Winners
Palettes & Quills Chapbook Contest 2008
Judged by Ellen Bass
FIRST PLACE
Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca,NY for When She's Asked to Think of Colors
Now available for ordering
SECOND PLACE
Jim Spurr, Shawnee, OK for It's Cool at Two A.M.
THIRD PLACE (Tie)
Therese L. Broderick, Albany, NY for What Light Refuses
Daniel Donaghy, Willington, CT for Baby Tunes
FINALISTS
Sandra Boike Cobb, Rockport, TX for Tangible Moments
R.G. Evans, Elmer, NJ for The Man Who Ran
Robin Greene, Fayetteville, NC for Rockaway
Betsy Humphreys, Granite Falls, NC for Thin Places
Hilary Sideris, Brooklyn, NY for Baby
Jerry Douglas Smith, San Luis Obispo, CA for Coarsegold
Steven Valliere, Exeter, NH for Snow Angels
SEMI- FINALISTS
Viki Chavez-Regeski, Napa, CA for In My Travels
Sudasi J Clement, Santa Fe, NM for The Bones We Have in Common
Terri Cohlene, Olympia ,WA for Finally, I Become What You Always Wanted
Juditha Dowd, Stockton, NJ for What Remains
Diane Kendig, Lynn, MA for The Places We Find Ourselves
Alarie Tennille, Kansas City, MO for Spiraling Into Control
Kathleen Worrell, Nacogdoches, TX for Black Cat Dreams
HONORABLE MENTION
Susan F. Glassmeyer, Cincinnati, OH for The Incomplete Litany of Untold Stories
Sharon Hashimoto, Tukwila, WA for More American
Ken Kibler, Benbrook, TX for Just South of Epinal
Steven Lautermilch, Kill Devil Hills, NC for The Wayfarer Dreams
Tina Schumann, Seattle, WA for As If
N. Colwell Snell, Salt Lake City, UT for Counting Losses
Aline Soules, Danville, CA for Evening Sun
Donna Vorreyer, Hinsdale, IL for All This Useless Beauty
Martin Willitts, Rome, NY for A Woman is an Artist on the Canvas of Life
Laura Madeline Wiseman, Lincoln, NE for My Imaginary Cock
Wendy Wisner, Bayside,NY for Another Place of Rocking: Martha's Vineyard, 1980-81