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Council for Wisconsin Writers Contest Winners for 2018 Work

The Winners Are!

CWW Announces 2018 Wisconsin Writing Awards

 

Sixteen Wisconsin writers have won First Place and Honorable Mention awards in the Council for Wisconsin Writers contests for work published or produced in 2018.

The Council will award winners in seven contests $500 and a week-long writing residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point. Honorable mentions will receive $50 and a residency at Painted Forest, Valton, WI. Winners of the CWW Young Writers Award will 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 members of the CWW board of directors.

In addition, the Council will honor a long-time Wisconsin author, poet, script writer, videographer and educator for her body of work with CWW’s Major Achievement Award.

Awards will be presented at the Council’s annual banquet to be held on May 11, 2019, at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee.

William Stobb of Onalaska is first-place winner of the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction for “All the Bodies” published in North Dakota Quarterly. Kathie Giorgio of Waukesha receives honorable mention for “Quiet” published in moonShine Review.

Marilyn Annucci of Madison takes the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award for The Arrows That Choose Us published by Press 53. Honorable mention goes to Denise Sweet of Green Bay for Palominos Near Tuba City: New and Selected Poems published by Holy Cow Press.

Christina Clancy of Madison is receiving the Kay W. Levin Short Nonfiction Award for “Lost Cause” published in The Sun Magazine. Judith Steininger of Milwaukee is receiving honorable mention for “The Girl(s) From Montana” published in Montana Quarterly.

Patricia Sutton of Madison has won the Tofte/Wright Children’s Literary Award for Capsized published by Chicago Review Press. Stef Wade of Brookfield is receiving honorable mention for A Place for Pluto published by Capstone Editions.

Laura Jean Baker of Oshkosh has won the Norbert Blei/August Derleth Nonfiction Book Award for The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir published by The Experiment. Christy Wopat of Holmen receives honorable mention for Almost a Mother; Love, Loss and Finding Your People When Your Baby Dies published by Orange Hat Publishing.

Liam Callanan of Milwaukee has won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award for Paris by the Book published by Dutton. Honorable mention goes to Tom Matthews of Wauwatosa for Raising the Dad published by St. Martin’s Press.

Kathryn Gahl of Appleton has won the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award for five individual poems. Honorable mention goes to Eileen Mattmann of West Bend.

Elizabeth Stanfield of Ripon High School in Ripon is first-place winner of the CWW Young Writers Award for her poem “Hand-Me-Downs”. Emily Kadrich of Arrowhead High School in Hartland receives honorable mention for her short story “Never Again: August 28,1955”.

Kathleen Ernst of Middleton, author of nearly 40 novels and books of nonfiction and poetry for children and adults, and recipient of numerous awards is being recognized for her body of work with CWW’s Major Achievement Award.

The public is invited to celebrate our state’s fine writers at the CWW’s Awards Banquet at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. Banquet tickets must be reserved by Friday, May 3. In addition to a table for contest honorees to display copies of their winning works, a table will be available for CWW members to display samples and promotional material for their work.

More information about the winners, judges, banquet registration, and the Council for Wisconsin Writers can be found at its website, www.wiswriters.org.

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Jerrianne Hayslett, Banquet Coordinator

jerrianneh@gmail.com

@jerrianneh

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The Winners Are! CWW announces 2017 Wisconsin Writing Awards

Sixteen Wisconsin writers have won First Place and Honorable Mention in the Council for Wisconsin Writers contests for work published in 2017. The Council will award each winner $500 and a week-long writing residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point. Honorable mentions will receive $50 and a residency at Painted Forest, Valton, WI. Awards will be presented at the Council’s annual banquet to be held this year on May 12 in Milwaukee.

Matt Cashion of La Crosse has won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award for Our 13th Divorce, published by Livingston Press. Honorable mention goes to Kathleen Ernst of Middleton for Mining for Justice, published by Midnight Ink.

Dave Zweifel and John Nichols, co-authors of The Capital Times, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, and both of Madison, share the Norbert Blei/August Derleth Nonfiction Book Award. Heather Swan of Madison receives honorable mention for Where Honeybees Thrive, Pennsylvania State University Press.

Matthew Guenette of Madison takes the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award for his Vasectomania, University of Akron Press. Honorable mention goes to Crystal Spring Gibbins of Washburn for her Now/Here, Holy Cow Press.

Shelly Tougas of Hudson has won the Tofte/Wright Children’s Literary Award for Laura Ingalls is Ruining My Life, Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press. Dean Robbins of Madison is receiving honorable mention for Margaret and the Moon, Knopf.

Bob Wake of Cambridge is winner of the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction for “Mudstone,” Wisconsin People and Ideas. Matt Cashion, La Crosse, receives honorable mention for “What Kills You,” Carolina Quarterly.

Ronnie Hess of Madison is receiving the Kay W. Levin Short Nonfiction Award for “Berlin Letters,” Poor Yorick Literary Journal. Tamara Thomsen, Paul Reckner and Richard J. Boyd all of Madison share honorable mention for “Solving the Mystery of the SS. Lakeland,” Wisconsin Magazine of History.

Ed Werstein of Milwaukee has won the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award for five individual poems. Honorable mention goes to Margaret Benbow of Madison.

Contest winners and honorable mentions were selected by out-of-state judges.

Friends of Lorine Niedecker is receiving the Christopher Latham Sholes Award. This award, which includes a $500 prize, is named for Christopher Latham Sholes (1819–1890), a Wisconsinite who is credited with inventing the first practical typewriter and honors an individual or organization for outstanding encouragement of Wisconsin writers. The Friends of Lorine Niedecker is dedicated to preserving and expanding the legacy of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970) who is widely recognized in the world of poetry as the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets.

The public is invited to celebrate our state’s fine writers at the CWW’s Awards Banquet at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. Banquet tickets must be reserved by Saturday, May 4.

More information about the winners, judges, banquet registration, and the Council for Wisconsin Writers can be found at its website, www.wiswriters.org.