Contests
Previous Journal Contest Winners
2007 Poetry, Patricia Smith
2007 Prose, Catherine Alden
2006 Poetry, Douglas Goetsch
2006 Prose, Dan Carlson
2005 Poetry, Mark DeFoe
2005 Prose, David Feinstein
2004 Poetry, Ellen Bass
2004 Prose, Gina Ochsner
Summer Season Contests
Chautauqua Poetry Contest -
Sponsored by Chautauqua Readers & Writers. No submission fee. Two prizes, named in honor of Writers’ Center founder, Mary Jean Irion, one for an adult poet and one for a poet age 18 or younger. Submission forms are available at the library, CLSC, and Alumni Hall.
Hauser Prize -
Sponsored by Chautauqua Readers & Writers. Two prizes offered, one in poetry and one in prose. Contest is open to participants of Writers’ Center Workshops. No submission fee. See workshop leader for details.
Annual Contest
Chautauqua journal prizes -
Annual contest sponsored by the journal Chautauqua.
2008 journal contest winners
Prose Contest
Winner: Jill Koenigsdorf of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for "Browsers and Grazers"
Jill Koenigsdorf divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she writes, sells antiques and walks dogs, and The Bay Area, where she owned and operated Spring Fever Flowers for twenty four years.
Her work has appeared in: ZYZZYVA, Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southwest Review, The South Dakota Review, The Sun, and the anthology: The Whole Story: Editors On Fiction. Her stories have placed in both the California Voices competition sponsored by Poets & Writers magazine, and in the“New Millennium” contest. She has also received The Peregrine Prize and The McGinnis Award for her short stories. Her non-fiction appears regularly in The San Francisco Chronicle and The New Mexican newspapers. She has recently completed a novel which she hopes to find a home for in the coming year.
Honorable Mention: Jacob M. Appel (New York, NY), Daniela Petrova (New York, NY), Fred McGavran (Cincinnati, OH), John Van Kirk (Huntington, WV)
Poetry Contest
Winner: Jude Nutter of Edina, Minnesota, for “Growing up in Bergen-Belsen: Sleeping with Ann Frank,” “Growing up in Bergen-Belsen: The Insect Collector,” "Espenbaum in Bergen-Belsen, May 2007,” and “Road Kill”
Jude Nutter was born in North Yorkshire, England, and grew up in northern Germany in a building that was once part of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her poems have appeared in numerous international journals and anthologies and she is the recipient of several awards and grants. Jude Nutter’s first collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence (University of Notre Dame) won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. A third collection, I Wish I Had A Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press. In 2004 she spent two months in Antarctica with the National Science Foundation’s Writers and Artists Program. She has been living and working in Minneapolis since 1998.
Honorable Mention: Joan Siegal (Blooming Grove, NY), Sam Witt (Walla Wall, WA), Nancy Naomi Carlson (Silver Spring, MD), Kascha Snavely (Cambridge, MA)
