2008 KATHARINE BAKELESS NASON
PUBLICATION PRIZE WINNERS
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 thirteenth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Leslie Harrison’s Displacement was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Poetry prize. Skip Horack’s The Southern Cross was chosen by Antonya Nelson for the Fiction prize. Vicki Forman’s This Lovely Life was chosen by Tom Bissell for the Creative Nonfiction prize. The three winning authors will have their book length manuscripts published by Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt. In addition, they will receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2009.
2008 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Leslie Harrison is a prizewinning former photojournalist who holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Irvine. Born in Germany, she has lived in three countries, seven states and several major metropolitan areas. She has had poems and prose published or forthcoming in Poetry, POOL, Southwest Review, Burnside Review, Ninth Letter, Sewanee Theological Review and elsewhere. She works as a graphic designer and newspaper production manager in Western Massachusetts.
2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize
Skip Horack was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in the Stanford University Creative Writing Program from 2006-08. A native of Louisiana, his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, New Delta Review, Louisiana Literature, The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, Epoch, and elsewhere. He holds a BA from Florida State University in English/Creative Writing, as well as a JD law degree. Prior to accepting the Stegner Fellowship, he practiced law for five years in Baton Rouge. He is currently a lecturer at Stanford.
2008 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize
Vicki Forman's work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and has appeared in the Seneca Review and the Santa Monica Review as well as the anthologies, Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child With Special Needs; This Day: Dairies From American Women; and Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. She teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California and lives outside Los Angeles with her husband and two children.