2011 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Tanya Larkin for My Scarlet Ways. $1,500 and publication. Judge: Denise Duhamel.

2011 Idaho Prize for Poetry. J.T. Ledbetter for Old and Lost Rivers. $1,000 and publication by Lost Horse Press. Judge: Ray Amorosi.

VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. David Gordon for The Serialist. $5,000 and invitation to First Novelist Festival. Judges: Victor Lodato, Timothy Hulsey, Marcela Valdes.

2011 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award. Michael Hettich for The Measured Breathing. $200 and publication.