The LIT: Cleveland's Literary Center announced the finalists for its 2010 Lantern Awards last week. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held Saturday, September 11 at the Palace Theatre in PlayhouseSquare. Tickets to the event are $35 for the awards ceremony; $50 tickets include admission to the ceremony and the Turn the Page after party at the Cleveland Urban Design Collective. For details and to purchase tickets, visit The LIT online.
Finalists
Poetry: Book Length Collection
George Bilgere: The White Museum
Will Greenway: Everywhere At Once
Lou Suarez: Traveler
Single Published Poem
Eric Anderson: “A Couple of Scars on My Back”
J. Thomas Dukes: “A Woman Bathes in the Ohio River”
Sarah Gridley: “Sonnet on Fire”
Fiction: Novel
Dan Chaon: Await Your Reply
Sheila Schwartz: Lies Will Take You Somewhere
Thrity Umrigar: The Weight of Heaven
Short Fiction
Grant Bailie: “Saint Bob”
Tricia Springstubb: “In The Dark”
Eric Wasserman: “The Golden State”
Graphic Novel
Derf: Punk Rock And Trailer Parks
Harvey Pekar: The Beats
Memoir
Kazim Ali: Bright Felon
Thrity Umrigar: First Darling of The Morning
Creative Nonfiction: Book length
Victoria Greenleaf: Envy
Jimi Izrael: The Denzel Principle
Michael Ruhlman: The Elements of Cooking
Essay
Heather Madden Bentoske: “Septic”
Charlotte Morgan: “Plagued”
Kristin Ohlson: “Watching TV in Kabul”
Journalism: Personal Interest Story
Joanna Connors: "Beyond Rape"
David Giffels: "The American Dream"
Michael Gill: "Sacrificial Lambs"
Playwriting/Performance
Raymond Bobgan & Chris Seibert: Cut to Pieces
David Hansen: And Then You Die
Michael Oatman: Eclipse
Blog
Michael Salinger: Cleveland Poetics
Karen Sandstrom: Pen in Hand
Erin O’Brien: Owner’s Manual for Human Beings
