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Coal Hill Review Chapbook Contest Winners!
The co-winners of the 2012 Coal Hill Chapbook Prize are Prayers of an American Wife by Victoria Kelly of Virginia Beach, Virginia and Rooms of the Living by Paul Martin of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Both chapbooks are now available in attractive paper editions available from Autumn House. In addition, Paul’s collection is now available as Volume 12 of Coal Hill Review which you can read by clicking the link at the bottom of the left column of this page. Victoria’s collection will be published online as Volume 13 in September 2013.
Coal Hill Review accepts poetry submissions only through our chapbook competition. The winner receives $1,000 and publication in paper and online. For more information visit our submissions page, here.
The winner of the 2011 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Prize was Bath House Betty by Matthew Terhune of Chatsworth, California. The link to his chapbook appears at the bottom of the left column of this page as the Spring 2012 edition of Coal Hill Review, as well as in an attractive paper edition available from Autumn House. There were approximately 300 submissions to the 2011 contest and approximately 400 to the 2012.
More Featured Poets
Chana Bloch
Chana Bloch is the author of three books of poems, including the prize-winning Mrs. Dumpty; her new collection Blood Honey is available through Autumn House Press. She is co-translator of the biblical Song of Songs, now a Modern Library Classic; The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and his Open Closed Open; and Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch. She has received awards from the NEA, in poetry and translation, the NEH, the Rockefeller Foundation, PEN, and the Poetry Society of America.
Jo McDougall
Jo McDougall’s most recent books of poetry are Dirt and Satisfied With Havoc, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh. Widely anthologized, she has won awards from the DeWitt Wallace/ Reader’s Digest foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Her work has been adapted for film, theater, an artist’s book, and contemporary classical compositions. Towns Facing Railroads, a compilation of her poetry, was recently produced by the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.
Andrew Zawacki
Andrew Zawacki is the author of three poetry books Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia) and of the chapbooks Arrow’s shadow (Equipage); Georgia (Katalanche), co-winner of the 1913 Prize; Roche limit (tir aux pigeons); Bartleby’s Waste-book (Particle Series); and Masquerade (Vagabond). A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association, he edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s new and selected poems, Without Anesthesia, due in fall from Persea. His translation, from the French, of Sebastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck. He teaches at the University of Georgia.
Miranda Field
Miranda Field’s first book, Swallow, won a Katherine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Award. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, and has received a Discovery/The Nation Award and a Pushcart Prize. She was born and raised in London, UK, and currently teaches poetry at the New School and New York University. She lives in New York City with poet Tom Thompson and their two children.
Clyde Kessler
Clyde Kessler lives in Radford, VA with his wife Kendall, an artist, and his son Alan. His home has Kendall’s art studio called Towhee Hill. He has published several poems in the past couple of years online in magazines such as Barnwood, Boxcar Poetry Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Sugar Mule, Wazee, and Xelas Magazine.
Elizabeth Onusko
Elizabeth Onusko received an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from Fordham University. She is the Managing Editor of Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics (GuernicaMag.com). Her work has appeared in Poetry East and is forthcoming in The Briar Cliff Review.
Liz Rosenberg
Liz Rosenberg is the author of 5 books of poems, most recently The Lily Poems (Bright Hills), a chapbook of poems about adoption, and Demon Love, from Mammoth Press. She is also the author of the novel Home Repair, (Harper/Avon) about a middle aged woman whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale. Target selected Home Repair as its Break Out Book for June. It is also available in a Large Print Edition. Liz teaches English at the State U of NY at Binghamton.
Karen Steinmetz
Karen Steinmetz lives in the Hudson Valley and teaches at Manhattanville College. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, Inkwell, Poet Lore, Illuminations, So To Speak, The Midwest Quarterly, and The Carquinez Poetry Review. Her young-adult novel The Mourning Wars is forthcoming from Roaring Brook Press.
Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan’s first collection of poetry, Slag (Texas Tech University Press, 2005), won the Walt McDonald First Book Series competition. His other awards include a “Discovery”/The Nation Prize and a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Cream City Review, Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.
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