We received an excellent pool of manuscripts for the 2014 St. Lawrence Book Award. We’re looking forward to diving back in and selecting a winner from the list of finalists. Congratulations to those who made it to the finalist and semi-finalist round, and thanks to everyone who participated!
FINALISTS (alphabetical)
- Standing Deadwood by Thomas M. Atkinson (fiction)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Weather by Matthew Burns (poetry)
- A Strange Insomnia by Christina N Cook (poetry)
- Nominal Cases by Thomas Cotsonas (fiction)
- My Dim Aviary by Gillian Cummings (poetry)
- Congress of Mud by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (poetry)
- Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely by Matthew Fogarty (fiction)
- Gently, Gently by Helen C Gildfind (fiction)
- Pause, Now Pause by D. Gilson (poetry)
- I Refuse to Make This Beautiful by Eileen G’Sell (poetry)
- Things Every Woman Should Know About Love and other stories by Jenny S Halper (fiction)
- Havoc by Elizabeth Hazen (poetry)
- Your Nightmare by Joseph Holt (fiction)
- A Gathering of Transits by Douglas S Jones (poetry)
- American Step & Wave by James Maynard (poetry)
- I Ride Along and Other Stories by Vicky Mlyniec (fiction)
- One Thirty Five South by Craig O’Hara (fiction)
- After the Wake by Suzanne Roszak (poetry)
- Lines the Ugly World Is Full Of by Anna L Weber (poetry)
- Observational Gestures by Ruth C Williams (poetry)
SEMI-FINALISTS (alphabetical)
- West of Rooster Port by Cristina J Baptista (poetry)
- Other Animals by Craig Buchner (fiction)
- Missing Persons by Stephanie Carpenter (fiction)
- The Things a Body Might Become by Emari DiGiorgio (poetry)
- Game of Bodies by Brenna Dixon (fiction)
- Habitat of Stones by Ezra D Feldman (poetry)
- The Way Girls Stand in Pictures by Angie Hogan (poetry)
- I’ve Already Said Goodbye by Don M Miller (fiction)
- What Breaks through the Dark by Brianna Noll (poetry)
- Oranges: Stories by Gary E Peter (fiction)
- This Is Not an Exit by Jim D Redmond (poetry)
- Heart Rats by Sommer M Sterud (poetry)
- Grenadine Kisses at Midnight: Stories of Stolen Photographs by Tammy Lynne Stoner (fiction)
- Eyes in the Back of Her Head by Jill Stukenberg (fiction)
- Fancies, Games, and Random Documents by John Talbird (fiction)
- The Void of Desire by Nicole E Terry (poetry)
- catastrophiliac by Caroline Young (poetry)