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Thursday May 2, 2024. (time to be determined)
Westbeth Community Rm
155 Bank St
Enter through courtyard
New York, NY 10014

Works in Poetry will be read by Terence Burk, Beth Griffith and Joel Rooks

Winner in Prose:
Sheena Daree Romero is an essayist, humorist, and doodler based in New York City. Her
stories and essays have been published in Autostraddle, Taco Bell Quarterly, Split Lip Magazine,
and elsewhere—and featured on the Longreads Best of 2022 list. She’s working on an essay
collection that bridges memoir and cultural criticism to meditate on blackness in disparate
locations.

Winner in Poetry:
Thom Brucie’s novel Children of Slate won the 2023 bronze medal Illumination Award for excellence in Catholic literature, and his novel Obsidian Mirth won the American Writing Award
in fiction (2022). His poetry chapbook Moments Around the Campfire with a Vietnam Vet was
named the best chapbook of 2010; his chapbook Apprentice Lessons contains a grouping of
poems dedicated to the dignity of labor. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and
his short stories and poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including the San Joaquin
Review, Cappers, the Southwestern Review, Pacific Review, Wilderness House Literary Review,
North Atlantic Review, and many others.
Dr. Brucie is retired Professor of English and Professional Writing at South Georgia State
College. You can find out more about Thom Brucie at: www.ThomBrucie.com

Miriam Chaikin Foundation Writing Awards
These awards were established in memory of Miriam Chaikin, a longtime Westbeth resident, former Westbeth Artists Literary Chair, and a prolific writer.