We’re pleased to announce that Russel Swensen, author of the poetry collection Santa Ana, is the winner of the Spring 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition. Congratulations! All of our finalists were fantastic reads, and it was tough to choose one winner, but we loved Russel’s engaging, strong voice and his compelling and enigmatic narrative.
Fiction Finalists
Carol Test – Conversational English
Rachel Levy – Necessary Objects
Stace Budzko – Gimme, Gimme, Gimme: Stories
Poetry Finalists
Erin Bertram – Be Gone Sadness, Be Gone…
Iris Law – Periodicity
Matthew Minicucci – Reliquary
Sabrina Dalla Valle – 7 Days and Nights in the Desert
Susan Slaviero – Selections from the Murder Book
