Sunday May 11, 2025 – 2:00 pm – VIRTUAL On Zoom – 2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VJprZxhkRxGtL6tgxl7bkA

First Prize – Partridge Boswell, author of Heckler, poems appear in Poetry, American Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review. Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival, he troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas

Honorable Mentions

Shaina Clingempeel, author of in the homes that house my history, is a Philadelphia-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review).

Dayle Olson, author of From the Dead Letter Department, was a Northwest Voices guest writer at Lower Columbia College and winner of the Oregon Poetry Association’s first prize for prose in 2024.

Martha Brenckle, author of Inside a Snow Globe is Professor at the University of Central Florida in the Writing and Rhetoric Department and an affiliated faculty in Women and Gender Studies and Text and Technologies, a transdisciplinary PhD Program.

Jacqueline Jewell, author of Lady Arab, is a poet, college professor, EMMY Award-winning journalist, mother, and activist. A Philadelphia area native and proud daughter of an immigrant, Jacqueline uses her poetry to amplify underrepresented and discounted voices.

Host & Judge – Nathalie Anderson is a poet and librettist, who manages the lit-philly listserv for literary events in the Philadelphia area.  She has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she served as a Professor of English Literature, and directed the Program in Creative Writing