember This Day won a bronze award in poetry from Reader Views 2023-2024 Literary Awards: https://www.readerviews.com/winners-2023/#CATEGORIES2023.

Congratulations Dustin Grinnell for winning the Independent Press Award 2024 Distinguished Favorite for The Healing Book (Finishing Line Press) https://www.independentpressaward.com/2024df/9798888383759

Congratulations Jaspal Kaur Singh!:

Congratulations FLP author Jaspal Kaur Singh! The Awards Committee of the Caribbean Philosophical Association Exiles and Pleasures (Finishing Line Press) as a winner of this year’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award. Conference — The Caribbean Philosophical Association (caribbeanphilosophy.org)

“Chief Corn Tassel,” Finishing Line Press, 2022 was named a finalist in this year’s Literary Global Book Awards both in Nonfiction/Biography and Nonfiction/History.

CONGRATS! To FLP author Ivy Raff for being shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize. Her shortlisted poem, “Prospect Park with My Mother During an Ectopic Pregnancy,” takes a courageous look at the literal and figurative death of parent/child relationships. Read Ivy’s interview with LISP, where she talks frankly about her exodus from corporate life into the writer’s life, how to write when the “inner cranky toddler is driving the car,” and more. Ivy’s debut poetry collection, Rooted and Reduced to Dust, is on pre-order with @flpbooks until December 15 – don’t miss it!

LISP interview link: https://www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/post/ivy-raff

Congratulations to Eric Chandler! Eric Chandler’s poetry book Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press) was named as Honorable Mention in the LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS 2023 NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS!

At the heart of Kekekabic is a series of fresh, quirky and surprising observances written during a five-day solo backpacking trip Chandler took with his dog through the BWCA. Using the haibun form–a combination of prose and haiku—the volume includes poems inspired by running, skiing, paddleboarding, and kayaking in various cities around the country, always coming home to Duluth.

Congratulations Pramila Venkateswaran!

Pramila Venkateswaran’s book, We are Not a Museum, published by Finishing Line Press in 2022, is the winner in the poetry category of the 2023 New York Book Festival. Venkateswaran’s poems bring to life the history of the Jews in Kerala, India, their spiritual life and everyday customs in a diverse country, and their story of peaceful coexistence within the larger narrative of Jewish migration. Please visit www.newyorkbookfestival.com and click on the link at the top of the page, or click 2023 New York Book Festival Winners – Click Here

Congratulations Cristina! Cristina A. Bejan’ s poetry book Green Horses on the Walls (Finishing Line Press) has been selected as one of the 120 books by Rhodes Scholars to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Rhodes Scholarship: in a list that includes books by Bill Clinton, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Nicholas Kristof, Bill Bradley, and more global VIP names. Rhodes Scholars from around the world are gathered in Oxford, UK right now for this anniversary.

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/impact-legacy/120-books-from-120-years/#title-green-horses-on-the-walls

Congratulations Lisa Molina! American Book Fest announced the winners and finalists of The 2023 International Book Awards. “Womb Worlds,” the debut print poetry chapbook by Lisa Molina, published by Finishing Line Press, was named a finalist in two categories: Health: Cancer, and Poetry: Narrative. For more information, go to www.InternationalBookAwards.com

CONGRATULATIONS!

Dustin Grinnell for winning the Literary Titan Book Award for THE HEALING BOOK.

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The Healing Book by Dustin Grinnell is a collection of short, slice-of-life stories about people trying to navigate the various absurdities of life. “An Affable Man” follows a young man disillusioned with his corporate career who finally finds meaning in his life after a chance encounter with a captive orca. A mother worries about her rebellious daughter and is pleasantly surprised when her daughter breaks the cycle of being an overprotective parent with her own child in “The Good Parent.” In “Cured,” a Harvard immunologist working with malaria-infected patients in Kenya finds his belief once again. A grieving husband turns to bibliotherapy as a last resort to cure his dying wife of cancer in “The Healing Book.” “The Disciple” follows the experiences of a woman caught in the trappings of a con man’s cult.

Through these short stories, author Dustin Grinnell places ordinary men and women in situations where they reevaluate their core beliefs and ideologies to circumvent their circumstances. The Healing Book is a riveting short story collection that forces you to introspect and offers a glimpse of life through the perspectives of people from a wide variety of backgrounds trying to overcome its challenges and hurdles in their own ways. All the characters in these stories feel like real people coming to terms with their own shortcomings and being human in their vulnerabilities. Despite the underlying existential themes integrated into the tales, Grinnell manages to make each story feel distinct and unique on its own. All in all, a brilliant collection for short story readers.

Pikasho Deka for Readers’ Favorite

Congratulations Rachael Inciarte :

What Kind of Seed Made You by Rachael Inciarte, and published with Finishing Line Press, has won an Honorable Mention in the chapbook category of the Eric Hoffer Awards.

https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html#chapbook

http://www.rachaelinciarte.com/
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Congratulations to Susan Cummins Miller for WINNING the 2023 Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award in Poetry for her poem “No Roof but Sky: Roberts Mountains, Nevada” from MAKING SILENT STONES SING (Finishing Line Press). https://westernwriters.org/spur-awards/

Congratulations to Jennifer R. Edwards author of Unsymmetrical Body (Finishing Line Press) for receiving Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry.

https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html#poetry

Congratulations to B. Fulton Jennes author of BLINDED BIRDS (Finishing Line Press) for receiving Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Chapbook.

https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html#chapbook

Congratulations to Finishing Line Press and FLP authors Leticia del Toro and Marisa Urrutia Gedney for making the Ms. Magazine Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of the Last Year

ll We Are Told Not to Touch

By Leticia del Toro. Finishing Line Press. 42 pages. Out now.

Waves, loss, shine.

Altar of the Imagination

By Marisa Urrutia Gedney (@_m_u_g_). Finishing Line Press. 44 pages. Out now.

Generations, wisdom, liberation.

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of the Last Year

Luanne Castle Rooted and Winged is a Book Excellence Award Winner. https://honorees.bookexcellenceawards.com/#!/Rooted-and-Winged-Poetry/p/532989845/category=145959645

Congratulations! Nandi Comer has been named the poet laureate of Michigan.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2023/04/12/nandi-comer-michigan-poet-laureate/70108292007/
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Congratulations to Jennifer Bartell, author of Traveling Mercy (November, 2023), for being named the Poet Laureate of the City of Columbia!

https://scnow.com/news/local/johnsonville-natives-life-entwined-with-poetry/article_0faf3f02-86f3-11ed-965d-3f27aa603ddd.html & http://jasperproject.org/jasper-magazine-online/fwzwgyedctlp4846dd54jknhjbbmdy.
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Congratulations to Irene Cooper:

STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY Finalist
Judges: Craig Morgan Teicher, Sun Yung Shin, Malcolm Tariq

Irene Cooper of Bend, spare change (Finishing Line Press)

Congratulations to the authors listed below.

FLP 2022 Pushcart Prize nominations:

B. Fulton Jennes author of Blinded Birds for the poem “Ghazal: For a Wild Child, Grown”

William T. Langford IV author of Detroit: Workers, Teachers, Lovers for the poem “Shop Around” Will Langford

K.E. Ogden author of What the Body Already Knows for the poem “What the Body Already Knows”

adrienne danyelle oliver author of Collective Madness for the poem “:A Poem About Fibroid Tumors”

Maura Stanton author of Interiors for the poem “Trojan Horse”

Kristie L. Williams author of Finding Her for the poem “Watching You Undress Me” Kristie L. Williams

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Ksenia Rychtycka’s A SKY FULL OF WINGS won the 2022 Best Book Award in the Poetry Chapbook category. The contest is sponsored by American Book Fest and was established over 20 years ago. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest, said this year’s contest yielded thousands of entries from authors and publishers around the world, which were then narrowed down to the final results.

