Announcing the winners of the 2008 Juniper Prizes
Juniper Prize for Poetry
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The University of Massachusetts Press is pleased to announce that L. S. Klatt of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Poetry. His collection, titled Interloper, will be published in 2009. Klatt teaches in the English Department at Calvin College. He received a BA from Wittenberg University, an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, an MALA from St. John’s College, and a PhD from the University of Georgia. His poems have been published in many literary magazines, including the Colorado Review, Boston Review, New Orleans Review, and Verse. The finalists for this year’s Juniper Prize for Poetry include Echo, Robin by Anne Heide of Denver, Colorado; I Saw a Theft Occur by Will Smiley of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Barter, Fasten by Allison Titus of Richmond, Virginia; and Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room by Betsy Wheeler of Northampton, Massachusetts. |
Juniper Prize for Fiction
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The University of Massachusetts Press is pleased to announce that Daniel A. Hoyt of Berea, Ohio, has won the 2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction. His story collection, titled A Sort of Family, will be published in 2009. Hoyt teaches in the English Department at Baldwin-Wallace College. He received BJ and MA degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a PhD from the University of Kansas. His short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Meridian, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, and other literary magazines. One finalist was named for this year’s Juniper Prize for Fiction: The Assassin of Sorrow by J. D. Chapman of Roanoke, Virginia. |
We wish to express our thanks to all of the writers who participated in this year's fiction and poetry competitions. Guidelines for next year's poetry and fiction prizes can be found HERE and HERE. Submissions will be accepted between August 1 and September 30, 2008.
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