Beatrice Hawley Award
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The Beatrice Hawley Award is given annually by Alice James Books
. The award includes publication of a book-length poetry manuscript and a cash prize (currently $2,000).
The award was established by the press in 1986 to honor cooperative member author Beatrice Hawley (Making the House Fall Down, 1977) who died in 1985 at forty-one years of age from lung cancer. The Award is a nationally-offered publication prize open to poets at any stage of their careers.
The first award recipient was Linnea Johnson, for The Chicago Home. Winners of the award have often gone on to receive national attention and further honors for their winning works, most notably, Brian Turner
, for Here, Bullet, which received national and international media attention. Turner also received numerous further awards and honors for his work, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2006 Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2006 PEN Center USA "Best in the West" Literary Award in Poetry, a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the 2007 Poets' Prize, and the 2009 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.
Catherine Barnett
(Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Piereced, 2003) was further recognized with the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
. Mary Szybist
(Granted, 2003) was further recognized with the 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist. B.H. Fairchild (The Art of the Lathe, 1997) was 1998 National Book Award
Finalist, and won the 1999 William Carlos Williams Award, the 1999 PEN Center West Poetry Award, the 1999 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the 1999 California Book Award.
Most recently, the 2008 winner, Slamming Open the Door, by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, was reviewed by The New York Times Sunday Book Review, and Bonanno was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air by Terri Gross.
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington.- History and mission :...
. The award includes publication of a book-length poetry manuscript and a cash prize (currently $2,000).
The award was established by the press in 1986 to honor cooperative member author Beatrice Hawley (Making the House Fall Down, 1977) who died in 1985 at forty-one years of age from lung cancer. The Award is a nationally-offered publication prize open to poets at any stage of their careers.
The first award recipient was Linnea Johnson, for The Chicago Home. Winners of the award have often gone on to receive national attention and further honors for their winning works, most notably, Brian Turner
Brian Turner
Brian Turner may refer to:* Brian Turner * Brian Turner and field hockey representative* Brian Turner , drummer for the Seattle-based band Schoolyard Heroes* Brian Turner , British celebrity chef...
, for Here, Bullet, which received national and international media attention. Turner also received numerous further awards and honors for his work, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2006 Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2006 PEN Center USA "Best in the West" Literary Award in Poetry, a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the 2007 Poets' Prize, and the 2009 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.
Catherine Barnett
Catherine Barnett
Catherine Barnett is an American poet and educator. She is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced , winner of the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award. Her honors include a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship...
(Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Piereced, 2003) was further recognized with the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
. Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist is an American poet. She grew up in Pennsylvania, and earned her B.A. and M.T. from the University of Virginia and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow....
(Granted, 2003) was further recognized with the 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
Finalist. B.H. Fairchild (The Art of the Lathe, 1997) was 1998 National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
Finalist, and won the 1999 William Carlos Williams Award, the 1999 PEN Center West Poetry Award, the 1999 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the 1999 California Book Award.
Most recently, the 2008 winner, Slamming Open the Door, by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, was reviewed by The New York Times Sunday Book Review, and Bonanno was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air by Terri Gross.
Beatrice Hawley Award Winners
- 2011: Jane SpringerJane SpringerJane Springer is an American poet. She won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Life:She graduated from Florida State University with a PhD in creative writing.She is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hamilton College....
, for Murder Ballad - 2010: Lesle LewisLesle LewisLesle Lewis is an American poet and professor. She is author of three poetry collections, most recently lie down too, winner of the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award,...
, for lie down too - 2009: Reginald Dwayne BettsReginald Dwayne BettsReginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet, memoirist, and teacher. He is author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison , and Shahid Reads His Own Palm , winner of the 2010 Beatrice Hawley Award...
, for Shahid Reads His Own Palm - 2008: Kathleen Sheeder BonannoKathleen Sheeder BonannoKathleen Sheeder Bonanno is an American poet, teacher, and contributing editor to The American Poetry Review.She is the author of Slamming Open the Door , which was the 2008 Beatrice Hawley Award winner, and also received a positive, full-page review in The New York Times, while Library Journal...
for Slamming Open the Door - 2007: Lia PurpuraLia PurpuraLia Purpura is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of three collections of poems , two collections of essays and one collection of translations...
, for King Baby - 2006: Henrietta GoodmanHenrietta GoodmanHenrietta Goodman is an American poet, author of Take What You Want , winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Cimarron Review, New Orleans Review, Mid-American Review, Willow Springs, NEO, RUNES: A Review of Poetry, Northwest Review,...
, for Take What You Want - 2005: Brian TurnerBrian TurnerBrian Turner may refer to:* Brian Turner * Brian Turner and field hockey representative* Brian Turner , drummer for the Seattle-based band Schoolyard Heroes* Brian Turner , British celebrity chef...
, for Here, Bullet - 2004: Dobby GibsonDobby GibsonDobby Gibson is an American poet. His first book of poetry, Polar, won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award...
, for Polar - 2003: Catherine BarnettCatherine BarnettCatherine Barnett is an American poet and educator. She is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced , winner of the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award. Her honors include a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship...
, for Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced - 2002: Mary SzybistMary SzybistMary Szybist is an American poet. She grew up in Pennsylvania, and earned her B.A. and M.T. from the University of Virginia and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow....
, for Granted - 2001: Liz WaldnerLiz Waldner-Life:Waldner was raised in rural Mississippi. She received a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College, studied at the French School at Middlebury, and received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop...
, for Self and Simulacra - 2000: Claudia KeelanClaudia Keelan-Life:Keelan, who was born in Anaheim, California, is a graduate of Humboldt State University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Missing Her , and has published poems widely in magazines and journals, including The American Poetry Review,...
, for Utopic - 1999: Amy NewmanAmy NewmanAmy Newman is an American poet, critic, and professor. She is the author of four collections of poems, most recently fall . Newman's second book, Camera Lyrica, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and her first book, Order, or Disorder, received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize in 1995...
, for Camera Lyrica - 1998: Laura KasischkeLaura KasischkeLaura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for...
, for Fire and Flower - 1997: B.H. Fairchild, for The Art of the Lathe
- 1996: Cynthia HuntingtonCynthia HuntingtonCynthia Huntington is an American poet, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. She has published several books of poetry, most recently The Radiant . In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire...
, for We Have Gone to the Beach - 1995: Forrest HamerForrest HamerForrest Hamer is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Rift . His first collection, Call & Response, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, Middle Ear , received the Northern California Book Award...
, for Call & Response - 1994: Richard McCannRichard McCannRichard McCann is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a long-time professor in the A gay writer, he is the author of , a collection of linked stories that novelist Michael Cunningham has described as unbearably beautiful. It won the 2005 from...
, for Ghost Letters - 1992: Alice JonesAlice JonesAlice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is Gorgeous Mourning . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Chelsea...
, for The Knot - 1988: Jean ValentineJean ValentineJean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....
, for Home Deep Blue - 1987: Laurel TrivelpieceLaurel Trivelpiece-Life:Trivelpiece worked in her youth as fruit-picker and later, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelors degree in English Literature, as an editor and copy-writer for Macys and other department stores in the San Francisco Bay Area...
, for Blue Holes - 1986: Linnea JohnsonLinnea JohnsonLinnea Johnson is an American poet, and feminist writer, winner of the inaugural Beatrice Hawley Award for The Chicago Home . Johnson was raised in Chicago, and lives and writes in Topeka, Kansas. She earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and an M.A. in writing and...
, for The Chicago Home