Free Winner’s and Finalists’
Awards Ceremony, Reading,*
and Reception

Sunday, December 7, 2 p.m.
by
Mark Conway, Candace Pearson, Kathleen Tyler

Followed by an Open Mic 3:15 p.m. (Sign-ups at 1:45 p.m. $6 donation)

* This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Winner: Mark Conway's book of poetry, Any Holy City, won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was short-listed for this year's PEN/ Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, the Boston Review, the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome and Bush Foundations, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He's poetry editor of Post Road and lives in Avon, Minnesota.
	First Runner-Up: Candace Pearson is preoccupied with issues of history, accountability and the natural world. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Cider Press Review, Comstock Review, 5AM, Borderlands and Natural Bridge, among other fine publications. She lives in the Los Angeles hills, where she is working on a full-length manuscript.
Second Runner-Up: Kathleen Tyler lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches English at a local high school. Her publications include The Secret Box from Mayapple Press and My Florida from The Backwaters Press. Her poems and short stories have appeared in many journals including Runes, Solo, Margie, Visions International, and Only the Sea Keeps: Poems of the Tsunami. A poem from My Florida has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Cider Press Review.