2013 New South Writing Contest Results

We are pleased to announce the 2012 New South Contest winners. Each 1st place author wins a $1,000 prize, and each 2nd place author wins a $250 prize. The 3rd place winner in prose receives a three-year subscription, and publication in the issue. We have no 3rd place winner in poetry this year, as one of the winners was disqualified. The winners are:

In the category of prose, judged by Amber Sparks:

  • 1st place: “Courier” by David Armstrong
  • 2nd place: “Marissa-My-Rissa” by Corrie Byrne
  • 3rd place: “The Distance Between: A Lexicon” by Jennie Goode

In the category of poetry, judged by Marilyn Kallet:

  • 1st place: “Amber Alert” by M.B. McLatchey
  • 2nd place: “Harvest” by Andrea Janelle Dickens

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New South’s 2012 Pushcart Nominees:

We are pleased to announce the following selections from volume five of New South as our editors’ nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize:

From New South, Volume 5, Issue 1, published Winter 2012:

  • “Our Plastic American Brethren” by Rebecca Makkai (short story)
  • “Mouth: To Say” by Lisa Ampleman (poem)
  • “Unsleeping, 5:36am” by Timothy Liu (poem)
  • From New South, Volume 5, Issue 2, published Fall 2012

  • “The Patient” by Patricia Kirkpatrick (poem)
  • “The Cockroach and the Essayist” by Lucas Mann (essay)
  • “Without Form” by Bryan Castille (short story)

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    2012 New South Writing Contest Results

    We are pleased to announce the 2012 New South Contest winners. In the category of prose, judged by Joshua Harmon:
    1st place: Anne Dyer Stuart, “Idiopathic”
    2nd place: Lucas Mann, “The Cockroach and the Essayist”
    In the category of poetry, judged by Tom C. Hunley:

    1st place: Maya Jewell Zeller, “Marsupial”
    2nd place: Jane Alynn, “The Darker Sooner”

    New South Volume 5, Issue 1.

    Launching at AWP, 2012.

    December 1, 2011:

    The 2012 New South Writing Contest is now open for submissions! See our contest page for information on how to submit either online or via the mail. We look forward to reading all of your submissions.

     
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