2011 Poetry Prize Winner

Photo by Robert Steadman

Announcing our winner of the

2011 Poetry Prize

"Because the Birds Came"

John A. Nieves

Columbia, MO

Our esteemed judge, Marie Howe, said:

"I kept coming back to this poem because of the music and the feeling of it and the sound. A hushed transformation was happening, and it kept happening after I stopped reading. It seems like a love poem, not only for a person, but for the world itself (which keeps transforming) and a true song for what can't be said, but can be understood."

& Runners-Up:

"The Sea of Too Far is Unmapped"

Jill Osier

Greene, IA

"The Fall of Communism"

Craig Blais

Tallahassee, FL

Our warmest congratulations to John Nieves, amazing runners-up, and fantastic finalists. We would also like to thank all entrants for your submissions and your support!


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Announcing the 2011 1/2 K Prize

2011 1/2 K Prize

NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS.

Send us your short-shorts & prose poems!

Deadline: June 1, 2011. Full guidelines.

Final Judge: Ander Monson

1/2 K Prize Winner 2010

We are taking a momentary pause for our reading recommendation series to Congratulate and Thank winner and all the participants of our 2010 1/2 K Prize! The 1/2 K prize is one of my favorites to read for. With the only rules being: no more than 500 words and no line breaks, we never know what we are going to get, but we are always blown away by the variety and awesomeness of all our submissions.

This year we are pleased to say

to Paul Griner of Louisville, KY for his piece, “You’re Going to Miss Me When I’m Gone.” Alberto Rios, our esteemed final judge selected this piece as our winner and said, "With its deceptively simple voice, “You’re Going to Miss Me When I’m Gone” reminds us of something liminal but true—that the world is at work as much as we are, vibrant with intent and purpose and potential. In this piece, a knife is a knife—and not simply a word. Metaphoric as much as literal, quick as the slice of that knife, in these few moments we enter our own world through another doorway."

Congratulations also to our Runner-Up, Megan Baxter of Hanover, NH, for her piece “Dear Billy the Kid.”

to all of the writers who submitted to this summer's contest and made it such a success and a joy to read for!

I'm feeling as glittery as the images on this post! Thank you all for submitting to and supporting the work at Indiana Review! We are now looking forward to our fiction prize.

--AKS

Announcing the 3rd Annual Blue Light Contest

Our Summer 2010 issue has arrived, which means it's that time of year again -- time for our summer trivia contest! 

For readers who are new to the Blue Light, every Wednesday in July we post a trivia question on a certain theme.  This year's theme, in concurrence with the 32.1 Blue issue, will be (you guessed it) "Blue."

This year's contest will run from July 7th to August 2nd, with questions posed on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. Answers should be e-mailed to inreview (at) indiana (dot) edu with "Blue Light Contest" in the subject line. Winners will be determined first by accuracy and then by response time, and we'll announce the results each following Monday.  Winners receive a FREE copy of 32.1! 

Look out for the first Blue-themed trivia question tomorrow.

2009 Fiction Prize Winner

We are pleased to announce our 2009 Fiction Prize winner: Rolf Yngve, whose story "Efendim" will be published in our upcoming Summer 2010 issue, 32.1.

Our final judge, Ron Carlson, had this to say about the story: In the cauldron of a high seas pirate and hostage standoff, "Efendim" offers a nervous and pressurized world by way of a rolling kaleidoscope of viewpoints. The story is braced with that rarity real things, and bears a confident authority; there is something of Conrad here. This ponderous ordeal flashes at us, the life and death moments like the myriad
reflections on the water.

Congratulations Rolf!

Congratulations also to the runner-up, Roger Sheffer, for his story "Shuttle" and second runner-up, Jeff P. Jones, for his story, "The Runciter Project."

Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's contest such a success!

2009 Half-K Prize Winner

We are pleased today to announce the results of the 2009 1/2 K Prize. Our final judge was Lydia Davis. A few of her books include a novel, The End of the Story, and four full-length story collections—Varieties of Disturbance, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, Almost No Memory, and Break It Down. Her work has also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry and The Best American Stories.


And the winner is...

