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Winners
A NOTE OF ENCOURAGEMENT to all
entrants: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW named as one of the
10 Best Books of the Year in Non-Fiction in 2006 our
winner of the Dana Award in the Novel. To explain: Danielle
Trussoni's novel, originally titled Tunnel Rat, won our 2001 Novel
Award, was then re-worked as a memoir of her relationship with her
father, a Viet Nam vet, and was published in 2006 as FALLING
THROUGH THE EARTH--which was then named by the New York Times Book
Review as one of the 10 Best Books of 2006 in Nonfiction.
2004 Novel Award Winner
Stephen Lovely's Irreplaceable You was published and went on to
become a bestseller.
1997's
Novel Award winner was Jennifer Natalya Fink, of New York City,
for The Mikveh Queen. A New York editor saw the winners
listing in Poets & Writers and asked through us to see the
novel but ultimately did not take it. The Mikveh Queen and
Ms. Fink's next novel have since been accepted for publication.
Most
recently, we learned that 2010 Short Fiction finalist Barry
Brennessel's short story collection, Reunion, is slated to be
published by Lethe Press.
DANA AWARD WINNERS 2010
DANA AWARD IN THE NOVEL:
Patrick E. Horrigan, New York, NY, for Portraits at an
Exhibition.
First Honorable Mention: Michael Bourne, Brooklyn, NY.
Second Honorable Mention: Jenna Evans, Belfast, ME.
Other finalists: Martha Mattingly Payne, Atlanta, GA;
Aaron Reynolds, Houston, TX; Hollis Seamon, Kinderhook, NY;
Vicki Salloum, New Orleans, LA; Chandler Klang Smith, New York,
NY; Melanie Smith, Walpole, MA; Kristen Millares Young, Seattle,
WA.
DANA AWARD IN SHORT FICTION: Nicole Louise Reid, Newburgh,
IN, for A Purposeful Violence.
First Honorable Mention: Bridgette Shade, Pittsburgh, PA.
Second Honorable Mention: Patricia Grace King, Chicago, IL.
Other finalists: Rafael Alvarez, Linthicum, MD; Jacob M. Appel,
New York, NY; Elise Atchison, Livingston, MT; Barry
Brennessel, Washington, DC; David Christian, Iowa City, IA; Jack
Pulaski, Marshfield, VT; Heather Sappenfield, Vail, CO.
DANA AWARD IN POETRY: Julie Weber, Ashland, OR, for
Ellipsis et al.
First Honorable Mention: Nadine Sabra Meyer, Gettysburg,
PA; Second Honorable Mention: Bruce Bond, Denton, TX.
Other finalists: Ellen Bass, Santa Cruz, CA; Jessica
Henricksen, New Orleans, LA; Michael Derrick Hudson, Fort Wayne,
IN; Alison Jarvis, New York, NY; Karen Winterburn, Glenview, IL;
Bradford Winters, New York, NY; Margot Wizansky, Brookline, MA.
About Our Winners
Born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, PATRICK E. HORRIGAN
received his BA from Catholic University and his PhD from
Columbia University. He is the author of WIDESCREEN
DREAMS: GROWING UP GAY AT THE MOVIES (University of Wisconsin
Press), an analysis of several popular films from the 1960s and
70s, including The
Sound of Music and The
Poseidon Adventure, and their impact on the mind and
imagination of a child growing up in suburban America. His
one-act play, MESSAGES FOR GARY: A DRAMA IN VOICEMAIL, composed
entirely of answering machine messages received by the gay
activist and socialist scholar Gary Lucek, was a
critically-acclaimed hit of the 1999 New York International
Fringe Festival. His essay "The Inner Life of Ordinary
People" appears in the anthology SCREENING DISABILITY:
ESSAYS ON CINEMA AND DISABILITY (University Press of America),
ed. by Anthony Enns and Christopher R. Smit. He wrote the
catalogue essay for Ernesto Pujol's 2001 exhibition of
paintings, LOSS OF FAITH, at New York's Galeria Ramis Barquet,
as well as several essays on art, film, and popular culture for Vice magazine
and Gay
Community News. His 2005 interview with the actor and
writer John Epperson, aka Lypsinka, is part of the permanent
archives of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Currently, he is writing a novel about the fight to save New
York's old Penn Station. Since 1993, he has taught English
at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. He and
his husband live in Manhattan.
