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Spire 2006 Fall Full-length Poetry Chapbook Contest
Winner of the 2006 Fall Full-length Poetry Chapbook Contest:
Anthony Russell White
Finalists Include:
Michele Battiste for “A Country Half-Land, Half-Water”
Maureen Alsop for “Apparition Wren”
Elizabeth Rees for “Returning from Egypt”
ellen for “Breathe”
Dennis Ward Stiles for “After the Great Games”
Margaret Hoehn for “Three Latitudes of Distance”
Amy Lemmon for “Saint Nobody”
Judi A. Rypma for “Blue Roses”
Nate Pritts for “Honorary Astronaut”
Spire Spring Poetry Chapbook Contest
Winner of the 2006 Spire Spring Chapbook Competition:
Matthew Hittinger for Pear Slip
Finalists Include:
ER Carlin, Union Down
Ronda Broatch, Woman Emerging
Gayle Elen Harvey, The Hotel Eden
Lana Hechtman Ayers, Did It Come True
Shawn Fawson, While She Sleeps
Judi A. Rypma, Worshipping at Lenin's Mausoleum
Bill Garvey, The Burden of Angels
Leslie Shinn, Live Dice
Norbert Hirschhorn, Sailing with the Pleiades
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Small Anything City
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
2005 - (Chapbook Contest Only) Celia Lisset Alvarez, Shapeshifting
--------------Also Published: Phebe Davidson, Twelve Leagues In
2006 - (Spring Chapbook Contest) Matthew Hittinger, Pear Slip
SPIRE 2003 Poetry Finalists: Lynn Veach Sadler, Ann E. Michael, Margaret J. Hoehn, and H.E. Wright
The 2004 Fiction Contest Winner was Anything He Wants by Richard K. Weems. Fiction Contest Finalists: "Havah's Silence" by Pirooz Kalayah, "The Emerald Monster" by Leah Griesmann, "The Dream of the Fisherman's Son" by Bruce Douglas Reeves, "Possum Cotton & Other Stories" by A.R. Benitez,"The House of Nits" by Tammy Wilson, and "The Days Dwindle Down to a Precious Few" by Irving Greenfield
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