Awards

Writing awards

Marilene Phipps is an exquisite poet. In her work, dragonflies flirt with water, children fly blouse kites, the Virgin appears in a blue and yellow mist to comfort the river women, the worshippers, the nonbelievers, the bereaved, and all of us. Through Phipps' lyrical visions and breathtaking images, we are all transformed.
-Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory

Winner 2010 Iowa Award
for Short Fiction:
The Company of Heaven

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- University of Georgia Press; Flannery O’Connor Award
  Finalist for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2008

- Glimmer Train Press Inc.; Very short fiction Award for The Tablecloth;
  Honorable Mention; Feb. 2009

- The University of Iowa Press; Iowa Short Fiction awards
  Finalist for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2007

- University of West Alabama; Tartt Award;
  Winner for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2007

- Eastern Washington University Press; Spokane Prize;
  Semi-finalist for the short story collection, The House of Fossils; 2006

- Best American Short Stories 2003; Walter Mosley Editor; 2003

- Best American Short Stories 2001; listed as, “Distinguished Stories”; 2001

- Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry; Winner
  for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 2000

- The Grolier poetry prize; 1st prize winner. Cambridge, MA; 1993

- Academy of American Poets; Walt Whitman Prize;
  Finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1997

- Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry;
  Semi-finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998

- Sarabande Books; Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry;
  Finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998

- Untenberg Poetry Center; “Discovery,” The Nation contest;
  Semi-finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998

- Silverfish Review Press; Gerald Cable Book Award;
  Finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1998

- Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize;
  Semi-finalist for collection, Crossroads and Unholy Water; 1999

- Glimmer Train Press Inc.; Very Short Fiction Award;
  Finalist for, Life Outside my Own; 2001