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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!
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!
Honorable Mention
IFS by Gregory Betts
IFS by Gregory Betts
Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, and professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
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.
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.
Thanks to our sponsors for their book donations and to the Canada Council for supporting The Rusty Toque!
Congratulations to Alex Leslie whose short story "The Person You Want to See" was longlisted for the 2016 Journey Prize.
The story was originally published in Issue 9 of The Rusty Toque and has been included in the Journey Prize Anthology!
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)
“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.
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.
INTERVIEWS EDITOR: ADÈLE BARCLAY
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.
SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR: GEOFFREY NILSON
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.
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.
Steven Alvarez 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.
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.
Ashaki M. JacksonPhoto by Ana Ponzo
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.
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.
Jeremy Hoevenaar 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.
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 Sponsors
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
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
We are thrilled to announce that Jacqueline Valencia is joining The Rusty Toque team as a Senior Literary Editor.
In her new role, she will be selecting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and experimental writing for each issue along with our two other Senior Literary Editors Kathryn Mockler and Aaron Schneider.
She will also be interviewing writers for our Rusty Talk series.
JACQUELINE VALENCIA is a Toronto-based writer, poet, and critic. Her contributions can be found in various publications across Canada. She is a CWILA board member and a part of the Meet The Presses collective. Jacqueline’s work, James Joyce remixes, and poetry experiments can be found at jacquelinevalencia.com.
In her new role, she will be selecting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and experimental writing for each issue along with our two other Senior Literary Editors Kathryn Mockler and Aaron Schneider.
She will also be interviewing writers for our Rusty Talk series.
JACQUELINE VALENCIA is a Toronto-based writer, poet, and critic. Her contributions can be found in various publications across Canada. She is a CWILA board member and a part of the Meet The Presses collective. Jacqueline’s work, James Joyce remixes, and poetry experiments can be found at jacquelinevalencia.com.
 | Congratulations to Kevin Spenst whose poem "no part of this abcentobook" from Issue 4 of The Rusty Toque appears in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014 edited by Sonnet L’Abbé |
RUSTY TOQUE FICTION CHAPBOOK CONTEST
The Rusty Toque is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Fiction Chapbook Contest chosen by our judge Lee Henderson.
The Rusty Toque is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Fiction Chapbook Contest chosen by our judge Lee Henderson.
John Jodzio 1st Place
You Cannot Give Yourself a Nickname by John Jodzio
Prize: $800 + prize pack + chapbook publication.
John Jodzio is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship. His stories have appeared in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections, “If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home” (Replacement Press) and “Get In If You Want To Live” (Paper Darts Press). He lives in Minneapolis. Find out more at www.johnjodzio.net
You Cannot Give Yourself a Nickname by John Jodzio
Prize: $800 + prize pack + chapbook publication.
John Jodzio is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship. His stories have appeared in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections, “If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home” (Replacement Press) and “Get In If You Want To Live” (Paper Darts Press). He lives in Minneapolis. Find out more at www.johnjodzio.net
Phillip Sterling 2nd Place
Amateur Husbandry by Phillip Sterling
Prize: $50 + prize pack + publication (story)
Phillip Sterling’s very short stories have appeared in Midway Journal, Opium, Fiction At Work, Bear River Review, and Epiphany, among other places. In Which Brief Stories Are Told, a collection of fiction, was released from Wayne State University Press in 2011. He is also the author of the poetry collection Mutual Shores and three chapbook-length series of poems: Significant Others, Quatrains, and Abeyance. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Fulbright Lectureships, and a P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Award. In August 2014, he served as Artist-in-Residence of Isle Royale National Park.
Amateur Husbandry by Phillip Sterling
Prize: $50 + prize pack + publication (story)
Phillip Sterling’s very short stories have appeared in Midway Journal, Opium, Fiction At Work, Bear River Review, and Epiphany, among other places. In Which Brief Stories Are Told, a collection of fiction, was released from Wayne State University Press in 2011. He is also the author of the poetry collection Mutual Shores and three chapbook-length series of poems: Significant Others, Quatrains, and Abeyance. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Fulbright Lectureships, and a P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Award. In August 2014, he served as Artist-in-Residence of Isle Royale National Park.
Margaret Luongo 3rd Place
The War Artist - Margaret Luongo
Prize: $50 + prize pack + publication (excerpt)
Margaret Luongo's stories have appeared in Tin House, The Cincinnati Review, Granta.com, North American Review, FENCE, the Pushcart Prize anthology and other publications. In 2008, LSU Press published her story collection, If the Heart is Lean. She teaches creative writing for Miami University in Ohio and London.
