2012 International Literary Awards
Salem College 2012 International Literary Awards
Winners and Finalists
Rita Dove Poetry Award
Winner
“The Typists Play Monopoly” by Kathleen McClung of San Francisco, CA
Honorable Mentions
“Jellyfish Creed” by Celisa Steele of Carrboro, NC
“And What of God?” by Jessica Robert of Leicester, MA
Finalists
“Talking to Okra” by Sandra Ann Winters of Winston-Salem, NC
“Give Me a Grandparent” by Ute Carson of Austin, TX
“The Tiger” by Jessica Roth of Granby, CT
“How to Sing the Blues” by Terri Kirby Erickson of Lewisville, NC
“One Night in Brooklyn, Poem for My Father” by Annette Opalczynski of New Castle, DE
“Portrait in Black and White” by Janet Ireland Trail of Greensboro, NC
“Amber, Shadow, Thorn” by Lynne Thompson of Los Angeles, CA
“Fringe” by Laura Shovan of Ellicott City, MD
“After Reading Abani’s Becoming Abigail” by Diana Woodcock of Midlothian, VA
“Valedictorian” and “The Soloist” by Haley Edwards of Sanford, NC
“The Idea of Bees” by Vicki Wilke of Clarkston, MI
“Voodoo Doll” by Andrea Solis of Worthington, OH
“Directions on How to Pick Figs” by Becky Sakellariou of Petersborough, NH
“The Two” by Christine Rhein of Brighton, MI
“Attendance” by Vicky Santiesteban of Hollywood, FL
“Fight” by Claude Wilkinson of Nesbit, MS
“Concert at the Museum” by LewEllyn Hallett of Bowling Green, OH
“Shadow Man” by Vernita Hall of Philadelphia, PA
“Remembering Eden: Go Back” by Cheryl Ann Alexander of Greenwood, MS
“Exuviation” by Erin Miller of Bowling Green, OH
“I'll Explain the Breadcrumbs Later” by Meg Cowen of Hamden, CT
“Whale Watching Guy” by Eileen Malone of Broadmoor Village, CA
“Deception” by Danielle Cioffi of East Haven, CT
“Fisher” by W.F. Lantry of Silver Spring, MD
“The Roadside Produce Stand” by Nissa Lee of Haddon Heights, NJ
“Cezanne at Aix” by Steve Lautermilch of Kill Devil Hills, NC
“A Brief History of the Family Estate” by Jodie Childers of Flushing, NY
“It Seemed a Miracle of Snow” by Jacquelyn Markham of Beaufort, SC
“Harboring the Docks” by Hari Alluri of Vancouver, Canada
“Thirty Pieces of Silver” by Lisa Paulick of Brooklyn, NY
“Midnight on the 7th Ave Express” and “Rainy Afternoon at a Neighborhood Bar” by Shirley
Valencia of Dayton, OH
Penelope Niven Creative Non-Fiction Award
Winner
“Buffalo (1971)” by Jennifer Rose of Waltham, MA
Honorable Mentions
“A Hurricane on My Television” by Gabriel Houck of Lincoln, NE
“Stories She Tells Us” by Daisy Hernandez of Coral Gables, FL
Finalists
“Divided Expectations” by Jacob M. Appel of New York, NY
“Pralines” by Angie M. Chatman of Des Moines, IA
“The Glass Wall” by Jeffrey L. Schneider of Ellenville, NY
“Anything for Love” by Julie Marie Wade of Louisville, KT
“A Hurricane on my Television” by Gabriel Houck of Lincoln, NE
“Girl on Display” by Adriann Burton of Haw River, NC
“In My Twenties” by Jennifer De Leon of Framingham, MA
“Land of the Giants” by Jeffrey Clarke of Oakland, CA
“Just One More Minute” by Aurora Lopez Cancino of Ridgefield, CT
“Goodbye Sean” by Seamus Scanlon of Forest Hills, NY
“Foreign Objects” by Claire Noble of Switzerland
Reynolds Price Fiction Award
Winner
“The Festival” by Jennifer Christie of Corvallis, OR
Honorable Mentions
“Long Before I Grew Used to Strange Men” by Karen Tucker of Asheville, NC
“Auslander” by Grazina Smith of Chicago, IL
Special Mentions
“Raven in a Jar” by Anca L. Szilagyi of Seattle, WA
“The Breaking Wheel” by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz of Boulder, CO
Finalists
“Sharing the Hostage” by Jacob M. Appel of New York, NY
“All Through The Dark Night of Your Human Life” by Lisa K. Buchanan of San Francisco, CA
“Phantoms Reflected” by Sandra Jung Hall of Durham, NC
“A Wish Like A Candle Burns” by Amina Gautier of Chicago, IL
“Madame Esmeralda” by Haley Edwards of Sanford, NC
“Slip Forward” by Carol Cooley of Wake Forest, NC
“Twist and Shrink and Burst Apart” by Lydia G. Melby of Ames, IA
“A Very Brief History of a Very Long War” by Chester Aaron of Occidental, CA
“Juju” by Adrienne Benson Scherger of Washington, DC
“Dog News” by Lindsay Allen of New Orleans, LA
“An Offer of Hari-Kari” by Elaine Craudereuff of Havertown, PA
“Shells” by Jolene Recupero of Kittanning, PA
