Judge Amy Hempel has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2014 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize.
Winner:
Caleb Leisure for the story “Cold Light”
Finalists:
Ben Hoffman: “This Will All Be Over Soon”
Nona Kennedy Carlson: “Box of Daylight”
Judge C.D. Wright has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2014 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize.
Winner:
Kim Garcia for the poem “the mystic crucifixion of Tintoretto”
Finalists:
Trent Nutting: “Dreams of Lightness”
Kimberly Burwick: “Uncle Megele”
Judge Phillip Lopate has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2014 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize.
Winner:
Deborah Cannarella for the essay “On Longevity”
Finalists:
Camellia Freeman: “The End Is Not Yet”
Nathan Jandl: “Lineage”
Judge Tony Earley has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2013 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize.
Winner:
Jill Rosenberg of Montclair, NJ for the story “The Logic of Imaginary Friends”
Finalists:
Dana Fitz Gale: “Jester”
Kathy Flann: “Show of Force”
Judge Martha Collins has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2013 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize.
Winner:
Hadara Bar-Nadav of Kansas City, MO for the poem “Thumb”
Finalists:
Marc McKee: “What Isn’t Rubble”
Cate Lycurgus: “Love Poem with a Dropped Stitch”
Judge Lia Purpura has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2013 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize.
Winner:
Jesse Donaldson of Portland, OR for the essay “Notes from a Congregant”
Finalists:
Samantha Simpson, “Blood Type”
Richard Terrill: “Who Was Bill Evans?”
Judge Joyce Carol Oates has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2012 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize.
Winner:
Amina Gautier of Chicago, IL for the story “Candidate”
Finalists:
Nona Kennedy Carlson: “Shift”
Sarah Stone: “Rescue”
Judge Carl Phillips has selected a winner and named two finalists for the 2012 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize.
Winner:
Lo Kwa Mei-en of Austin, TX for the poem “Man O’ War”
Finalists:
Sarah Gridley: “Mirror, Plume by Plume”
Nadine Meyer: “Shadowbox”
2011 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Matthew Vollono, “Samaritan”
Judge:
Jaimy Gordon
2011 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Molly Bashaw, “There Were No Mirrors in That Farmhouse”
Judge:
Richard Jackson
2010 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Marjorie Celona, “All Galaxies Moving”
Judge:
Aimee Bender
2010 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Juliet Patterson, “Extinction Event”
Judge:
Larissa Szporluk
2009 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Elizabeth Oness, “Protect and Serve”
Judge:
Ann Patchett
2009 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Kary Wayson, “The Lives of the Artists”
Judge:
James Tate
2008 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, “Pertussis”
Judge:
Ha Jin
2008 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Jeff Walker, “Itchy Is As Scratchy Does”
Judge:
Billy Collins
2007 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Karen Brown, “Galatea”
Judge:
Antonya Nelson
2007 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Jude Nutter, “Frank O’Hara in Paradise”
Judge:
Marvin Bell
2006 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Steve Mitchel, “Dog People”
Judge:
Dan Chaon
2006 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Kerri Webster, “If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In”
Judge:
Dean Young
2005 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Sean Aden Lovelace, “John McEnroe Visits Seven Months”
Judge:
T. M. McNally
2005 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Cameron K. Gearen, “Right to Remain”
Judge:
Albert Goldbarth
2004 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Garnett Kilberg Cohen, “Second Sight”
Judge:
Diana Abu-Jaber
2004 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Angie DeCola, “Order and Progress in the Man-made World”
Judge:
Nance Van Winckel
2003 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
CB Anderson, “A Brief History of the Sea”
Judge:
Michael Martone
2003 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Lilly Roberts, “Portrait on the Interior”
Judge:
Dara Wier
2002 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Winner:
Anthony Varallo, “Sunday Wash”
Judge:
Charles Baxter
2002 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner:
Nathan Hoks, “Cicadas And,” “The Distraction of Wonder,” and “To His Mistress Going to Bed”
Judge:
Mary Ruefle