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Alison Deming at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference
The 2016 Jackson Hole Writers Conference will be held from June 23 to June 25 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as talks, readings, and manuscript critiques. The faculty includes poets Maria Melendez Kelson, Paisley Rekdal, and Bethany Schultz Hurst; fiction writers Brian Doyle and Lynn Sharon Schwartz; and creative nonfiction writers Gretel Ehrlich and Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Jennifer Willoughby
Jennifer Willoughby is the recipient of the 2015 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry for her debut collection, Beautiful Zero, selected by Dana Levin. She lives in Minneapolis, MN and works as a freelance advertising copywriter.
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News / Awards & Prizes
Chris Santiago Wins 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
We are pleased to announce that Chris Santiago is the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. For his manuscript, Tula, chosen from nearly two hundred collections from poets across the Upper Midwest, Santiago will receive $10,000 as well as publication by Milkweed Editions.
A first-generation Filipino American, Chris Santiago is fascinated by the familiarity and mystique of language. “When I hear someone speak Tagalog, I recognize it immediately, but don’t know what they are saying,” said Santiago. “This feeling—of being outside the language, but having it also be a kind of homeland—is where Tula began.”…
Daniel Slager
Daniel Slager is the publisher & CEO of Milkweed Editions. A widely published translator from the German, Slager also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Ledig House International Writers’ Colony, Motionpoems, and Open Book, as well as on the Advisory Board for Archipelago Books, an independent publishing house in New York.