Issue 17 is now here.

Featuring work by contest winners Pedro Ponce and Ruth Awad and 200 pages of goodness by Jeffery Bahr, Zeina Hashem Beck, Mark Jay Brewin, Jr., Brian Brodeur, Sarah Burke, Rick Bursky, Caroline Cahill, Paul Robert Chesser, George David Clark, Martha Collins, Jazzy Danziger, Michelle M. Regalado Deatrick, Angie Decola, CJ Evans, Gina R. Evers, Sarah Giragosian, Chris Haven, Joshua R. Helms, Ailish Hopper, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Anastas Kapurani, L. S. Klatt, Franz Knupfer, Eva Konstantopoulos, Jason Koo, Ross Losapio, Wayne Miller, Matthew Minicucci, Matt Moore, Brian D. Morrison, Jacob Newberry, Kathryn Nuernberger, Emilia Phillips, Craig Reinbold, Mark Rice, Corinna McClanahan Schroeder, Danielle Shutt, Douglas Silver, Corey Van Landingham, Chet Weise, David Welch, Cori A. Winrock, and Moikom Zeqo.

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The folks over at Barrelhouse are presenting "Bargain," a poem by Steve Kistulentz (CN16) complete with Steve's annotations. It's a great read, and the annotations include a shoutout to Copper Nickel, since our 16th issue contains his amazing essay "People Who Died," which see if you haven't yet...

We're very happy to see Steve Langan's poem, "A Report," from Copper Nickel 16 on Verse Daily today. Thanks again to Steve and to all the folks at Verse Daily for helping this poem circulate.

We hope you'll join us this coming Friday (11/18) to celebrate Jeffrey Schultz's poem, "The Soul as Kaczynski," from Copper Nickel 16, in its appearance on Poetry Daily.

In the meantime, note that we've been able to get our Paypal buttons working again, so you can order a copy of Copper Nickel 16 or pick up that subscription you've been meaning to buy over at our storefront page.

Copper Nickel 16 features a graphic essay by Margaret Kimball, creative nonfiction by Steve Kistulentz, short stories by Joe Aguilar, Kate McIntyre, Wendy Oleson, Robert Rosenberg, Johanna Stoberock, and Jacqueline Vogtman, and poems by Elizabeth Cheever, Charlie Clark, Oliver de la Paz, Jesse DeLong, Jeffrey G. Dodd, Jehanne Dubrow, Laura Eve Engel, Frank Giampietro, Stuart Greenhouse, M. Ann Hull, Dan Kaplan, Laura Kochman, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Steve Langan, Gary L. McDowell, Kate McIntyre, Alison D. Moncrief, Keith Montesano, John A. Nieves, Paul Otremba, Adam Peterson, Emilia Phillips, Catherine Pierce, Paisley Rekdal, Steven D. Schroeder, Jeffrey Schultz, Brittney Scott, Zachary Sifuentes, Christian Teresi, Jennifer Tonge, A.E. Watkins, Mark Wagenaar, Amie Whittemore, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jessica Young.

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Daniel Alarcon has chosen Pedro Ponce's story "The Possession of Charles Ignatius De Leon" as the winner of the 2011 Copper Nickel Fiction Contest. Alarcon made special mention of Michelle Regalado Deatrick's "The Second Coming of the STASSIS Goat" and Eva Konstantopoulos's "Quiet City." All three stories will appear in issue 17 of Copper Nickel which will be available in early February.

We also want to recognize our finalists:

• Douglas Silver, "City of Foundlings"
• T. Fox Dunham, "The Lady Comes in the Night
• Mack Green, "Blood and Sun on Concrete Walk
• Sara Reish Desmond, "Clay Girls"
• Kyle Mellen, "Lighting In You A Tremendous Fire"

Thanks to all who entered and made this year's choices difficult and surprising. We will post information on next year's contest, including judges and the dates for the submission window, in October.

We generally don't toot our own horns, but we wanted to take a moment for a personal note, congratulating editor Nicky Beer, whose book The Diminishing House, was named the winner of the 2010 Colorado Book Award in Poetry late last month. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you should soon, before the first edition sells out.

We've received final judge Kevin Prufer's selections, and we're happy to announce that the winner of the 2011 Copper Nickel contest in poetry is

• Ruth Awad for her poem "Kata Doksa."

Prufer named four poems as Honorable Mentions:

• Jeffrey Bahr's "Note to the Newly Lost"
• Corinna Schroeder's "On the Last Day of Our Wild Year"
• Jacob Newberry's "The Horses Perishing"
• Cori Winrock's "Wrestlers in Winter"

We'd also like to extend congratulations to the rest of our finalists:

• Gina Evers, "When I Miss My Mother"
• Mark Rice, "What We Know"
• Brian Brodeur, "When Everyone I Loved Was Still Alive"
• Caroline Cahill, "Dear Watson"
• Matt More, "If You Are This Brontide" and "The Second Time I Read Moby-Dick You Drown"
• Angie DeCola, "One Afternoon I Watched Him Crawl"
• Matthew Minicucci, "Epithet"
• Joshua R. Helms, "Iterations," "Conflation" and "Denoument"
• Emilia Phillips, "Blues Dream"

The winning poem, the honorable mentions, and these finalist poems will appear in our 17th issue, due out in February 2012 at AWP in Chicago.

Thanks to all who entered, and all who read Copper Nickel. We'll announce our fiction winners soon, and we'll present the details of our 2012 contest in October.

For fans of Wayne Miller or for those who haven't yet picked up a copy of CN15, you can check out Wayne's poem, "Post-Elegy" at Poetry Daily today.

The staff of Copper Nickel would like to join so many others in shock and sadness at the loss of Jeanne Leiby, editor of The Southern Review, who was killed yesterday in a car accident. Jeanne was a magnanimous person and a model editor who made our lives and our work both richer and more buoyant. Her presence will be missed, as her work lives on.

The contest entry window is now closed. We're sending out a big thanks to everyone who entered, as we sit down to read the entries.

We're working to name finalists before the end of May, probably sooner, so our judges can name a winner before the turn of August. Stay tuned for updates here.