Katherine McCord, Run Scream Unbury Save wins Rising Writer contest from Autumn House Open Book Competition for Run Scream Unbury Save 

The Rising Writer contest is for a first full-length book of poetry by an author 33 years old or younger. In addition to publication the winner also receives $1,000 ($500 advance against royalties and a $500 travel/publicity grant to promote the book). The submission period opens November 1, 2016 and the postmark deadline is January 31, 2017. 

"To “READ” (and yes I am using all that graphic punctuation with intent!) this extraordinary memoir, Run Scream Unbury Save, I had to employ a ZIP Extractor to extract (from the brain-like folds of the CLOUD) this gorgeously convoluted and original origamied textual text of the not so transparent text of this bookish book.  That is to say, embedded in this message is the message that this mean medium is the message (a blast from the past!) and what a divine mess of a message it is.

 Too often, it seems to me, we construct our books as if they are mere transcriptions of oral tales, desiring to invoke a waking dream in the reader while disguising the scaffolding of the narrative delivery device (the book itself), suppressing, consciously, the self-conscious consideration of self-consciousness.  McCord, in Run Scream Unbury Save, reignites the curious rotary engine of curiosity, the spirographic folding back, that ululation, as a great storyteller confronting the unique high-techery of the book.  Believe me, this book cannot, ever, be made into a movie or binge TV series or streamed video.  No, it is a book’s BOOK.  A map more detailed than the thing it represents.  It confronts the BOOK and does what only the BOOK can do and does it with goddamn gumption and infinite grace.
 
Katherine McCord’s life here is an open book book, and the fine instrument of that opening is the story of that story."
 
 Michael Martone
Author of Michael Martone and Memoranda