After a very long and challenging year, we are proud to present the 2023 Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Literary Prize Finalists’ collections
Marqus Bobesich. Lucinda Zoe. Elizabeth Sylvia.
If Our Lives Were Better
Marqus Bobesich
Marqus Bobesich received his BFA from York University majoring in visual arts. He has worked as a copywriter, cartoonist, drummer, and stand-up comedian. As an actor/voice artist in Toronto he has appeared in 70+ commercial productions in Canada and the U.S. He’s recently returned from 5 years in Los Angeles where he was developing and pitching original feature comedies and animated pilots.
Things That Remain
Lucinda Zoe
Lucinda Zoe is an Eastern Kentucky native and transplanted southerner who moved from Kentucky to New York City in 1989. A librarian and archivist by training, and a chef by desire, her fields of study and interests are in philosophy, theology, ancient manuscripts and the culinary arts. She has written and produced numerous plays and monologues, both in Kentucky and New York, and her work has been published in The American Voice, Sinister Wisdom and Salvation South. She divides her time between New York City and a home in upstate New York in the Catskills Mountains where she likes to read, walk, write, and bake.
My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties
Elizabeth Sylvia
Elizabeth Sylvia’s first book, None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women (2022), won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. She has been a semi- or finalist in competitions sponsored by the Burnside Review, C&R Press, DIAGRAM, Thirty West, Rare Swan and Wolfson Press, and is a reader for SWWIM Every Day. She has received fellowships from the West Chester University Poetry Center and the Longleaf Writers Conference. She is the winner of the 2023 riverSedge Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Scythe, is forthcoming from River River Press.
KARI ANN FLICKINGER MEMORIAL PRIZE 