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The Sky Is a Free Country: The Luminaire Award Anthology, Volume I
28 pieces by 23 authors
author of Last Night at the Wursthaus
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2014 Luminaire Award Winners for Best Prose
1st Place: “A Slow Dance in the Afternoon” by Mia Eaker2nd Place: “Sunrise Special” by John Vicary
3rd Place: “The Spirit of Shackleton” by Gavin Broom
4th Place: “The Elephant in the Bathtub” by J. Lewis Fleming
5th Place: “Stoop” by Alexa Mergen
2014 Luminaire Award Winners for Best Poetry
1st Place: “Low Tide” by Pete M. Wyer2nd Place: “Miss Valley City, North Dakota” by Charles P. Ries
3rd Place: “William Barret Question Mark” by CEE
4th Place: “Birch Street” by Charles P. Ries
5th Place: “With apologies to Rose Bonne [The Hall of Ives]” by CEE
2015 Luminaire Award Winners for Best Prose
1st Place: “Chindi” by Eric Shonkwiler [not in anthology]2nd Place: “A Hindershot of Calion” by Schuler Benson [audio version]
3rd Place: “Inheritance” by Stephanie Liden
4th Place: “An American Seeker” by Kevin Catalano
5th Place: “The Poor Man's Guide to an Affordable, Painless Suicide” by Schuler Benson
2015 Luminaire Award Winners for Best Poetry
1st Place: “mob of one” by Normal2nd Place: “Reign” by Jared A. Carnie
3rd Place: “Sewing” by Noel King
4th Place: “Cause Célèbre” by Andrei Guruianu
5th Place: “After Abandon” by Michael Cooper
2016 Luminaire Award Winners for Best Prose
1st Place: “For the Man after Me” by Eric Shonkwiler2nd Place: “Kinda Sorta American Dream” by Steve Karas
3rd Place: “What World We Build after All That's Burned Away” by J. L. D. [not in anthology]
4th Place: “Sculpting Sand” by Steve Karas
5th Place: “Tennessee” by Constance Sayers
2016 Luminaire Award Winners for Best Poetry
1st Place: “Baldwin Apples” by Sarah Ann Winn2nd Place: “Coralee Robbins Mafficks the Fall of Art” by Amy Wright
3rd Place: “vii. (the leviathan)” by Mary Buchinger
4th Place: “we move as dust” by Mike Bernicchi
5th Place: “the thing is, you see” by Normal
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About Footnote 2
• Poetry, Fiction
• Published by Alternating Current Press
• 5½” x 8½” Perfectbound Trade Paperback
• Cream Paper, 138 Pages
• Print ISBN-13: 978-1-946580-06-1
• Print ISBN-10: 1-946580-06-6
• First Edition: July 2016
• First Print Edition: February 5, 2019
• Cover Artwork by Loui Jover
• Permalink | Short URL: tinyurl.com/luminaire1
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Authors in The Sky Is a Free Country
• Schuler Benson
• Mike Bernicchi
• Gavin Broom
• Mary Buchinger
• Jared A. Carnie
• Kevin Catalano
• CEE
• Michael Cooper
• Mia Eaker
• J. Lewis Fleming
• Andrei Guruianu
• Steve Karas
• Noel King
• Stephanie Liden
• Alexa Mergen
• Normal
• Charles P. Ries
• Constance Sayers
• Eric Shonkwiler
• John Vicary
• Sarah Ann Winn
• Amy Wright
• Pete M. Wyer
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