The Peer Awards
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| The criteria for nomination for a Peer Award is that, in the judgement of their peers, the craft and vision embodied in these works merit special recognition. The works receiving the most nominations from Prairie Authors for a calendar year become finalists from which the authors again select those who is to be awarded this honor. Three Peer Award recipients are named annually. In the event of a tie, a fourth recipient is named. Peer Awards for 1996, 1997, and 1998 were judged by individual authors. Beginning with the 1999 awards, authors whose work has been published at Prairie Poetry are invited to nominate poems for the Peer Award monthly and select the winners from a group of finalists annually. The Friends Prize is a monetary award funded by voluntary contributions from readers like you. It is given annually (beginning in 2002) to one or more recipients of tbe Peer Award. The winner is chosen by the Friends themselves. The amount of the prize varies from year to year depending on contributions received. Every year the size of the Friends Prize purse has grown. In recent years the purse has been divided among the Peer Award winners with the Friend's Prize winner receiving the largest amount. Total purse by year has been:
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The 2007 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Leah Browning - The Woman Who Could See Sound — Friends Prize Winner
Mary Butler - Loon
Larry Schug - Arrogant Bones
The 2006 Recipients of the Peer Award:
John I. Blair - Intimations Of Prairie In Dallas
Joyce Middlestead - Wild Onions
Jesse Zerger Nathan - Liberal, Kansas
Elizabeth Hughes Wiley - Kansas — Friends Prize Winner
The 2005 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Vicki Goodfellow Duke - White Dandelion — Friends Prize Winner
Daniel Thomas Moran - Recalling Pipestone Minnesota
Kristin Stoner - More Than Anything . . .
The 2004 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Neil Aitken - Adrift — Friends Prize Winner
David Bond - Prayer Against Leaving
Heather Knowles Cottington - In Summer Come Black-Eyed Susans
Julia Meylor Simpson - Hearing Polkas On The Plains
The 2003 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Neil Aitken - Forgetting To Fill Up In Saskatoon
John Blair - Nothing Between Me And The North Pole
Joan Hoekstra - Notes On Small Towns
Naomi Patterson - Drought — Friends Prize Winner
The 2002 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Meagan Evans - Drought Song — Friends Prize Winner
Clyde Kessler - Spear Point
David Wright - Gammal Fabodpsalm
The 2001 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Kari Abate - Too So
Will Brulé - Funeral Arrangement
Rosemary Griebel - Prairie Ghazal
J. D. Heskin - Furrows Plowed
The 2000 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Loren Flynn - Winifred and Beyond
Elisabeth Lee - Ghosts
Claudia Loomis - For Sandy
Sarah Yost - Stain Repellant
The 1999 Recipients of the Peer Award:
Paul Kloppenborg - Vanishing Barn
Rowena Silver - Manitoba Warmth
Doug Thiele - Out Back
The 1998 Recipients of the Peer Award -- judged by Sharon Drummond:
Aurora Austin - Summer in Kansas
Dave Bishop - Out of Urban
William Tinsley - Winter Morning
The 1997 Recipients of the Peer Award -- judged by Naomi Patterson:
Joe Coffey - Prairie Haiku #2
Debra Kaufman - Flood of 94
Elisabeth Lee - In the Land of Bread
The 1996 Recipient of the Peer Award -- judged by Joe Coffey:
Doug Tanoury - Nebraska Art
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