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2009 Kore Press First Book Award winner now available!

Congratulations to Heather Cousins! Her book, Something in the Potato Room, was chosen for the 2009 Kore Press First Book Award. Heather's book is now available through Kore Press and distributed to the trade by Northwestern University Press! Thank you to all of our entrants!

Judge Patricia Smith says: " . . . this addictive cinema unwinds with lyrical and dramatic certainty. I thank the poet for twisting my perspective and shoving me outside my comfort zone, for showing me how poems can enter the body and take root."

Heather Cousins' new book

Winner Announced for 2010 Kore Press First Book Award, selected by Claudia Rankine

Congratulations to Laura Newbern and thanks to all our entrants, our judge and readers. Laura is an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University since  2005, and teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops, poetics, and other Creative Writing and literature courses.  Laura is also the Poetry Editor of Arts & Letters.
      She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.  Laura returned to Warren Wilson when she was awarded their first Joan Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Laura also holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing  from New York University, and she earned her B.A. at Barnard College at Columbia University.  Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Oxford American, TriQuarterly, and Stand (U.K.), and in the anthologies Best New Poets 2007 and Urban Nature.

Laura Newbern

2009 Kore Press Short Fiction Award winner

Congratulations to Teresa Stores! Her short story, "Frost Heaves," was chosen by judge Tayari Jones as the winner of the 2009 Kore Press Short Fiction Award. “Frost Heaves” is the title piece of her nearly completed collection of twelve linked stories set in a small Vermont community over one year. She will receive $1000 and publication of her chapbook in winter of 2010. You can read more about the contest results here. Thank you to all of our entrants!

Teresa Stores

2007 Kore Press Short Fiction Chapbook Winner Anthologized!

Tiphanie Yanique's short story "The Saving Work," selected by Margot Livesy for Kore Press in 2007, is anthologized in Best African American Short Fiction. Edited by Gerald Early, Random House published the book in January 2009. Her story appears alongside others written by such notables as ZZ Packer, Junot Díaz, and Amina Gautier.