Poets and Writers

Michigan Quarterly Review

- LITERARY PRIZES

Ruchama King Feuerman of Passaic, New Jersey, won the 39th annual Lawrence Foundation Prize for her story “Kill Fonzie,” which appeared in the Winter

2016 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. She received $1,000. The journal’s editorial board judged. John Rybicki of Detroit won the 15th annual Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize for his poem “A River Is Not a Watery Rope,” which appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. He received $500. Laura Kasischke judged. The annual awards are given for a short story and a poem published in Michigan Quarterly Review during the previous year. There is no applicatio­n process.

PAGE DAVIDSON CLAYTON PRIZE

Eric Rivera of Philadelph­ia won the eighth annual Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets for his poem “Smoke,” which appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. He received $500. The editors judged. The annual award is given for a poem or group of poems published in Michigan Quarterly Review by a poet who has not published a book at the time of publicatio­n in the journal. There is no applicatio­n process.

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