NICOLE LOUISE REID is the author of the novel In
the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage,
2003), the fiction chapbook Girls (RockSaw
Press, 2009), and the forthcoming story collection So
There! (Stephen
F. Austin State University Press, Fall 2011). Her
award-winning short stories have appeared in the
Southern Review, Other
Voices,Quarterly West, Black
Warrior Review, Yemassee,
and Meridian.
Recipient of the Willamette Award in Fiction, she teaches
creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana.
She lives in Newburgh, Indiana.
She says: "This story, A Purposeful Violence, snuck
up on me. It is the third story-chapter, and oldest
chronologically, of a triptych novella--something with as much
market oomph as a tethered rock. Years ago, a friend told
me the story of his shady uncle, whose car had exploded in fire
and killed him at 30. Thirty years later, this friend
received a call from a nursing home searching for next of kin.
The (supposedly dead) uncle was alive and going senile, or maybe
that was a ploy, too; my friend didn't know. All he knew
was that his mother refused to see the uncle. That was all
he ever told me. The story stayed with me--why did she
refuse to see him? Had he purposefully faked his death?
Why? That was the first story-chapter of the book and once
done writing it, I still had questions. I'd invented a
past love story between my friend's mother and her
brother-in-law (the uncle) and I wanted to bring that to life as
well as the two brothers, her husband and the uncle, as young
men. Last came A Purposeful Violence, in which the two
brothers are young boys. This was, by far, the hardest of
the three pieces to write and it took me three years to finish
it. It is the seat of trouble for the Parsten family, the
source of so much going-wrong. I am most proud of this
story. "
JULIE WEBER says: "I am largely a self taught poet.
In the past year, I have been a finalist in a handful of
national poetry contests, among them the Oscar
Wilde, Joy
Harjo and Alligator
Junipercompetitions. Prose poems and prose writing
have been finalists in the Chroma and Orlandocompetitions.
The Dana
Award is the
first award I have won.
"In the fall of 2010, I finished a poetry manuscript, and
then, a few months later, brought a chapbook to completion (both
are under submission). I was a Lambda Literary Fellow for
2010. In addition to writing, I have been doing Clinical
Social Work and counseling for over a decade."
2009 DANA AWARDS
DANA AWARD IN THE NOVEL: Tippets Jensen, Gresham, OR, for
The Good Deed.
First Honorable Mention: Boman Desai, Chicago, IL; Second
Honorable Mention: Annie Liontas, Mt. Tabor, NJ.
Other finalists: Adam Ares, Chicopee, MA; Annie Dawid,
Westcliffe, CO; Steve Gehrke, Gettysburg, PA; N.S. Koenings,
Somerville, MA; Robert McKean, Newton, MA; Emily Pease,
Williamsburg, VA; Kim Taylor, Portland, OR.
DANA AWARD IN SHORT FICTION: Matthew Pitt, Gulfport, MS, for
A Thief at Either Side.
First Honorable Mention: Patricia Brieschke, Waccabuc, NY;
Second Honorable Mention: Skye Anicca, Las Cruces, NM.
Other finalists: C.J. Doza, Nashville, TN; Larry Hill,
Fresno, CA; Marjorie Kennedy, Seattle, WA; Ben Loory, Los
Angeles, CA; James Sie, Los Angeles, CA; Scott Winokur,
Berkeley, CA; Joseph Zaitchik, Wayland, MA.
DANA AWARD IN POETRY: Jeanne Marie Beaumont, New York,
NY, for her 5-poem series "Letter from Limbo".
First Honorable Mention: Valerie Wallace, Chicago, IL;
Second Honorable Mention: Honoree Fanon Jeffers, Norman, OK.
