• Finishing all of your sentences / as if they were questions, he accuses you / of changing the subject.
    -Patrick Moran, "Dopplegangster" in Number 77
  • This is the woman who listened to your report of every clue Nancy Drew encountered, every turn in the path of detection. You approached each retelling as a test. Why?
    -Claire Guyton, "The 7 Stages of a Parental Visit" in Number 77
  • If there were not a nest of pillows then the / Persian flaw would be a sweeter scald.
    -Theodore Worozbyt, "Cavalcade of Stars" in Number 77
  • As if I know what / I'm doing, he marries / me.
    -Lucy Anderton, "Not Something To Be Captured . . ." in Number 77
  • Johnny flashes diamonds and gold / Frankie knows only what her mother said
    -Robert Bense, "River Town Longueurs" in Number 77
  • Greta called acting normal glossing over the truth. She called it forgetting. I called it facing reality or moving forward, Greta said I was living a lie, and so on . . .
    -K. F. Enggass, "I Hope To God You Smoke" in Number 77
  • I live in the laundry room, this half of it. Scott, Paul's dad, he rigged up a wall, a pre-fab from Home Depot, and Paul and I leaned it in place while he tightened the screws. I like to be helpful.
    -Chris Gavaler, "The Hole It Would Leave" in Number 77
  • Your memory of the dead man is a child's balloon, and where is that off to?
    -Marvin Bell, "The Book of the Dead Man (Decomposition)" in Number 77
  • Nights on the farm / eggplants unbutton and sing
    -Molly Bashaw, "Every Time I Have Never Been Here Before" in Number 77
  • For a map, we say we used to run fast, / so fast we had to leave it there.
    -John Gallaher, "Everything You Know That Isn't True" in Number 77
  • I considered myself lucky to notice / on my walk a mouse ducking like a culprit . . .
    -Billy Collins, "Thieves" in Number 77
  • Hello to generations that etcetera as we watch.
    -Jennifer Militello, "A Dictionary at the Turn of the Millennium" in Number 77
  • Myra bent down to look into a shell. The ants each had bits of meat on their backs. They dropped off the side of the porch into the grass.
    -Jane Delury, "Ants" in Number 77
  • So much is happening in secret, but right before our eyes.
    -David Keplinger, "Near the Amphitheater in Gubbio" in Number 77
  • Singular we are / stunning. In horde / we are dense differing / dream.
    -Emily Rosko, "Timbered" in Number 77
  • Look inward, already the curved / keepsake is growing.
    -Ray Amorosi, "About Angels" in Number 77
  • He was also the one who dispensed sugar cubes / of Salk vaccine when the whole world / lined up single-file up and down the block
    -Leonard Kress, "Law of Resemblances" in Number 77
  • Now you hunger / no longer, for the green is all fingers, and the fence / of the body sleeps
    -Mark Irwin, "About" in Number 77
  • One dawn / when I jogged along the towpath by her boat, / a nightgown waved from splintered ice.
    -Henry Hart, "Winter of Discontent, England 1978-79" in Number 77
  • Max Donaldson was a waxy, whiskey-logged financier who knew his son not to be stupid, and knew himself to be less stupid than his son. He blamed the mother.
    -Tess Wheelwright, " Max Donaldson and His Son" in Number 77
  • The dead man is of the future, but he will not breathe a word of it.
    -Marvin Bell, "The Book of the Dead Man (Kiss Kiss)" in Number 77
  • Between radius and tumored ulna, / crepidis softening bone to sponge . . .
    -Laurie Clements Lambeth, "Not to Praise" in Number 77
  • Little evening, I walk across the stone bridge, helloing the river, without thinking
    -Melissa Kwasny, "Clairvoyance (Little Evening)" in Number 77
  • We grew from large children into adults. Now halfway back to / children again. Boxes full of the litter of our lives are scattered about. Like / on that day we first opened the door.
    -David Shumate, "Moving Away from Home" in Number 77
  • No one needs to answer to eternity
    -Emmanuel Moses, translated by Marilyn Hacker, "from Preludes and Fugues ..."
  • There are worse things / than music, you tell me, / reaching for the knife / I find I'm holding in my hand.
    -G. C. Waldrep, "The Dream of Egypt" in Number 77
  • for some time now it's been / just you / and these goddamn birds.
    -Charlie Smith, "Just Now" in Number 77
  • "Thanks for calling, sweetie," says Russell. "Is it very hot there?" he begins to ask, but she has already hung up the phone.
    -Christine Byl, "Tell Me Something about Arizona" in Number 77
  • the HMOs even now closing in, / the border ever receding.
    -Kevin Ducey, "W. Benjamin opens for the Plasmatics" in Number 77
  • The robberies started during the hottest time of the year ... The first victims were an Indian family, and all around the wealthier suburbs, other Indians looked up at their houses and wondered ...
    -Akshay Ahuja, "The Gates" in Number 77
  • I know an echo that wants to change its mind.
    -Dara Wier, "Are You Happy?" in Number 77
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Recent Winners and Judges:


