BRCC Finalists Announced

We’re very pleased to announce the finalists for the Fall, 2010 Black River Chapbook Competition. Thanks so much to everyone who participated and congratulations to those who made it to the finalist rounds. We look forward to announcing the winner which we plan to do in short order.

And the finalists are…
Poetry Finalists
Charlotte Pence- Branches
Damon McLaughlin- Olduvai Theory
Erin Bertram- Stumblefoot
Jaimie Gusman- The Anyjar
Martin Rock- Notes After a Harlequin Apocalypse
Nicholaus Patnaude- Uncle Monster’s Rafters
Rachael Lyon- The Normal Heart and How It Works
Rebecca Givens- Tender Me Now
Sandra Faulkner- Hello Kitty Goes to College
Sean Hill- Minnesota Blues
Poetry Semi-Finalists
Adam Million- Dead Reckoning
Adam Vines and Allen Jih-According to Discretion
Caroline Klocksiem Circumstances of the House & Moon
Cathryn Cofell & Karla Huston- Split Personality
David Hawkins- The Dark Adaptation
K. M. A. Sullivan- Bodies in Pieces
Marjorie Manwaring- What to Make of a Diminished Thing
Martin Rock and Tricia Taaca- Vertibratariat
Rachel Mehl- Letter to Amber in November
Steven Tarlow- Bitter Herbs
Fiction Finalists
Alexandra Chasin- Under the Susurrus
Heather Clitheroe- I Bet I Can Find a Million People Who Hate Slab Cakes
Simon Smith- The Only Reasonable Explanation
Stace Budzko- Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
Stefanie Freele- Buccaneers
Fiction Semi-Finalists
Barbara Milton- Resurrections
Jill Widner- The Underwater Room
Jill Widner- The Guest House in Old Camp
Ryder Collins- We were listening for the shattering
Steve Mitchell- How to Pray