Cranky Literary Journal Announces its First Annual Chapbook Contest Winner, Andrew Michael Roberts’ “You Were Right About Everything.”
   
Better late (and great) than never, as they say! Cranky Literary Journal is excited to (finally) announce the winner of its first ever Chapbook Contest.  Andrew Michael Robert’s entry “You Were Right About Everything” was chosen from a group of more than 200 submissions by final judges Amber Curtis and Wes Benson.

Chapbook finalists are
Aby Kaupang, “scenic fences”
Jaimie Guzman, “Things That Fly, Part One”
Kristy Bowen, “the levitations”
Kim Gek Lin Short, “The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits
   
Andrew Michael Roberts’  poetry is uniquely attentive to the possibilities of language, engagingly quirky and witty, and at times profoundly tender (but not in an icky way, we promise!).  Poet and contest judge Wes Benson writes, "As the collection develops, the playfulness of surface evident in the poems comes to seem a remarkably effective strategy with which the speaker attempts to make sense of what has happened to him, while maintaining a necessary degree of distance.”

Andrew Michael Roberts lives in Seattle. He is the author of Dear Wild Abandon, which was given a 2007 PSA National Chapbook Award, and Give Up, a chapbook from Tarpaulin Sky Press. He studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was a Juniper Fellow and received the Distinguished Teaching Award. His work can be found in journals such as Tin House, Iowa Review, LIT, Colorado Review, Mississippi Review and Gulf Coast.
 
Along with publication, Andrew Michael Roberts also receives an award of $500 and 25 copies of the chapbook.  The scheduled release date of You Were Right About Everything is late December, 2007.

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