RUSTY TOQUE 2016 FICTION CHAPBOOK CONTEST 

​The Rusty Toque is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Fiction Chapbook Contest chosen by our judge Suzette Mayr. 

We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the contest, our judge Suzette Mayr, and our sponsors: Anvil Press, BookThug, Coach House Books, House of Anansi Press, Mansfield Press.
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The wining manuscript will be available in the Spring 2017. Excerpts from all three manuscripts will appear in Issue 11 (Fall 2016) of The Rusty Toque.

Winner
​2016 Fiction Chapbook Contest
The Expansion​ by Julie Paul

Julie Paul is the author of two collections of short fiction, The Jealousy Bone (2008) and The Pull of the Moon (2014). The Pull of the Moon was listed as a Globe and Mail Top 100 in 2014 and received both an IPPY award and the 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize. Julie’s poetry, stories, and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies across North America, and her first book of poetry, The Rules of the Kingdom, is forthcoming in 2017 with McGill-Queen's University Press. She lives in Victoria, BC.

Award: $1000, chapbook publication, an excerpt in Issue 11, and a fiction prize pack

Melissa Kuipers grew up on an egg farm in southern Ontario. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, and has had stories published in journals such as The Puritan, Ryga, Joyland and Grain as well as creative non-fiction in carte blanche, The Ottawa Arts Review and Qwerty. She live in Hamilton, Ontario with her husband Mark.  

William Todd Seabrook received his MFA from the University of Colorado and his PhD in fiction at Florida State University. He is the author of four prose chapbooks: This Semi-Perfect Universe, The Genius of J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and The Imagination of Lewis Carroll. His short work has appeared in Phoebe, The Volta, Tin House, Mid-American Review, PANK, CutBank, Quiddity, New Ohio Review, and 30 Under 30 Anthology. He is currently the editor the Cupboard Pamphlet, and lives in central New York.

Award: Each finalist will receive $100, an excerpt in Issue 11, and a fiction prize pack!

Big thanks to our Chapbook Contest Judge Suzette Mayr!

​SUZETTE MAYR is the author of four novels including her most recent book Monoceros, which won the ReLit Award, and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, and was nominated for several prizes including the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of Calgary.

The Rusty Toque is pleased to nominate the following works for the 2015 Pushcart Prize. Good luck to the nominees!

“The Person You Want to See” by Alex Leslie (Short Fiction)
“The United States Has Gone Crazy” by Stuart Ross (Short Fiction)
“The Private Self in the Public Domain” by Madeleine Thien (Nonfiction)
"Skybed" by Andrea Chan (Poetry)
“Blackfoot” from Native America by Jordan Abel (Poetry)
“I Am No Lady, Lazarus” by Sina Queyras (Poetry)

We are thrilled to announce The Rusty Toque's new Interviews Editor, Adèle Barclay and Social Media Editor, Geoffrey Nilson.

Both are past contributors to The Rusty Toque, and we are excited to have them on board in their new roles.

Adèle Barclay's review of Jillian Tamaki's graphic novel Supermutant Magic Academy can be found in
Issue 8 and Geoffrey Nilson's poetry was featured in Issue 3.

Adèle Barclay is a writer and critic based in Vancouver. Her debut collection of poetry was shortlisted for the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and is forthcoming from Nightwood Editions. Her writing has been published in The Pinch, The Literary Review of Canada, Cosmonauts Avenue, Matrix, and elsewhere. Currently, she is the CWILA Links Editor and is writing a doctoral dissertation on American poetry and film.

Geoffrey Nilson is a writer, editor, visual artist, and musician whose poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry is Dead, PRISM international, subTerrain, Lemon Hound, The Rusty Toque, Soliloquies, rip/torn, Qwerty, and The Glasgow Review of Books. His work has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Poetry and won Honourable Mention for the Alfred G Bailey Poetry Prize. Nilson is Contributing Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and studies writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He lives in New Westminster, BC, Canada, with his daughter, Scarlett.

