We are very pleased to announce our Gertrude Stein Award Finalists for 2014. Our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be chosen from this list. Our decisions were very difficult. We received many talented submissions and each submission received attention from multiple readers. The 1st place winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 plus publication in Eckleburg No. 19. 2nd and 3rd place winners will be published in Eckleburg No. 19.
Our guest judge for the Gertrude Stein Award 2014 is the awarded author, Cris Mazza, whose new hybrid memoir, Something Wrong with Her, is out now with Jaded Ibis Press.
The following list of finalists are alphabetical by author’s last name.
| Winterriese | Sara Baker |
| Peaches | Sarah Gerard |
| Anonymity of Faces | Kirk Glaser |
| Insecticide | Rachel Goldman |
| The Birds on Peach Street | Anabel Graff |
| Rhonda Belle and the Butterfly | Chad Halliday |
| Down the Street that Lady Comes | Robert Krantz |
| Passed Into the Fire of Molech | Hunter Liguore |
| People in Jail | Linda McCullough Moore |
| A Song Died | Andrew McLinden |
| Waterhead | Terry Mergenthal |
| The White Envelope | Sophie Monatte |
| Another Man’s Wife | Nicole Mullis |
| The Letters of Odysseus to Kalypso | Zana Previti |
| Gods | Vernon Pua |
| Song of the Amputee’s Mother | Shanee Stepakoff |
| Things You Can’t Forget | Sara Taylor |
| Fruit Loops | Alice Urchin |
| The Rooms We Rented | Robert Vaughan |
| Violins | Luke Wiget |
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.
Honored to be a finalist!
Our pleasure, Sophie!
What a thrill to be one of the finalists! Thank you.
Any idea when the winners will be chosen? Looking forward to the results.