Issue 52
Volume XXVI, No. 1, Issue #52
From the Editor
Brenda Miller, Letter from the Editor
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
Laura Kalpakian, Judge’s Comments
1st Place Winner: Morgan McDermott, Clear Coat
2nd Place Winner: Erin Gieschen, What Magically Appears
49th Parallel Poetry Award
Mark Doty, Judge’s Comments
1st Place Winner: Kerri Webster, Winter, Noun
2nd Place Winner: Kathryn St. Thomas, Coming to Terms
Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
John D’Agata, Judge’s Comments
1st Place Winner: Ander Monson, Index for X and the Origin of Fires
2nd Place Winner: Eula Biss, The Only Professional Player of the Toy Piano, Margaret Leng Tan
Poetry
Kathleen Glasgow, Movie
Elizabeth Knapp, Interview with an Echo
Albert Goldbarth, How I Want to Go
Albert Goldbarth, The Insufficiency
Clare Rossini, South End Love Poem
Clare Rossini, The Roses of Hartford
Finley Evans, The Ventriloquist’s Wife’s Tale
Jill Mortell, Egg
Lisa Gluskin, Against Smoothness
Suzanne Hancock, Notes on the Day He Learned to Swim
Fiction
Mary Bailey, It’s Going to Be Another One of Those Days