NEPC Contest Results: 2024

Congratulations to all winners, honorable mentions, and finalists! And many thanks to everyone who entered. We’re grateful for your participation.

Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Enzo Silon Surin

Jennifer Garfield, “my own animal”

Honorable mentions:

Ivy Schweitzer, “Manchester”
Carolyn Oliver, “Phantasia on Dvořák’s Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 “

E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Marcia Karp

Owen Lewis, “(from captivity) When living children”

Honorable mentions:

Sara Backer, “Shifting”
Susan Donnelly, “Chattanooga Choo Choo”
Mary Beth Hines, “Waking Uncle Edward”

Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by George Kalogeris

“The Girl Grown Up” by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Donald Mace Williams

Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Sarah Audsley

J. Kates, “The Rainmaker”

Honorable mentions:

Wendy Drexler, “Gossip and Metaphysics”
Laura Rodley, “A Matter of Physics”
Quintin Collins, “Dying Laughing”

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Jennifer Jean

Naomi Mulvihill, We All Might Be

Honorable mention:

Carolyn Oliver, Night Ocean

Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the NEPC Board

Heather Treseler, Auguries & Divinations

Honorable mentions:

Andrea Cohen, The Sorrow Apartments
Daniel Tobin, The Mansions

Finalists:

Linda Carney-Goodrich, Dot Girl
Rebecca Faulkner, Permit Me to Write My Own Ending
Richard Fein, Dear Yiddish
Matthew E. Henry, The Third Renunciation
Halyna Kruk, translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella, Lost in Living
Gary Metras, Marble Dust
Jeffrey Thomson, Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory