The Editors congratulate
Marina Stevenson
of Charlottesville, Virginia
&
Erica Berry
of Portland, Oregon
for their winning submissions to the 2009 Elizabeth Bishop Prizes

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Marina Stevenson, an eleventh-grader at Renaissance School, has won in the Fiction category for her short story “Green Beans.”

Erica Berry, an eleventh-grader at Catlin Gabel School, and the winner of the 2008 Bishop Prize for Fiction, has won in this year’s Verse category for her poem “The Naturalists.”

Each author will receive a full scholarship to the Walnut Hill Summer Writing Program and a copy of Elizabeth Bishop’s Poems, Prose, and Letters, published by The Library of America. “Green Beans” and “The Naturalists” will be published in The Blue Pencil 2009, to appear later this month.

The Editors would also like to applaud the compelling work of the following Finalists:

Verse
Katie Ailes, of Swarthmore, PA, for “Tulip” [Grade 11]
Ashton Kittredge, of Brooklyn, NY, for “Grandmother Spider Takes the Sun” [Grade 11]
Eli Mandel, of Brooklyn, NY, for “One Day” [Grade 11]

Fiction
Katie Ailes, of Swarthmore, PA, for “The Child That Binds” [Grade 11]
Alexandra Jordan, of San Francisco, CA, for “Walking on a Wire” [Grade 9]
Alice Readick, of Pasadena, CA, for “And They Are Never My Hands” [Grade 10]

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Interested in the Writing & Publishing Program at Walnut Hill? Contact Shannon Tyler at styler@walnuthillarts.org or tel. 508.650.5020