Now that the winner has been announced I think it’s safe to reveal I was one of 29 finalists for the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose.
This is the first contest placement for my second full-length manuscript, Skin Shift, which has increased my confidence in this project. I’ve been pondering lately how I’d feel if Skin Shift were accepted for publication before The Erotic Postulate. Large portions of SS were written during the same period I was composing TEP, but it didn’t fully come together until a few years after I finished TEP, so I’ve always considered it manuscript #2. All these manuscripts accumulating…I’m beginning to feel backlogged…
UPDATE 5/24: Received a hand-written note from New Issues today informing me Carl Phillips placed Skin Shift in his top 5 manuscripts. Woo hoo!