Current Winners
2007 DANA AWARDS
DANA AWARD IN PORTFOLIO: Joan Frank, Santa Rosa, CA, for two novels,
“Make It Stay,” and “Scarlet and Melanie,” and one short story,
“Sandy Candy.” First Honorable Mention: Nikki Nojima Louis,
Seattle, WA; Second Honorable Mention, Justin Quarry, Jonesboro, AR.
Other finalists: Jacqueline Curry, Baltimore, MD; Christina Forrest,
Grove, OK; Pierre Hauser, New York, NY; Regina La Barre, New York, NY;
Penny Mickelbury, Los Angeles, CA; Patrick Tucker, Baltimore, MD; Charles
Wyatt, Nashville, TN.
DANA AWARD IN THE NOVEL: Thad Nodine, Santa Cruz, CA, for “Going
Home.” First Honorable Mention: Carol Scarvalone Kushner, Red
Hook, NY; Second Honorable Mention: W.T. Moore, Bellingham, WA.
Other finalists: Todd Michael Cox, West Bend, WI; L. Charles Fiore,
Chicago, IL; Andrea Hairston, Florence, MA; Tippets Jensen, Troutdale, OR;
Elizabeth Kadetsky, New York, NY; Joseph L. Mackin, New York, NY; Lee
Reilly, Chicago, IL.
DANA AWARD IN SHORT FICTION: Deanne Lundin, Ann Arbor, MI, for "What
A Man Can Carry." First Honorable Mention: Lysley Tenorio, San
Francisco, CA; Second Honorable Mention: Josh Rolnick, Akron, OH.
Other finalists: Ray Blackburn, New York, NY; Gregg Cusick, Durham, NC;
JoeAnn Hart, Gloucester, MA; Suzanne Kingsbury, Brattleboro, VT; Matthew
Pitt; Biloxi, MS; Pedro Ponce, Canton, NY; Holly Scoville, West Hartford,
CT.
DANA AWARD IN POETRY: Sandra Stone, Portland, OR, for “Reading the
Flamingo’s Smile” et al. First Honorable Mention: Caroline
Goodwin, Montara, CA; Second Honorable Mention: Suzanne Burns, Bend, OR.
Other finalists: Carolyn Creedon, Charlottesville, VA; LuAnn Keener-Mikenas,
Madison Heights, VA; Lisa Ortiz; San Francisco, CA; P.S. Page, Menlo Park,
CA; Jennifer Perrine, Des Moines, IA; Arthur Plotnik, Chicago, IL; Melissa
Stein, San Francisco, CA.
ABOUT OUR WINNERS
JOAN FRANK was born to New Yorkers in Phoenix, Arizona. She spent
adolescence in Sacramento, CA, and attended the University of California
at Davis as an English major and French minor. Thereafter she traveled
widely, living in Hawaii, West Africa, France, and the San Francisco Bay
Area. She studied fiction with Thaisa Frank (no relation) at the
University of California in Berkeley, and later took a Master of Fine Arts
degree in
Creative Fiction at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.
She is the author of the novels The Great Far Away (2007, The Permanent
Press), nominated for a Northern California Book Award, and Miss Kansas
City (2006, University of Michigan Press), winner of the 2006 Michigan
Literary Fiction Award. Her first story collection, Boys Keep Being Born
(2001, University of Missouri Press), was a finalist for both the Bay Area
Book Reviewers' Fiction Award and the Paterson Fiction Award. Her
second story collection, In Envy Country, has recently won the 2010
Richard Sullivan Prize, and will be published by the University of Notre
Dame Press. She is a MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts Fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of the Iowa Writing Award
and Emrys Fiction Award, and the recipient of a Ludwig Vogelstein Grant
and a Barbara Deming Memorial Grant. She lives in Northern California.
THAD NODINE is a novelist and writer in Santa Cruz, California, and the
former fiction editor for Quarry West magazine. He has worked on his craft
with Tom Jenks, James D. and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, the Squaw Valley
Community of Writers, and the Society for Children’s Book Writers and
Illustrators. This is his first major fiction award. He has been a speech
writer for a U.S. Senator in Washington, D.C.; a publishing director in
the arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; a journalist in Boulder, Colorado, and
Fukuoka, Japan, and a teacher of writing and literature in the U.S. and
Japan. He is vice president of a research institute (www.iskme.org)
and has a Ph.D. in literature.
DEANNE LUNDIN, when asked about her finest accomplishments, wrote, "I
suppose if I were to say I’d accomplished anything, it’s letting
myself write any damn thing, especially what doesn’t work, to let myself
fail. I practice this assiduously. I’ve gotten really good at it,
because I would rather fail than be bored. Robert Frost claimed he
never experimented; he sometimes wrote poems that failed, and then
called them exercises. I write experiments that sometimes work, and
I call them possibilities."
A poet who sometimes strays into fiction and nonfiction, she is a native
Floridian who has lived in Los Angeles and Wales, and now lives in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of
Michigan where she was a Colby Fellow and won the Hopwood Award for Poetry
and for Essay. Her work has appeared in such journals as the Georgia
Review, Tarpaulin Sky, the Colorado Review, Opium, and most recently the
Kenyon Review (Spring 2008). She is the author of a poetry
collection, The Ginseng Hunter’s Notebook (New Issues Press) and directs
the Work-in-Progress Reading Series at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann
Arbor. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony, The Vermont
Studio Center, and Ragdale, and has been a winner in Glimmer Train's Short
Fiction Contest. "What a man can carry" is from a
manuscript in progress.
SANDRA STONE's never previously
submitted sheaf of 100 poems was selected in the Cleveland State
University annual manuscript competition for 1997. Cocktails with
Brueghel at the Museum Cafe sold out in hard copy without PR within
three months and went into a second printing. Stone writes this was a
pivotal juncture in her concept of herself as a poet. In 1998, Agha Shahid
Ali selected Café winner of the Literary Arts Book award in Poetry
(Oregon). Stone's incipient career started at age six with the play Poof,
which she wrote, produced, directed and co-starred in with her actor
father. Poof was performed in front of two shower curtains strung
from a clothesline in the back alleys of Seattle and Los Angeles. Today, Poof,
expanded, has morphed into a comic opera with mordant subtext. Stone has
won fellowships in short fiction from Literary Arts, and in playwriting
from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in
The New Republic, Southwest Review, JAMA, Denver Quarterly, The
Midwest Quarterly, and in four anthologies. She is a reviewer for The
Midwest Quarterly and for The Journal of American Nursing.
Poetry Flash / Berkeley, in conjunction with a reading from her work-in-progress, A Populace of Mirrors, will feature two meditations in the voice of an eccentric narrator. A poem, "Taking a Piece of Paper to the Body Shop," was selected for Poetry in Motion. In 2000, Stone won a trip to Japan by writing twenty-four words for a national competition. Her readings today, she says, are infused with the memory of the lamplit parlor of her musically gifted parents who read to her from 19 c. novels, and performed recitatives and works of the masters. The highlight of her reading career was also the most ‘imperiling’; this occurred at The New York Public Library where she was invited to participate in the series “Dangerous Writing.” Stone is also an exhibited visual artist working in mixed media boxed works that often represent the crumbled facades of skewed stage sets. She collaborates with architectural teams as a conceptual artist to create narrative metaphor to be incised in facades, public interiors, and the landscape. Stone writes that she considers all these works to be "extensions of my interest in voice, and while stone is more permanent than paper, paper flutters and unfolds."
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