BLOOM is pleased to announce the winners of its 2014 Chapbook Prize for Nonfiction and Fiction. Judge Thomas Glave has chosen “Sixes and Sevens” by Bonnie J. Morris for the 2014 BLOOM Nonfiction Chapbook Prize. Morris will receive 25 copies of the chapbook and a $100 honorarium. Judge’s citation: “Sixes and Sevens displays an often sophisticated, wry wit, an awareness of the larger world beyond a child’s/young person’s [sometimes] solipsistic universe, and handles with quiet deftness and confidence issues of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, and gender difference (and sometimes class difference as well), without ever becoming didactic. Stylistically and structurally, too, the work ventures into intriguing territory.” Bonnie J. Morris is in her 20th year on the faculty of the women’s…
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Scott Heim has selected Mountain Cousins by Christopher Tradowsky for the 2013 BLOOM Fiction Chapbook Prize. Tradowsky will receive 25 copies of the chapbook and a $100 honorarium. Judge’s citation: “The Mountain Cousins is so wickedly original, so inventive and assured and downright strange, that it’s hard to believe it wasn’t written by a seasoned literary star with several novels under his belt. Christopher Tradowsky seems as much a descendant of Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor as he does of Stephen King, and his inventive, grimly visionary story is unforgettable.” Tradowsky elaborates on the story’s origins: “It’s actually a rewrite of a myth from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, the battle of the Lapiths and the centaurs. Ovid’s version is a bit more gory than mine: lots of descriptions of centaur…