Congratulations to Judy Halebsky, the winner of the Sixteen Rivers chapbook contest with her manuscript Space, Gap, Interval, Distance. Our judge, Forrest Hamer, made the final selection from a strong list of entries. Judy’s first book, Sky=Empty, won the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize and was published last year. Her chapbook will be published in spring, 2012. Congratulations to Judy, and thank you to all those who entered this contest.

Read the review by Alexa Mergen of The Place That Inhabits Us in Rattle’s
online blog (1/25/11).

Jeanne Wagner has won the $1,000 Inkwell Award, sponsored by Manhattanville College and judged by Mark Doty.

Christina Hutchins is the winner of the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. “Radiantly We Inhabit the Air” will be published in January 2011.

Nina Lindsay has won $2500 for three poems in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg contest: “Whatever,” “This morning,” and “Call” — read about it here.