Sincerely,

Mary Carroll-Hackett

We’re pleased to announce the 2014 winner of The Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry:

Bone Song by B.A. (Bunny) Goodjohn, of Lynchburg, VA

About Bone Song, our judge Craig Challender writes:

“Last night, you made love like a miller makes flour: detached, silent, / leaving the stone to do its work, the grinding of bone and skin.” B. A. Goodjohn’s plangent, lived-in voice surfaces in poem after poem in this collection, whether formal or free, lyric or narrative. In a time that too often privileges fractal facility over wisdom, Bone Song is a tonic—refreshing and vital.”

The winner will receive an honorarium of $1000, and publication by Briery Creek Press, to be released May 2015.

B.A. (Bunny) Goodjohn, a transplant from London, England, has fiction and poetry published with The Texas Review, The Cortland Review, Wind Magazine, Streetlight Magazine and Inkpot and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her first novel, Sticklebacks and Snow Globes, was published by Permanent Press in Fall 2007 and was subsequently sold to Scribe Publishing (Australia) and Centrepolygraph (Russia). Sticklebacks took a BookSense Notable Award and made the Kirkus Best of 2007 list. She holds a BA in English from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (2004) and an MFA from The University of Maine’s Stonecoast Program (2007). She teaches English at Randolph College in Virginia and is Director of their Writing Program.

Other Finalists:

Non-Specific Symptoms, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, Traverse City, MI
Simply to Know Its Name, Robert Aquinas McNally, of Concord, CA

Our Gratitude:

All entrants will receive a copy of the winning book after its release in Spring 2015.

Thank you to everyone who submitted. It was a pleasure and an honor to spend time reading your good work.

We are extending the reading period for Liam Rector Poetry Prize until May 31st.

Also, just to remind you, that The Dos Passos Review is now online at The Dos Passos Review. Check out the latest works and the archived works.

The Wolf Manhood by David L. Williams
Doodle Doo’s by Sharon Goldner
And What a Damn Fine Morning It Is by Trace Crawford
The Bowl of Soup by Terry Roueche
Bath Time is Fun Time by Arthur M. Jolly
The Chemistry Set by Conor Kyle

The production dates are set for April 25th-28th, with the first two days at 7:00PM and the last two on matinee time at 3:00PM. More information on location and ticket information will be presented in the coming weeks.

Leaving Clean

by Natalie Giarratano, Portage MI

The winner will receive an honorarium of $1000, and publication by Briery Creek Press, to be released May 1, 2013

All entrants will receive a copy of the winning book after its release.

Reading for the Liam Rector Prize for 2014 begins February 15, 2013. Judge TBA

We accept Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry. For further information on our guidelines click here.