Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Contest Winners Announced

Poetry Winner: Maggie Millner

for her poem "Fish Story"

-Selected by Poetry Judge Major Jackson

Fiction Winner: CJ Hauser

for her story "Abandoned Cars"

-Selected by Fiction Judge Jaimy Gordon

Congratulations to our finalists, too!

Poetry Finalists:

Laura Behr for “Hetaera” and “A Wilderness of Wildwoods and Roadblocks”

Jaydn DeWald for “Triptych for Morgan, Bird, and Brown”

Kate Rutledge Jaffe for “From the Soft Fingers of the Highway”

Corey Van Landingham for “Hermetic”

Maggie Millner for “Equus”

Brad Modlin for “Tonight We Remember that Some Time Ago, We Were Snatched from the Cornfield and Crumpled on the Cement Barn Floor”and “Pine Cones and Lightning Rods”

Michael Schmeltzer for “Dear Jane”

Nancy C. Thomas for “Hearing Cicadas”

Mark Wagenaar for “Blue Arabesque”

Fiction Finalists:

Karin C Davidson for “Two Girls Laughing”

Dana Fitz Gale for “Cousin”

Joe Hiland for “Ronnie Cordova’s Amazing Mustache”

Sequoia Nagamatsu for “The Silence of the Third Inversion”

Steven Trumpeter for “Looper”

Maggie White for “The White Skirt: An Adventure in Nine Parts”

About the Judges

Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry. His first collection, Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), was the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hoops (Norton: 2006) was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature-Poetry. Jackson's most recent collection is Holding Company (Norton: 2010).

Jaimy Gordon's fourth novel, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2010, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; it also won the Tony Ryan Award for the year’s best book about horse racing. Gordon’s previous novels include Bogeywoman, a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2000, and She Drove Without Stopping, which brought her an Academy-Institute Award from the American Institute of Arts and Letters. Among her other books are Shamp of the City-Solo and Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue. Born in Baltimore, Gordon teaches at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and in the Prague Summer Program for Writers.