Congratulations to Ksenia Rychtycka and Finishing Line Press. A SKY FULL OF WINGS also won the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the Chapbook category earlier this year and a da Vinci Eye for cover design. The book was selected as a finalist and published as part of the New Women’s Voices Series in 2021.

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Susan Cummins Miller: 2022 chapbook, Making Silent Stones Sing, was just named a Finalist for the 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards in Poetry/AZ.

The link is:

http://nmbookcoop.com/2022-Awards-FINALISTS.pdf?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ISOLATED+PAGES+%2322-09+—+NM+Book+Co-op+September+23%2C+2022&utm_campaign=20220923_m169646716_ISOLATED+PAGES+%2322-09+—+NM+Book+Co-op+September+23%2C+2022&utm_term=HERE

Eileen P. Kennedy Touch My Head Softly was named a finalist in general poetry for the International Book Awards.

Congratulations!

The results of the 2022 International Book Awards have been announced.

Eileen P. Kennedy Touch My Head Softly has been honored as a “Finalist ” in the “Poetry: General” category:

Congratulations to Eileen P. Kennedy and Finishing Line Press. TOUCH MY HEAD SOFTLY was named a finalist in general poetry for the 2022 International Book Awards from American Book Fest.

Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest, said this year’s contest yielded thousands of entries from authors and publishers around the world. He says of the awards, “The 2022 results represent a phenomenal mix of books from a wide array of publishers throughout the world.”

The International Book Awards are in their 14^th year and the American Book Fest has presented to such well-known authors, sometimes early in their careers, as Clive Barker, Rhonda Byrne, Jude Deveraux, Pope Francis, Anne Geddes, Heather Graham, Sue Grafton, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Anne LaMott, Jon Land, Bruce Lipton, Mark Nepo, George Saunders, and Amy Tan. More information about the International Book Awards can be found at: www.InternationalBookAwards.com.

Touch My Head Softly: Poems is Kennedy’s second collection of poetry. It explores the anguish of Alzheimer’s disease for both the victim and the caregiving partner. Literary Titan has described it as “emotionally charged poetry that explores life with observant poems that will appeal to anyone who loves inspired poetry.” Her earlier collection, Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and awarded second place for poetry in the Wordwrite Book Award Competition. For more information: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/touch-my-head-softly-by-eileen-kennedy.

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A complete list of winners and finalists in each category can be found at:

http://www.internationalbookawards.com/2022awardannouncement.html

AMERICAN BOOK FEST ANNOUNCES
FINISHING LINE PRESS’S TOUCH MY HEAD SOFTLY, A POETRY FINALIST IN
THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD COMPETITION

LOS ANGELES—In June, American Book Fest announced the winners and finalists of the 2022 International Book Awards. Touch My Head Softly: Poems is Eileen P. Kennedy’s second collection of poetry. It explores the anguish of Alzheimer’s disease for both the victim and the caregiving partner. Literary Titan has described it as “emotionally charged poetry that explores life with observant poems that will appeal to anyone who loves inspired poetry.” Kennedy’s earlier collection, Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and awarded second place for poetry in the Wordwrite Book Award Competition.

Congratulations to Ksenia Rychtycka and Finishing Line Press, A SKY FULL OF WINGS won the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the Chapbook category. The book was also shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize. Eric Hoffer Book Award Winners

Eric Hoffer Book Award Winnersindependent book award for the small press, academic press & independent press, including self-published books

https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-grand-prize-short-list.html#.YmxN2S-B06U

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2022 Top 10 Literary Women of the Year: Congratulations Leah Huete de Maines!

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Congratulations to Irene Cooper and FLP for being named a Finalist in the 2022 Oregon Book Awards!

STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Judges: Craig Morgan Teicher, Sun Yung Shin, Malcolm Tariq

Irene Cooper of Bend, spare change (Finishing Line Press)

Congratulations to Ksenia Rychtycka and the FLP Team,

A SKY FULL OF WINGS by Ksenia Rychtycka won the da Vinci Eye Award for superior cover artwork. This is a special distinction beneath the Eric Hoffer Award umbrella.

Cover design by Ksenia Rychtycka and Elizabeth Maines McCleavy. The cover artwork is an oil painting by Ukrainian artist Edward (EKO) Kozak (1902-92) and is titled “News From Ukraine.”http://www.hofferaward.com/da-Vinci-Eye.html#.YlShEr3MK3B

Congratulations Elizabeth Kuelbs – Little Victory is a Distinguished Favorite in Social/Political Poetry in the 2022 Independent Press Awards.

The recipients are listed here: https://www.independentpressaward.com/2022distinguishedfavorites

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Congratulations to Finishing Line Press author Pamela Mitchell for being a finalist in the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. Her book Finding Lost Pond (Finishing Line Press) won second place in the Creative Works for General Audience.

Congratulations to Arthur Kayzakian for winning the 2021 Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition. Arthur won $1,500, publication, and distribution with Ingram for his winning collection My Burning City.

Arthur Kayzakian’s chapbook, My Burning City, was a finalist for the Locked Horn Press Chapbook Prize, Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, the C.D. Wright Prize, and the Black River Chapbook Competition. He is a contributing editor at Poetry International and a recipient of the Minas Savvas Fellowship. His poems and translations have appeared in or are forthcoming from several publications, including Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, COUNTERCLOCK, Chicago Review, Nat. Brut, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness Magazine, and Prairie Schooner.

Arthur was born in Tehran, Iran, on a war-torn block. His first experiences of earth were machine gun fire and sirens. His family turned off the lights and closed the blinds to avoid uniformed guards and weaponry that targeted visible homes. Due to the urgent nature of his situation in Iran, his parents did the best they could to raise him under dire circumstances. While his family made it to America as survivors, he lives with a deep sense of unrest, disband, and the absence of a homeland. His family sought political asylum in London when he turned three years old to escape the Iranian Revolution. He began writing simple rhyme-scheme verses in the sixth grade. He protects himself with poetry and writes poems from a shattered lyric to reflect his chaotic upbringing. With no other way to remedy the memories in his body, language became a way to make sense of war and trauma. Poetry is his form of survival, and he continues his work as a poet in his fight against history, against the state, and the use of normative language.

He received his MFA from San Diego State University. He is a contributing editor at Poetry International. His chapbook, My Burning City, was a finalist for the Locked Horn Press Chapbook Prize and Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, the C.D. Wright Prize, and the Black River Chapbook Competition. Arthur is a recipient of the Minas Savvas Fellowship. His poems and translations have appeared in or are forthcoming from several publications, including Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, COUNTERCLOCK, Chicago Review, Nat. Brut, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness Magazine, and Prairie Schooner.

About My Burning City:

My Burning City is a book of poems that integrate my personal history with state history. I have been writing poems about the Iranian-Armenian experience, an identity that remains erased from Iranian and Armenian people since it falls between both selves as a race and culture. My history is a core element of my poetics. I hope my work will inspire my readers to perceive and understand an instance of life against the tyranny of superpowers, significantly for displaced folks who feel invisible or too visible, as I often do. This chapbook is part of a full-length manuscript, and the events in these poems are partly true and some part of my creation. I hope you enjoy My Burning City.

