The Crazyhorse Prize Winners (prize entry deadline of Dec. 20, 2007)
$2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse

Crazyhorse is pleased and excited to disclose this year’s fiction and poetry prize judges:

Fiction judge
Ha Jin

Poetry judge
Billy Collins

After much deliberation, the prize judges are pleased to announce these winners of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize:

Fiction Winner: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
for the story “Pertussis”

Fiction finalists: Roy Kesey, Marjorie Celona, Cathryn Alpert, Rachel Cassandra, Devon Code.

Poetry Winner: Jeff Walker
for the poem “Itchy Is As Scratchy Does”

Poetry finalists: Alexis Orgera, Jordan Windholz, Claire Millikin, Michael Robins, J. Mae Barizo, Elizabeth Marzoni, Xu Smith, Christopher Howell, Juliet Patterson, Tobey Kaplan.

The two prize winners will each receive $2,000 and the winning story and poem will be published in Crazyhorse Number 74, due out Nov. 1, 2008.

The editors of Crazyhorse and this year's prize judges would like to thank everyone who entered the prize. There were so many fine entries to consider; it was very difficult for both the editors and the judges to select finalists and winners. Thank you for sustaining Crazyhorse with your writing and your continued support. We could not have done it without you.

2007 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 72, Fall 2008

Fiction judge: Antonya Nelson
Poetry judge: Marvin Bell

Fiction Winner
Karen Brown
for the story “Galatea”

Poetry Winner
Jude Nutter
for the poem “Frank O'Hara in Paradise”

2006 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 70, Fall 2006

Fiction judge: Dan Chaon
Poetry judge: Dean Young

Fiction Winner
Steve Mitchel
for the story “Dog People ”

Poetry Winner
Kerri Webster
for the poem “If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In”

2005 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 68, Fall 2005

Fiction judge: T. M. McNally
Poetry judge: Albert Goldbarth

Fiction Winner
Sean Aden Lovelace
for the story “John McEnroe Visits Seven Months”

Poetry Winner
Cameron K. Gearen
for the poem “Right to Remain”

2004 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 66, Fall 2004

Fiction judge: Diana Abu-Jaber
Poetry judge: Nance Van Winckel

Fiction Winner:
Garnett Kilberg Cohen
for the story “Second Sight ”

Poetry Winner:
Angie DeCola
for the poem “Order and Progress in the Man-made World”

2003 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 64, Fall 2003

Fiction judge: Michael Martone
Nonfiction judge: Michael Martone
Poetry judge: Dara Wier

Fiction Winner:
CB Anderson
for the story “A Brief History of the Sea”

Nonfiction Winner:
Melodie Edwards
for the essay "A Lament for My Jacobson's Organ"

Poetry Winner:
Lilly Roberts
for the poem “Portrait on the Interior”

2002 Crazyhorse Prize Winners, published in Crazyhorse Number 62, Fall 2002

Fiction judge: Charles Baxter
Poetry judge: Mary Ruefle

Fiction Winner:
Anthony Varallo
for the story “Sunday Wash”

Poetry Winner:
Nathan Hoks
for the poems “Cicadas And," "The Distraction of Wonder," and "To His Mistress Going to Bed"