Many thanks to all who've made the second annual Robin Becker Chapbook Prize such a success. Ruth L. Schwartz has selected the winning manuscripts. For a poet with previous chapbook publication, Ruth has selected "Inland Sea" by Erin Bertram. For a poet without previous chapbook publication, Ruth has selected "Scavenge" by RJ Gibson. The winning poets will each receive $100, and their chapbooks will be published this coming winter. We are delighted to publish both these poets, and want to extend special thanks to Ruth for serving as this year's judge.
Erin M. Bertram is the author of seven chapbooks, including The Most Wild, Kindly Green (Achiote Press, 2009) and Body of Water (Thorngate Road, 2007), which received the Frank O'Hara Award.
RJ Gibson is a student in poetry in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. In 2008 he was a Poetry Fellow in the Lambda Literary Foundation’s New & Emerging Writers Retreat. His work has appeared in Knockout, OCHO, BLOOM, qarrtsiluni, Ganymede, Six Sentences, and the anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them. He lives and works in West Virginia.
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