Larissa Szporluk selected the book Closed Histories by Sara Veglahn of Denver, Colorado, as the winner of the 2007 Noemi Press Poetry Chapbook Award. Noemi Press will publish this book in Winter 2007. Noemi Press will also publish, in Spring 2008, one finalist in the poetry category, Camera Obscura by Rebecca Bednarz of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Other finalists in the poetry category were:

In This Dark Pure Day by Elena Minor of Los Angeles, California
Something Really Wonderful by Elisa Gabbert of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
The Things I Watch on Television by Debora Lidov of Brooklyn, New York
Jane in the Box by Rita Marie Martinez of Davie, Florida
Frequencies of the Nerve by Danny Rivera of Elmhurst, New York
Ragged Company by Peter Jay Shippy of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Live from the Delay Ryan Flaherty of Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ben Marcus selected the book A Man of Ideas and Other Stories by David Galef of Oxford, Mississippi, as the winner of the 2007 Noemi Press Fiction Chapbook Award. Noemi Press will also publish one finalist in the fiction category, The Evening Papers by Matthew Kirby of New York, New York. Both books will be published in Spring 2008.

Other finalists in the fiction category were:

Three Ribald Tales of High Seas Adventure Rife With Jaunty Merrymaking and Witty Bandinage by Kerry Hudson of Newton, North Carolina
The Winter of Ingmar Bergman by Sara Veglahn of Denver, Colorado
Notes from the Committee by Catherine Kasper of San Antonio, Texas
A Comic Tale by Maureen Sherbondy of Raleigh, North Carolina
Goodbye, Border Towns by Matt Dube of Columbia, Missouri
White and Wong by Thaddeus Rutkowski of New York, New York

Click here for details concerning the 2008 Noemi Press Chapbook Awards.