Other finalists: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kansas City, MO; Starkey
Flythe, Augusta, GA; Teresa Leo, Lansdowne, PA; Leslie Anne
Mcilroy; Pittsburgh, PA; Nadine Sabra Meyer, Gettysburg, PA;
Rita Mae Reese, Madison, WI; Michael Spence, Tukwila, WA.
ABOUT
OUR WINNERS
TIPPETS JENSEN was
born in Cache Valley, Utah and has lived in New York, Idaho,
California, and Hawaii. She is a descendant on one side
from the first English settlers to reach America, and on the
other from East-German émigrés from Dresden. She has a
B.A. and graduate study in English literature. She has taught
farm kids in a small turkey-ranching town, and has worked on a
high-forest tree farm, as a copywriter in advertising, and in a
historic public library. Her work has been a finalist for the
Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and the Dana
Award in the Novel, was short-listed twice for the Heekin Group
Foundation Fellowship (with a Finalist Special Mention for the
Novel), and was a semifinalist for the Dana Awards, the Peter
Taylor Prize, and the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She
lives and writes in Oregon.
Of her writing life, she says: "I grew up in the
country and wrote my first stories perched in the branches of an
apple tree when I should have been weeding. I've been
writing ever since and would have to say that my greatest
accomplishment is sticking with it. I'm working on a
trilogy of novels about three families with origins in the same
small, isolated town in Idaho. Outsiders in their own
given world, they are destined--no matter how far they may stray--to
forever struggle against the Mormon heritage that shaped
them."
MATTHEW PITT, a native of St.
Louis, is a graduate of Hampshire College and NYU, where he was
a New York Times fellow. His first book of fiction, the short
story collection Attention
Please Now, won the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, and
was published this March (www.matthew-pitt.com).
He's now at work on a novel. His fiction has appeared or
is forthcoming in Oxford
American,The Southern Review, Cincinnati
Review, Colorado
Review,New Letters, Best
New American Voices, and elsewhere. Stories of his were
cited in the Best
American Short Stories,Best American Nonrequired Reading,
and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and have earned awards from the
Mississippi Arts Commission, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the
Santa Fe Writers Project, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the
Salem College Center for Women Writers.
JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT won
the National Poetry Series for her first book, Placebo
Effects(Norton, 1997). Her second book, Curious
Conduct, was published by BOA Editions (2004). Her next
book, Burning
of the Three Fires, is coming out from BOA in fall of 2010.
She was co-editor of the anthology The
Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story
Line Press, 2003). She is a past winner of the Greensboro
Review poetry
prize, and her poems have been published in anthologies
including Good
Poems for Hard Times, Poetry
Daily, When
She Named Fire, The
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, andStarting Today: 100
Poems for Obama's First 100 Days. She is the director
of the annual Frost Place Advanced Poetry Seminar, is a member
of the Stonecoast MFA poetry faculty, and also teaches at the
Unterberg Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
She has lived in New York City since 1983.
DANA
AWARD WINNERS 2008
DANA AWARD IN
THE NOVEL: Rebecca
Berg, Denver, CO, for Julio’s Ghost.
First Honorable Mention: Steve Mitchell, Winston-Salem, NC.
Second Honorable Mention: Waimea Williams, Kaneohe, HI.
Other finalists: Barbara
Delacuesta, Island Heights, NJ; Sandra Fontana and Lindy MacDonald
(double author), Vero Beach, FL; Sara Fraser, Belmont, MA; Agustin
Maes, Berkeley, CA; Karen L. Simpson, Ann Arbor, MI; Kathryn
Wilder, Ha’iku, Maui, HI; Waimea Williams, Kaneohe, HI (for a 2d
novel).
DANA
AWARD IN SHORT FICTION: Patricia
Brieschke, Waccabuc, NY, for Prop Master.
