The Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers

2009 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize Winner

Aaron Baker of Charlottesville, Virginia has been named recipient of the 2009 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, awarded annually by Shenandoah and Washington and Lee University, for his book Mission Work (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). The book was also winner of the 2007 Bakeless Poetry Prize. Baker received the MFA from the University of Virginia and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University. He has lived in Mexico, Germany and Paupa, New Guinea, where his parents were missionaries in a remote village of the Chimbu Highlands. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Baker lives in Charlottesville and teaches in the creative writing program at Hollins University. Writers who have published one book of poetry were eligible for consideration for the prize. Judge for the 2009 Prize was Alice Friman.

2010 Prize: $2,000

Eligibility for 2010 Prize:

All writers of POETRY with only one published book in that genre.

To apply:

Send first book,* five unpublished poems and biographical information along with an s.a.s.e. and a check for $25 (from either author or publisher), which brings two issues of Shenandoah, between March 15 and March 31, 2010 to:

R. T. Smith
The Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize
 SHENANDOAH
Mattingly House / 2 Lee Avenue
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450-2116

* Books submitted for consideration will not be returned and will be donated to a local library after the contest has been judged.