2024 Triad Contest

CONTEST JUDGES
Theme Award | Poet’s Choice Award | Kay Saunders Emerging Poet Award
Submission Period: June 1 - September 1, 2024
 

ABOUT THE JUDGES:

POET'S CHOICE AWARD: Bruce Bennett is author of ten books of poetry and more than thirty chapbooks. His second New And Selected Poems, Just Another Day in Just Our Town, was published by Orchises Press in 2017. His most recent chapbook is IMAGES INTO WORDS (The Dove Block Project, 2022), co-authored with poet Jim Crenner. Bennett was a founder and editor of the journals Field and Ploughshares. From 1973-2014 he taught Literature and Creative Writing and directed the Visiting Writers Series at Wells College, and in 1993 helped to found the Wells College Book Arts Center and served as Director of Wells College Press. He also served as Chair of the English Department. In 2012 he was awarded a Pushcart Prize. He retired in June 2014, and is currently Professor Emeritus of English. He lives in Aurora, New York. His poetry website is https://justanotherdayinjustourtown.com.

THEME: Lorette C. Luzajic reads, writes, publishes, edits, and teaches ekphrastic fiction and poetry. Her art-inspired work has been published in hundreds of journals, and translated into Urdu and Spanish. Her ekphrasis was selected for Best Small Fictions 2023. Her art-centered works have also been nominated several times each for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Food Writing.  Her ekphrastic collections include The Rope Artist, The Neon Rosary, Aspartame, Pretty Time Machine and Winter in June. Lorette is the founding editor of The Ekphrastic Review, the flagship journal of literature inspired by art, running for almost nine years (as well as the the brand new prose poetry journal, The Mackinaw.) Lorette is also an award-winning mixed media artist, with collectors in more than 40 countries so far. 

KAY SAUNDERS EMERGING POET AWARD: An emerita professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College, Lois Baer Barr has published books, articles, poetry, and translations here and abroad. Her chapbook of poems Biopoesis won first prize at Poetica, and Tracks: Poems on the “L” was a finalist at Finishing Line Press. Her first novel, The Tailor’s Daughter, is available from Water’s Edge Press.  Barr’s poems have appeared in Cream City Review, Ekphrastic Review, Last Stanza Literary Review, Rattle, and Zona de carga. You can hear her interviewed on Rattle’s webpage (Rattlecast #85), and her poems and stories are available on Youtube from Telling Stories@OilLamp. She has judged teen poetry contests in North Chicago, Waukegan, and Zion, Illinois for many years and written reviews for Highland Park Poetry’s website. A literacy tutor, Lois lives in Riverwoods, IL with her husband Lew and golden doodle Aggie.