First
Honorable Mention: Robert
Morgan Fisher, Woodland Hills, CA. Second Honorable Mention: Fred
McGavran, Cincinnati, OH. Other finalists: Jacob M. Appel,
New York, NY (for 2 short stories); Jim
Bainbridge, Los Angeles, CA; Cary Groner, Tucson, AZ; Li Miao
Lovett, San Francisco, CA; Lynn L. Sloan, Evanston, IL; Lynn M.
Stegner, Point Reyes Station, CA.
DANA AWARD IN POETRY: Allen
Braden, Lakewood, WA, for a 5-poem cycle entitled Taboo against
the WordBeauty….
First
Honorable Mention: Willa
Granger, Mamaroneck, NY. Second Honorable Mention: Sassy
Ross, Brooklyn, NY. Other finalists: Ellen
Bass, Santa Cruz, CA; Ewa
Chrusciel, New London, NH; Dina Elenbogen, Evanston, IL; Christina
Hutchins, Albany, CA; Jacquelyn Merrill, Los Angeles, CA; Allison
Smythe, Rocheport, MO; Kathleen Spivack, Watertown, MA.
ABOUT
OUR WINNERS 2008
REBECCA BERG was
born into a family of musicians in 1962. For the first thirty
years of her life, she was a compulsive reader, and earned a
doctorate in English literature from Cornell University. Then she
began writing novels about musicians. To support the writing
habit, she teaches for the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver,
works as staff reporter for the Journal
of Environmental Health, and
does freelance editing.
In 2000, her first novel, Sarah's Memoir, was
a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest. An
excerpt appeared in 2001 in the Five
Fingers Review under
the title "A History of Song." Another excerpt appeared
in Word Riot in
2009. An excerpt from her second novel, Filigree, took
third prize in the F-Magazine 2005
Novel-in-Progress Contest. A previous draft of Julio's
Ghost placed
on the "Short List for Finalists" in the 2007 William
Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
PATRICIA BRIESCHKE told
us: “When
I was eight, I wrote a series of poems for my best friend for her
birthday. She said, ‘You didn't write these; you copied them
from a book.’ That was the high point of my writing career, and
maybe its beginning. Ever since, every submission is followed by
that months-long pause while I wait to hear the words: ‘This is
good. We want it.’ Sometimes it comes; more often it's a movie
ticket-sized rejection [slip], or a quick, easy no-thank-you
e-mail. But I hear the words now and know that I'm doing something
right.
When I taught writing for 10 years, I
struggled right along with my students to master the craft of
story. It took forever to trust my imagination. The breakthrough
came when I finally realized that sticking with what you know does
not necessarily serve the story. Finding
my voice, away from the falsetto that wants to impress, along with
developing compassion for my sometimes ugly characters, has guided
my writing from the naive and amateurish toward some crooked road
to maturity. With each new story, I take a risk or two and get
stronger. If only life were this satisfying.”
ALLEN BRADEN’s first
book A Wreath
of Down and Drops of Blood is
forthcoming in 2010 from the VQR Poetry
Series/University of Georgia Press. He
has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
and from Artist Trust of Washington State as well as the Emerging
Writers Prize from Witness magazine,
the Grolier Poetry Prize and other honors. Recently,
he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He
lives and writes in Lakewood, Washington.
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.
2006
DANA AWARDS
DANA AWARD IN PORTFOLIO: George
Teter, Amherst, MA, for three short stories: “The Game of the
Fliers,” “Lament to a Recruiting Sergeant,” and “What Fate
Has Taken You from the Burning Sun of Your Birth?”
First
Honorable Mention: MaryLee McNeal, Palo Alto, CA; Second Honorable
Mention, Vincent Reusch, Kalamazoo, MI. Other finalists: Art
Blount, Elmhurst, NY; Lenore Hart, Franktown, VA; Arlene Heyman,
New York, NY; Marie Holmes, New York, NY; Cynthia Reeves, Wayne,
PA; Roger Siebert, Austin, TX; Holly Thompson, Kamakura, Kanagawa,
Japan.
