The Jasper Project, in conjunction with Richland Library, One Columbia for Arts and Culture and Richland Library Friends & Family , is proud to announce the authors whose work has been accepted for publication in part II of the combined seventh and eighth edition of Fall Lines – a literary convergence, as well as the recipients of the 2021 Fall Lines Awards for the Saluda River Prize for Poetry and the Broad River Prize for Prose.
Congratulations to
Kasie Whitener whose short fiction, The Shower,
was selected from more than one hundred prose submissions as the winner of the Broad River Prize for Prose, and to
Angelo Geter, whose poem, Black Girl Fly,
was selected from more than 400 submissions as the winner of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry.
All additional contributors are listed below!
Judges for this year’s awards were
Randall David Cook for fiction and Nathalie Anderson for poetry.
Mark your calendar for Sunday October 17th at 3 pm for the 2020-2021 Fall Lines Release and Reading at the Main Branch of the Richland Library. All contributors are invited to read ONE piece from the combined issues. The event is free and open to the public!
All accepted contributors should send a 75-word bio to be included in the journal to editor@JasperColumbia.com
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING!
Aida Rogers – From Proust to Gibbs
Hannah Pearson – Where the Fox and Hare Say Goodnight
Liesel Hamilton - Drifting
Susanne Kamata - The Lump
Loli Molina Munoz - Distance(s)
Carla Damron - Breaking the Surface
Arthur McMaster - Connecting Flights
Kasie Whitener - The Shower
Tim Conroy - Pendleton Street
Debra Daniel - How to Make Peach Jam
Angelo Geter - Black Girl Fly
Lisa Hase Jackson – Dead Birds of the Great Leap Forward
Ray McManus – When You Can’t Tell the Vine from the Branches
Landon Chapman – Odysseus
Ken McLaurin – Procrastination
Terri McCord – Sense Making
May O’Keefe Brady – Pandemic’s Box
Adam Corbett – The Keys and Gertrude Stein
Patricia Starek - Glass Travels
Jenny Maxwell – My Father on Tap Dancing
Nicola Waldron – Peach Harvest
Ken Denk – Propitiating the Pulmonic Plague and After the Fight
Ruth Nicholson – At Congaree Swamp
Glenis Redmond – She Makes Me Think of Houses and For Dark-Skinned Black Women You Know it’s Not Just About the Red Lipstick
Judith Cumming Reese – Twilight Song
Eileen Scharenbroch – Sisters
Worthy Branson Evans – Blues For Want of a Blues Song
Kristine Hartvigsen – Journey
Roy Seeger – Alluvial Patterns
Randy Spencer – Invitation to the Plague and When it is Over
Betsy Thorne – Quarantined
Amanda Rachelle Warren – How Many Reasons for this Up and Gone
Jo Angela Edwins – The Lichtenberg Figure
Susan Craig – Tell Me it is Enough
Danielle Ann Verwers – When the Lights Go Out
Ann-Chadwell Humphries – Golden Boy
Austin Hehir – Human
Libby Bernardin – Dear October
Horace Mungin – Flip of the Two-Headed Coin
Melanie McClellan Hartnett – untitled
Al Black – Prayers in the Spectrum
John Lane – Two Rifts on Montale
Gil Allen – The Chosen
Jane Zenger – What I Will Do For You
Lisa Johnson-McVety – Sad Feet