RUSTY TOQUE POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST
The Rusty Toque is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Poetry Chapbook Contest chosen by our judge Hoa Nguyen. 

The wining manuscript will be available in the Spring 2016. Excerpts from all three manuscripts will appear in Issue 9 (Fall 2015) of The Rusty Toque.

1st Place, Winner of the 2015 Poetry Chapbook Contest
Un/documented, Kentucky: A Poem in Ten Parts by Steven Alvarez
Prize: $800 (CAD) + chapbook publication (10 copies) + poetry prize pack + 3-year subscription to Poetry is Dead + 1-year subscription to Arc Poetry + an excerpt published in Issue 9 of The Rusty Toque

Steven Alvarez is the author of the novels in verse The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2012), both published by Editorial Paroxismo. His chapbook Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus was awarded the 2012 Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize sponsored by Seven Kitchens Press. The Poetry Society of America recognized his poem "& So Tio & Chaley" as one of the best poems about Times Square. His poetry has appeared in Acentos Review, Anthropology and Humanism, Berkeley Review, Drunken Boat, Fence, and Huizache. He is Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. 

2nd Place Finalist
Language Lesson by Ashaki M. Jackson
Prize:  $100 (CAD) + a poetry prize pack + an excerpt published in issue 9 of The Rusty Toque

Ashaki M. Jackson, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, program evaluator and poet who has worked with at-risk and post-incarceration youth through research, evaluation, and creative arts mentoring for one decade. She is a Cave Canem alumna, VONA alumna and WriteGirl mentor. Her work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Rkvry Quarterly, Suisun Valley Review, Inch Magazine, and Read Women: An Anthology (Locked Horn Press), among others. Dr. Jackson is also co-founder of Women Who Submit, a community that supports women in submitting their literary works to top tier journals. She earned her MFA (poetry) from Antioch University Los Angeles and her doctorate (social psychology) from Claremont Graduate University.

3rd Place Finalist
Immersion Kick by Jeremy Hoevenaar
Prize:  $100 (CAD) + a poetry prize pack + an excerpt published in issue 9 of The Rusty Toque

Jeremy Hoevenaar lives with his beautiful family in Brooklyn, New York. Other than that, he is the author of Cold Mountain Mirror Displacement (American Books) and Adaptations of Pelt and Hoof (H_NGM_N).  Recent work also appears or is forthcoming in 6x6, Sensation Feelings Journal, The Portable Boog Reader #8, and A Perimeter.

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors for their generous book and subscription donations: Anansi, Anvil Press, Arc Poetry Magazine, BookThug, Brick Books, Coach House Books, Mansfield Press, Poetry is Dead, and Wave Books, and thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for their financial support.

Prize Pack Donations from Publishers
 
From House of Anansi Press
Congotronic by Shane Book
For Tamara by Sarah Lang
The Quiet by Anne-Marie Turza
Prologue for the Age of Consequence by Garth Martens
 
From Book Thug
Thou by Aisha Sasha John
Hang in There by Angela Carr
City, Book One—Singular Assumptions by Michael Boughn
Leak by Kate Hargreaves
Afterletters by R. Kolewe
 
From Brick Books
I see my love more clearly from a distance by Nora Gould
The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph
The Family China by Ann Shin
A Broken Bowl by Patrick Friesen
Thin Moon Psalm by Sheri Benning
 
From Coach House Books
Broom Broom by Brecken Hancock
Match by Helen Guri
Probably Inevitable Matthew Tierney
 
From Mansfield Press
My Planet of Kites by Marie-Ève Comtois
moon baboon canoe by Gary Barwin
Sympathy Loophole by Jaime Forsythe
Yaw by Dani Couture
Goodbye, Ukulele by Leigh Nash
 
From Wave Books
Take It by Joshua Beckman
Sunny Wednesday by Noelle Kocot
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis
1 Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Selected Poems by Dara Wier
Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen