2016 Osprey Fiction Award Winner
2015 Fledge Poetry Chapbook
Award Winners
2015
Fledge Poetry Chapbook Winners
Erika Moss Gordon
for her manuscript
Phases
Erika Moss Gordon lives in the mountains of southwest Colorado with her two beautiful children, where she writes poetry, works for a film festival and teaches yoga.
Her first collection of poetry, Of Eyes and Iris, was published by Liquid Light Press in 2013. Erika’s writing has appeared in Mountain Gazette Magazine, Fungi Magazine, Telluride Watch, Telluride Magazine, Telluride Inside and Out, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Salmonberry Arts and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, a collection of poetry.
Erika’s writing can be found online on her Blog or on Deidra Krois’ stunning artwork at Wishing Star Pottery
Kathleen Willard
for her manuscript
Cirque & Sky
Kathleen lives in northern Colorado and has published in various literary magazines and anthologies including Bombay Gin, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Flint Hill Review, Matter,
Colere, The Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park and Landscape and Place.
She completed both her MA in English Literature at Middlebury’s Breadloaf School of English and MFA in Creative Writing at Colorado State University.
Her literary awards include a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to India, a scholarship to the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, and a fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center twice.
Michael Olin-Hitt
For his manuscript
Messiah Complex
and Other Stories
Dr. Michael Olin-Hitt, English professor at Mount Union College teaches American Literature, Fiction Writing, and Native American Literature.
He has published an award-winning novel, "The Homegoing," in addition to two books on mystical awareness and thirteen short stories.