The Chicago Literary Awards are awarded annually and have been sponsored
by ACM since 1998.
2006 CLA Introduction
The winners of this year’s Chicago Literary Awards are Rosalind Brackenbury, for her story “The Thinker,” and Leonard Kress, for his poem “Charles Aznavour’s Got Soul Like a Motherfucker”
Rosalind Brackenbury was born in England, has lived in France and Scotland, and now lives with her American husband in Key West, Florida. She has published several novels, the latest being The House in Morocco (Toby Press), as well as short stories and four collections of poetry. A new novel, Windstorm and Flood, is due out early in 2007. She is Writer in Residence at the College of William and Mary for the fall 2006 semester, and is working on a novel about George Sand.
Leonard Kress studied religion at Temple University; Slavic languages and literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and Indiana University; and poetry at the University of Illinois,Chicago. He has an MFA from Columbia University. He has published poems, fiction, and translations from Russian and Polish in many journals, including the Missouri Review, New Letters, and the North American Review, and has received grants in poetry and playwriting from the Pennsylvania and Ohio Arts councils. He has also published three collections of poetry, The Centralia Mine Fire, Sappho's Apples (Harrow Gate Press), and Orphics ( Kent State University Press). Kress teaches art history, religion, and creative writing at Owens College in northwest Ohio.
Fiction was judged by well-known author Charles Baxter, whose most recent novel is Saul and Patsy (Pantheon and Vintage). He teaches at the University of Minnesota.
Poetry was judged by Calvin Forbes, whose latest book is The Shine Poems (Louisiana State University Press). He has an MFA from Brown University and is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches writing, literature, and jazz history.
2007 Chicago Literary Awards Submissions Guidelines
Fiction Prize: $1,000 and publication in ACM
Poetry Prize: $1,000 and publication in ACM
Judges: Steve Yarbrough in Fiction & Wanda Coleman in Poetry
Deadline – postmarked May 1, 2007
$12 / story, 6500 words maximum
$12 / set of 3 poems, 300 lines total per entry
$5 / each additional poem up to 100 lines
Checks payable to Left Field Press
No names on entries. Include cover page with name, address, e-mail address,
phone number, title(s), word count for fiction entries and line count for
poetry.
Entries will not be returned.
If you wish, include SASE for notification of winners. No certified mail, please.
Notification by December 15, 2007.
No previously published work eligible; if work is under consideration elsewhere, ACM must be notified and work must be withdrawn upon acceptance elsewhere.
Send entries to:
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2005 Chicago Literary Awards Winners
Fiction
Mark S. Lindensmith for his fiction piece "Mark Twain"
Poetry
Ellen Wehle for her poem "Face"
2004 Chicago Literary Awards Winners
Fiction
Marla Becking for her story "How to House a Woman"
Poetry
Yerra Sugarman for her poem "Getting Back to the Matter of Day and Night"
Poetry
Julie Marie Wade for her poem "Y"
2003 Chicago Literary Awards Winners
Fiction
Suzanne Rivecca for her story "Life-Drawing"
Judged by Alan Cheuse
Poetry
Ada Limon for her poem "The Highway"
Judged by Wanda Coleman
2002 Chicago Literary Awards Winners
Poetry
Jude Nutter of St. Paul Minnesota for her poem "Love Walking Out of the
Room"
Judged by Diane Wakoski
Fiction
Serena Crawford of Portland, Oregon for her story "Kippy's Return".
Judged by Rosellen Brown
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