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The Katharine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prizes were established in 1995 to expand the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference’s commitment to the support of emerging writers. Endowed by the LZ Francis Foundation, the prizes commemorate Middlebury College patron Katharine Bakeless Nason and launch the publication career of a poet, a fiction writer, and a creative nonfiction writer annually. Winning manuscripts are chosen in an open national competition by a distinguished judge in each genre. Winners are published by Graywolf Press.

2012 Judges

Tom Sleigh

Poetry

Randall Kenan

Fiction

BEN STROUD’s stories have appeared in
Harper’s, One Story, Electric Literature,
and
Boston Review,
among other magazines, and have been anthologized in
New Stories from the South 2010,
and
Best American Mystery Stories 2013.
A native of Texas, he now lives in Ohio and teaches creative writing at the University of Toledo.