**Congratulations!**

**R.J. Lambert** was chosen by Kaveh Akbar to receive the 2021 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry from the journal *New Letters*. The poem, “Habits of Creature,” is forthcoming in their April issue and in the FLP book, Mind Lit in Neon.
For more, see: https://www.newletters.org/awards-2021/

Another poem from the FLP collection, “Indelible in the Hippocampus,” is nominated for a Pushcart Prize by *The Worcester Review*.
For more, see: http://www.theworcesterreview.org/2021/11/

Congratulations Susan Vespoli! was nominated in 2021: “Thinking About Love During COVID and Coups” nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Congratulations Eileen P. Kennedy!

Touch My Head Softly won Honorable Mention in Poetry at this year’s New England Book Festival.

Congratulations Christine R. Lund!

Southwest Book Design and Production Awards announces its 2021 winners and finalists. ME AND HER SHADOW by Christine R. Lund, a Finishing Line Press has been named the winner in the Poetry category. In lyrical poems, the poet both celebrates her daughter Kaja’s life (Kaja is pronounced kai-ya), and tells of her journey of healing after her death at age 23. Kaja’s self-portrait is featured on the book’s cover.

https://www.nmbookassociation.org/2021.html

Congratulations to Linda Neal Reising whose book of poetry, The Keeping, received “Honorable Mention” in the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Competition. Finishing Line Press published the collection in 2020.https://www.storymonsters.com/book-briefs/2021-royal-dragonfly-winners-announced

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Atom City made Entropy Mag’s best poetry of 2021 list.

https://entropymag.org/best-of-2020-2021-poetry-books-poetry-collections/

Congratulations Celia Lisset Alvarez!

Multiverses by Celia Lisset Álvarez is a finalist in the 2021 Best Book Awards for narrative poetry.
http://americanbookfest.com/generalfiction/poetry.html

FLP poet **Richard Levine**
(*That Country’s Soul*, 2010, *The Cadence of Mercy*, 2016, *Contiguous State*s, 2018) is the 2021 recipient of the Connecticut Poetry Society Award for his poem “Is!”

Congratulations to Finishing Line Press and poet, **Theresa Hickey**, as *SHY* (2020) has been recognized by the Catholic Press (Media) Association of the U.S. and Canada.
The poetry collection has been awarded a 2021 Book Award in the Poetry category.
CPM events are sponsored by EWTN, the Knights of Columbus, the Paulist Fathers, Holy Cross Family Ministries
and others.

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**WINNER: GOLD MEDAL FOR THE 2021 HUMAN RELATIONS INDIE BOOK AWARD IN WISDOM POETRY.**

*Another Troy* by the late **Joan Wehlen Morrison** won the Gold Medal for the 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Awards in the category of Wisdom Poetry! This chapbook was made possible in part by donations to the ONE LAST WORD Program. ONE LAST WORD helps to bring the last works of gifted poets to the world.

https://humanrelationsindiebookawards.com/results.php ;
**Another Troy:** Poems by **Joan Wehlen Morrison** – Edited by **Susan Signe Morrison**
978-1-64662-258-0
2020

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Eric Hoffer Book Category Finalist!

Another Troy, by the late Joan Wehlen Morrison, Susan Sique Morrison (editor), (Finishing Line Press) is a 2021 Eric Hoffer Book Category Finalist!

http://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-category-finalists.html#.YJoCbhD3ahA

This chapbook was made possible in part by donations to the ONE LAST WORD Program. ONE LAST WORD helps to bring the last works of gifted poets to the world.

Congratulations Christina A Bejan!

Winner of:

2021 Independent Press Book Award (Small Book)

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2021 Human Relations Indie Book Award – Gold Winner (Historical) & Honorable Mention (Personal Growth Poetry)

Congratulations Cristina A. Bejan and Finishing Line Press!

Green Horses on the Walls by Cristina A. Bejan won the Gold Medal for the 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Awards in the category of Historical Human Relations Indie Book, and Honorable Mention in Personal Growth Poetry!

Silver Winner (Reflection)
Silver Winner (Realistic Poetry)

https://humanrelationsindiebookawards.com/results.php ;

2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist (Women’s Issues)

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Congratulations to the FLP team, and Cristina A. Bejan!
Green Horses on the Walls (Finishing Line Press) by Cristina A. Bejan is a Finalist in Cover Design for the 2021 Colorado Authors’ League Book Awards!
Cover design by Cristina A. Bejan and Elizabeth Maines McCleavy.

Green Horses on the Walls by Cristina A. Bejan

https://coloradoauthors.org

978-1-64662-215-3

2020

Congratulations Jennifer LeBlanc !!!

We are proud to announce “Descent” by Jennifer LeBlanc has been awarded as a Distinguished Favorite in the category of Poetry by the 2021 Independent Press Award.

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Congratulations Linda Neal Reising for receiving the Distinguished Favorite – Indenpendent Press Award for The Keeping!

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Congratulations Linda!!! Linda Neal Reising’s book, The Keeping (Finishing Line Press), received “Honorable Mention” in the 2020 The Big Other Book Readers’ Choice Awards. https://bigother.com/2021/03/02/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2020-big-other-readers-choice-award-2/

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Congratulations Linda Neal Reising and Finishing Line Press!

The Keeping by Linda Neal Reising won the Gold Medal for the 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Awards in the category of Realistic Poetry Human Relations Indie Book!

https://humanrelationsindiebookawards.com/results.php ;

The Keeping by Linda Neal Reising

978-1-64662-271-9

2020

Available from Ingram, FLP, and wherever books are sold.

WINNER: Gold Medal for the 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Awards in the category of Realistic Poetry Human Relations Indie Book!

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Laurel Blossom: Shelf Unbound [www.shelfmediagroup.com] the award-winning online book review magazine, has honored Laurel Blossom’s Un- as a Notable 100 Book in the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition 2020.

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Congratulations to the 2020 Finishing Line Press Pushcart Prize nominees:

Jody Winer for the poem “Geography” from the chapbook WELCOME TO GUARDIAN ANGEL SCHOOL

Grace Carras for the poem “for the quiet kids who have been told Speak Up” from the chapbook QUIET KID

M.G. Leibowitz for the poem “Pink” from the chapbook HYPATIA AT THE MUSEUM

Deborah Turner for the poem “Juneteenth” from the chapbook SWEATING IT OUT

Anna Mae Perillo for the poem “A Boy Lying Listless Against a Wall on a New York City Sidewalk” from the chapbook INHERITANCE OF COURAGE AND FEAR

Anique Sara Taylor for the poem “Plum Island” from the book WHERE SPACE BENDS

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New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition Results:

WINNER: Lynne Schmidt of Norway, Maine for “Dead Dog Poems”

Lynne Schmidt is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and a mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. She is the author of the chapbooks, Gravity (Nightingale and Sparrow Press) which was listed as one of the 17 Best Breakup Books to Read in 2020, and On Becoming a Role Model (Thirty West), which was featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed for PTSD Awareness Week. Her work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor’s Choice Award, and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry respectively. Lynne was a five time 2019 and 2020 Best of the Net Nominee, and an honorable mention for the Charles Bukowski and Doug Draime Poetry Awards. In 2012 she started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.

