Awards for Exceptional Works of Poetry and Prose
A prize of $250 is awarded to one writer for the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award for excellence in the art of the short story. Established in 2001 by the family and friends of Sue Lile Inman and by the Emrys Foundation, this annual prize honors the Journal’s founding editor and former Board President.
Another prize of $250 is awarded to one poet for the Nancy Dew Taylor Award for excellence in the art of poetry. This award was established in 2003 to honor past-President Nancy Dew Taylor, by her family, friends and the Emrys Foundation.
The prize for excellence in the art of the essay was established to honor the memory of Dr. Linda Julian, by her family, friends, and the Emrys Foundation.
2011 winners
The Sue Inman Fiction Award was won by Emma Aarnes, for Gratitude. Ms. Aarnes is a 2009 graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction. Her work is forthcoming in Columbia Magazine and has appeared in The Blotter Magazine. She received an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train Stories’ 2009 Short Story Award for New Writers Contest.
The Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Award was won by Scott Alexander Jones for Elsewhere. Mr. Jones is the author of a collection of poems: One Day There Will Be Nothing to Show That We Were Ever Here (Bedouin Books, 2009). He completed his MFA at The University of Montana and was Writer in Residence at The Montana Artists Refuge during October of 2009. He is co-founder of Zero Ducats, a literary journal comprised entirely of stolen materials, and releases music under the moniker Surgery in the Attic. He currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Linda Julian prize for essay was not awarded this year.
2010 winners
Sue Inman FICTION Award: Jessica Goodfellow
Nancy Dew Taylor POETRY Prize: Judith Skillman
2009 winners
FICTION:Heather Magruder for “Within”
POETRY:Doug Ramspeck for “Apple Picking”
ESSAY: Randon Billings Noble for “Mirror Glimpses”
***Substantial funding for the Emrys Journal is provided by the estate of the late Dorothy Peace Ramsaur, who established an endowment in memory of her father, Roger C. Peace. Mr. and Mrs. M. Dexter Hagy provide the Sarah Jane Tracy Hagy Emrys Intern Award in memory of Mr. Hagy’s mother. This award allows a young woman the opportunity to gain editing experience in a one-year apprenticeship position with the journal.