2009 Indiana Review 1/2K Prize Winner

“I Was Lucky That the Furniture Was Ugly”

Rebecca Bridge

Runners-Up

“Bering”
Joe Caliguire

“Holding up traffic as if to say”
Elizabeth Wilcox

“The Fifth Date”
Marie Potoczny

We are pleased to announce our 2009 Poetry Prize Winner. But first I'd like to thank final judge was Natasha Trethewey. Ms. Trethewey’s most recent collection Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin 2006), won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared in several volumes of Best American Poetry. Thank you, Ms. Trethewey, for reading and selecting our winner! And without further ado:

2009 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Winner

“First Shift at the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Project”
Tom Christopher

Runners-Up

“Greenwood Resident the Afternoon After the Riot”
Tom Christopher

“Crow”
Robert Peake

Keep your eye out for Tom Christopher's poem and other finalists' poems in our Winter Issue Vol. 31.2. Congratulations again to Tom, and thank you to everyone who entered the poetry contests.

We have a winner!

The results are in! Congratulations to Shelly Oria, winner of our 2008 Fiction Prize. Her story, "New York 1, Tel Aviv 0," will be published in our Summer 2009 issue (31.1).

Congrats also to Tara Cottrell whose story, "Post," was selected as runner-up. To find out who the finalists were, please check out the results on our website.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work--there were some amazing stories, and we had a tough time narrowing down our choices.

And a big thank you to our judge, Tayari Jones.

Eyes on the Prize

A week after the Fiction Prize deadline, we're literally knee deep in submissions, and Nina and I are happily wading through them. I say this because we'll be focusing on the prize for the next couple of weeks and unfortunately, regular submissions (both mailed and on-line) may be neglected for a while. As a result, there may be a larger backlog, and a longer response time. So, we ask for your patience, and we promise to get caught up and back in the swing of things in a month or so.

In the meantime, and in honor of one of our staff getting married, everyone get up from their desks and shake it with Beyonce.

Today's the Day

That's right -- beware the ides of October!

More importantly, beware the postmark on your submission for the 2008 Fiction Prize, judged by Tayari Jones. All entries must be postmarked October 15th in order to be considered. Read the guidelines for the contest here. Find your local post office here.

Podcasts and Fiction Prizes

Check out our newest podcast to hear Liza Wieland reading an excerpt of her story, "Nightingale," the 2007 Indiana Review Fiction Prize winner.

And here's a reminder to send in your fiction prize entries! You only have a week and half left before the deadline, October 15. So polish up your finest stories and send them our way. But be sure to check the guidelines on our website first! http://www.indianareview.org/general/prizes/fictprizeguidelines08.html

--Ryan

Last day to enter

It's here at last, the final day to enter Indiana Review's 2008 1/2 K Prize. Remember that all entrants receive consideration for publication as well as a one-year subscription to IR, and remember also that the winner gets a thousand smackers and, of course, publication in IR. Russell Edson is our esteemed final judge, and you can find all the details you need to submit here.

The postmark deadline is today, June 9th, and since fair's fair and all, online submissions will close at 8:00 pm EST (when most post offices will be closed in that fair land to the west).

The submissions our judges have read are remarkably strong this year. You all are making this judging thing difficult.

Indiana Review 1/2 K Prize - 2008

Full guidelines for our 1/2 K Prize prize are now up here on our website. We're interested in any prose poems, flash fiction, microfiction, short shorts, or whatever you want to call them that are under 500 words with no line breaks.

Russell Edson is the final judge.

We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Indiana Review Poetry Prize

We've already received a few entries, but just wanted to let you all know, our poetry prize is open to submissions. The final deadline is March 31, and Naomi Shihab Nye is judging.

Complete guidelines below:


Indiana Review's 2008 Poetry Prize Guidelines

$1000 Honorarium and Publication

Final Judge: Naomi Shihab Nye

POSTMARK DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2008
Reading Fee: $15
Includes a one-year subscription

All entries considered for publication. All entries considered anonymously. Send only three poems per entry.

Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but the entry fee is non-refundable if accepted elsewhere. Multiple submissions are encouraged but a separate reading fee is required for each additional set of three poems.

Further, IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University. In addition, IR cannot consider work from anyone who is a current or former student of the prize judge. We also will not consider work from anyone who is a personal friend of the judge.

Entrant’s name should appear ONLY on the printable entry form. If desired, include self-addressed stamped envelope for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. Make checks payable to Indiana Review.

Each fee entitles entrant to a one-year subscription, an extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription. Please indicate your choice and enclose complete address information for
subscriptions. Overseas addresses, please add $12 for postage ($7 for addresses in Canada). Please note that in accordance with Indiana University policy, we cannot accept money orders or accept checks from non-US banks.

International contestants may pay online here (for more detailed instructions, click here).

To use our printable entry form, click here

SEND ENTRIES TO:
Poetry Prize
Indiana Review
Ballantine Hall 465
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN
47405-7103

Naomi Shihab Nye's most recent books are You and Yours and I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK? She has written or edited more than twenty-five other books.