John Steinbeck Prize

Congratulations to Richard Stim for

“Closer to Heaven”

Richard Stim has written for Newsday, Interview, Spin Magazine, AudioFile, and California Living. He is the author of numerous legal books, a middle-grade mystery series, and is a founding member of two bands, MX-80 Sound and Angel Corpus Christi. He lives with his wife in a houseboat in Sausalito.

Gabriele Rico Challenge

Congratulations to Eileen Collins for 

"Two Tablespoons of Tim"

Eileen Vorbach Collins began writing to confront her grief. Her stories have been published in a number of journals and she received the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction. Eileen is honored that her work has been selected for the Gabriele Rico Challenge Award and publication in Reed Magazine.

Edwin Markham Prize

Congratulations to Jeanne Julian for

"Intimacy at The Blue Moon Café"

Jeanne Julian’s chapbooks are Blossom and Loss and Relic and Myth; her collection Like the O in Hope was published in 2019 by The Poetry Box Select. Her poems have been published in The Comstock Review, Poetry Quarterly, Naugatuck River Review, and other journals.

Edwin Markham Prize

Congratulations to Rodrigo Toscano for

"Gaps"

Rodrigo Toscano is the author ten books of poetry. His latest is In Range (Counterpath). His Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books) was a National Poetry Series selection. His poetry has appeared in over twelve anthologies. He works for the Labor Institute as a national project director strategizing around environmental and labor culture transformation. He lives in New Orleans.