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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Judge Barrie Jean Borich has selected Eastertide by Paul Mast for the 2013 BLOOM Nonfiction Chapbook Prize. Mast will receive 25 copies of the chapbook and a $100 honorarium. Judge’s citation: “Eastertide is a fragmented story of lost and found connections, a narrative both lifelike and realistically inexplicable. The subtle turns of awareness in this telling echo the social-sexual shifts many of us who’ve spent our lives in queer worlds will remember from the late 1980s, that dimming time when AIDS was just beginning to permeate our daily grasp. This is a narrative made of small and succinctly embodied intimacies. On their own these moments are understated but strung together they form a moving portent of the coming tempest.” A life-long gardener,…
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