2000 Bakeless Winners
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2000 fifth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Paula Peterson's Penitent, with Roses was chosen by Tom Mallon for the creative nonfiction award. Sam Witt's Everlasting Quail was chosen by Carol Frost for the poetry prize. Ann Pancake's Given Ground was chosen by David Bradley for the fiction prize. All three books will be published in the fall of 2000 by the Middlebury College/University Press of New England. The winning authors will also receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2001.
2000 Nonfiction Prize
Paula Peterson received her B.A. in english Literature from Brandeis University and her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan. Her short fiction has appeared in, among others, the Carolina Quarterly, the Greensboro Review, and Alligator Juniper, with one of her stories being included among the 100 distinguished stories of the year in Best American Short Stories. One of the essays in this Bakeless collection won first place in the New Millennium Writings, spring of 1998. She currently lives and writes in San Francisco, and is involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy work and education and prevention programs.
2000 Poetry Prize
Sam Witt was born in Wimbledon, England. At the age of seven, his family moved to Winston-Salem, NC. He was graduated from the University of Virginia and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He now lives in San Francisco, CA, where he writes for such publications as the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Salon, Mondo 2000, VOLT, Computer World, and Black Book. In the Fall of 1999 and again in the spring of 2000, Witt participated in poetry festivals in Vilnius, Lithuania.
2000 Fiction Prize
Ann Pancake grew up in Romney, WV. She graduated summa cum laude from West Virginia University, obtained her M.A. in English from the Unviersity of North Carolina, and earned a Ph.D. in English from the Unviersity of Washington. She has taught extensively in Japan, American Samoa, and Thailand, and her numerous publishing credits include Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Antietam Review and International Quarterly. Her awards include Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction, Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writers' Fellowship Grant, as well as scholarship and teaching awards. She presently teaches at Penn State Erie.
