2006 KATHARINE BAKELESS NASON PUBLICATION PRIZE WINNERS
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2006 eleventh annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Matt Donovan’s Vellum was chosen by Mark Doty for the Poetry prize. Peter Chilson’s Disturbance-Loving Species was chosen by Lan Samantha Chang for the Fiction prize. There was no winner in the Creative Nonfiction category this year. The two 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, 2007.
2006 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Matt Donovan is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Santa Fe. He received his MFA from New York University, where he attended as a New York Times Fellow. His poems have been published in many journals, including Agni, Poetry, The Kenyon Review (forthcoming), Gettysburg Review, Threepenny Review, Ontario Review, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Ekphrasis and PoetryDaily. In 2003, he was the recipient of Vassar College‚s W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Arts, and in 2004 he received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
2006 Bakeless Fiction Prize
Peter Chilson is the author of Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa, which won the Associated Writing Programs prize for nonfiction in 1997. His essays, journalism, and short fiction have appeared in Audubon ,High Country News, North American Review, The American Scholar, Ascent, Clackamas Literary Review, The Long Story, Gulf Coast, Best American Travel Writing, West Africa Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, and elsewhere. He teaches writing and literature at Washington State University.