The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Publication by Sarabande Books. Winner: Jerry Gabriel for Drowned Boy: Stories. Judge: Andrea Barrett.

The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Publication by Sarabande Books. Winner: Karyna McGlynn for I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl. Judge: Lynn Emanuel.

2008 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. $1,000 and Publication by University of Tampa Press. Winner: Benjamin S. Grossberg for Sweet Core Orchard.

2008 Cohen Awards for Best Poem and Short Story Published in Ploughshares. Winners: Jennifer Grotz for her poem “The Life and Times of George Van den Heuve” in the Spring 2007 issue edited by Edward Hirsch and Bret Anthony Johnston for his story “Republican” in the Fall 2007 issue edited by Andrea Barrett.

2007 New Rivers Press Many Voices Project (MVP). $1,000 and publication by New Rivers Press. Winners: Susan Barr-Toman for her novel  When Love Was Clean Underwear; Elizabeth Oness for her poetry collection Fallibility; and Maya Pindych for her poetry collection Eye, Thus Precious. Judges: Ann Hood, Michael Hettich, and Alan Davis.

2008 National Magazine Award - Essay Category. Winner: New Letters for Thomas E.Kennedy's essay “I am Joe Prostate.”

2008 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. $1,000. Winner: John Poch for Two Men Fighting with a Knife. Judge: David Mason.

2008 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. $1,250 and Publication by Saturnalia Books. Winner: Sebastian Agudelofor Kitchen Subjects. Judge: Mark Doty.

2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry. Publication by Lost Horse Press. Winner: Philip Memmer for L U C I F E R, A Hagiography. Judge: M.L. Smoker.

Glimmer Train June Fiction Open. Publication in Glimmer Train Stories. Winners: First Place ($2,000): Shimon Tanaka for “The Suit.” Second Place ($1,000): Christine Sneed for“Twelve + Twelve.” Third Place ($600): Horatio Potter for “Summer Help.”

Narrative Magazine First Person Contest. Publication in Narrative Magazine. Winners: First Place ($3,000): Gina Ochsner for “On Principle.” Second Place ($1,750): Heather Brittain Bergstrom for “Celilo Falls.” Third Place ($1,000): Holly Wilson for “Night Glow.”