2017
WISCONSIN WRITERS AWARDS ANNOUNCED BY
COUNCIL
FOR WISCONSIN WRITERS
Sixteen Wisconsin writers have won
First Place and Honorable Mention in the Council for Wisconsin Writers contests
for work published in 2017. The Council will award each winner $500 and a
week-long writing residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point. Honorable
mentions will receive $50 and a residency at Painted Forest, Valton, WI.
Awards will be presented at the Council’s annual banquet to be held this year
on May 12 in Milwaukee.(see below)
Matt Cashion of La Crosse has
won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award for Our 13th Divorce, published
by Livingston Press.
Honorable mention goes to Kathleen
Ernst of Middleton for Mining for Justice, published by Midnight Ink.
Dave Zweifel and John
Nichols, co-authors of The Capital Times, Wisconsin Historical Society
Press, and both of Madison, share the Norbert Blei/August Derleth Nonfiction
Book Award.
Heather Swan of Madison
receives honorable mention for Where Honeybees Thrive, Pennsylvania
State University Press.
Matthew Guenette of Madison
takes the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award for his Vasectomania, University of
Akron Press.
Honorable mention goes to Crystal
Spring Gibbins of Washburn for her Now/Here, Holy Cow Press.
Shelly Tougas of Hudson has
won the Tofte/Wright Children’s Literary Award for Laura Ingalls is
Ruining My Life, Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press.
Dean Robbins of Madison is
receiving honorable mention for Margaret and the Moon, Knopf.
Bob Wake of Cambridge is winner
of the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction for “Mudstone,” Wisconsin People and
Ideas.
Matt Cashion, La Crosse, receives
honorable mention for “What Kills You,” Carolina Quarterly.
Ronnie Hess of Madison is
receiving the Kay W. Levin Short Nonfiction Award for “Berlin Letters,” Poor
Yorick Literary Journal.
Tamara Thomsen, Paul
Reckner and Richard J. Boyd all of Madison share honorable
mention for “Solving the Mystery of the SS. Lakeland,” Wisconsin Magazine
of History.
Ed Werstein of Milwaukee has
won the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award for five individual poems.
Honorable mention goes to Margaret
Benbow of Madison.
Contest winners and honorable
mentions were selected by out-of-state judges.
Friends of Lorine Niedecker is
receiving the Christopher Latham Sholes Award. This award, which includes a
$500 prize, is named for Christopher Latham Sholes (1819–1890), a Wisconsinite
who is credited with inventing the first practical typewriter
and honors an individual or organization for outstanding encouragement of
Wisconsin writers. The Friends of Lorine Niedecker is dedicated to
preserving and expanding the legacy of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker
(1903-1970) who is widely recognized in the world of poetry as the only woman
associated with the Objectivist poets.
The public is invited to celebrate
our state’s fine writers at the CWW’s Awards Banquet at
11 a.m. on Saturday,
May 12, at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. Banquet tickets must
be reserved by Saturday, May 4.
More information about the winners,
judges, banquet registration, and the Council for Wisconsin Writers
can be found at its website, www.wiswriters.org.
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