The War Artist - Margaret Luongo
Prize: $50 + prize pack + publication (excerpt)
Margaret Luongo's stories have appeared in Tin House, The Cincinnati Review, Granta.com, North American Review, FENCE, the Pushcart Prize anthology and other publications. In 2008, LSU Press published her story collection, If the Heart is Lean. She teaches creative writing for Miami University in Ohio and London.
Honorable Mentions
Prophecies of Consummation and Suspension by kevin martins mcpherson eckhoff
Three Stories by Lori Garrison
3 by Meghan Allen
Prophecies of Consummation and Suspension by kevin martins mcpherson eckhoff
Three Stories by Lori Garrison
3 by Meghan Allen
Thanks everyone who submitted to the 2014 Chapbook Contest.
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First Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Polyamorous Love Song, a novel by Jacob Wren (BookThug, 2014)
Nine Inches, stories by Tom Perrotta (House of Anansi, 2013)
Savage 1986-2011, a novel by Nathaniel G. Moore (Anvil Press, 2013)
Air Carnation by Guadalupe Muro (BookThug, 2014)
The Outside World, a novel by Barry Dempster (Pedlar Press, 2013)
The Stonehenge Letters by Harry Karlinsky (Coach House, 2014)
The Devil and the Detective by John Goldbach (Coach House, 2013)
2nd Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Two Sisters of Borneo, a novel by Ian Hamilton (House of Anansi, 2014)
All the Rage by A.L. Kennedy, stories (House of Anansi, 2014)
Atomic Storybook, a novel by Ed MacDonald (Anvil Press, 2013)
Cake Song, poems by Yoko’s Dog (Pedlar Press, 2013)
A, fiction by André Alexis (BookThug, 2013)
Guyana by Elise Turcotte, trans. by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House, 2014)
3rd Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Serafim and Claire, a novel by Mark Lavorato, (House of Anansi, 2014)
A Bird’s Eye, a novel by Cary Fagan (House of Anansi, 2013)
Thorazine Beach, a novel by Bradley Harris (Anvil Press, 2013)
no angel, poems by Annie McLurg (Pedlar Press, 2013)
I Don’t Know How to Behave, a fiction by Michael Blouin (BookThug, 2013)
Pastoral by Andre Alexis (Coach House, 2014)
We would like to thank our readers Amy Higgins, Rachel Ganzewinkel, Jennifer Nangreave, Kathryn Mockler, and Aaron Schneider, and our judge Lee Henderson.
Finally a special thanks to our sponsors without whom this contest would not be possible:
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter or sign up for our newsletter for updates about the 2015 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
First Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Polyamorous Love Song, a novel by Jacob Wren (BookThug, 2014)
Nine Inches, stories by Tom Perrotta (House of Anansi, 2013)
Savage 1986-2011, a novel by Nathaniel G. Moore (Anvil Press, 2013)
Air Carnation by Guadalupe Muro (BookThug, 2014)
The Outside World, a novel by Barry Dempster (Pedlar Press, 2013)
The Stonehenge Letters by Harry Karlinsky (Coach House, 2014)
The Devil and the Detective by John Goldbach (Coach House, 2013)
2nd Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Two Sisters of Borneo, a novel by Ian Hamilton (House of Anansi, 2014)
All the Rage by A.L. Kennedy, stories (House of Anansi, 2014)
Atomic Storybook, a novel by Ed MacDonald (Anvil Press, 2013)
Cake Song, poems by Yoko’s Dog (Pedlar Press, 2013)
A, fiction by André Alexis (BookThug, 2013)
Guyana by Elise Turcotte, trans. by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House, 2014)
3rd Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Serafim and Claire, a novel by Mark Lavorato, (House of Anansi, 2014)
A Bird’s Eye, a novel by Cary Fagan (House of Anansi, 2013)
Thorazine Beach, a novel by Bradley Harris (Anvil Press, 2013)
no angel, poems by Annie McLurg (Pedlar Press, 2013)
I Don’t Know How to Behave, a fiction by Michael Blouin (BookThug, 2013)
Pastoral by Andre Alexis (Coach House, 2014)
We would like to thank our readers Amy Higgins, Rachel Ganzewinkel, Jennifer Nangreave, Kathryn Mockler, and Aaron Schneider, and our judge Lee Henderson.
Finally a special thanks to our sponsors without whom this contest would not be possible:
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