2010 Katharine Bakeless Nason Publication Prize Winners
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 fifteenth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Dilruba Ahmed's Dhaka Dust was chosen by Arthur Sze for the Poetry prize. Shann Ray's American Masculine: Montana Stories was chosen by Robert Boswell for the Fiction prize. Mary Jane Nealon's Beautiful Unbroken was chosen by Jane Brox for the Creative Nonfiction prize. The three winning authors will have their book length manuscripts published by Graywolf. In addition, they will receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2011.
2010 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Dilruba Ahmed's poetry has appeared in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, Pebble Lake Review, and Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. An award-winning writer with roots in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Bangladesh, Ahmed holds BPhil and MAT degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Formerly a project manager with The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Stanford, CA, Ahmed now works with the Writing Center at Villanova University.
2010 Bakeless Fiction Prize
Shann Ray is the winner of the Subterrain Poetry Prize, the Crab Creek Review Fiction Prize, and the Ruminate Short Story Prize. His work has also appeared in Montana Quarterly, Poetry International, South Dakota Review, McSweeney's, Narrative, and StoryQuarterly among other venues. He holds a Ph.D. in systems psychology from the University of Alberta in Canada, and an MFA in poetry and fiction from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. He grew up in Montana and spent part of his childhood on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeast Montana. He lives with his wife and three daughters in Spokane, Washington, where he teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.
2010 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize
Mary Jane Nealon, RN, MFA is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. In 2004-2005 she received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. She has two collections of poetry: Rogue Apostle and Immacualate Fuel, both from Four Way Books in New York. She is the director of Program Development at Partnership Health Center in Missoula, Montana.
2009 Katharine Bakeless Nason Publication Prize Winners
The Bread Loaf Writers'Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 fourteenth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Nick Lantz's We Don't Know We Don't Know was chosen by Linda Gregerson for the Poetry prize. Belle Bogg's Mattaponi Queen was chosen by Percival Everett for the Fiction prize and Kim Dana Kupperman's I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Interior was chosen by Sue Halpern for the Creative Nonfiction prize. The three winning authors will have their book length manuscripts published by Graywolf Press. In addition, they will receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2010.
2009 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Nick Lantz was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2008, where he also received his MFA in 2005. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Southern Review, Locuspoint, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. His second book was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2010. He is currently a freelance copyeditor living in Madison.
2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize
Belle Boggs's work has appeared in Glimmer Train, the Oxford American and the Best New American Voices series. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine, where she was awarded the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship from the International Institute of Modern Letters (now the Black Mountain Institute). She grew up in King William County, Virginia, and has taught writing in public schools in Brooklyn, NY; Durham, NC and Washington, DC. She currently splits time between Washington, DC and Pittsboro, NC.
2009 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize
Kim Dana Kupperman has had work published in AGNI online, Best American Essays 2006, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, and elsewhere. She has received notable mentions in Best American Essays 2007, Best American Essays 2008, and the Pushcart Prize XXXI anthologies. Other honors include a 2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship, a 2008 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize from Quarter after Eight, and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, dedicated to publishing and celebrating the essay, in all its forms. She works as a managing editor of The Gettysburg Review.
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.
