Coal Hill Review

Coal Hill Review Chapbook Contest

The winner of the 2011 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Prize is Watermark by Matthew Terhune of Chatsworth, California. His chapbook will appear as the Spring 2012 edition of Coal Hill Review, as well as in an attractive paper edition. Mr. Terhune received a $1,000 honorarium. There were over 300 submissions for the contest.

Please Note: Coal Hill Review currently accepts poetry submissions only through our chapbook competition. For more information visit our submissions page, here.

More Featured Poets

Rebecca Kinzie Bastian
Rebecca Kinzie Bastian’s work appears in a number of journals, and she was the 2007 Bread Loaf Margaret Bridgman Scholar. Born and raised in Sweden, she holds an MFA from Vermont College, and currently works as an editor and copywriter in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

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.

Helen Conkling
Helen Conkling grew up near Chicago. Her degrees are from Northwestern University and she lives, at present, near the city of Buffalo, New York. Her poems have appeared in The Ohio Review, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, The Hudson Review, The Antioch Review, Field, 5 AM and others. She was awarded the Hugh J. Luke Award for work appearing in Prairie Schooner during the year 1989. And in l996, received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press for her book Red Peony Night, which was published by them in 1997. Since then she has been engaged in working with and completing her second book.

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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