The editors are very pleased to announce that Jan Wallace has won the 2019 Cider Press Review book award with her manuscript Nothing Like the Doll You Learned On. Runner-up for the award was The Punishments Must Be a School by Emily August. Other finalists were Echo’s Recipe by Theodore Worozbyt, Night, Translated by Jonathan Duckworth, and Rearticulation by Anastasia Stelse.
Nothing Like the Doll You Learned On has a tentative release date of August, 2020 from Cider Press Review. All contest entrants will receive a copy of the book.
Jan Wallace’s poems and essays have previously appeared in various journals including Terrain.org A Journal of the Built + Natural World; Off Paper The Project Room’s literary magazine; Field; Poetry Northwest; Hubbub; Fine Madness; Arcade A Journal of Architecture and Design in the Northwest; Nest and The Seattle Review. Her honors include an International Writer’s Fellowship completed at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, UK.