Two of Ohio University Ph.D. students in creative writing are among 10 finalists for the Iron Horse Review chapbook prize.
“Who do we root for?” says Dinty Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing. “Congratulations to current nonfiction Ph.D. Kirk Wisland and recently-graduated and greatly-missed Geri Lipschultz. May the best Bobcat win!”
The winning chapbook will be published in the Fall of 2015. Full-color cover art will reflect the collection’s content and emphasize its title, not the name of Iron Horse. The published collection will look like the single-author book that it is. The winner also receives a $1,000 honorarium and 15 copies.
The 2015 single-author finalists announced March 25 are:
- Ron Austin, for The Cast Iron Heart (fiction)
- Karin C. Davidson, for Skylight and Other Stories (fiction)
- Ivan Faute, for Pho (fiction)
- Nancy Geyer, for Lookout: Essays (nonfiction)
- Jennie Goode, for Perimeters (nonfiction)
- Sharon Harrigan, for Stain: An Essay Collection (nonfiction)
- Amanda Kabak, Then and Now (fiction)
- Geri Lipschultz, Marilyn Monroe of the Mind & Other Stories (fiction)
- Khristian Mecom, Things That Cannot Be Tamed (fiction)
- Kirk Wisland, Melancholy of Falling Men (nonfiction)
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