Marilee Richards won the $1,000 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, which is awarded for a previously unpublished book-length collection of poetry, for her collection The Double Zero. The winning work will be published by Bauhan Publishing in the spring of 2019.
Judge David Blair praised Richards as "a poet with range--sympathies, anger, tragedy, other people, love, humor. When I read The Double Zero by Marilee Richards, I know that a lot of our daily life feels like a Robert Altman movie. With her ability to inhabit a moment with a living sense of presence, Richards writes unsentimental poems that road trip through the times..."
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The shortlist for the 2018 Crook's Corner Book Prize, given to the best debut novel set in the American South, is:
The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard (Melville House)
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Counterpoint Press)
How to Survive a Summer by Nick White (Blue Rider Press)
The winner of the $5,000 prize, sponsored by Crook's Corner Café and Bar in Chapel Hill, N.C., will be announced January 7, 2019.