New England Review

Helene Achanzar

Winner of the 2022 Emerging Writers Award

New England Review and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference are delighted to announce the selection of Helene Achanzar as the recipient of the eighth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers. She was chosen among a strong pool of emerging writers published in NER in 2021, including the six finalists.

Helene Achanzar’s poems “Etymology” and “Chicago” appeared in NER 42.4.

She is a Filipina Canadian poet and educator. Her writing can be found in Oxford American, jubilat, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Editor for Poetry Northwest, Midwest Regional Chair for Kundiman, and the Director of Programs at the Chicago Poetry Center.

Helene will receive a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2022, as the Stephen Donadio Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar. Congratulations to Helene!

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Amber Flora Thomas Reads at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference 2018

Amber Flora Thomas reads “Self Portrait with Teeth,” published in Third Coast Magazine (2017); “Moment in Which the Self Moves Under Song,” forthcoming in Ecotone (2018); and “The Old Horse” from Connotation Press (2016), at the 2018 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. All three poems appear in Thomas’s new book, Red Channel in the Rupture.

 

Amber Flora Thomas is the recipient of several poetry awards, including the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize and Ann Stanford Prize. She is the author of Red Channel in the Rupture (2018), The Rabbits Could Sing (2012), and Eye of Water (2005), selected by Harryette Mullen for the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Zyzzyva, Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, and Crab Orchard Review, and in NER 39.3.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

 

 

 

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Edgar Kunz Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Edgar Kunz reads “After the Hurricane” (originally published in the Indiana Review) at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Kunz is the author of Tap Out (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in AGNI, New England Review 36.4, Ploughshares, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2015 & Best New Poets 2017. He lives in Oakland, California, and teaches  in the low-residency MFA program at Salve Regina University.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

Rick Barot Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

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Image result for rick barotRick Barot reads “Girl Carrying Ladder,” first published in Bennington Review, and “The Grasshopper and the Cricket,” first published in Threepenny Review.

Barot, poetry editor for New England Review, has published three books of poetry: The Darker Fall (2002), Want (2008), and most recently Chord, (2015) recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. Chord was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Barot has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. In 2016 he received a poetry fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

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