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 Judges All Writer's Eye entries will first go to a panel of readers who will select a group of entries for the final round of judging. At all stages the judging is 'blind,' the name of the author is not on the work being read. Jonathan Coleman, author of Long Way to Go: Black and White in America, will judge the high school and university /adult prose categories. Former senior editor in book publishing and a former journalist with CBS News, Coleman taught non-fiction writing at U.Va. from 1986 to 1993. His earlier best-selling books are Exit the Rainmaker and At Mother's Request: True Story of Money, Murder, and Betrayal. Tan Lin, assistant professor of modern literature at U.Va., will judge the high school and university/adult poetry categories. His work has appeared in Lingo, The Village Voice, New American Writing, Hambone, First Intensity, Asian American Writing, and the anthologies Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of North American Asian Poetry and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry: 1993-1994. His latest collection of poems is entitled Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, published by Sun & Moon Press. Poetry judges for elementary and middle school entries are Lisa Spaar, Susan Washko, Michele Kellermann and Browning Porter. Prose judges are Paul Erb, Bobbie Platts-Mills, Karen Boeschenstein and Nura Yingling. |