The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Winners
$2000 and publication in Crazyhorse

The fiction and poetry prize judges for the Jan. 15, 2010 entry deadline:

Fiction judge
Aimee Bender

Poetry judge
Larissa Szporluk

After much deliberation, the prize judges are pleased to announce these winners of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize:

Fiction Winner: Marjorie Celona
for the story “All Galaxies Moving”


Fiction finalists: Clifford Garstang, Jacob M. Appel, Lucy Ferriss, Nicolaus Aufdenkampe, Jamey Bradbury, Becky Margolis.

Poetry Winner: Juliet Patterson
for the poem “Extinction Event”

Poetry finalists: Sam Witt, Andrew Demcak, Steven Kilpatrick, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Sierra Nelson, Bianca Stone, Broc Rossell, Susan Sonde, Cecilia Woloch, Jay Peters, Patrick Haas.

The two prize winners each received $2,000 and the winning story and poem will be published in Crazyhorse Number 78, November 2010.

2009 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 76, Fall 2009

Fiction judge: Ann Patchett
Poetry judge: James Tate

Fiction Winner
Elizabeth Oness
for the story “Protect and Serve”

Poetry Winner
Kary Wayson
for the poem “The Lives of the Artists”

2008 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 74, Fall 2008

Fiction judge: Ha Jin
Poetry judge: Billy Collins

Fiction Winner
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
for the story “Pertussis”

Poetry Winner
Jeff Walker
for the poem “Itchy Is As Scratchy Does”

2007 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 72, Fall 2007

Fiction judge: Antonya Nelson
Poetry judge: Marvin Bell

Fiction Winner
Karen Brown
for the story “Galatea”

Poetry Winner
Jude Nutter
for the poem “Frank O'Hara in Paradise”

2006 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 70, Fall 2006

Fiction judge: Dan Chaon
Poetry judge: Dean Young

Fiction Winner
Steve Mitchel
for the story “Dog People ”

Poetry Winner
Kerri Webster
for the poem “If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In”

2005 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 68, Fall 2005

Fiction judge: T. M. McNally
Poetry judge: Albert Goldbarth

Fiction Winner
Sean Aden Lovelace
for the story “John McEnroe Visits Seven Months”

Poetry Winner
Cameron K. Gearen
for the poem “Right to Remain”

2004 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 66, Fall 2004

Fiction judge: Diana Abu-Jaber
Poetry judge: Nance Van Winckel

Fiction Winner:
Garnett Kilberg Cohen
for the story “Second Sight ”

Poetry Winner:
Angie DeCola
for the poem “Order and Progress in the Man-made World”

2003 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 64, Fall 2003

Fiction judge: Michael Martone
Nonfiction judge: Michael Martone
Poetry judge: Dara Wier

Fiction Winner:
CB Anderson
for the story “A Brief History of the Sea”

Nonfiction Winner:
Melodie Edwards
for the essay "A Lament for My Jacobson's Organ"

Poetry Winner:
Lilly Roberts
for the poem “Portrait on the Interior”

2002 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 62, Fall 2002

Fiction judge: Charles Baxter
Poetry judge: Mary Ruefle

Fiction Winner:
Anthony Varallo
for the story “Sunday Wash”

Poetry Winner:
Nathan Hoks
for the poems “Cicadas And," "The Distraction of Wonder," and "To His Mistress Going to Bed"

 

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