Thank you for entering the 2020 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition!!!

New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition Results:

Judge: Leah Huete de Maines

349 entries

Top Finalists in the New Women’s Voices Series (All finalists are offered publication in the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series)

WINNER: Lynne Schmidt of Norway, Maine for “Dead Dog Poems”

^{1st Miriam Flock of Palo Alto, CA}

^{2nd Katherine Indermaur of Salt Lake City, UT}

^{3rd Jennifer Gauthier of Lynchburg, VA}

^{4th Rebecca Lawton of Bend, OR}

^{5th Ksenia Rychtycka of Warren, MI}

^{6th Lynne Schmidt of}^Norway,^ME

^{7th Katherine Gaffney of Champaign, IL}

^{8th Zoe Canner of Los Angeles, CA}

^{9th Dinah Berland of Los Angeles, CA}

^{10th Hanna Watson of Wichita, KS}

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Congratulations Carol A. Aronoff and Finishing Line Press!!!
Tapestry of Secrets (FLP) is a finalist for New Mexico/ Arizona Book Awards for 2020 POETRY NEW MEXICO.

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Congratulations to Rajiv Mohabir! The Academy of American Poets announced the winners of the 2020 American Poets Prizes, which are among the most valuable and venerable poetry prizes in the United States. This year the organization has awarded more funds to poets than any other organization globally, giving a total of $1,290,250 to poets at various stages of their careers.

Finishing Line Press has published
na mash me bone by Rajiv Mohabir in 2011: to order go to
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/na-mash-me-bone-by-rajiv-mohabir/

and Thunder in the Courtyard: Kajari Poems by Rajiv Mohabir in 2016: to order go to https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/thunder-in-the-courtyard-kajari-poems-by-rajiv-mohabir/
Copies are still available of these limited edition chapbooks.

https://poets.org/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2020-american-poets-prizes?mc_cid=edc835b362&mc_eid=1ffbce2036 #flpauthors #poetry
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**Bill Cushing** received a certificate in the mail awarding his FLP book (A Former Life) an honorable mention for the 2019 Kops-Featherling Book Award.
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Our 2017 Kay Snow Writing Contest Winners!
**The Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry**
**Judge: Paulann Petersen**
Honorable Mention: **“Australian Bush Solstice”** by Jade Rosina McCutcheon of Salem.

sourced: https://willamettewriters.org/kay-snow-writing-contest/

2019 Kay Snow Writing Contest Winners!
Second place: **“Fair Art”** by Jade Rosina McCutcheon

sourced: https://willamettewriters.org/kay-snow-writing-contest/

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Congratulations Finishing Line Press authors! The Academy of American Poets announced on Thursday the 23 recipients of its Poets Laureate Fellowships, who will use the $50,000 grants for civic projects throughout the United States. Finishing Line Press authors Rosemarie Dombrowski of Phoenix, Susan Landgraf of Auburn, Wash, and Maria Lisella of Queens are among the recipients. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/books/poets-laureate-fellowships.html?smid=fb-share #awardwinners #poets #poetry #flp

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Congratulations Allison Joseph and Finishing Line Press! Smart Pretender by Allison Joseph is the winner of the 2020 Independent Press Award Small Book Category. https://www.independentpressaward.com/2020winners?lightbox=dataItem-k9g0c6q8#IndependentPressAward.

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CONGRATULATIONS Holly Lyn Walrath! 2019 Elgin Awards Best Chapbook Winner: Glimmerglass Girl • Holly Lyn Walrath (Finishing Line Press) https://www.amazon.com/Glimmerglass-Girl-Holly-Lyn-Walrath/dp/1635345456

https://sfpoetry.com/el/19elgin.html #awardwinner #scifi #poetry

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CONGRATULATIONS Laura Madeline Wiseman & Andrea Blythe! 2019 Elgin Awards Best Chapbook Finalist 3rd Place: Every Girl Becomes the Wolf • Laura Madeline Wiseman & Andrea Blythe (Finishing Line Press). https://sfpoetry.com/el/19elgin.html
https://www.amazon.com/Every-Girl-Becomes-Andrea-Blythe/dp/1635345537

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CONGRATULATIONS Chelsea Bunn!!! 2019 Finalists New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards

For Best Poetry Book: Chelsea Bunn for her book Forgiveness (Finishing Line Press).

https://www.amazon.com/Forgiveness-Chelsea-Bunn/dp/1635349036

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Annette Sisson, author of A Casting Off (Finishing Line Press, pub. May 2019), was named the winner of the Spring 2019 poetry competition sponsored by The Porch Writers Collective for her poem “Fog,” which, as a result, has been published in Vanderbilt University’s national literary magazine, Nashville Review. Her poem “The Island Is Its Own Gospel” was named honorable mention in Passager Magazine’s Spring 2019 national poetry competition; it will be published in Passager Magazine’s September “winners issue.”

Congratulations to our Finishing Line Press authors!


Jane Chance author of The Middle Ages (Finishing Line Press) 


Kari Wergeland author of Breast Cancer (Finishing Line Press) 


are both finalist in the 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. The list of category finalists may be viewed by entering the “Awards” menu option at www.HofferAward.com, and enter the “finalist” section.

Congratulations to Denise Howard Long and Finishing Line Press.  Howard Long’s short fiction is listed in The Best Small Fictions Anthology Selections 2019.

“In the Front Room, In the Kitchen” - Denise Howard Long - Spoil the Child (Finishing Line Press) https://www.thesonderpress.com/bsf-selections-2019

Congratulations to M. Jeanne Skvarla and Finishing Line Press!
M. Jeanne Skvarla’s book is a Finalist in Poetry in the 2018 International Book Awards for her book Seminomad Prayer Termite (Finishing Line Press).

Congratulations to Finishing Line Press author Carol Smallwood!  Carol Smallwood has been awarded the Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifetime work in writing, librarianship, education. Much of her work has the theme of women in her essays, anthologies, and poetry and she is grateful for Mom Egg Review in their dedication to helping so many women and mother writers like her. https://wwlifetimeachievement.com/2018/12/12/carol-smallwood

Congratulations to our Finishing Line Press authors C. Prudence Arceneaux and Naila Moreira for winning the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Krysten Hill and awarded by the New England Poetry Club

For a chapbook published in the last two years

Dirt (Finishing Line Press) by C. Prudence Arceneaux

Judge’s Note:

C. Prudence Arceneaux’s Dirt is a force that gutted me from beginning to end. From the very first poem, “Genesis,” the speaker urges the reader to imagine the force of cicadas who are “A million Adams, rising from the all that/was to sing, into the bellows of air, /simply to sing.” I was hooked not only in the uneasiness of the image, but in the music of those lines. I also couldn’t resist the urge to read this chapbook aloud. Good poems leave you with a visceral sensation that you cannot shake, and these poems did that for me throughout this book. There is an unflinching honesty to the speaker throughout. In the title poem, “Dirt,” Arceneaux begins by stating, “I am not a gardener, grubber of plants,/shifter of soil. My nails clean. /I stopped kneeling years before I reached/this age. If you ask, I can tell a food seed/from a pretty one.” For me, these lines comment not only on the literal moment that the poem stays planted in, but also the complicated role of a poet. These poems tackle loss in a way that remind me of fragile moments of losing something and also the power of naming what is lost. Grief is a hard thing to capture, and these poems cut this feeling open and dare the reader to look inside.

