News and Updates
THE 2012 ISSUE IS HERE! Featuring the work of 29 talented writers and photographers, copies are available for $10 each through the address at the bottom of this page.
Congratulations to our 2012 National and Suzanne Tito Student Writing and Photography Contest Winners, and thank you to all who entered. ( Current National Contest Prizewinners
National Prizewinners
Fiction: “Mycology” by Janet Hilliard-Osborn
Poetry: “Coupling on the Edge of Entropy ” by Elton Glaser
Creative Nonfiction: “Burial” by Eli Connaughton
Photography: Untitled by Morgan Neuharth (selected by Jay Dusard)
Prescott College Suzanne Tito Prizewinners
Fiction: “Howls in the Desert Night” by Molly Kiff (selected by Janet Hilliard-Osborn)
Poetry: “Huldra Eyes” by Laura Hitt (selected by Elton Glaser)
Creative Nonfiction: “Grown-Ups ” by Laura Hitt (selected by Eli Connaughton)
AND SOME KUDOS...
In March 2011, Alligator Juniper was featured at the prestigious San Francisco reading series "Babylon Salon." Prescott College alumna Sarah Fontaine introduced the journal, as well as one of its past contributors, Stegner Fellow Justin St. Germain.
For the third time in our previous 13 years of publishing, Alligator Juniper won the 2010 AWP Director’s Prize in Content for Undergraduate Literary Magazines! You can find a full press release on this here.
Congratulations to our authors nominated for inclusion in the 2009 Pushcart Prize Anthology:
Michaela Carter’s poem “Goldilocks”
Catherine Dryden’s essay “River Voices”
Matt Mendez’s short story “Airman”
Justin St. Germain’s short story “The Last Day of the Boom”
Robert Schirmer’s short story “Levitate”
Elizabeth Volpe’s poem “Without”
Kathleen Kirk, whose work appeared in our 2002 and 2003 issues, has published a chapbook, Broken Sonnets (Finishing Line Press, 2009), which includes the poem “At Dusk,” first published in Alligator Juniper.
Justin St. Germain’s story “The Last Day of the Boom” from our 2008 issue was included in Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri (University of Texas Press, 2009).
Kevin Brown’s story “One Life” from our 2007 issue was included in the teaching anthology Voices published by The Institute.
Elton Glaser’s poem “Drinking Alone on a Spring Day,” published in Alligator Juniper 2007, was featured on Verse Daily.
Anna Green’s story “Food Stamps,” published in Alligator Juniper 2006, appeared in the anthology New Stories from the Southwest, published by the Ohio University Press in January 2008.
Sally Ball’s poem “’Tis Often Thus with Spirits” and Claire Whitenack's poem “At the Fish Hatchery,” both published in our 2006 issue, were featured on Verse Daily.
