CHRISTINE HEMP’S AWARDS
2010 Finishing Line Press, HM Poetry Chapbook Competition; book publication 2011
2010 Paula Jones Gardner Award for Poetry, Floating Bridge Press
2009 Margaret Reid Prize for Poetry in Traditional Verse
2007 Finalist, Levis Prize for Poetry, Four Way Books; full-length poetry manuscript
2006 Finalist, Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize for Literary Non-Fiction; full-length manuscript
2006 Residency, Squaw Valley Community of Writers; poetry week
2004 Donald Murray Prize at UC Davis for Best Essay Published in the Previous Year
2004 Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2003 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission $6,000 Fellowship for Literature
2003 Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant for creative non-fiction
2003 1st Runner-Up, The Iowa Award in Literary Non-Fiction, Iowa Review
2003 Finalist, Annie Dillard Award for Creative Non-Fiction
1999 1st Place, Pacific Northwest Society for Professional Journalism Competition
for essay and poem aired on KPLU / NPR Radio
1997 University of Alaska Southeast Explorations Poetry Award
1995 Barbara Deming/Money for Women Grant for poetry manuscript
1995 Recursos Discovery Award, Santa Fe Writers Contest
1992 Conway Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing, Harvard University Extension
1986-7 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant for poetry
1986 “Waiter” Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers Conference
1985 Reginald Cook Scholar, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College
1982 Poet of the Year, New England Association of the Teachers of English