More awards for storySouth contributors.

Alison Pelegrin (Summer 2002)) of Mandeville, Louisiana, won the 12th annual Akron Poetry Prize for Big Muddy River of Stars. She received $1,000, and her book will be published by the University of Akron Press. B. H. Fairchild judged. Alison was also awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship earlier this year.

Allan Peterson (Spring 2004 and Summer 2005) of Gulf Breeze, Florida, won the 2006 Muriel Craft Bailey Award for "Antipyretic." He received $1,000 and publication of his poem in Comstock Review. Thomas Lux judged. The annual award is given for a single poem.

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Our very own Dan Albergotti was recently named the winner of BOA Editions' Sixth Annual A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize for his manuscript The Boatloads, which will appear from BOA in March, 2008.

Edward Hirsch, the final judge for this year's competition praised Dan's work, noting "The Boatloads, is filled with the spirit of mystery. It is a startling achievement that begins in wonder and ends in awe."

All our congratulations go to Dan. We hope you'll share in our celebration and join us again next Spring with the book comes out.

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storySouth contributor Kat Meads, whose "How to Feed Chickens – A Fable" and "Dying Southern" have been published in these pages, has a new book out: The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan Benedict Roberts Duncan. This novel is a mock biography of a "rebel-in-her-own-time" named Kitty Duncan, who comes of age in the 1950s South.

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For two years in a row, essays published in storySouth have won honors in the North American Travel Journalists Association's (NATJA) awards.

Kevin Pritchard's essay "Old 82" (storySouth, Fall 2004) won First Place in the 2005 NATJA award for the "Best Travel Article Written for Internet." Pritchard's essay is an amazing exploration of an old southern road and the storySouth editor's are excited to see the essay receive the acclaim it deserves.

In 2004, Stephen Ausherman's essay "The Road to Drumcree," (storySouth, summer 2004) won a runner-up in the award for the "Best Travel Article Written for Internet."

To see other awards storySouth writings have won, check out the journal's best writings page.

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