The New Feathers Award
January 1, 2021
2020 Award Winner
Happy New Year. It is a great pleasure to announce this year's award winner. We had many outstanding works of art this year, and many great nominees. In the end, we agreed that Elizabeth Harmatys Park's "38th and Chicago" deserved the award. Her poem is a powerful and bold expression of the hardships of life, of community, and the outrage felt at the death of George Floyd, not only a beautiful poem but an appropriate selection for the year 2020. Congratulations.
Runners Up
We had a diverse group of artists and genres in the final selection. Here are the few finalists we debated before selecting our winner.
Poetry
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Juan Pablo Mobili
Plum Black
Lisa Mottolo
it is still brewing
Melody Wang
Music
Sin Dignidad
Kurt Ribak
Fiction
Salt and Honey
Leah Rogin
December 22, 2020
2020 Nominees
New Feathers Anthology was conceived as a way to support the arts and literature that we love, to give artists a place to present their work outside of commercial concerns. As such, if an artist is included in New Feathers, we saw their work as worthy of our support and encouragement. Money, however, is one way we show appreciation of an artist, and since we cannot pay everyone, we wanted to create an annual award, the New Feathers Award, to be presented to one contributor to the journal. All profits from donations and sales of the anthology, after expenses, would go towards that award. This year, since it was our first, we had no profits, but we still want to offer an award, of $300—enough to buy some supplies, pay a bill or two, enjoy a party, or buy some groceries. How it is spent is up to you. Really, the award is about acknowledging our appreciation of your work. And we like to think that we may be helping an artist when the artist needs the help.
Selection of nominees was incredibly difficult. Each of our panelists selected one work from each issue. Going through the works of the eighty artists we published this year, I was amazed at the quality of the work we received. I could have nominated many from each issue, and I know this was true for the other panelists. That there was so little cross-over in our lists suggests that we had a lot of great work this year. Thank you to all of you. The following is our list of nominees for 2020, selected from the contributors to New Feathers Anthology. The award winner will be selected by John, Caroline, and me, and will be announced soon. Look for the smoke signals from New Feathers headquarters.
Spring 2020
Lisa Panepinto
amazed that I exist, after hurricane maria
Jim Damron
Modesto-Empire Traction Engine, Magic Meadow, Pinecrest Lake Trail, Wet Valley Winter Scene #3, Mr. Curls
Juan Pablo Mobili
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Kurt Ribak
Sin Dignidad, Testifyin’
Harumi Yukawa
Girl by the Window
Summer 2020
Effat Pourhasani
Quarantine Days
Lisa Mottolo
Plum Black
Leah Rogin
Salt and Honey
Lorette C. Luzajic
Corona Corazon
Elizabeth Harmatys Park
38th and Chicago
Winter 2020
Joel H. Vega
One Thing They Didn’t Tell Us About Hope
Katherine Beam
Daughter Daughter
Melody Wang
it is still brewing
Liza Michelle Bevams
Other Selves
January 1, 2021
2020 Award Winner
Happy New Year. It is a great pleasure to announce this year's award winner. We had many outstanding works of art this year, and many great nominees. In the end, we agreed that Elizabeth Harmatys Park's "38th and Chicago" deserved the award. Her poem is a powerful and bold expression of the hardships of life, of community, and the outrage felt at the death of George Floyd, not only a beautiful poem but an appropriate selection for the year 2020. Congratulations.
Runners Up
We had a diverse group of artists and genres in the final selection. Here are the few finalists we debated before selecting our winner.
Poetry
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Juan Pablo Mobili
Plum Black
Lisa Mottolo
it is still brewing
Melody Wang
Music
Sin Dignidad
Kurt Ribak
Fiction
Salt and Honey
Leah Rogin
December 22, 2020
2020 Nominees
New Feathers Anthology was conceived as a way to support the arts and literature that we love, to give artists a place to present their work outside of commercial concerns. As such, if an artist is included in New Feathers, we saw their work as worthy of our support and encouragement. Money, however, is one way we show appreciation of an artist, and since we cannot pay everyone, we wanted to create an annual award, the New Feathers Award, to be presented to one contributor to the journal. All profits from donations and sales of the anthology, after expenses, would go towards that award. This year, since it was our first, we had no profits, but we still want to offer an award, of $300—enough to buy some supplies, pay a bill or two, enjoy a party, or buy some groceries. How it is spent is up to you. Really, the award is about acknowledging our appreciation of your work. And we like to think that we may be helping an artist when the artist needs the help.
Selection of nominees was incredibly difficult. Each of our panelists selected one work from each issue. Going through the works of the eighty artists we published this year, I was amazed at the quality of the work we received. I could have nominated many from each issue, and I know this was true for the other panelists. That there was so little cross-over in our lists suggests that we had a lot of great work this year. Thank you to all of you. The following is our list of nominees for 2020, selected from the contributors to New Feathers Anthology. The award winner will be selected by John, Caroline, and me, and will be announced soon. Look for the smoke signals from New Feathers headquarters.
Spring 2020
Lisa Panepinto
amazed that I exist, after hurricane maria
Jim Damron
Modesto-Empire Traction Engine, Magic Meadow, Pinecrest Lake Trail, Wet Valley Winter Scene #3, Mr. Curls
Juan Pablo Mobili
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Kurt Ribak
Sin Dignidad, Testifyin’
Harumi Yukawa
Girl by the Window
Summer 2020
Effat Pourhasani
Quarantine Days
Lisa Mottolo
Plum Black
Leah Rogin
Salt and Honey
Lorette C. Luzajic
Corona Corazon
Elizabeth Harmatys Park
38th and Chicago
Winter 2020
Joel H. Vega
One Thing They Didn’t Tell Us About Hope
Katherine Beam
Daughter Daughter
Melody Wang
it is still brewing
Liza Michelle Bevams
Other Selves