Swan Scythe Press, one of the U.S.'s most respected poetry publishers, today announced the winner of the 2010 Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Contest.
The winning manuscript is The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth, by Burlee Vang of Fresno, California.
Burlee Vang's prose and poetry have appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, and many other literary journals. His work has also been anthologized in Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: Best New Voices of 2006 (Random House) and Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley (Heyday Books). He holds an MFA in fiction from California State University. Fresno .
As the founder of The Hmong American Writers' Circle, he conducts workshops to promote creative writing within the Hmong community of Fresno , where he lives with his wife, Mary, and their two children, Belle and Jude.
Mr. Vang's book was chosen from among more than 130 submitted manuscripts from more than 20 U.S. states and foreign countries.
Swan Scythe Press was founded in 2000 by poet Sandra McPherson, who published the first 26 chapbooks in the series. Now edited by James DenBoer, Swan Scythe will publish three new chapbooks in 2010, including Mr. Vang's, whose publication date is early August.
More information here.
The winning manuscript is The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth, by Burlee Vang of Fresno, California.
Burlee Vang's prose and poetry have appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, and many other literary journals. His work has also been anthologized in Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: Best New Voices of 2006 (Random House) and Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley (Heyday Books). He holds an MFA in fiction from California State University. Fresno .
As the founder of The Hmong American Writers' Circle, he conducts workshops to promote creative writing within the Hmong community of Fresno , where he lives with his wife, Mary, and their two children, Belle and Jude.
Mr. Vang's book was chosen from among more than 130 submitted manuscripts from more than 20 U.S. states and foreign countries.
Swan Scythe Press was founded in 2000 by poet Sandra McPherson, who published the first 26 chapbooks in the series. Now edited by James DenBoer, Swan Scythe will publish three new chapbooks in 2010, including Mr. Vang's, whose publication date is early August.
More information here.