DANA AWARD IN THE NOVEL: Harvey Grossinger, Bethesda, MD,
for “The Caretaker’s Niece”
First Honorable Mention: Robert McKean, Newton, MA; Second
Honorable Mention: Sean Murphy, Ranchos de Taos, NM. Other
finalists: Andi Diehn, Enfield, NH; Jane Drewry, Huddleston, VA;
Agustin Maes, Berkeley, CA; Jessica McVay, Denver, CO; Thad Nodine,
Santa Cruz, CA; Ann Weisgarber, Sugar Land, TX; Russell Working,
Oak Park, IL.
DANA AWARD IN SHORT FICTION: Paula W. Peterson, Evanston, IL, for
"Shelter"
First Honorable Mention: Suzanne Rivecca, San Francisco, CA;
Second Honorable Mention: Bruce Douglas Reeves, Berkeley, CA.
Other finalists: Jacob Appel, New York, NY (2 stories); Joseph
Bathanti, Boone, NC; Siobhan Evans, Harker Heights, TX; Daryl
Murphy, Chicago, IL; Richard K. Weems, Hawthorne, NJ; Mark
Wisniewski, Lake Peekskill, NY.
DANA AWARD IN POETRY: Camille Dungy, San Francisco, CA, for
“Complicit” et al.
First Honorable Mention: Christina Hutchins, Albany, CA; Second
Honorable Mention: Kim Lohse, Redwood City, CA. Other finalists:
Patricia Barone, Fridley, MN; Christina Hutchins, Albany, CA (2
sets of poems); Harold A. Lloyd, Greensboro, NC; Rita Mae Reese,
San Francisco, CA; Patricia Smith, Tarrytown, NY; Ben Wilensky,
Rockaway Park, NY.
2005
DANA AWARDS
DANA AWARD IN PORTFOLIO: Josh Weil, Brooklyn, NY, for the novel
"River Horse" and short stories "Salt Lake"
and "The Tree Thieves"
First Honorable Mention: Lisa Borders, Somerville, MA; Second
Honorable Mention: Sarah Stone, Berkeley, CA. Other finalists:
Philip Carter, Sanibel, FL; Pierre Hauser, New York, NY; John
Lauricella, Ithaca, NY; Liese Schwarz, Providence, RI; Lones
Seiber, Knoxville, TN; Erin Soros, Vancouver, British Columbia;
John Tait, Denton, TX; Steven Wingate, Lafayette, CO.
DANA AWARD IN THE NOVEL: Paul Graham, Canton, NY, for
"A Trained Voice"
First Honorable Mention: Cindy Henry, Wylie, TX; Second Honorable
Mention: Rita Ciresi, Wesley Chapel, FL. Other finalists:
John Addiego, Corvallis, OR; Catherine Jones, Boise, ID;
Agustin Maes, Berkeley, CA; Sharon Solwitz, Chicago, IL;
John Tait, Denton, TX; Steven Wingate, Lafayette, CO.
DANA AWARD IN SHORT FICTION: Catherine Gentile, Yarmouth, ME, for
"Buonma Song Youg O'Reilly"
First Honorable Mention: Horatio Potter, Wilsall, MT; Second
Honorable Mention: CB Anderson, Lexington, MA. Other
finalists: Ioanna Carlsen, Tesuque, NM; Pierre Hauser, New York,
NY; Christiana Langenberg, Huxley, IA; S. Frederic Liss,
Lexington, MA; Michael Mehaffey, Houston, TX; Ray Morrison,
Winston-Salem, NC; Andy Mozina, Kalamazoo, MI.
DANA AWARD IN POETRY: Sam Witt, Somerville, MA, for
"Confession" et al.
First Honorable Mention: Jennifer Perrine, Tallahassee, FL; Second
Honorable Mention: Mark Nickels, Brooklyn, NY. Other
finalists: Diane De Pisa, Albany, CA; Jack Lynch, New York, NY;
Catherine Morrisey, Belmont, MA; Don Schofield, Thessaloniki,
Greece; Allison Smythe, Houston, TX; Gabriel Spera, Los Angeles,
CA; Wyatt Townley, Shawnee Mission, KS.
