COUNCIL FOR WISCONSIN WRITERS ANNOUNCE CONTEST RESULTS FOR 2021 WORK
Sixteen Wisconsin writers have won First Place Awards and Honorable Mention Recognition in the Council for Wisconsin Writers contests for work published or produced in 2021.
The Council awards first-place winners in seven contests $500 and a week-long writing residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point. Honorable Mention recipients receive $50 and a residency at Ernest Hüpeden’s Painted Forest, Valton, WI. Winners of the CWW Young Writers Award receive $250 for First Place and $50 for Honorable Mention. All contests are judged by out-of-state judges except for the Young Writers Award, which is judged by the CWW Board of Directors.
Award winners will be celebrated on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at a reception from 3 p.m.-4 p.m,
followed by the awards presentation and readings by First Place Winners, at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin.
The winners are:
EDNA FERBER FICTION BOOK CONTEST – Judge: Kevin McIlvoy, Asheville NC
Anthony Bukoski of Superior for The Blondes of Wisconsin: Stories published by University of Wisconsin Press
Shannon Schuren of Sheboygan Falls, Honorable Mention, for Where Echoes Lie published by Philomel Books
EDNA MEUDT POETRY BOOK AWARD – Judge: Allison Joseph, Carbondale IL
Dewitt Clinton of Shorewood for Hello There published by Word Poetry Press
Margaret Rozga of Milwaukee, Honorable Mention, for Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems published by Cornerstone Press
ZONA GALE SHORT FICTION AWARD – Judge: Hasanthika Sirisena, Selinsgrove PA
Jennifer Morales of Viroqua for “The Doorman” published in Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene, Black Lawrence Press
Kathie Giorgio of Waukesha, Honorable Mention, for “Recipe” published in Evening Street Review
LORINE NIEDECKER POETRY AWARD – Judge: Leslie Monsour, Los Angeles CA
Jenna Rindo of Pickett for five poems published in various journals
Lora Keller of Milwaukee, Honorable Mention, for five poems published in various journals
NORBERT BLEI/AUGUST DERLETH NONFICTION BOOK AWARD – Judge: Harriet Brown, Syracuse NY
Lawrence Tabak of Madison for FOXCONNED: Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government published by University of Chicago Press
Bruce Campbell of Brookfield, Honorable Mention, for A Fullness of Uncertain Significance published by Orange Hat Publishing
KAY W. LEVIN AWARD FOR SHORT NON-FICTION – Judge: Ed Kemmick, Billings MT
Craig Reinbold of Wauwatosa for “What WE Might Salvage” published in AGNI Magazine
John Gurda of Milwaukee, Honorable Mention, for “Education of a Southside Barfly” published in Milwaukee Magazine
TOFTE/WRIGHT CHILDREN’S LITERARY AWARD – Judge: Michelle Houts, Rockford OH
Rochelle Melander of Milwaukee for Mightier than the Sword: Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries Who Changed the World Through Writing published by Beaming Books
Jon Etter of Wauwatosa, Honorable Mention, for Yet Another Dreadful Fairy Book published by Amberjack Publishing/Chicago Review Press
YOUNG WRITERS – Judges: CWW Board of Directors
Cara Wreen of Green Bay for her poem “Tea Assortment”
Addison Rahmlow of Slinger, Honorable Mention, for her poem “Nobody, etc.”