Poetry/Flash Fiction
Orders are being accepted in advance. email: ascentaspirations@shaw.ca

The anthology titled As One Cradles Pain taken from the title of an included poem by I.B Iskov will be published late summer 2012.

Awards List and Contributors List
Disorders Anthology Contest
Ascent Aspirations Publishing

Poetry Prizes
“Hunger on Bourbon Street” by John B. Lee received Ascent Aspirations First Prize for Poetry.
“The Great Illusion” by S. J. White received Ascent Aspirations Second Prize for Poetry.
“Mutating the Familiar” by Jay Chollick received Ascent Aspirations Third Prize for Poetry.

Flash Fiction Prizes
“The Laundromat” by Jenny Fjellgaard received Ascent Aspirations First Prize for Flash Fiction.
“Kinds of Crazy” by Monica Nawrocki received Ascent Aspirations Second Prize for Flash Fiction.
“Home of the Whopper” by Judy Millar received Ascent Aspirations Third Prize for Flash Fiction.

Honourable Mentions
“Poem for One Whose Words Are Missing From the Conversation” by Linda Crosfield received an Ascent Aspirations Honourable Mention.
“Jaw Breaker” by Ken Goldman received an Ascent Aspirations Honourable Mention.
“From Notes to Self (V)” by Michelle Mclean received an Ascent Aspirations Honourable Mention.
“Dysmorphia” by Bruce Nelson received an Ascent Aspirations Honourable Mention.
“mania (sometime wednesday morning)” by The Poet, Spiel received an Ascent Aspirations Honourable Mention.
“Lewy Bodies” by Petra Whitaker received an Ascent Aspirations Honourable Mention.

Contributors and Their Titles

Trysh Ashby-Rolls for "Detox"
Peter Austin for "Breadth of Mind" and "The Perfect Child"
John Barta for "Manholes" and "Mr. Clean"
Brad Bisio for "Cracked"
Karen Bissenden for "Condition: Seizure"
April Bulmer for "Ward Paint", "Perennials, and "Petting the Black Dog"
Jay Chollick for "Mutating the Familiar"
Linda Crosfield for "Poem for One Whose Words Are Missing From the Conversation"
Sonia Easterday for "The Ward"
Alvin G. Ens for "Therapy", "Auditory Oddity", and "Old Timers"
Michael Estabrook for "Crab"
Jeanette Fairbairn for "Reply"
Jenny Fjellgaard for "The Laundromat"
Christine Fogl for "Beads"
Joanna Gale for "Come in From Out of the Cold"
Ken Goldman for "Jaw Breaker"
Sterling Haynes for "Dementia Praecox" and Manic in Winter"
Debbie Okun Hill for "In a Vegetable State"
Ruth Hill for "Demise"
Ann Howells for "The madwoman visits", "Question of Free Will", and "Her Depression"
Keith Inman for "Hold my Guitar"
I. B. Iskov for "As One Cradles Pain
Harvey Jenkins for "Tightly Bound" and "It All Seemed So Easy"
Tahsis Jensen for "Less"
Charlene Jones for "The Hastings Street Residential School Alumni Poem" and "Coming of Age"
Angelika Kolompar for "Two Haiku"
George Kusyj for "Poison"
Ruth Latta for “No”
John B. Lee for "Hunger on Bourbon Street"
Barb Lefcourt for "Good Housekeeping"
Devorah Levin for "With Autumn Comes" and "Mid-cycle"
Norma West Linder for "Modern Mythology" and "Wish Granted"
Sue Littleton for "A Muscial Review Of Political Disorder"
Ellaraine Lockie for "Run-On Sentence"
Daniel MacFadyen for "A Postcard from the Edge" and "Young Native Women"
Susan McCaslin for "Self-Talk"
Katy McCuish for "Chaos"
Leanne McIntosh for "Why Madness?" and "Then Again She May Not Be"
Michelle McLean for "From Notes to Self ( V)"
Judy Millar for "Home of the Whopper" and "Obsession runs"
Marie Brock Moore for "asana", "avian gothic", "longing" and "fear memory"
Monica Nawrocki for "Kinds of Crazy"
Judith Neale for "The Dress" and "Before I Went Under"
Bruce Nelson for "Dysmorphia", "Mutatis Mutandis ((dementia))", and "Take a Caesura, I Got to Get This"
Martina Reisz Newberry for "Song For My Mother"
Diane Attwell Palfrey for "Birthing the Hexenhammer" and "Teratoma"
Susan Pederson for "Tuesday Evening"
kv perraun for "Side Effects"
Gary Pierluigi for "I Hear a Thousand Voices" and "Mother"
Claire Sherwood for "Post Partum"
Johnmichael Simon for "attention deficit" and "birthday gift"
Fiona Sinclair for "Day Tripper"
Beth Skala for "The Novel"
Patricia Smekal for "Daughter"
Laurie Smith for "paper/cuts"
The Poet, Spiel for "mania (sometime wednesday morning)"
Elaine Spira for "What If?"
Bruce Strand for "barely Harley"
Luminita Suse for "stillness"
Lynn Tait for "a sketch in autism: morning ritual disrupted"
Naomi Beth Wakan for "A set of tanka on a diagnosis:" and "An Organized Life"
Vernon Waring for "ADHD: The Poem"
Cassie Welburn for "The Glass Mother" and "Metamorphosis"
Petra Whitaker for "Lewy Bodies" and "Vertigo"
S. J. White for "The Great Illusion" and "Mr. Whittaker"