december is thrilled to announce the winners of the first annual december Awards!

The Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Stephen Berg

WINNER Greg Jensen Anybody Mentions the Pope

HONORABLE MENTION Dina Elenbogen A New Year

Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, judged by Mary Helen Stefaniak

WINNER Jim Nichols Owls

HONORABLE MENTION Michael Fertik Hunting in Nangarhar

Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction, judged by William Kittredge

WINNER Garet Lahvis NQR

HONORABLE MENTION Jenny McKeel Saigon

december is proud to announce its nominations for the Pushcart Prize. These works appeared in december Vol. 24 in 2013. Please enter your email below for the link to read the nominations.

Healer Man, a poem by Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Italics, a poem by Karen Holman

The End of Our Friends As We Know Them, fiction by Nance Van Winckel

Birdsong, fiction by Faye Reddecliff

Cairns, a poem by Amy Beeder

Beyond Its Possibilities, a poem by Grace Cavalieri

In addition, the following works were independently nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Pushcart Press Contributing Editors:  The Horsehead Nebula, a poem by Kelly Cherry; During the Biology Year, nonfiction by Gary Fincke;  Seemingly Unrelated Events, nonfiction by Sherri Hoffman; Before You Were Born, a poem by Michael Lally; I Do Not Need Them Now, The Beasts, a poem by David Lunde;  None but the Libraries Mourn You, a poem by Dawn Robinson;  Components of Prayer, a poem by Dawn Robinson;  The End of Our Friends As We Know Them, fiction by Nance Van Winckel.