Winners
Palettes & Quills Chapbook Contest 2012
Judged by J.P. Dancing Bear
FIRST PLACE
Meg Cowen, Hamden, CT for If Tigers Do Not Come
SECOND PLACE
Laurie Barton, Costa Mesa, CA for Traveling in America
THIRD PLACE
Steven Huff, Rochester, NY for Hungry
FINALISTS
Antonia Clark, Winooski, VT for Sleepwalker
Nikki Paley Cox, Chicago, IL for Sing
Joy Gaines-Friedler, Farmington Hill, MI for The Sling of Dappled Light
Melissa Holm, Decatur, GA for Ab.Sin.The
Hilary King, Avondale Estates, GA for Still Life with Coffee Pot & Kriptonite
Leah Zazulyer, Rochester, NY Ecenas/Scenes
Zeppa, Mary, Sacramento, CA for If Hell Freezes Over, We’ll Skate
SEMI-FINALISTS
Kelly Alsup. San Francisco CA, for Aqua Socks
John Bradley, DeKalb, IL for How to Escape Your Own Tombstone
Garrett J. Brown, Annapolis, MD for Cubicles
Suzanne M. Carey, Menlo Park, CA for Woman of a Certain Age
Gladys Justin Carr, New York, NY for American Love Story
Christine DeSimone, San Francisco, CA for New Mornings
Kitty Jospé, Pittsford, NY for Mosaic
Michael Minassian, Plantation, FL for Swimming to Ararat
Maril Nowak, Branchport, NY for From Rural Life
Shawnte Orion, Surprise, AZ for Concentric Moments Called Eternity
Jillena Rose, Sault Sainte Mari, MI for Light as Sparrows
Susan Rothbard, Livingston, NY for Feeding the Birds
Jennifer Tappenden, St Louis, MO for Independent City
Lucie M. Winborne, Longwood, FL for The Soundness of Broken Pieces
Ellen Roberts Young, Las Cruces, NM for Strung Out
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Christine Adler, Yorktown Heights, NY for Undressing the Heart
Rachel Bennett, Brooklyn, NY for Mural Quadrant
Adam Gianforcaro, Glassboro, NJ for Morning Time in the Household
Hilary Sideris, Brookyn, NY for Yesterday Your Dad Fell
Ann Harding Woodworth, Washington, DC for Herding