Anita Olivia Koester 

Awards

 

2020

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• Winner of The Baltimore Review's Prose Poetry Contest judged by Jen Hirt

• Finalist for Alice James Book Award 

• Semifinalist for Pleiades Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize (Book Award)

• Semifinalist for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press) judged by Maggie Smith (Book Award)

 

2019

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• Honorable Mention for The Poetry Society of America Lyric Poetry Award judged by Ilya Kaminsky

• Finalist for The Pinch Literary Award in Poetry

• Semifinalist for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press) judged by Mary Jo Bang (Book Award)

 

2018

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• Finalist for the James Wright Award judged by Dara Wier

• Runner-up for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press) judged by Dana Levin (Book Award)

• Finalist for Tupelo Quarterly Open Contest judged by Denise Duhamel

• Finalist for the San Diego Poetry Annual’s Steve Kowit Poetry Prize

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Up North Lit

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2017

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• Winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award judged by Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein

• Winner of the So to Speak Annual Poetry Contest judged by Natalie Diaz

• Finalist for the Phoebe Journal's Poetry Contest judged by Monica Yuon

• Winner of Sable Books Poems of Protest Contest judged by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Glass: A Journal of Poetry 

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Pittsburgh Poetry Review 

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Paper Nautilus Press 

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Muse-Pie Press 

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2016

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• Winner of Midwestern Gothic's  Lake Prize for Poetry judged by Airea D. Matthews

• Winner of Paper Nautilus' Vella Chapbook Contest

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Shot Glass Journal

• Winner of the Bread Loaf  Returning Contributor’s Award in Poetry

• Winner of the 38th Annual Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Award judged by John Rybicki

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2015

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• Winner of First Night Evanston’s Poetry Contest, hosted by RHINO and judged by Virginia Bell

• Nominated for Best New Poets by Tahoma Literary Review and Hermeneutic Chaos Journal 

• Honorable Mention for Concrete Wolf Chapbook Contest for The Dunce Queen

• Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Shot Glass Journal

• Awarded Scholarship to attend online Omnidawn Press workshop

• Shortlisted for Paris Lit Up Shorts Contest