We would like to say Thank You! to everyone who submitted a manuscript this year. The winner will be announced in the next few days. Here are the finalists and semi-finalists. Asterisked names indicate finalists.
*Elly Bookman / Love Sick Century
*Adam Day / Whip the Sea
Hadley Austin / Feral
*Adam Lefevre / The World is Full of Gods
Martha Webster / Off Gunshot Lake
Will Schutt / Impressions of a Person
Jennifer Flescher / You Will Not Be In My Obituary
*Seth Simmons / The Brink
*Megan Merchant / Self-Portrait as a Dream of Picasso
Gary Fincke / For Now, We Have Been Spared
*Angela Sorby / Reading Trouble
*Ken Fifer / As I Seem I Am
*Michelle Franke / How to Disappear in America
Kevin Clark / Want
Craig Cotter / I Need to Dream About You
Scott Withiam / Waste Management Facility
Tracy Zeman / Interglacial
Nicole Santalucia / & Nothing But the Fruit
*Wes Civilz / Oops, Sorry I
Paul Nelson / Just Breathing
Harry Harper / All is a Hand & our Hands are Missing
Emily Hockaday / Blood Music
James Shea / Almost Still Now
*Carolyn Guinzio / Reunite the Beatles
*Kevin McIlvoy / What a Dancer Knows
Eric Fisher Stone / Bear Lexicon
Daniel Biegelson / Don’t Kick the Time Machine
*Suzanne Wise / The Calling
Bill Rasmovicz / Distanced from Melody
*Jeff Mock / Pier Thirteen
Nancy Keating / Grammars
*Zachary Lundgren / Turkey Vulture
David Petruzelli / The Next Life
Julie Choffel / Dear Wallace
*Natalie Solmer / I Am a Great Lake
Fay Dillof / Some Animal
Eric Burger / Dark Picnic
Dorothy Neagle / Imagine a Woman
Jennifer Moss / We Called the Game “The Dying Lady”
Linda Dove / Coin
Mark Kraushaar / What if the Hokey Pokey Really Is What It’s All About