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Poetry, Judged by Carl Phillips

Insight: Carl Phillips Talks Risk

I still think its worth it to have written one's way towards that space, but I understand the sense of disorientation and sometimes dismay that can result...

Inspiration: 2014 Winner Raena Shirali

I left Lover when I found dirt roads—party for another / couple, soirée complete with deer heads lining a fixed-up barn’s walls, / absinthe, strung lights...

Fiction, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Insight: Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum on Raising Questions

...but I feel there’s room to raise these questions in smaller ways, like in programming a reading series or putting together a syllabus, or judging book prizes...

Inspiration: 2014 Winner Edward McPherson

And so it goes, day after day, night after night, as I rattle these torn and cheapened canvases around the dim and dusty byways of this once great nation...

Nonfiction, Maggie Nelson

Insight: Maggie Nelson Post-Reading Interview

The question of where culture begins and individual humans end is very interesting to me, especially as (human) culture is made of human beings....

Inspiration: 2014 Winner Noam Dorr

The drone operator does not see the Predator itself, the predator himself, the Predator is in Afghanistan, the operator in Nevada. We are stars...