Mary Jo Bang selected the book Black Tongue by Page Hill Starzinger of New York, NY, as the winner of the 2008 Noemi Press Poetry Chapbook Award. Noemi Press will publish this book in Winter 2008.

Finalists in the poetry category were:

You Talked American Into Me by Tony Triglio of Chicago, IL
plea by Cherise Bacalski of San Diego, CA
Carbon Copy to the Incubator by CM Burroughs of Pittsburgh, PA
Tide Hymns by Craig Perez of Berkeley, CA
When Dada Rewrote Koans by Desmond Zhicheng Mingde of Amherst, MA
Full Sun on the Arcades by Kismet Al-Hussaini of Amherst, MA

Brian Evenson selected the book Notes from the Committee by Catherine Kasper of San Antonio, TX, as the winner of the 2008 Noemi Press Fiction Chapbook Award. Noemi Press will publish this book in Winter 2008.

Finalists in the fiction category were:

Spider-Catcher: An Occasional History by Laura Davenport of Broomfield, CO
People with Antlers by Elena Minor of Los Angeles, CA
Poor Bunny by Julianna Spallholtz of Tucson, AZ
Moon is Cotton and She Laugh All Night by Tracy deBrincat of Los Angeles, CA

Click here for details concerning the 2009 Noemi Press Chapbook Awards.

Click here for the list of winners and finalists from the 2007 Noemi Press Chapbook Awards.