The winner and runner-up selections for the 2011 Caketrain Chapbook Competition have been received from Rosemarie Waldrop. Additionally, we wish to publicly acknowledge three “Also Notable” manuscripts which we the editors herald for their daring originality and prowess. The list is as follows:

Winner
Mistake, Meredith Stricker.

Runner-up
Listening for Earthquakes, Jasmine Dreame Wagner.

Also Notable
The Land Is a Painted Thing, Carrie Bennett.
Dismantling the Rabbit Altar, Natasha Kessler.
Cathexis Edelweiss, Thibault Raoult.

Mistake and Listening for Earthquakes will see publication this summer. We extend our gratitude to all who entered this year’s competition.

The Weather Stations—the debut short fiction collection from 2011 Whiting Award Winner Ryan Call—is available once again in paperback. Place your order today. 5 Dec 2011

The ninth issue of Caketrain—featuring new work from Daniel Grandbois, Joe Hall, Chad Hardy, Kate Rutledge Jaffe, Michael Kimball, Alec Niedenthal, Kathryn Rantala, Joanna Ruocco, and many more—is now available for order for just $9 US. 28 Nov 2011