—Krysten Hill

Water Street (Finishing Line Press) by Naila Moreira

Judge’s Note:

What drew me into Naila Moreira’s Water Street was its immersive descriptiveness that never underestimates the power and tension that the natural world can embody. These powerful poems delivered me to all kinds of ecosystems thriving just underneath the surface in all their violent glory. There are times when the natural world collides with human destruction to create a sinister chain reaction. Moreira reminds us of a world where “…planes fall, frogs spawn/against backdrop of rubber, plastic, steel;/a thousand eggs; a thousand tiny bombs./They hatch into a universe of fear.” The speaker exists in nature’s hiding places and out in the open where they are exposed and vulnerable to the vulnerability that they see in nature. At times, these poems suggest a disquieting tone that haunted me throughout the day. At other times, I felt a liberating honesty and was grateful for how it shook me awake.

—Krysten Hill

http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests/2018-contest-results-2/

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THE WINNER of the 2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition is Libby Maxey!

Libby Maxey has a BA in English from Whitman College and an MA in medieval studies from Cornell University. She is a senior editor with the online journal Literary Mama, where she has been a part of the Literary Reflections department since 2012. She also does editorial work for Amherst College. She reviews poetry for The Mom Egg Review and Solstice, and her own poems have appeared in Tule Review, Mezzo Cammin, Crannóg, Think, Kestrel, and elsewhere. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons. She lives with her family in Western Massachusetts.

2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition!
Results (302 entries)
Winner: Libby Maxey of Conway, Massachusetts for Kairos
Top Ten Finalists in the New Women’s Voices Series
1st Honorable Mention: Lana Issam Ghannam of Sanford FL
2nd Honorable Mention: Shenandoah Sowash of Washington DC
3rd Honorable Mention: Winifred Spar of Princeton NJ
4. M Soledad Caballero of Pittsburgh PA
5. Jessica Jones of Canal Fulton, OH
6. Jayne Moore Waldrop of Lexington, KY
7. Angela Trudell Vasquez of Madison WI
8. Michele Desmarais of Omaha NE
9. Nancy Breen of Loveland OH
10. Jill Bergkamp of Randleman NC

And 12 Semi-finalists

Monica Adams of Ruchersville, VA
Sharon Ankrum of San Antonio, TX
Chelsea Bunn of Staten Island, NY
Carrie Green of Lexington, KY
Judy Kaber of Belfast, ME
Robin Kemkes of Ashland, WI
Lisa Kemmerer of Billings, MT
Elaine Nussbaum of Scappoose, OR
Susan Oringel of Albany NY
Anna Smucker of Bridgeport, WV
Wren Tuatha of Magalia, CA
Paige Webb of Columbus, OH

Congratulations to FLP author Greer Garland!  Her book It Just So Happens Poems to be Read Aloud (Finishing Line Press) won FIVE book awards!!!

Human Relations Indie Book Awards:


Director’s Choice Award 2018 Human Relations Life Experiences Book of the Year


2018 Gold Winner Wisdom Poetry Human Relations Indie Book


2018 Silver Winner Reflection Human Relations Indie Book


2018 Silver Winner Motivational Poetry Human Relations Indie Book


2018 Honorable Mention Winner Inspirational Human Relations Indie Book

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Congratulations to Julene Tripp Weaver (Finishing Line Press) for winning in FOUR categories in the Human Relations Indie Book Awards! 

The book "truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS" Julene Tripp Weaver (Finishing Line Press) won in FOUR categories: 

2018 Silver Winner Life Challenges Human Relations Indie Book; 

2018 Silver Winner Medical Issues Human Relations Indie Book; 

2018 Gold Winner Personal Challenge Poetry Human Relations Indie Book, 

AND

Director's Choice Award—2018 Human Relations AIDS Awareness Book of the Year;

Presented by Susan Peterson, Director, Human Relations Indie Book Awards! 

Here is their website announcing the winners:http://humanrelationsindiebookawards.com/results.php

CONGRATULATIONS to Laura Reece Hogan! Hogan’s poetry chapbook O GARDEN-DWELLER (Finishing Line Press) received a 2018 Catholic Press Association Book Award, 2nd place in the category of Poetry!  

https://www.catholicpress.org/page/2018AwardWinners

Congratulations to Julene Tripp Weaver for winning the 2018 Bisexual Writers Award for her book, Truth Be Bold, serenades Life and Death in the Age of AIDS (Finishing Line Press).

Congratulations to Susan Stevens!

2018 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List!

O, But in the Library, Susan Stevens, Finishing Line Press

Montaigne Medal Winner

As the annual judging draws to a close, the Eric Hoffer Award announces a small set of grand prize award finalists. This small list or "short list" of finalists is an honored distinction of its own and is announced publicly during the spring of each award year prior to the grand prize announcement.

http://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-grand-prize-short-list.html#.Wv78toopChB

Congratulations to Julene Tripp Weaver!

30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists in Bisexual Nonfiction

Truth Be Bold: Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, Julene Tripp Weaver, Finishing Line Press.   https://www.lambdaliterary.org/lambda-literary-award-finalists/

Congratulations to our Finishing Line Press authors Luanne Castle, Susan Stevens, and Kate Peper for being 2018 Eric Hoffer Finalists!

2018 Book Category Finalist:

Kin Types, Luanne Castle, Finishing Line Press

2018 Eric Hoffer CHAPBOOK Category Finalists

1st Runner-Up: 

* O, But in the Library, Susan Stevens, Finishing Line Press 

Honorable Mention:

* Dipped in Black Water, Kate Peper, Finishing Line Press 

http://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html#.Wvnh-P8pChA

Finishing Line Press author Erin M. Kelly will be the recipient of the 2018 WISE Women of Blair County Award in Arts & Letters. This prestigious recognition is to honor the positive impact that her work has made on her hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania and the surrounding region of Blair County. The award also recognizes the empowerment of women and their efforts to eliminate discrimination through service, education, and inclusion.

Kelly is one of six individuals in Blair County who are being honored at WISE Women’s annual tribute dinner, held on Wednesday, April 18. Each recipient is honored in six respective categories. In addition to her love of poetry, Kelly has built her career on the quiet work of shedding a light on disability – as well as the many social justice issues that are intricately connected to it. She looks to continue that mission with the publication of her forthcoming book, entitled How To Wait, available in May.

Congratulations Saba Syed Razvi for her nomination!

"Chrysopoeia & Isagoge" from the chapbook Beside the Muezzin’s Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil by Saba Syed Razvi , published by Finishing Line Press, has been nominated for the Rhysling award in Speculative Poetry.

The benefits of a Rhysling award are numerous. The winning works are regularly reprinted in the Nebula Awards Anthology from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., and are considered in the SF/F/H/Speculative field to be the equivalent in poetry of the awards given for prose work—achievement awards given to poets by the writing peers of their own field of literature.

This year’s Rhysling award is chaired by award winning Poet & Author, Linda Addison. Each nominated poem will be included in the 2018 Rhysling anthology where the international membership of the SFPA will review and vote for a winner. The full list of nominees is at http://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand.html.

