Scot Siegel lives in the Northern Willamette Valley of Oregon, on the ancestral lands of the Kalapuya.

2024 Award Winner
Tender Currencies
by Scot Siegel

Our judge Risa Denenberg has selected Tender Currencies as winner of the 2024 Sally Albiso Award

“Written with the discernment of koans, Tender Currencies—a narrative of climate, location, and geologic and human transformations—struck me with its lush language, steady rhythms, and exquisite descriptions. Here is a work of close observations of species, land formations, and internal reflections that honor healing and reconciliation, while also seamlessly incorporating the personal: family history and a dazzling finale of love poems.”

 

1st Runner Up

Forty Bouts in the Wilderness

 

Katy E. Ellis

 

Judge’s comments: With language that is varied and urgent; elegant syntax; and a tone that is both mournful and buoyant, Forty Bouts in the Wilderness is a layered story of loss and redemption. A father’s recovery from a stroke and two miscarriages are at the heart of its braided and recursive narrative.

2nd Runner Up

Earth at Perihelion

 

Pamela Carter

 

Judge’s comments: The language in Earth at Perihelion is brilliant, sibilant, imaginative, haunting, vulnerable, and above all, precise, spanning time, epochs, and geological truths..

 

Lisa Ashley
Cindy Veach
Susan Landraf
Michael Magee
Scott Delgarno

Finalists

Lift, Drive, Rise
Monster Galaxy
Out of a Land of Alkali and Chromate
Shiny Things
Third Class Relics

 

 

Cara Lorello
Christopher Luna
Richard Meadows
Kwami Nyamide
Bruce Parker
Vivian Faith Prescott
CJ Sage
Claudia F. Saleeby Savage
Matt Schumacher
Judith Skillman
Michael Spring
Mark Strohschein

Honorable Mention

Cathy Cain
Jack Cooper
Michael Daley
Mary Christine Delea
Freyr Dyrnes
Geri Gale
Marybeth Holleman
Clare Johnson
J.I. Kleinberg
Dianne Knox
Jake Knuth
Shannon Laws

 

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