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2004
DANA AWARDS
2004 PORTFOLIO AWARD: JOAN CORWIN,
Evanston, IL, for short stories "Details,"
"Elm," "Perspective"
2004 NOVEL AWARD: STEPHEN LOVELY, Iowa
City, IA, for "Irreplaceable You"
2004 SHORT
FICTION AWARD: GLORI SIMMONS, San Francisco, CA, for
"Sleeping Baby"
2004 POETRY AWARD: EVAN OAKLEY,
Windsor, CO, for "For the Obstinate" et al.
2003 DANA AWARDS
PORTFOLIO
AWARD: STACY CARLSON, Irvington, NY, for 3 novels AMONG THE
WONDERFUL, CRESCENT, and DIGGING IT UP
NOVEL AWARD: TATJANA SOLI, Tustin, CA, for THE LOTUS EATERS
SHORT FICTION AWARD: ALMA GARCIA, Seattle, WA, for THE GREAT
BEYOND
POETRY AWARD: SIMEON BERRY, Quincy, MA, for BESIDES
SAPPHO et al.
2002 DANA AWARDS
DANA
AWARD IN THE NOVEL “THICKER THAN WATER,” BK Loren, Broomfield,
CO
DANA
AWARD IN POETRY "ON THE LADDER,"et al., Laura-Gray
Street, Lynchburg, VA
DANA
AWARD IN SHORT FICTION "TOW,” Morgan McDermott, Evanston,
IL
2001 DANA AWARDS
DANA
AWARD IN THE NOVEL, TUNNEL RAT, Danielle Trussoni, LaCrosse,
Wisconsin. (TUNNEL RAT was later reworked as a memoir titled
FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH and published in 2006. It went on
to be named as one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best
Books of 2006 in Nonfiction.)
DANA AWARD
IN POETRY, "TRUE NORTH," et al., Ronald G. Wardall,
Brooklyn, NY
DANA AWARD
IN SHORT FICTION, "THE LAST GERONIMO,” Laren Stover, New
York, NY
2000 DANA
AWARDS
DANA AWARD
IN THE NOVEL: THE FINAL EFFORT OF THE ARCHER, Michael Pritchett,
Overland Park, KS (Mr.
Pritchett was a finalist in a previous year.)
DANA AWARD
IN POETRY: "RAPT" ET AL., K.E. Allen, Ann Arbor, MI
DANA AWARD
IN SHORT FICTION: "THE STEPHEN HAWKING DEATH ROW FAN
CLUB," Robert
C. Goodwin, South Windsor, CT
NOTE:
DANA AWARDS 1996-1999 ARE NOT LISTED HERE. BUT JUST A FEW
WORDS ABOUT OUR WINNERS IN GENERAL:
In 2006, our 2001 Novel Award winner Danielle Trussoni's novel
Tunnel Rat was published as a completely reworked memoir version,
under the new title
Falling through the
Earth. It was named
among the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books in Nonfiction
for 2006.
2004 Novel Award Winner Stephen Lovely's
Irreplaceable You was
published and went on to become a bestseller.
1997's
Novel Award winner was Jennifer Natalya Fink, of New York City,
for The
Mikveh Queen. A New
York editor saw the winners listing in Poets & Writers and
asked through us to see the novel but ultimately did not take it.
The Mikveh Queen and Ms. Fink's next novel have since been
accepted for publication.
For the
Dana Awards, all submissions are read blind at all levels.
Anyone may win including authors who may already have either
modest or extensive publishing records. But my hope with the Dana
Awards is to discover writers who have been, until now,
unrecognized.
That's why
I was thrilled to learn when I phoned her that the winner of the
first (1996) Dana Award in the Novel (Ellen Breck (Lindy)
Coggeshall of Walpole, NH) had not published, had won no awards
and had even been told early on that she couldn't write. She was a
single mother working two jobs to raise three teenagers, so not
only the recognition for her novel THE RABIES TREE but the $1,000
prize helped.
FOR QUESTIONS ONLY, E-MAIL
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