Scary No Scary by Zachary Schomburg is a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award For Poetry as part of the Oregon Book Awards. Congratulations to Zachary! Follow the link and check out some of the other great finalists. Octopus Books, the press Zachary co-edits with Mathias Svalina, won an a Oregon Literary Fellowship.

I like to imagine the conversation for deciding these nominations went like this. Did you read all those books from Black Ocean? I did. Did you read that book called Scary No Scary? Beginning to end.