The editors of Slipstream Press would like to congratulate Carrie Shipers of Lincoln, NE for winning our annual Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Competition. She will receive the $1,000.00 award as well as 50 copies of her published chapbook, Rescue Conditions.
We found Rescue Conditions to be a remarkable and impassioned collection. As poet, editor, and professor, Hilda Raz has commented: “To read Rescue Conditions is to experience the pure joy of recovering family identities--as heroes, outlaws, lovers, and tender citizens--through
art.”
Kathy Fagan writes: “Rescue Conditions is the story of a working family living in a small American town. The Gainses are their neighbors to the left; the Losses are their neighbors to the right. They try hard, love hard, live harder. With these substantial and substantially crafted poems, Carrie Shipers says forget the band-aids, what we need are CPR and a stiff drink. Her book reaches us just in time.”
* * *
For those of you who have participated in the competition, we thank you for your involvement and support. It is always a difficult decision to select a single manuscript from among many excellent entries.
All entrants will receive a copy of the chapbook as well as the latest issue of Slipstream Magazine, both of which are currently being printed.
Our Poetry Chapbook Competition has an annual deadline of December 1 and is open to all poets writing in English. This year, for the first time, we are accepting contest submissions electronically as well as by regular mail. Chapbook contestants can upload their manuscript via the Slipstream website and remit the $20.00 reading fee using PayPal (which accepts credit card payments).
Please review the contest guidelines at: www.slipstreampress.org/contest.html, where you will also find directions on the submittal process.
We remain an independent, not-for-profit small press unaffiliated with any university or school.
