Sarabande Books holds two national contests: The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, judged by well-established writers.

The 2011 judges will be Laura Kaschicke for the Mary McCarthy Prize and Marie Howe for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize.

Announcing our 2010 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry winner: David Hernandez for his collection, Hoodwinked. David Hernandez’s poetry collections include Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003).  His poems have appeared in Field, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, AGNI, and The Southern Review.  He is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperTeen.  David lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.

The four finalists were: Eric Pankey, Faith Shearson, Maureen Thorson, and Amy Newman.

The semi-finalists too deserve particular mention. They were: Stephanie Rogers, Jennifer Perrine, Steven Rood, Alex Dimitrov, Kathryn Starbuck, Judith Herman, Holly Woodward, Rush Rankin, Craig Blais, Richard Carr, Jessica Greenbaum, Charlotte Pence, Jay Rogoff, Tana Jean Welch, Brandon Lamson, Martha Deborah Hall, Lesle Lewis, Jeff Farr, Susanna Childress, Mary Gilliland, Michael Homolka, Jeffery Conway, June Beisch, Cindy Carlson, Simeon Berry, Luke Sykora, Katherine Anderson, Carmine Dandrea, Ted Olson, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Jeff Simpson, Austin Segrest, Adam Dressler, Emily Rosko, Tenaya Darlington, John Colasacco, and Jose Padua.

Announcing our 2010 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction winner: Michael J. Lee’s Something in My Eye, a collection of stories. Michael J. Lee lives above a barber shop in New Orleans, Louisiana. He makes his living as a waiter, a teacher, and a private dancer. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, and Fairy Tale Review, among others.

The four finalists were: Melanie Bishop, Jacob Appel, Diane Stevens, and Natalie Harnett.

The semi-finalists included: Bradford Tice, Alison Baker, Deborah Joy Corey, and Colby Cuppernull.

Finalists in both competitions receive a coupon waiving the entry fee for next year’s contest.

For guidelines and a required entry form, please send a business sized, self-addressed, stamped envelope, or download from this site:

The Kathyrn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
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