The Jasper Project is delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 Fall Lines Awards and the accepted submissions to Fall Lines Volume IX.
The Broad River Prize for Prose goes to Tim Conroy for his short fiction, Nasty Bites and the Saluda River Prize for Poetry goes to Jo Angela Edwins for her poem, Stricken.
Fall Lines volume IX will be released on Sunday, February 5th, 2023, at the Main Branch of the Richland Library, 1431 Assembly Street in Columbia, SC. The event will begin at 3 pm and all contributors are invited to read one poem or approximately one page of their published prose. Contributors are welcome to two copies of the journal and additional copies may be purchased for $10 each. Proceeds from purchased journals will help defray the dramatically increased costs of publication. Watch this space for pre-order information.
Poetry and prose accepted for publication in this year’s Fall Lines journal include the following
Fruit – Gil Allen
The turning – Ken Autry
The last battle in Alabama – Ken Autry
Bachman's Warbler – Ken Autry
Bird – Libby Bernardin
with spoiled fruit – Evelyn Berry
Dear Raphael – Al Black
Porcelain doll – Al Black
If I were a man – Cindi Boiter
Prudent – Cindi Boiter
Seamstress – Carolina Bowden
Signs that say what you want them to say (not signs that say what someone else wants you to say) – Lucia Brown
Before we turn on the table saw – Lucia Brown
walking a half-marathon through your hometown – Lucia Brown
Members of the backyard church – Tim Conroy
Nasty Bites – Tim Conroy
How to cut up a chicken – Susan Craig
Touching Wyse's Ferry Bridge – Susan Craig
The Older Poet Yearns to Carpe the Diem – Debra Daniels
Dream Three – Heather Dearmon
Bring Me Something – Heather Dearmon
Across the River - Marlanda DeKine
talking to themselves - Marlanda DeKine
For my cat, every Sunday afternoon – Graham Duncan
Ghosts in Poems – Jo Angela Edwins
Stricken – Jo Angela Edwins
Nana Lencha – Vera Gomez
You don't know what you don't know – Vera Gomez
Coattails – Kristine Hartvigsen
River – Kristine Hartvigsen
A Quiet Love – Jammie Huynh
A ghazal to my father – Jammie Huynh
Bad Idea Boyfriend, or White Jesus – Shannon Ivey
D. – Suzanne Kamata
Red Bird / Blue Bird – Bentz Kirby
Hunter's Chapel Road – Len Laurin
I love you 3000 – Len Lawson
Crown – Terri McCord
Space – Terri McCord
For a 20% Tip – Rosalie McCracken
"Yes, please" – Melanie McGhee
Cycles – Joseph Mills
Office hours – Joseph Mills
Those of us with bushy white beards – Joseph Mills
So long, Greenie – Eric Morris
Chopin all over her – Eric Morris
Old photos (for Ahmaud Arbery) – Yvette Murray
Thundering shadows – Frances Pearce
Gone to the birds – Glenis Redmond
"Praise how the ordinary turns sacred" – Glenis Redmond
Strangers in a Strange Field – Aida Rogers
Pre-Columbia Intersections – Lawrence Rhu
Meaningless – Michael Rubin
Small things I notice – Randy Spencer
Next Day Now - Randy Spencer
Above the poplars – Arthur Turfa
For the Love of Mz. Joe – Ceille Welch
Congratulations to
Tim Conroy and Jo Angela Edwins
and all the accepted poets and prose writers for
Fall Lines Volume IX!
