Thomas A. Wilhelmus Editors' Award

2013 Award

Southern Indiana Review editors will award a prize of $1500 and publication for a work of creative nonfiction. All entries are considered for publication. Submit an essay of up to thirty-five pages with a $20 entry fee ($5 for each additional entry) by June 1, 2013. Click here for complete guidelines.

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2012 Winner

Mako Yoshikawa’s first novel, One Hundred and One Ways, was published by Bantam in 1999. A national bestseller in the States, it has been translated into six languages, including German, Swedish, and Hebrew. Yoshikawa’s second novel, Once Removed, also published by Bantam, came out in 2003. Writing awards include fellowships from the Bunting Institute of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the MacDowell Colony. Yoshikawa, who was born and raised in Princeton, NJ, spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo. She has also lived in England, France, Switzerland, and New Zealand. She attended Columbia University, received a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Yoshikawa's essay "Secrets of the Sun" will appear in fall 2012.

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SIR nonfiction editor Tom Wilhelmus is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana where he taught and was an administrator for thirty-nine years. At USI he was Chair of the English Department for fifteen years, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts for thirteen years, and Acting Dean for one year. He was co-founder and -director of the RopeWalk Writers Retreat in New Harmony, and formerly served as Associate Producer and Producer of New Harmony Theatre. He was twice a director of the Evansville Philharmonic and was on the UE Friends of Music Board and a member of the selection committee for the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards conducted by the Indianapolis/Marion County Library Foundation. He was formerly a board member and chair of the Indiana Humanities Council, board member and president of the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and member of the Committee on the Future for the Indiana Arts Commission. His book reviews appear annually in the Hudson Review.