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We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2007 poetry and fiction competitions.

2007 Poetry & Fiction Winners

Bruce MacKinnon′s Mystery Schools won the 2007 poetry competition. Bruce′s poems previously appeared in Boulevard, Hayden′s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, The Sewanee Review, and other publications. He teaches creative writing at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Elizabeth Bruce′s And Silent Left the Place won the 2007 fiction competition. Elizabeth Bruce, a small town Texas native who has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1983, has twice received literary and acting fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Congratulations to our winners! Both books will be published in September of 2007.

Other News

Ned Balbo’s second collection, Lives of the Sleepers, received the 2005 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize and appeared this past spring from University of Notre Dame Press. The book won a 2005 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Arlin G. Meyer Prize.Ned is also the recipient of a 2005 Maryland Arts Council award in poetry.

Nancy Naomi Carlson’s work recently appeared in Chelsea, The Greensboro Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review. Her translations have been published in Colorado Review and Denver Quarterly, and are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, The Marlboro Review, Southern Humanities Review, and West Branch. Complications of the Heart won the 2002 Texas Review Press’ Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Imperfect Seal of Lips was the winner of the 2005 Tennessee Chapbook prize. Nominated five times for a Pushcart prize, she is currently an associate editor for Tupelo Press and an instructor at the Bethesda Writer’s Center.

Grace Cavalieri was given the key to the city of Greenville, South Carolina, and February 16 was proclaimed Grace Cavalieri Day by the Mayor of Greenville for the play Quilting the Sun that brought the black and white cultural communities together. She has also been featured in February/March 2007 issue of Writers’ Digest, discussing marketing poetry.

Moira Egan has recently returned from Malta, where she spent the summer as Writer in Residence at St. James Centre for Creativity, through the generous support of the ever-wonderful Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review; POETRY, The Potomac Review, Prairie Schooner, and in translation in Nuovi Argomenti (Italy). An Italian edition of her work is slated to appear in 2007. Moira won the Baltimore City Paper Poetry Contest, 2005, with two poems from her sequence, Bar Napkin Sonnets. Work is featured in the anthologies Kindled Terraces; Lofty Dogmas; Sex & Chocolate; and in Discovering Genre: Poetry.

A poem from Nan Fry’s collection Relearning the Dark (1991) has appeared on posters in the transit systems of Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; and Fort Collins, Colorado, as part of the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion Program, and in the anthology Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast, published by the PSA and W.W. Norton. Her work has appeared recently in The Healing Muse, published by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, and in the online journals Beltway and The Journal of Mythic Arts. Her poems have also been published in a number of anthologies, including The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin’s) and The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (Viking/Penguin). Her review of Dorianne Laux’s book of poems, Facts About the Moon, appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Poet Lore.

Martin Galvin, winner of the 1989 WWPH poetry contest, has had poems and reviews appear in the following journals and anthologies: 20th Century, an Anthology, Mona Lisa Anthology, Petroglyph, BigCitLit.com, Poet Lore, Salt Marsh Anthology, Out of Line, Natural Bridge, Word Works Anthology, Evansville Review, and Alembic. One of his poems, Doorman, was also selected to be included on one of the decorated outdoor benches in downtown Bethesda, to be found along the trolley route. Another one will be hanging in the Montgomery Co. Executive Office Building, Rockville, MD.

Since publication of his WWPH collection, Dan Johnson’s poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Rattle, West Branch, Delmarva Quarterly, and Poet Lore. His work has also been anthologized in 31 Arlington Poets (CD, Paycock Press), Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England), and A Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press).

Mary Ann Larkin’s recent chapbooks are A Shimmering That Goes With Us (Finishing Line Press, 2005) and gods & flesh (Plan B Press, 2007).

Barbara F. Lefcowitz’s articles and poems recently have been accepted by Southwest Review and The Rambler. The title of her new book is The Blue Train to America (Dancing Moon Press).

Elisabeth Murawski won the 2006 Ann Stanford Poetry Prize for her poem “Abu Ghraib Suggests the Isenheim Altarpiece.” She was also awarded a residency on Achill Island last year by the Heinrich Boll Foundation.

Elisavietta Ritchie's two new poetry collections are Awaiting Permission to Land (Cherry Grove Collections, 2006) and The Spirit of the Walrus (Bright Hill Press, 2005). Her poem Insomnia Cantatas was nominated by the editor of The Ledge for a Pushcart Prize. Work in recent and forthcoming publications includes the anthologies Only The Sea Keeps, Still Going Strong, Bomshells (poetry and prose by family members of active-duty military), On Retirement, and the journals Confrontation, Comstock Review, Blue Unicorn, Bay Weekly, Sanibel Islander, and The Broadkill Review. She is a poet-in-the-schools for the Montessori school in Huntingtown, MD, and continues to lead the workshops in creative memoir writing at the Calvert Library.

Carly Sachs is the editor of the why and later, an anthology of poems that women have written about rape and sexual assault, which is forthcoming from Deep Cleveland Press. With Reb Livingston, she curates Lolita and Gilda’s Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge. Currently, she teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Recently she was a finalist for the Ekphrasis Prize for Poetry. In the summer of 2007, she will be teaching a poetry workshop at the Havurah Institute at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire. In the fall of 2007, she will be teaching a poetry workshop at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival in Rockville, MD.

Jane Satterfield’s second collection, Assignation at Vanishing Point, was published by Elixir Press in 2003. Satterfield was recently awarded the Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize in Non-Fiction for her essay, “Nowhere, UK” and received a 2005 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. New poems are forthcoming in Link and the anthology All This Useless Beauty: Women Writers on Housework (University of Iowa Press, 2005). Satterfield will be a featured reader at the Creativity Cafe at the Baltimore Book Fair; recent readings include Penn State University; Gettysburg College; St. Lawrence University; St. Vincent’s College, and Albion College where she was the 2004 Wilson Poet.

Jane Schapiro’s poems have most recently appeared in The Southern Review and Prairie Schooner. Her essay “My friend and Bruce Springsteen” was published in the January 2007 issue of The Sun. Her non-fiction book Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks was published in 2003 by the University of Wisconsin Press. It was selected for the Notable Trials Library.