2022 Split Rock Press Poetry Chapbook RESULTS

We’re thrilled to announce the results of the 2022 Split Rock Press Poetry Chapbook Series. Congratulations to the following poets and thanks to everyone who submitted manuscripts to the chapbook competition!

SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTHORS (in alphabetical order)

Cautionary Tale by Willa Carroll

Willa Carroll is the author of Nerve Chorus (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, Poem-A-Day, The Slowdown, Tin House, and elsewhere. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she won Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest and Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize. Her poetry videos and multimedia collaborations have been featured in Interim, Narrative, TriQuarterly, Writers Resist, and the Nature & Culture Film Festival in Denmark. She was awarded Best Poetry Film at the 2021 International Migration and Environmental Film Festival.

How to Keep Things Alive by Beth Gordon

Beth Gordon is a poet, mother and grandmother currently living in Asheville, NC. She is the author of Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe (Animal Heart Press); Particularly Dangerous Situation (Clare Songbirds Publishing) This Small Machine of Prayer (Kelsay Books); and The Water Cycle (Variant Literature). Beth is Managing Editor of Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Assistant Editor of Animal Heart Press, and Grandma of Femme Salve Books. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @bethgordonpoet.

Vernal by Kateri Kosek

Kateri Kosek’s poetry and essays have appeared in such places as Orion, Terrain, Catamaran, and Creative Nonfiction, where, most recently, she was awarded for best essay. Her poetry has won Briar Cliff Review’s contest, and has been a finalist at Flyway, Writers at Work, Rosebud, and Arts & Letters. She teaches college English and mentors in the MFA program at Western CT State University, where she earned an MFA. She has been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Tallgrass Artist Residency in Kansas. She lives in western Massachusetts.

FINALISTS

The Afterforest by Brent Armendinger

Heavy Bloom by Angelina Brooks

Underground World by Scott Davidson

Conference of the Birds by Robert Gibb

SEMI-FINALISTS

Season of Seeds by Nick Conrad

Bless the Doors that Lock Both Ways by Megan Merchant

The Three Crooked Trees by Tim Moder

HONORABLE MENTION

Worm Dreams by Betsy Bolton

The Swan by Michael Hettich

North of December by Barbara Ponomareff

2021 Split Rock Press Chapbook Results

Many thanks to all those who submitted manuscripts to the Split Rock Press Poetry Chapbook Series. We were so fortunate to receive hundreds of submissions and selecting which to move forward was an incredibly difficult task. We’re thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2021 Split Rock Press chapbook competition.

WINNERS

Leaving Earth by DJ Hills

Autobiography by Rebecca Macijeski

DJ Hills (@deejhills) is a writer and theatre artist from the Appalachian Mountains. Their writing appears most recently in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, and Oyster River Pages. Find them online at www.dj-hills.com.

Rebecca Macijeski is Creative Writing Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a BA in English and Music from Simmons College (now Simmons University). She has attended artist residencies with The Ragdale Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Art Farm Nebraska. She's worked for Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry newspaper column, worked as an Assistant Editor in Poetry for Prairie Schooner and Hunger Mountain, and is the recipient of a 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee, her poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Conduit, Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Nimrod, The Journal, Sycamore Review, Fairy Tale Review, Puerto del Sol, and many others. Follow her on Twitter at @RMacijeski, or read more of her poems at www.rebeccamacijeski.com.

RUNNER-UP

Field Guides by Ray Ball

Finalists

(in alphabetical order)

My National Parks by Jacob Boyd

The Fisherman's Map by Mark Caskie

Written in Nature by Nancy Cook

alchemy of yeast and tears by Patricia Davis-Muffett

Okjökull by Elizabeth Jacobson

Hallucigenalia by Cindy King

How to Find a Black Hole in Your Kitchen by Dana Kroos

LUX by Molly Sturdevant

Blood Moon, Backyard Mountain by Rodd Whelpley

Split Rock Press Chapbook Results

Many thanks to all those who submitted manuscripts to the Split Rock Press Chapbook Series. We were very fortunate to receive many fine submissions and selecting a winner was an exceptionally difficult task.

We’re thrilled to announce the winner, finalists, and semi-finalists of the 2020 Split Rock Press chapbook competition.

Winner

Ecology of the Afterlife, poems and illustrations by Nathan Manley

Nathan Manley is a writer and former English teacher from Loveland, Colorado. He is the author of the chapbook Numina Loci (Mighty Rogue Press, 2018). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Think, Natural Bridge, Spillway, Cold Mountain Review, Puerto del Sol, Crab Creek Review and others. His work has also been nominated for Best of the Net. Currently, Nathan resides with his wife and two cats among the great deciduous forests of New England, where he is pursuing a JD at the University of New Hampshire. You can find his writing and instrumental music at nathanmmanley.com.

Finalists

Climate Action Love Poem by Dante Di Stefano

Gasoline on the Ant Hill by Tony Barnstone

Three Parts World by Mureall Hebert

Semi-Finalists

The Vaudeville Horse by Elizabeth Kerlikowske

Visiting Hours by James Wyshynski

Fall Everbearing by David Troupes

2019 Split Rock Press Chapbook Series

Many thanks to all the poets who submitted their work to the Split Rock Press Chapbook Series. We received many fine collections, and it was an extremely difficult decision due to the high quality of work.

We are so thrilled to announce that Anne Haven McDonnell’s Living with Wolves and Vivian Faith Prescott’s The Last Glacier at the End of the World have been chosen as the winners of the Split Rock Press Chapbook Series for 2019! McDonnell’s and Prescott’s chapbooks will be published and available in fall 2020.

WINNERS

Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, NM and teaches as an associate professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has been published in Orion Magazine, The Georgia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Nimrod, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her work won the fifth annual Terrain.org poetry prize, and second place for the international ecopoetry Gingko prize. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers’ Residency and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

Vivian Faith Prescott was born and raised in Southeast Alaska and lives at her family’s fishcamp—Mickey’s Fishcamp—in Wrangell, Alaska. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska and a PhD in Cross Cultural Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She’s a two-time recipient of a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. Vivian is also the author of four chapbooks, two full-length poetry books, and a short story collection. Along with her daughter, Vivian Mork Yéilk', she writes the column Planet Alaska for the Juneau Empire.

We would also like to recognize the strong collections submitted by the finalists, listed in alphabetical order.

Finalists

Coveting the River Birch by Patricia Clark 

Stare by Brad Clompus

Between Kingdoms by Jeff Ewing

Hydrography by Katrina Hays

Divining by Rosemary Royston

After Totality by Constance Wieneke

Thank you for your continued interest and support in Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press. We wouldn’t be able to publish and promote great literature and art without you.