Lambda Award 


Julene Tripp Weaver’s book, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS (Finishing Line Press, 2017) is nominated for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Book Awards in the Bisexual Nonfiction category. Weaver is a long-term survivor who worked through the heart of the AIDS epidemic. For 21 years she served as a case manager, adherence counselor, and educator. This poetry explores her personal journey living with HIV/AIDS and gives tribute to the many lives lost to this stigmatized disease. It is also a reminder that AIDS is an ongoing concern in our world. One of the founders of the Babes Network, YWCA, her book is dedicated to this peer support organization for women in Seattle, Washington.

Poet in Residence

Julene Tripp Weaver, author of truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, is the “Poet in Residence” at The Seattle Review of Books during the month of March. In addition to promoting her readings, they will feature one of her poems each week, on Tuesday, and do an interview. The first poem, Ordinary Essentials, was published March 6th. The mission of the Seattle Review of Books is to, “reflect, record, and celebrate our under served literary community.”

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Congratulations to  Rosetta Marantz Cohen!

WINNER OF THE STARTING GATE AWARD:

Rosetta Marantz Cohen of Northhampton, MA for A SETTLED LIFE

The Starting Gate Award is given biannually to an outstanding poet who does not yet have a full-length collection of poetry. The award recipient is selected by the editors of Finishing Line Press, and the manuscript is selected from our contest or general entries.

Marantz Cohen receives $100 cash award plus publication with a minimum pressrun of 250 copies/ 25 author copies.

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CONGRATULATIONS Margaret Rhee! Radio Heart, or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press) is given the Elgin Award second place by the SFPA.  

“SF is the only genre of literature in which it’s possible for a writer to explore the question of what this world would be like if you could get rid of [X], where [X] is filled in with any of the multitude of real world facts that constrain and oppress women.” 

-- Susan Elgin

 


http://www.sfpoetry.com/el/17elgin.html

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Jane Attanucci's poem "Falling" from her terrific Finishing Line Press book FIRST MUD is on The Writer's Almanac.

http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20170811/?utm_campaign=The+Writer%27s+Almanac_20170811&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc_Newsletter&utm_content=The+Writer%27s+Almanac+for+August+11%2C+2017

CONGRATULATIONS! Jeanine Stevens WINNER: 2016 OPEN Contest - Brief Immensity

Hard Times by Lin M. Brummels - WINNER: 2016 Nebraska Book Awards Competition Chapbook Category Award Winner
CONGRATULATIONS LIN MARSHALL BRUMMELS!

Maja Trochimczyk recently received the Creative Arts Prize for 2016 from the Polish American Historical Association for Slicing the Bread (Finishing Line Press).

Liza Porter's chapbook RED STAIN was finalist for both the 2015 WILLA Award (Women Writing the West) and the 2015 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. She was included in the Author's Pavilion at the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books.

Finishing Line Press is proud to announce:
 Charles Peek is the 2016 Nebraska Book Awards Competition Poetry category award winner for his Finishing Line Press chapbook Breezes on Their Way to Being Winds.
 Additional details about the Nebraska Center for the Book’s annual Celebration of Nebraska Books can be found at link below:

CONGRATULATIONS Charles Peek!

http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/awards/winners/nebook.html

CONGRATULATIONS DEBORA LIDOV! Her FLP book TRANCE is listed as one of NYWC’s Favorite Reads of 2016: Trance by Debora Lidov “innovative poems, some in the form of case notes, made by a social worker in the neo-natal ICU who is simultaneously undergoing cancer treatment. Beautiful, dizzying poetry unlike anything else you’ll ever read. 

--Aaron ZimmermanTRANCE by Debora Lidov is available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/trance-by-debora-lidov/http://nywriterscoalition.org/2017/01/03/nywcs-favorite-reads-of-2016/

Congratulations to FLP author Lynn Pedersen! 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Chapbook: Honorable Mention:Tiktaalik, Adieu, Lynn Pedersen, Finishing Line PressThe Eric Hoffer Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its inception, the Hoffer has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses. http://www.hofferaward.com/

Congratulations to Linda Neal Reising author of Re-Writing Family History (Finishing Line Press)

"Re-Writing Family History," a chapbook of poetry written by Linda Neal Reising and published by Finishing Line Press, just won the Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc., award for best poetry book published in the prior year. The same chapbook was also a finalist for the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award.

A list of all the winners of the OWFI contest can be found under the "contest" section of their website http://www.owfi.org/

FINALIST IN THE OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARDS (Oklahoma Center for the Book) in Poetry!

 Congratulations to our FLP Authors!!!Michael T. Youngwon of the 2014 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award for his collection Living in the Counterpoint.

He shares the award with Kyle Potvin, who received it for her collection Sound Travels on Water.  This year’s judge was poet David Ellis.  Both collections were published by Finishing Line Press.

For a full list of award recipients for the 2014 awards from The New England Poetry Club, please visit their site here: http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2014.htm.

Congratulations!!!! C. Kubasta won the 2014 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Prize for her book, A Lovely Box, published by Finishing Line Press, June 2013.

Daniel Shapiro judged, and here's an excerpt from his comments: "Her poems are reflective almost to the point of claustrophobic, yet they contain clear, identifiable pictures and accessible emotions.

Kubasta can compress a complete feeling into a few words . . . Definitions are introduced like veils, as if their specificity could give the speaker a place to hide.

A Lovely Box is a brave, risk-taking journey." More information can be found at: http://wfop.org/contests.html

Congratulations!!!! Beneath The Lemon Drop Sky,  (Created by Coty) won a Blue Ribbon for Inspirational Writing at the Santa Barbara Fair & Expo in April 2014.

Coty garnered a total of 30 ribbons at the Fair this competitive season for her various entries in writing, photography, painting, and baking! Coty was delighted to share a Blue Ribbon with Leah Maines at FLP for her gratitude in publishing her first "blue ribbon" chapbook!

Congratulations!!!! We Leave the Safety of the Sea by Art Elser was awarded first prize for Poetry for 2014 by the Colorado Author's League at its annual awards banquet.

The award reads, "A collection of fierce, uncompromising poems about the tragic war in Vietnam, written by a man who took part in it as a pilot dropping bombs.

Elser describes himself as a "sad man with dark memories" of the numerous lives lost in that combat, especially the many lives he took.

Congratulations!!!! DIANA NORMA SZOKOLYAI'sFinishing Line Press chapbook Parallel Sparrows received honorable mention at the 2014 Paris Book Festival!http://www.parisbookfestival.com/winners2014.html

Congratulations to Joan Hanna! Her Finishing Line Press chapbook, Threads is a finalist for the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards!

Congratulations!!!!Brenda Kay Ledfordwon the 2013 Paul Green Multimedia Award from North Carolina Society of Historians for her poetry chapbook, BECKONING.  Finishing Line Press published this book.  http://www.ncsocietyofhistorians.org/index.php

CONGRATULATIONS!  Nature Will Heal by Tracy Ahrens (Finishing Line Press) won honorable mention for a book of poetry in the 2013 Illinois Woman's Press Association Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest.http://www.iwpa.org/contest/2013iwpa_winners.htm

CONGRATULATIONS! 2013 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist in Poetry: Jeanne Shannon for At the Horizon Line published by Finishing Line Press, 2013 finalists list nmbookcoop.com

CONGRATULATIONS TO Finishing Line Press author Christina Cook for winning 2013 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award, Co-winner: Lake Effect (Finishing Line Press) by Christina Cook, Judged by: Mary Buchinger Bodwellhttp://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2013.htm ,The NEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB was founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost and Conrad Aiken. The Club sponsors the oldest poetry reading series in the country.

