Angie Homan works in the catering department at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. With over five years of administration experience, she is currently a student at DeVry University.

By Brandi Homan:

http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/self-portrait_in_blueshift

By Hanna Andrews:

http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/andrews_hanna.html

2006 Gatewood Prize

For a first full-length collection of poems by a woman writing in English between the ages of 18 and 39

Switchback Books editors will select at least 10 finalists and a judge will select the prizewinner, who will be recognized with a cash prize of $1000 and publication by Switchback Books. 

Manuscripts remain anonymous until a winner is selected.

General Terms:
• Poet must be a woman between the ages of 18 and 39
• Writers who have had chapbooks of less than 42 pages printed in editions of no more than 400 copies are eligible
• Entry fee of $20 must accompany each submission; make check payable to Switchback Books. Fee entitles entrant to a copy of the winning book. Please enclose a self-addressed 8 x 10 envelope with $1.42 postage to receive a copy
• Multiple manuscript submissions are acceptable, but each manuscript must be entered under a separate cover, with a separate entry fee
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please let us know immediately if you...

Women poets, for the first time in history, have a deep and 
wide female literary tradition from which to draw. Switchback 
Books seeks to advance some of the best writing emerging from 
our unique cultural moment. As the fortunate inheritors of the 
social, psychological, and linguistic spaces carved out by the 
artists and activists who have come before us, we seek to 
honor those visions and achievements while at the same time 
celebrating the multiplicity of voices that continue to emerge 
in women’s poetry.

One of these visions has been left to us by Virginia Woolf, who 
concluded A Room of One’s Own with the following passage:

For my belief is that if we live another century or so […] and have five 
hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of 
freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; […] if we face 
the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go 
alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and n...

You can now reach us at editors@switchbackbooks.com. HOLLA!