News The Marie Alexander Series is pleased to announce that the winner of our 2010 open submission reading is Postage Due, a unique, often epistolary collection of prose poems by Julie Marie Wade. We selected Postage Due from over 150 submissions, and we will be publishing it in the spring of 2013. We did not collect a submission fee, and the manuscripts were not read blindly. We would like to thank all the poets who submitted their work to the Series. We are also pleased to give honorary mention to nine other finalists: • Sightings, by Barbara Bennett • The Longitude Problem, by Laurel Blossom • Apocalypse, Darling, by Barrie Jean Borich • Where Things Break, by Brigitte Byrd • Darling Endangered, by Carol Guess • Perfect Proportions of Beautiful People, by Re' Lynn Hansen • The Anonymous Mermaid, by Maura Stanton • Forbidden Secrets, by Marilyn Stablein • Shell-Shaped Pieces of Bone, by Traci O Connor You may read the full press release here (pdf file).

Dates of Note April 7, 2011 Release Date for All of Us July, 2012 Open reading period. See our Submission Guidelines. (Note, we are not reading in 2011.)