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2010 Gatewood Prize Winner: Jennifer Tamayo

Judge Cathy Park Hong has selected Jennifer Tamayo's manuscript Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes as the winner of the 2010 Gatewood Prize.

Congratulations, Jennifer!

The finalists:

Ascensionist by Cynthia Arrieu-King

Black Peculiar by Khadijah Queen

Corsica Inside the Daughterhouse by Paige Taggart

Host by Julia Cohen

Off to the Nervous Museum by Claire Donato

Poems Unappearing by Elaine Bleakney

someday they would grow as dragons by Kristin Hatch

the sun a blazing zero by Shira Dentz

whelm by dawn lonsinger

Semifinalists

Detailing Trauma by Arianne Zwartjes

The June Cuckold and Other Tragedies by Catherine Theis

Kala Pani by Monica Mody

Congratulations to ALL our finalists, and thanks to everyone who submitted. You all make the contest process very difficult, and we are proud to have had such fine work to consider!