The Bellingham Review has announced the winners of their 2008 literary contests:
The Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction
Final Judge: Steven Kuusisto
First Place: Lauren Smith Traore, “The Widow’s Tale”
Runner Up: Ona Gritz
Finalists: Mardi Link, Anisse Gross, Natalie Serber, Cate Hennessey, Kay Sather, Liz Stephens
The 49th Parallel Award in Poetry
Final Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
First Place: Kaveh Bassiri, “Invention of God”
Runner Up: Kate Buckley
Finalists: Jonathan Rice, Susan Rich, Rae Gouirand, Lauren Smith Traore, Elisa Palido, Harold Bauld, Tua Chaudhuri, Annie S. Doran
The Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction
Final Judge: Ann Pancake
First Place: Edward O’Connell, “The Hunting Horn”
Runner Up: Margarite Landry
Finalists: Nicholas Maistros, Micah Nathan, Jacob Appel, Tom Smith, Donna L. Trump, Meaghan Mulholland, Eugene Cross, Heather Jacobs
The next BR contests will be held December 2008-March, 2009 (judges to be announced).
