The Jasper Project, in conjunction with Richland Library, Friends of Richland Library, and One Columbia for Arts and Culture, is proud to announce the authors whose work has been accepted for publication in the seventh edition of Fall Lines – a literary convergence, as well as the recipients of the 2020 Fall Lines Awards for the Saluda River Prize for Poetry and the Broad River Prize for Prose.
Congratulations to Randy Spencer whose short fiction, Ghost Ship, was selected from more than one hundred prose submissions as the winner of the Broad River Prize for Prose, and to Lisa Hammond, whose poem, Hydrangeas, was selected from more than 400 submissions as the winner of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry.
Judges for this year’s awards were Barrett Warner for fiction and Julia Wendell for poetry.
Barrett Warner is the author of Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? (Somondoco Press, 2016) and My Friend Ken Harvey (Publishing Genius, 2014. He has won the Salamander fiction prize and his short stories have appeared in The Adroit, Phoebe, Crescent Review, Oxford Magazine, Berkeley Fiction Review, Quarter after Eight, and elsewhere. He has also won the Princemere, Liam Rector, Luminaire (Alternating Current), and Cloudbank poetry prizes; and the Tucson Book Festival essay prize. In 2016, he was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for his personal essays on farming and the rhythms of farm life. He used those funds to move to South Carolina. In May, 2019 he received the nonfiction fellowship at the Longleaf Writers’ Conference. Recent efforts appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Disquiet Arts, Sou’wester, and Pirene’s Fountain.
Julia Wendell received her B.A. from Cornell University, her M.A. in English and American Literature from Boston University, and Her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa, Writer's Workshop. She is the author of five full-length collections of poems and three chapbooks. Her most recent book of poems is Take This Spoon (Main Street Rag Press, 2014). Additionally, she is the author of two memoirs, Finding My Distance (Galileo Press, 2009) and her recent Come to the X (Galileo Press, 2020). A Bread Loaf and Yaddo Fellow, her poems have been widely published in such journals as American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Nebraska Review, Crazyhorse, and many others. She is the Founding Editor of Galileo Press since its inception in 1979. She lives in Aiken, South Carolina, with her husband, editor and critic, Barrett Warner.
While the annual release of Fall Lines is typically accompanied by a reading and celebration, this year, due to restrictions accompanying COVID-19, the editors have opted to reveal the names of the authors whose work has been accepted for publication, but delay the actual release event and book distribution until the writing community can safely gather together to share and celebrate.
Fall Lines – a literary coalition is edited by Cindi Boiter and Ed Madden, with assistance from Lee Snelgrove and Tony Tallent.
Congratulations to the following authors:
Ann Humphries – Kite Boy from Bangladesh, To Think I almost Missed These Paintings, and The Bench
John Gulledge – Forgetting Pop
Al Black – Night Watchman, Pandemic Meditation on the Second Anniversary of My Mother’s Passing
Lisa Hammond – Hydrangeas *
Lawrence Rhu – Amends
Lisa Hase-Jackson – Her Wild Self, Privilege
Derek Berry – landscape with ritual superstition, on the morning I tell my father
Jennifer Gilmore – Flecks of Gold
Debra Daniel – Why the Rabbit Died, As we Move On
Nathalie Anderson – Lamp-Lit
Betsy Thorne – For the Love of Pete, View from Office in a Small City
Ruth Nicholson – Spring Safari: Hartsville, SC, Overdue
Ellen Malphrus – Refusing the Flood, Premonition: January 2, 2020
Eric Morris – Medicine Game, They, and The Gift
Rachel Burns – mortality tastes Like key lime pie
Dale Bailes – Time/Travel, Columbia to Pawley’s, After the Hurricane
Arthur Turfa – unfinished Kaddish
Betsy Thorne – New Restrictions
Danielle Verwers – The Governor Issues an Executive Order Before the Evening News, 1993, and Horseshoe Falls
Randy Spencer – Quarantine, Ghost Ship
Susan Craig – The Way We See a Goldfinch
Libby Bernardine – Ode
Kristine Hartvigsen – Sleepover
Tim Conroy – Balances
Bo Petersen – Little Gleams
Ceille Baird Welch – The Inevitable Unfriending of Merrily Thompson, Merrily Thompson Remembers
Jon Tuttle – hush
Francis Pearce – Retreat
