2011 Ahsahta Chapbook Contest Winner
Ahsahta Press is delighted to announce the winner of its first annual Ahsahta Chapbook Contest: Janaka Stucky of Somerville, Massachusetts, whose manuscript The World Will Deny It For You was selected by Cathy Wagner. He will receive the $1,000 prize in addition to the publication of his book by Ahsahta Press in Spring 2012.
The editorial board for the prize was made up of Ahsahta director Janet Holmes, Kyle Crawford, Charles Gabel, Kate Holland, Torin Jensen, Genna Kohlhardt, Julie Strand, and Zach Vesper.
Janaka Stucky is the publisher of Black Ocean and its literary journal, Handsome. His poems have appeared in publications such as Denver Quarterly, Fence, North American Review, and Volt. He edited Speak These Words: A Guerilla Poets Anthology (WPC-Minimal Press 2001) and is the author of Your Name Is the Only Freedom (Brave Men Press 2009). In 2010, he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in the Boston Phoenix.
Ahsahta Press, named for the Mandan word for “Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep,” was founded in 1974 and publishes seven books of poetry per year and one chapbook, the winner of its Chapbook Contest.
Ahsahta Press is based at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, and is directed by Janet
Holmes, a professor in the MFA Program for Creative Writing at Boise State.
See guidelines for next year’s contest
Finalists for the 2011 Ahsahta Chapbook Prize:
Lily Brown, Which Mountain
Nicholas Gulig, Ecotone
Jenny Gropp Hess,
Organographies
Becca Jensen, Among the Dead: Ah! and Afterward Yes!
Mary Kasimor, Bohemian Woodcuts
James Longley, [Heptagon]
Tony Marcus, A Vessel Interior
Colleen McCarthy, Lynx (honorable mention)
Jesse Nissim, Diagram Her Dream of Flight
Dawn Pendergast, My Speaker, She Does Not Know Whom to Float to
Kristin Sanders, Photographic Evidence
Carmen Gimenez Smith, Be Recorder (honorable mention)
J.Hope Stein, Light’s Golden Jubilee
Peter Streckfus, Errings
Thank you to all who entered.