Congratulations to Dan Veach of Atlanta for being named this year's Georgia Author of the Year for his Finishing Line Press book ELEPHANT WATER. The Georgia Author of the Year Awards presented by The Georgia Writers Association.

Congratulations to FLP poet Jean Esteve author of Off-Key (Finishing Line Press) for being named a 2013 Oregon Book Awards Finalist! literary-arts.org

Finishing Line Press is very happy and proud to announce that  Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers awarded Alice M. Azure’s Worn Cities (Finishing Line Press) the Poetry Chapbook of 2012. 

wwww.wordcraftcircle.org/honors-awards , see also: http://aliceazure.com andhttp://mikmawarchives.ca/

Congratulations to FLP author Kyle Potvin! Sound Travels on Water (Nov. 2012, Finishing Line Press) by Kyle Potvin received an honorable mention in the poetry category of the New England Book Festival awards. The annual program celebrates the best books of the holiday season. newenglandbookfestival.com

Lesléa Newman's chapbook I REMEMBER: HACHIKO SPEAKS, published by Finishing Line Press, is a finalist for the Dog Writers Association of America's Maxwell Medallion Award in the poetry/short fiction categ...ory. Winners will be announced at the Dog Writers Association of America's Awards Banquet held on February 10, 2013 in New York City. dwaa.org

And When the Sun Drops by Connie Post won the Aurorean Fall 2012 Editor’s Chapbook Choice Awards

Maureen Sherbondy's book SCAR GIRL has been named as a finalist in the poetry category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. SCAR GIRL was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. The book contains poems about emotional damage. Sherbondy lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. www.maureensherbondy.com www.IndieBookAwards.com

Judith Bader Jones is the winner of the 2012 Oklahoma Writers Federation Trophy Award for best Published Poetry Book, for The Language of Small Rooms, published by Finishing Line Press of Georgetown, Kentucky; available via Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Language-Small-Rooms-Judith-Bader/dp/1599248492/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336426127&sr=8-1"

12th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards-- Congratulations to our authors for making the2012 "Must Read" list for the Massachusetts Book Awards: J. Lorraine Brown for her FLP book Skating on Bones and Zane Kotker for her FLP book Old Ladies in the Locker Room and Pool

Congratulations to Rita Banerjee, whose FLP chapbook, Cracklers at Night,  received First Honorable Mention for Best Poetry Book of 2011-2012 at the Los Angeles Book Festival.  Awards for the Los Angeles Book Festival were distributed at a ceremony on March 3 at the Roosevelt Hotel, the home of the first Academy Awards, in Hollywood

Maureen O'Brien's  FLP chapbook The Other Cradling received an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Jean Pedrick Award from the New England Poetry Club for the best chapbook published in the previous year....!!!!   http://www.nepoetryclub.org/contests2011.htm

Carl Winderl's poetry collection Mary Speaks of Her Son was the WINNER of the San Diego Book Award for "a book of poetry."

Carl Winderl's poetry collection la Via de La Croce was the WINNER of the San Diego Book Award for "a book of poetry."

Howard Stein's new book of poetry, Seeing Rightly with the Heart, published in late 2010 by Finishing Line Press, has been selected to be a finalist in the poetry category of the 2011 Oklahoma Book Award competition.  The competition is sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book.  The award ceremony was held on April 9th 2011, followed by book signing.

Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air was the WINNER OF THE 2007 Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature Belles Lettres . Previous winners include: Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being ( Farrar, Straus), Arthur Kirsch, Auden and Christianity (Yale University Press); Michael Joseph Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales ( Harvard University Press); Susannah Brietz Monta, Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England, (Cambridge University Press); Harriet Guest,  A Form of Sound Words: The Religious Poetry of Christopher Smart, ( Oxford University Press), among others.  This nomination can only come from the publisher, and is awarded for a book that has "contributed most to the dialogue between literature and the Christian faith. " (Please note that Finishing Line Press is open to submissions from peoples of all faiths, and has published poets from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds.)

Anne Wilson's poetry collection SOLEA! was the WINNER of the San Diego Book Award for "a book of poetry."

Brenda Kay Ledford's poetry collection Shew Bird Mountain was the WINNER OF THE 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians.

Kaye Bache-Snyder's poetry collection PINNACLES AND PLAINS was the WINNER of first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse.

 11th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards-- Congratulations to our authors for making 2011"Must Read" list for the Massachusetts Book Awards:  Krikor Der Hohannesian for his FLP book Ghosts and Whispers and Melissa Shook for her FLP book The Real Story  http://www.massbook.org/

Sarah Busse's FLP chapbook Given These Magics won the 2011 WFOP Chapbook Prize for best chapbook by Wisconsin author. Also, one of Busse's poems was awarded a Pushcart this year, and will appear in the 2012 Pushcart anthology.

Laura Rodley's chapbook Rappelling Blue Light was selected as Honorable Mention in the 2010 New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (for the best chapbook published in the preceding year). Judged by Valerie Lawson and Michael Brown .  (Winner: Katherine Bode-Lang) Honorable Mention: FLP author Laura Rodley.

Brenda Kay Ledford was the WINNER OF THE 2009 Paul Green Multimedia Award. The Paul Green Multimedia Award was presented to the poet by the North Carolina Society of Historians at the History Place in Morehead City, NC, for her poetry chapbook, SACRED FIRE.

Anna Ross's Hawk Weather was the winner of 2009 New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (for the best chapbook published in the preceding year). Judged by Helen Marie Casey .

Cheryl Loetscher's Unclaimed Baggage was the winner of 2008 New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (for the best chapbook published in the preceding year). Judged by Harris and Svetlana Sussman.

Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies Than Mine was the WINNER OF THE 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association.  Past winners include James Still, Ella Lyon George , Charles Frazier, Robert Morgan and Lee Smith.

Deborah Gordon Cooper's chapbook Between the Ceiling & the Moon received the Honorable Mention Prize in poetry at the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards.www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemba

Carol Hamilton's CONTRAPUNTAL was selected as a finalist in the 21st AnnualOklahoma Book Award Competition, 2010.

Carol Hamilton's Shots On was selected as a finalist in the 20th Annual Oklahoma Book Award Competition.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s chapbook Tracings was the WINNER of the Silver Award for Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America.

Gary Metras 's Francis d'Assisi 2008 made the “Highly Recommended” list of the 9th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards (2009).

BG THURSTON's Saving the Lamb made the “Highly Recommended” list of the 8th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards (2008).

Frederick Smock's poetry collection Sonnets, was a finalist in poetry in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. The award for poetry was given to Jeff Worley for Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern (Mid-List Press).  Jeff is also the author of the chapbook Leave Time (Finishing Line Press).   (Portions of Leave Time are included in the above  full- length collection.) Jeff received a cash prize of $1,000.

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.

