2010 Gatewood Prize Winner
Switchback Books is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Gatewood Prize, chosen by Cathy Park Hong:
***Jennifer Tamayo's the hanging cloud of read mistakes***
Welcome, JT, to the Switchback family!
Thanks to everyone who submitted for making this year's decision especially challenging and for giving us all this fabulous reading material to feed on these past few months. We received a record number of manuscripts this year and were absolutely knocked over by the number of high-quality and distinctive manuscripts submitted. We'd like to bring special attention to the strong work of our finalists and semifinalists.
Finalists
Ascensionist by Cynthia Arrieu-King
Black Peculiar by Khadijah Queen
Corsica Inside the Daughterhouse by Paige Taggart
The Hanging Cloud of Read Mistakes by Jennifer Tamayo
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