Poets and Writers

University of Massachuse­tts Press

- JUNIPER PRIZES

Chelsea Jennings of Seattle and Timothy O’Keefe of Athens, Georgia, won the 2017 Juniper Prizes in Poetry. Jennings

won for her collection, Transmissi­on Loss, and O’Keefe won for his collection, You Are the Phenomenol­ogy. Yang Huang of

San Francisco and Malinda McCollum of Charleston, South Carolina, won prizes in fiction. Huang won for her story collection, My Old Faithful, and McCollum won for her story collection The Surprising Place. They each received $1,000, and their books will be published by University of Massachuse­tts Press. The annual awards are given for two poetry collection­s and two books of fiction. (SEE DEADLINES.) University of Massachuse­tts Press, Juniper Prizes, East Experiment Station, 671 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003. (413) 545-2217. Mary Dougherty, Director. mvd@umpress.umass.edu

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