Listen to Garrison Keillor read a poem from one of our Finishing Line Press collections on The Writer's Almanac:

"Putting in a Window" by John Brantingham | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2005/11/15

"When I Call" by John Brantingham | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2008/09/25

"Requiem" by Abigail Gramig| The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2012%2F05%2F08

"Aftermath" by George Held| The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2007/12/03

"At Quarter to Five" by Angela Janda| The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/06/09

"Getting By" by Gary L. Lark | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2007/10/08

"Men at the Gates" by Gary L. Lark| The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2007/10/12

"Maine Landscape" by Joyce Greenberg Lott | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2006/09/15

"Lonely Harvest" by Margaret S. Mullinshttp://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013%2F01%2F29

"Vocations Club" by Paula Sergi | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2005/10/09

"Only What I Can Do" by Julene Tripp | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor http://writersalmanac.priprod.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2007/12/17

Congratulations!!!! Don Colburn’s Poetry comes to stage: "Tomorrow Too: The Brenda Monologues" to be performed Oct. 24-26, 2014. Don Colburn’s newest collection of poems,
Tomorrow Too: The Brenda Monologues (Finishing Line Press), will be performed on stage this month in Corvallis and Springfield. Three actors directed by Leigh Matthews Bockwill present all the poetic monologues in the book, telling the story of Brenda Arrieta Killian, who faced cancer while pregnant -- a storyColburn  reported in The Oregonian newspaper.

The performances will be at the Majestic Theatre in Corvallis, OR, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 26: http://www.majestic.org/octobers-readers-theatre/

and at the Wildish Theatre in Springfield, OR, at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 25: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=wct

For more info about the book: http://www.doncolburn.net/tomorrow/

Congratulations!!!! Finishing Line Press author Harry Moore (What He Would Call Them, September 2013) is the 2014 winner of the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award presented by Poets & Writers. The award includes an expense-paid trip to New York in October, with a public reading and with contacts with selected writers, publishers, editors, and agents. It also includes the option of a month-long retreat at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming. For links to the full press release and to ten poems Moore submitted for the competition, see the Poets & Writers web site at http://www.pw.org/about-us/maureen_egen_writers_exchange_award. A retired community college English professor, Moore has published in numerous journals. His second chapbook, Time's Fool: Love Poems, was published by Mule on a Ferris Wheel Press in January 2014. He lives in Decatur, Alabama, and serves as assistant editor for POEM. For a feature article on Moore, see this Decatur Daily link:  http://www.decaturdaily.com/life/article_8d8531ac-da18-11e3-bf19-10604b9f6eda.html.

Congratulations! Finishing Line Press author Thelma Reyna Named Altadena Library District's Poet Laureate.  Her is from May 2014 through April 2016.

Congratulations to Susanna Rich author of the Finishing Line Press chapbooks Television Daddy and The Drive Home. Susanna Rich and Craig Lindvahl were nominated for 2009 Mid-America Emmy Awards in the category "Writer/Program" for the documentary film Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark.

Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.

Ilene Starger author of the FLP chapbook LETHE, POSTPONED had her poems set to music by composer Eric Shimelonis and performed by Academy Award and Golden Globe winner F. Murray Abraham at Carnegie Hall, NYC on January 15, 2010. Some of the poems from LETHE, POSTPONED are included in this performance.

Julene Tripp Weaver's poem "Only What I Can Do," from her FLP chapbook Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues, was published in a Good Poems American Places by Viking penguin. This anthology is a collection culled from Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. Her poem was featured in December 2007 shortly after Finishing Line Press published her chapbook.

Congratulations to FLP poet Tish Pearlman author The Fix Is In (Finishing Line Press) for being named Tompkins County Poet Laureate.

John Spaulding's FLP chapbook HOSPITAL was chosen by the ARIZONA DAILY STAR as one of the best books of 2012 by a southwestern author (see article above). The books were chosen by J.C. Martin, long-time book reviewer for the STAR.

Erica Goss has been appointed Los Gatos's Poet Laureate for the two year term beginning in 2013 and ending in 2014.

Rita Banerjee's FLP chapbook Cracklers at Night was featured on KBOO Radio's APA Compass program in Portland, Oregon.  The original broadcast has been archived on-line on KBOO Radio's website, and can be accessed here: http://kboo.fm/node/28418

Andrew Solomon, the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon and the new book Far From the Tree, a monumental examination of hundreds of parents and children who have coped with special circumstances such as disabilities, deafness, dwarfism, and mental disorders, picked his favorite

 books about family love AND and he SELECTED Jennifer Franklin's Finishing Line Press chapbook, Persephone's Ransom, as one of them!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/04/far-from-the-tree-author-andrew-solomon-s-book-bag.html

W. Dale Nelson has won a $3000 prize from the Wyoming Arts Council for his poetry, including his FLP chapbook Range of Motion. He received the award on Saturday 14th, 2012 in Casper, WY.  https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_idMotion=343

Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of  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).

FLP author Nadine Pinede was one of eight individuals selected for the Brown Foundation Fellows Program in France. The program, based at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, provides residencies of one to three months for midcareer professionals in the arts and humanities to concentrate on their fields of expertise. Nadine, who will graduate in August from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts with an MFA in Fiction, will spend her residency working on a novel. Fellowship applications are accepted twice a year. More information is available on the Brown Foundation website:www.mfah.org/fellowships/doramaarhouse/

Congratulations to FLP author David Denny for being named the first Poet Laureate of Cupertino, California.  http://www.mercurynews.com/cupertino/ci_18958047

Richard Levine’s “Believe This”, a poem from FLP chapbook That Country’s Soul (2010) was featured of an “American Life in Poetry” column.  The ALP column is an ongoing project started by Ted Kooser when he served as U.S. Poet Laureate (2004-2006), and is sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and University of Nebraska, Lincoln.  “Believe This” will appear in the November 11, 2011 column.  Last year, Levine’s poem “Picket Fences” was runner-up for the William Stafford Poetry Award, from Rosebud Magazine.

Millicent Borges Accardi's FLP poetry book Woman on a Shaky Bridge is featured on the  Women's Voices for Change Holiday Gift List. This short list of recommended books includes Pulitzer winner (Rae Armantrout)  the Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, as well as Elizabeth Alexander (who wrote the inaguration poem) and Diane Ackerman.  http://womensvoicesforchange.org/poetry-friday-special-a-gift-list-from-the-poets-in-our-lives.htm

Amore on Hope St. by Maria Lisella is listed as one of the BEST POETRY CHAPBOOKS in Montserrat Review's Best Books for Spring Reading, 2010 http://www.themontserratreview.com/BestB ooksforSpring,2010.html

Brief Intervals of Harmony  by Charles Pierre was selected as the “Editors’ Chap/Book Choice” in the Aurorean  15th  Anniversary Issue.

“Picket Fences”, a poem by Richard Levine, (That Country’s Soul, Finishing Line Press, 2010), has been selected as one of four runners-up for the 2010 William Stafford Award for Poetry.  The competition is administered by Rosebud Magazine, and the winning poems, along with judge’s comments, will appear in the December issue.

Judy Loest had her poem "Faith," from the FLP collection After Appalachia, released on the website, www.americanlifeinpoetry.org, on Monday, May 11, 2009. Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems. Newspaper circulation is about 4,000,000 per week in papers from Maine to Hawaii.  E-mail subscribers in such places as Australia, Uganda, Peru, Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the UK, as well as throughout the USA.

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Growing Pains by Anastatia CaraballoG (Finishing Line Press) has won the International Impact Book Award for “Death, Grief, and Loss Poetry.” https://internationalimpactbookawards.com/about-international-impact-book-awards/

Congratulations to Jennifer R. Edwards author of Unsymmetrical Body (Finishing Line Press) for receiving Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry.

Congratulations to B. Fulton Jennes author of BLINDED BIRDS (Finishing Line Press) for receiving Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Chapbook.

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