Devil's Kitchen Reading Award

The Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards are given every year at the Devil's Kitchen Fall Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.[1] The prize was first given in 2005. From 2005-2014, there were two prizes given each year, one in poetry and one in prose. Starting in 2015, there were three categories: poetry, prose fiction, and prose non-fiction.[2] The judges for the award are drawn from the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at SIU.

Past winners edit

Year Poetry Prose
2005 James Richardson Mary Troy
2006 Susanna Childress Amanda Filipacchi
2007 James Kimbrell Kerry Bakken
2008 Jennifer Perrine Josh Goldfaden
2009 David Kirby Donald Pollock
2010 Rhett Iseman Trull Jennine Crucet
2011 Jerry Williams Alyson Hagy
2012 Katie Chaple Patricia McNair
2013 Stevie Edwards Mark Brazaitis
2014 Steven Schroeder Victoria Redel[1]
Year Poetry Fiction Nonfiction
2015 David Tomas Martinez Megan Milks Ben Tanzer
2016 Emily O'Neill Jacob M. Appel Michelle Herman
2017 Brian Fanelli Alexander Weinstein Donna Kaz

References edit

  1. ^ a b "The Devil's Kitchen Reading Award Winners in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Prose". grassroots.siu.edu.
  2. ^ "The Devil's Kitchen Reading Awards in Poetry (Emerging and Established Poets), Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, and Nonfiction Prose". grassroots.siu.edu.