Winner Announced for 2009 Kore Press Short Fiction Award

Congratulations to Teresa Stores! Her short story, "Frost Heaves," was chosen by judge Tayari Jones as the winner of the 2009 Kore Press Short Fiction Award. “Frost Heaves” is the title piece of her nearly completed collection of twelve linked stories set in a small Vermont community over one year. She will receive $1000 and publication of her chapbook. Teresa's chapbook is due in October and will be featured in the second installment of the Kore Press Book Club! You can read more about the contest results here. Thank you to all of our entrants!

Teresa Stores

Judge Announced for 2010 Kore Press First Book Award

We are thrilled that Claudia Rankine is judging our next poetry contest. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf 2004); PLOT (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995), which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century (Wesleyan University Press). Her play, THE PROVENANCE OF BEAUTY / A SOUTH BRONX TRAVELOGUE, will premier in Fall 2009 at the Foundry Theatre in New York. To read more about PROVENANCE, please click here.

Claudia Rankine

Winner Announced for 2009 Kore Press First Book Award

Congratulations to Heather Cousins! Her book, Something in the Potato Room, was chosen by judge Patricia Smith as the winner of the 2009 Kore Press First Book Award. Heather's book is due in October and will be distributed by Northwestern University Press! Thank you to all of our entrants!

Heather Cousins

2007 Kore Press Short Fiction Chapbook Winner Anthologized!

Tiphanie Yanique's short story "The Saving Work," selected by Margot Livesy for Kore Press in 2007, is anthologized in Best African American Short Fiction. Edited by Gerald Early, Random House published the book in January 2009. Her story appears alongside others written by such notables as ZZ Packer, Junot Díaz, and Amina Gautier.

Winner Announced for 2008 Kore Press Short Fiction Award

Congratulations to Rena J. Mosteirin! Her story, Nick Trail's Thumb, was chosen by judge Lydia Davis as the winner of Kore Press's 2008 Short Fiction Award. Rena's novella is available now! Thank you to all of our entrants!

Winner and Finalists Announced for 2008 First Book Award

Congratulations to Holly Iglesias! Her manuscript, Souvenirs of a Shrunken World, was chosen by judge Harryette Mullen as the winner of Kore Press's 2008 First Book Award. Holly's collection is available now!