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Thank you to our readers, Bobbi Buchanan, Christopher Martin, Jill Tidman, and Kim Anderson, and to our final judges, Angela Jackson-Brown in fiction, Richard Goodman in nonfiction, and Cecilia Woloch in poetry.

Welcome to the online version of The 2015 New Southerner Literary Edition, featuring winners and finalists in the James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry contest, as well as in the nonfiction and fiction categories. To read, click individual links below.

NOW AVAILABLE: The 2015 New Southerner Literary Edition in print.

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JAMES BAKER HALL MEMORIAL PRIZE IN POETRY
The Shallows
By STACEY LYNN BROWN

HONORABLE MENTION
Leaving Kentucky Again
By KAREN HARRYMAN

FINALISTS
Forever (Ode to a Fig Tree) By KARAH STOKES
Time to Move Out By LAURIE BARTON
On Finding Black Judgement By TRISH LINDSEY JAGGERS

SEMIFINALISTS
The Carrier of Details By RICHARD HAGUE
The Ponies By FAITH S. HOLSAERT
How Far to the Rio Grande By KAREN HARRYMAN
If I Die with Dignity, It’s Because of Mike Cooley By MATT ROTMAN

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NONFICTION PRIZE
Degrees of Poor
By CONNIE GUNTER

HONORABLE MENTION
This Gray Spirit By VICKIE CARDEN POSEY

FINALISTS
One Manpower By RICHARD HAGUE
All the King’s Men By JOHN MANUEL
Oz Palimpsest By IVY RUTLEDGE

SEMIFINALISTS
Count By TIA JENSEN
Wintering Over By JAN B. PARKER

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FICTION PRIZE
A.J. and Crazy Woman
By Linda L. Dunlap

HONORABLE MENTION
Atalanta By MEGAN CLARK

FINALISTS
Three Secrets By MARY POPHAM
Wild Turnips By LENORE WEISS
Freedom to Breathe By JULIE WHITEHEAD

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