2009 Caketrain Chapbook Competition
Final Judge Michael Burkard
Poetry Genre

Winner
Ghost Machine, Ben Mirov.

Runner-up
Bird Any Damn Kind, Lucas Farrell.

Also Notable
Fables, Sarah Goldstein.
Hauptstrasse, A. Minetta Gould.
Minimum Heroic, Christopher Salerno.

2009 Pushcart Nominees
“Little Bavaria,” Marc Kipniss & Kathryn Rantala. Issue 07
“Verging,” Margaret Frozena. Issue 07
“Swans,” Joanna Ruocco. Issue 07
“Quietly Now,” Darby Larson. Issue 07
“Summer of Death,” Michael Burkard. Issue 07
“The Reappearing Thumb,” Michael Jay Katz. Issue 07

2008 Caketrain Chapbook Competition
Final Judge Brian Evenson
Fiction Genre

Winner
All the Day’s Sad Stories, Tina May Hall.

Runner-up
The Collectors, Matt Bell.

Also Notable
A State of Unbelief and Hawthorn Blossoms, Andrew Borgstrom.
Personas, J.C. Miller.
Springtime and Important Things to Remember, Ben Stein.

2008 Pushcart Nominees
“The Fainting Couch,” Sara Levine. Issue 06
“Muse Annie,” Katherine McCord. Issue 06
“Consider the Buzzard,” Ryan Call. Issue 06
“Symbiotic Beast,” Kim Parko. Issue 06
“The Beekeeper’s Apprentice,” Gretchen E. Henderson. Issue 06
“This, About the Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere,”
Kate Hill Cantrill. Issue 06

2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition
Final Judge Claudia Rankine
Poetry Genre

Winner
afterpastures, Claire Hero.

Runner-up
scenic fences | houses innumerable, Aby Kaupang.

Also Notable
Dear Sound of Footstep, Jane Ashley.
Terrible Person, Rebecca Gopoian.
Lot 16, Christof Scheele.

2007 Pushcart Nominees
“instructions from the narwhal,” Allison Titus. Issue 04
“A Certain Number of Bedrooms, A Certain Number of Baths,”
Matt Bell. Issue 04
“The Doll Performs Surgery,” and “Four Visitations,”
Tom Whalen. Dolls
“Diary of the Blockage,” Amelia Gray. Issue 05
“Happy Birthday, Bathtub,” Emily Anderson. Issue 05

2006 Caketrain Chapbook Competition
Final Judge Denise Duhamel
Poetry Genre

Winner
Dolls, Tom Whalen.

Runner-up
Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series, Julie Gard.

Also Notable
Lion-Shaped Parade, Tom Christopher.
Narcissus Resists, Matthew Hittinger.
Scar Letters, Theodore Worozbyt.

2006 Pushcart Nominees
“natural emergency 1,” “natural emergency 2,” “natural emergency 3,”
Carrie Bennett. Issue 03
“Long Division,” Amanda Yskamp. Issue 03
“The Doctor Assesses” and “To Frida,” Addie Tsai. Issue 03

2005 Caketrain Nonfiction Competition
Final Judge Sue William Silverman

Winner
“Postcards to a First Love, Never Sent,” Rosie Molinary. Issue 03

Runner-up
“It’s a Long Way to Akureyri,” Cynthia Alden Smith. Issue 03

2005 Caketrain Fiction Competition
Final Judge Tayari Jones

Winner
“Change of Plans,” Ben Tanzer. Issue 03

Runner-up
“The Breakfast Mute,” John G. Wallace. Issue 03

2005 Pushcart Nominees
“My Husband is the Husband of Five Other Women,” “My Husband is a State Trooper,” “My Husband is a Broker at Bear, Stearns,” “My Husband is a Dermatologist,” “My Husband Was a Spokesman for the President,” “My Husband is a Homosexual,” Elizabeth Skurnick. Check-In

2004 Caketrain Chapbook Competition
Final Judge Jim Daniels
Poetry Genre

Winner
Check-In, Elizabeth Skurnick.

Runner-up
The Reservist, John Davis.