Past Winners
The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry Winners 2009
Winning entries will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of The Pinch.
Fiction
Judged by Brian Evenson
1st place: Dan Piepenbring – “The Remaining 2%”
2nd place: Mary Switalski – “Traps”
3rd place: A. Wolfe – “Wolf Mother”
Poetry
Judged by Sandra Meek
1st place: Gregory Loselle – “Shelling in the Philippines”
2nd place: Berwyn Moore – “Pins and Needles”
3rd place: Meryl Natchez – “Last Words”
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The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry Winners 2008
Fiction
1st place: Anne Leigh Parrish
“Surrogate”
Anne Leigh Parrish’s short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Clackamas Literary Review, Carve, Eleclectica Magazine, Fiction Warehouse, Amarillo Bay and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two children, and has taught creative writing at both the University of Washington Women’s Center and at the Richard Hugo House.
2nd place: Jacob Appel
“Pollen”
Jacob M. Appel teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City. His short fiction has appeared in more than eventy-five literary journals, including Agni, Greensboro Review, Missouri Review and Threepenny Review.
3rd place: David Williams
“Strange Things Happen Every Day”
David Williams is a Memphis newspaper editor and a fiction writer with several short story credits and two completed novels, The Long Gone Daddies and The Very Last Night. His blog on music and writing is The Soundcheck & the Fury.
Poetry
1st place: Rebecca Patrascu
“I am in Love with Old Men ”
Rebecca Patrascu has a BA in Writing from Dominican University. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Journal, Tuxedo Literary Magazine, Agnieszka’s Dowry, Stone Soup Newsletter, Women’s Voices, The DMQ Review, Wild Hyperpoem, convolvulus and Pif Magazine. She lives in Northern California.
2nd place: Pat Keller
“Group Therapy ”
Pat Landreth Keller has received a Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Award for poetry and has published in a number of little magazines. Her story The Magician’s Assistant won the 2008 Mighty River short fiction competition. A poetry chapbook, “Draglines,” is a 2008 Toadlily Press Quartet Series selection.
3rd place: Mark Wagenaar
“From the Alchemist’s Notebook ”
Mark Wagenaar is the only player, to his knowledge, to begin and end a professional soccer career under suspension. He has poetry published in Poetry East, Apalachee Review, Descant, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Portland Review, and many others. He is an MFA student of Charles Wright & Greg Orr at the University of Virginia.
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The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry Winners 2007
Fiction
Judged by Pam Houston
1st place: Mary Ziegler
“Scripture Cake”
Though a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, Mary Ziegler calls Butte, Montana, home. Her fiction has appeared in Happy, Baybury Review, and American Writing, and is forthcoming in GSU Review. In addition to fiction, her writing interests include American legal history — the intersection of law, science, society, gender.
2nd place: Amber Gross
“Part Missing”
Amber Gross is from North Dakota. She studied Art and Art History at Yale and worked as a commercial actress in New York for several years. She now lives in Santa Monica, where she studies yoga and writes.
3rd place: Anita Jones
“Hand-Me-Down Blues”
Anita Jones is a writer, oral tradition storyteller, and visual artist. She holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina and was a contributing author in the anthology, Gardening Among Friends. Ms. Jones lives in northern California with her husband, daughter, four laying hens and a rabbit. She is grateful that you can take the woman out of Georgia but you can’t take Georgia out of the woman.
Poetry
Judged by Linda Gregerson
1st place: Len Krisak
“Rilke: The Carousel”
Len Krisak’s work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, PN Review, Commonweal, The Formalist, and The Oxford Book of Poems on Classical Mythology. His books include Even As We Speak (2000), If Anything (2004), and The Odes of Horace (a complete translation, 2006). The recipient of the Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, and Robert Frost Prizes, he is a four-time champion on Jeopardy!
2nd place: Brad Modlin
“What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade”
Brad Modlin is an MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University and Assistant Poetry Editor of Mid-American Review. This is his first publication.
3rd place: Chris Baker
“18 Months (Saddle Shoes)”
Chris Baker was born and raised in Alexander City, Alabama. His poetry has appeared in Confrontation, Proteus, Nerve Cowboy, and Seldom Nocturne. He was the recipient of the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize for his poem “The Mouse.” He currently lives in Birmingham where he teaches and writes.
