1998 Bakeless Publication Prize Winners
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased
to announce the winners of the 1998 third annual Bakeless Literary
Publication Prizes. Judy Doenges' What She Left Me: Stories and a
Novella was chosen by Richard Bausch for the fiction award. Chris
Forhan's Forgive Us Our Happiness and Dan Tobin's Where the World
Is Made were chosen by Ellen Bryant Voigt for the poetry prize. The
three winners will be published in the Fall of 1998 by Middlebury
College/ University Press of New England.
1998 Fiction Award
Judy Doenges is a native of the Midwest who lives in Tacoma, WA.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1981, and the University of Massachusetts in 1987. Her work has been published in The
Georgia Review, Nimrod, Equinox, and The Green Mountains Review.
She has been a writer-in-residence at Headlands Center for the
Arts, Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and MacDowell artists communities
and has received grants from the Ohio Arts Council and Artist
Trust. She is a frequent book reviewer for The Seattle Times. For
the past six years Ms. Doenges has been a lecturer in English at
Pacific Lutheran University.
1998 Poetry Award
Chris Forhan was born in Seattle, WA in 1959 and received his undergraduate education from Washington State University. After a brief career in television news, he returned to school, earning an MA in English from the University of New Hampshire. His poems have been published over the last ten years in Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Artful Dodge, Fine Madness and other magazines. A chapbook, Crumbs of Bread, was published in 1993 by March Street Press. Since 1989 he has lived with his wife in Charleston, SC, teaching English at Trident Technical College.
Dan Tobin Grew up in New York City and holds degrees from Iona
College (B.A. 1980), Harvard University (M.T.S. 1991). He attended
the 1995 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference as a scholar and has won
a number of literary prizes and fellowships, including a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Discovery/The Nation Prize.
His book Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the
Poetry of Seamus Heaney, will be published in October 1998 by the
University Press of Kentucky. Dan Tobin is an assistant professor
of English at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI.