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Plan B Press announces the winner of the 2008 chapbook contest: Stones Rounded By Years of Conversation by W R Hastings. Available soon! We suspended our short fiction contest in 2006.



Poetry Contest Winners Short Fiction Contest Winners
2007 Winner
Elsewhere
by Ellen Sullins

staple-bound $9.00 36pp.
Judge : Lisa Sewell



These poems about memory, family, the past, and identity cover familiar ground but surprise and engage with language that compels the reader forward with its frank jazz and verve, with its unstoppable forward momentum.

-Judge, Lisa Sewell

The Day Everything Was
flat, like the Grand Canyon
looks when you first step up
to the edge, your brain unable
to access the depth of perception
required, so it seems
a giant screen that might
roll up any moment to reveal
-what?- another flat panorama
in its place perhaps
an anotomical chart of the heart
laid bare for the viewing pleasure
of passers-by, dissected
and sectioned, dispassionate arrows
targeting areas of damage,
the whole thing bloodless, and flat.



2005 Winner
Following Richard Brautigan
by Corey Mesler

Out-of-Print
Judge : William Brandon III
Foreword : ruth weiss



Mesler's passion in all things whether it is his painful disappointment at the plebian nature of his Literary Mecca or his shy reverence for the mysterious girl reading as she walks down the street.

Mesler... puts you in his shoes, makes you walk his steps and invites you to feel every moment of triumph and failure. For any human being capable of feeling a fraction of his passion Following Richard Brautigan will remind you of some part of your life or inspire you to begin a new life and simply sit back and enjoy where it takes you.


-Judge, William M. Brandon III











2006 Winner
Falling Out of Orbit
by Anthony White

Out-of-Print
Judge : Daniel Nester



This Flute Is a Silver Bus
this bell a worn guidebook
warm in my hand
this drum is a manhole
its tight round skin
hides a dark tunnel
smoothly I flow down
the skin reverberates behind me.






2004 Winner
In a Garden of Eden
by Justin Vicari

Out-of-Print
Judge : Colleen Davis


Justin Vicari's first book of short fiction is a gloomy vision of one man's downward spiral lifestyle of drugs and hard living. His life with his girlfriend and the loneliness and despair seem an odd vision of "Eden". His estrangement from his mother and his on and off relationship with his girlfriend increase the separation between himself and the outside world. Contest judge Colleen Davis remarked, "It is a very visual universe, but not one that I would want to live in."







2005 Winner
Double Exposure
by Constance Boyle

staple-bound 36pp $8.00
Judge : Charles Cantalupo

Beautifully conveying a time and place, she meshes scenes from childhood and adulthood, the relationship between father and daughter juxtaposed with birth and death. The haunted imagery brings depth to pain and fear, which transcends age and gender.









2004 Winner
Crazy Mary and others
by Michele Belluomini

staple-bound 36pp $6
Judge : Lamont B. Steptoe

Michele Belluomini's second book of poetry exploring marginalized characters in Philadelphia many of the poems in this collection are about `Crazy Mary', an eccentric character, full of life and lunacy who appears around town displaying her peculiarities and giving insights, through behavior, to life.









2001 Winner
...and Guppies Eat Their Young
by Deborah Filanowski

staple-bound 32pp $7

Now in its second reprint, ..and Guppies explores a woman, a mother, a wife embracing her roles within her family and the lunacy and struggles which accompany those roles. Reflecting herself as a symbol of motherhood and wifehood, she describes her remorse and resignation over who she has become and what opportunities she has left behind. The moments within are bittersweet, charming and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.