2005 KATHARINE BAKELESS NASON PUBLICATION PRIZE WINNERS
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2005 tenth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. David Tucker's Late for Work was chosen by Philip Levine for the Poetry prize. Gonzalo Barr's The Last Flight of Jose Luis Balboa was chosen by Francine Prose for the Fiction prize. Tim Bascom's Chameleon Days was chosen by Edward Hoagland for the Creative Nonfiction prize category. The three winning authors will have their book length manuscripts published by Houghton Mifflin, in its distinguished Mariner Original Paperback line. In addition, they will receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2006.
2005 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Born and raised in Tennessee, David Tucker is a career journalist. His poetry has won several prizes including the 2003 Solo Prize, runner up for the 2001 Grolier Poetry Prize and the Slapering Hot Press chapbook competition for his chapbook, Days When Nothing Happens. His poems have appeared widely in such publications as Boulevard, Slate, Greensboro Review, Seneca Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Carolina Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Missouri Review, The Literary Review and Southern Poetry Review. Tucker has worked as City Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and at the New Jersey Star-Ledger where he is currently assistant managing editor. He has been the editor for numerous award-winning stories, most notably the Star-Ledger's ground-breaking coverage of racial profiling by the New Jersey State Police. He is 57 years old and lives in South Orange, New Jersey..
2005 Bakeless Fiction Prize
Gonzalo Barr was born in Miami and has lived in New York, Paris, the Dominican Republic, and Italy. He speaks five languages. After graduating from Columbia, he studied medicine, then law. Last year, his stories appeared in Gulf Stream and The Street Miami. He practices law in Miami and is writing a novel
2005 Bakeless Creative Nonfiction Prize
Tim Bascom spend much of his childhood in Ethiopia, with stints in Kenya and Sudan, where his father was a medical missionary. He attended Wheaton College and graduated with an M.A. in English at the University of Kansas. He worked for a non-profit Christian foundation that sent him overseas to train editors in Africa and Asia. In 1990, he published a novel through New Day Press in the Philippines entitled Squatters' Rites, set in a slum in Manila. Soon after, he published a critical study of Christianity in the U.S. The Comfort Trap: Spiritual Dangers of a Convenience Culture (InterVarsity Press, Chicago). In 2001, he was accepted into the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Two chapters of his memoir were recognized with literary awards. "A Vocabulary for My Senses" won the 2003 Missouri Review Editor's Prize in Essay, and "And I'll Fly Away" won the 2004 Florida Review Editor's Prize in Nonfiction. Since completing his M.F.A. he has stayed in the town of Newton, Iowa, where he teaches at the Des Moines Area Community College. He is married and has two children.