2012 ALR Literary Awards

Thank you to everybody who participated in this year's American Literary Review Literary Awards. We read more than our fair share of excellent prose and poetry and the following writers  came out on top:

• Fiction Contest Winner: Dustin Parsons, "What Magic I've Saved"
     
      Fiction Contest Runner-Up: Lydia Kann, "The Sweetness of the Vine"
           
  Read fiction judge Hannah Tinti's thoughts on the winning story and runner-up.
   
• Creative Nonfiction Contest Winner: Robert Long Foreman, "Carlo"
  
      Creative Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up: Vernita Hall, "The Frog-Headed Lady"
  
  Read nonfiction judge Abigail Thomas' thoughts on the winning essay.
   
• Poetry Contest Winner: Eileen G'Sell, "Like Good News From A Pretty Girl"
  
      Poetry Contest Runner-Up: Allan Peterson, "Voices Over Water"
  
  Poetry judge Jim Harms
  
  Our thanks go out to our judges, whose careful and clear readings of our finalists helped make our contest such a success. We would also like to extend a special thanks to everyone who submitted to our 2012-2013 contests; as usual, the quality of submissions was excellent, and everyone at ALR enjoyed the opportunity to see such stellar work. 
  
  The winning pieces will receive $1000 each, and, along with an array of new and interesting writing from around the globe, will appear in our upcoming double-issue, which will be out shortly. 
  
  See a list of past contest winners and runners-up.
  

Abigail Thomas to judge Nonfiction segment of ALR's literary contest

Here in the UNT Creative Writing program, we're a tribe of Abigail Thomas fans. Many of us were introduced to her work via reading Safekeeping in Bonnie Friedman's advanced nonfiction writing classes, others were introduced to it by Bonnie's students when they began to teach undergraduate creative writing classes, and some of us were lucky enough to stumble upon Abigail Thomas by ourselves. So, you can imagine how stoked we were when Anne McCutchan confirmed that Abigail Thomas is going to be reviewing the nonfiction finalists of our 2012 Literary Contest and selecting a winner.

So, all the more reason to submit your work to American Literary Review before October 1st!

For those of you who'd like to review past winners and judges of our contest, you can do so: here

Feel free to review our contest guidelines: here and submit your work to our online submission manager.

There is a $15 reading fee, but winner in each of our genres get $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of the American Literary Review.