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2020/2021 Annual Prose and Poetry Short List

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Prose

Aren’t they too Old?
Blood Memory
How to Eviscerate a Turkey
Pas de Deux
Pie Jesu
Please take her Violets
Room for Rent
Saint Water
Sasha Lived on a Farm
The Bus to the Massacre Site Leaves in Ten Minutes
The Trip to the Luncheon of the Boating Party

Poetry

(Non) Binary
A Ceremony in the Forest
A letter to Bukowski from a previous lover on her death bed
A Tapestry
A Two-Faced Kitten, and Other Freaks of Nature
At My Back
Bull Kelp
Chameleon
Don’t Bring Me Flowers
Drumheller
Heeding Water’s Voice
If I was at Home I Wouldn’t Need this Drink in the First Place
Lost Names
Riven
Solstice
Tendinitis
The Day Abraham Lincoln & I went Bowling
The Enemies I Cannot See
The Fisherman’s Wife
The Whiffle Ball
Things to Do around Edmonton when you’re Black
Three Years, Two Months and Twelve Days After My Father Dies Overseas
What the Fool Remembers
While You Brushed Your Hair
Will-o’-wisp

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The 2019 FreeFall Prose and Poetry Contest Winners Are…

Freefall Magazine — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 02:04:13 +0000

FreeFall Magazine is proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Prose and Poetry Contest. The contest is open annually until April 30th, with $1700 in prizes to be won by Canadian writers, as well as publication in our Fall issue. This year’s contest was judged by acclaimed Canadian poet and author, Gary Barwin.

This year’s winners are:

Prose
1st place: G.A Grisenthwaite for “Three Bucks”
2nd place: Alana Rigby for “Roll, Pitch, and Yaw”
3rd place: Cadence Mandybura for “A Tea Party for Nomi”
Honourable Mention: Blaine Newton for “By the Numbers”

Poetry
1st place: Carol Harvey Steski for “Curmudgeon”
2nd place: Kim Fahner for “Place of Origin, Unmapped”
3rd place: Marsha Barber for “Atrial Fibrillation: My Husband Gets a New Diagnosis”
Honourable Mention: Simon Peter Eggertsen for “Questions for David in the Presence of Death”

Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Award
Justin Faba for “The Apprentice”
Mark Johnston for “The Thief”

The Micheline Maylor Prize for Poetic Excellence
Anna Navarro for Sestina: First and Second Loves

Our sincere congratulations to all of the nominees. To earn more about the contest and view this year’s complete shortlist of nominees, visit our contest page. To read the winners, pick up the Fall 2020 issue of FreeFall Magazine.

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2019 Annual Prose and Poetry Short List

Freefall Magazine — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:43:22 +0000

Prose

The Thief, the Crier, and those Damned Dark Ages
Phoebe’s Five-Finger Revolt
Fluid
By the Numbers
Roll, Pitch, and Yaw
Blooms
Conservation
Gloria
The Canary’s Calling
Three Bucks
A Tea Party for Nomi
Barred with White
The Voynich Manuscript

Poetry

Arc Welding and the Sorcery of Premonition in Beijing, 1989 Tiananmen Square Revisited
What I Need is Another Hole in the Head
Questions for David in the Presence of Death
Mixed Medium
The Blurb
Filthy Rich
Notes from a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Watershed Moments Snorkeling Finless in the Pacific. Costa Rica
Place of Origin, Unmapped
Atrial Fibrillation: My Husband Gets a New Diagnosis
Honey
Seduction
Press 0 to Speak Directly to God
Curmudgeon
Stubborn Fucks
Mercurochrome
Midnight on the Gibson River
Shark Teeth
Test Case
Ballad of a Free Man
The Kettle Bomber
Death Machine: Dr. Death’s Mechanical Syringe Delivered Potassium chlorideInto patients’ Veins
Decision-Making Time
First and Second Loves

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The FreeFall Annual Prose and Poetry Contest

Freefall Magazine — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 02:08:13 +0000

The FreeFall Annual Prose and Poetry Contest is open until April 30th, 2020. $1700 in prizes to be won plus publication in the Fall issue. For details and to enter, see the link https://freefallmagazine.ca/contest

1st Prize (Poetry and Fiction) $500 Sponsored by Frontenac House and AWCS
2nd Prize (Poetry and Fiction) $250. Sponsored by Freehand Books
3rd Prize (Poetry and Fiction) $75.00 Sponsored by FreeFall Literary Society
Honourable Mention (Poetry and Fiction) $25.00 Sponsored by Freehand Books

All entries are automatically entered into the Lynn C. Fraser Memorial Prize and the Micheline Maylor Prize for Poetic Excellence

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Our 2015 Chapbook Contest

Freefall Magazine — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:19:40 +0000

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The Winners of The FreeFall Annual Prose and Poetry Contest are…

Freefall Magazine — Thu, 15 May 2014 16:33:06 +0000

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