Grain’s Winter 2010 issue, TROPHY, features the winners of Grain’s 21st Annual Writing Contest, judged by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen (Poetry) and Elise Levine (Fiction). Includes 1st and 2nd Prize fiction and poetry winners Matthew Heiti, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Danny Jacob, and Medrie Purdham. TROPHY also features the provocative images of artist Lee Henderson, with new fiction by Segun Afolabi, and Zsuzsi Gartner, and new poetry by Ronna Bloom, Jonathan Ball, Concetta Principe, Paul William Zits.
Contributors:
Segun Afolabi, Jonathan Ball, Ronna Bloom, Tamara Bond, Zsuzsi Gartner, Aaron Giovannone, Craig Harkema, Lee Henderson, David Martin, Concetta Principe, Caitlin Ward, Paul William Zits.
21st annual Short Grain (with variations) Contest Winners:
Fiction judged by Elise Levine
1st Prize: Snakeskin Boots by Matthew Heiti
2nd Prize: Head-doors by Marilyn Gear Pilling
1st Runner-up: Hands Like Birds by Laura Trunkey
2nd Runner-up: A Lioness Hath Whelped in the Streets by Nicholas Eliot
Poetry judged by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen
1st Prize: How to Shoot Skeet with My Grandfather's Lost Double Barrel by Danny Jacobs
2nd Prize: The Tilled Field, Joan Miro by Medrie Purdham
1st Runner-up: directions for sleep (variations from an insomniac) by Andrea MacPherson
2nd Runner-up: No prize awarded
