Winners and Finalists

Spire Spring 2009 Poetry Chapbook Contest

The winner is Illuminated Aluminum by Chandler Lewis

Past Poetry Contest Winners

2002 - Loren Kleinman, Flamenco Sketches
--------------Also Published: Gayle Elen Harvey, Scheduled, UnScheduled Appointments

2003 - Jennifer MacPherson, In the Mixed Gender of the Sea
--------------Also Published: Ann E. Michael, More Than Shelter

2004 - (Full-Length Contest) Jackie Bartley, Ordinary Time

2004 - (Chapbook Contest) Wanda Praisner, On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona

2004- (Fiction Contest) Richard Weems, Anything He Wants

2005 - (Chapbook Contest Only) Celia Lisset Alvarez, Shapeshifting
--------------Also Published: Phebe Davidson, Twelve Leagues In

2006 - (Spring Chapbook Contest) Matthew Hittinger, Pear Slip

2006 - (Full-Length Contest) Anthony Russell White, Faith of Leaping

2007 - (Spring Chapbook Contest) Elizabeth Rees, Now That We're Here

2007- (Full-Length Contest) Christina Olson, Before I Came Home Naked

2008 - (Prose Contest) Damian Dressick, Fables of the Deconstruction

2008 - (Spring Chapbook Contest) Lori Romero, The Emptiness That Makes Other Things Possible

2009 - (Spring Chapbook Contest) Chandler Lewis, Illuminated Aluminum