Awards

photo-awardsIn 1982 Lucy received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature for her first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope. The collection was published later that year by Berkeley Poets’ Workshop and Press. Lucy has received many subsequent awards for her writing.

“Whether her subject is neural folds, hatching turtles, tumors, or self-planting seeds, Lucille Day’s tight poetic descriptions take us effortlessly toward our inevitable relationship with other forms of matter. The poet’s range widens to include a sequence of dramatic moments in which the painful ironies of family life are coupled to tender appraisals of marriage, child rearing, and domestic obligations.” — Robert Pinsky, David Littlejohn, and Michael Rubin, Judges, Joseph Henry Jackson Award

 

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“Fear of Science,” Janice Farrell Poetry Prize, 2007

“Falling in Florence,” Pushcart Prize nomination by Arroyo Literary Review, 2013

“Names of the States,” Pushcart Prize nomination by Yellow Medicine Review, 2019

“Birds of San Pancho,” Pushcart Prize nomination by Blue Light Press, 2020

Awards

2022

Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writing Awards in Poetry,
for “Thinking of Juliane Diller, Who Fell from the Sky”

Honorable Mention, Littoral Press Poetry Prize, for “Rediscovering My Body”

2020

Second Place in Poetry, Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco,
Effie Lee Morris Writing Awards, for “Seoraksan”

Pushcart Prize nomination from Blue Light Press for “Birds of San Pancho”
from Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place

2019

Gold Seal Literary/Cultural Arts Award from Artists Embassy International
for Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California

Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry
for Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California

Finalist, Ex Ophidia Poetry Prize, for Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place

Finalist, Blue Light Book Award, for Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place

Pushcart Prize nomination from The Yellow Medicine Review for “Names of the States”

2017

PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award
for Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California

2016

Gold Seal Literary/Cultural Arts Award from Artists Embassy International
for Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California

2015

Pushcart Prize nomination from Červená Barva Press for “I Always Knew It”
from Becoming an Ancestor

2014

Blue Light Poetry Prize and Chapbook Award for Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems

Finalist, Blue Light Book Award, for Becoming an Ancestor: Poems

Finalist, Red Berry Editions’ Summer Chapbook Contest, for Window Seat: Sonnets & Villanelles

Semi-finalist, Blue Lynx Prize in Poetry, for Becoming an Ancestor: Poems

Semi-finalist, Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award, for Inside My Eye

Honorable Mention, 2014 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, for “Devlin at Seven Months and the Morning News”

Pushcart Prize nomination from Waccamaw for “Poet as Scientist”

Best of the Net nomination from Blue Lyra Review for “Rituals”

2013

PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award for Married at Fourteen: A True Story

Finalist, Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction,
for Married at Fourteen: A True Story

First Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “Water Lilies”

First Honorable Mention, Prose, Times They Were A-Changing:
Women Remember the 60s & 70s
, for “The Trip”

Pushcart Prize nomination from Arroyo Literary Review for “Falling in Florence”

2011

Finalist, Blue Light Poetry Prize and Chapbook Competition, for Conjunctions

Pushcart Prize nomination for “Journeys,” published in Redactions: Poetry & Poetics

2010

“Time-Out!” listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2010.

First Prize, Poets’ Dinner, “Love” category, for “Let Me Count the Ways”

2009

Willow Review Award for Creative Nonfiction for “Stalked”

Pushcart Prize nominations from Červená Barva Press for “Artists”
and “The Liberation of Baghdad” from The Curvature of Blue

2008

Grand Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “In Praise
of the Jellyfish”

Third Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “Woman”

Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award, for “The Last Slave”

2007

First Prize, Janice Farrell Poetry Prize, Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition,
for “Fear of Science”

First Prize, Poetry Contest of Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival, for “Earth Music”

Finalist, Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, for The Curvature of Blue

Semi-finalist, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, for The Curvature of Blue

Semi-finalist, Paumanok Poetry Award, Visiting Writers Program of Farmingdale
State College, New York

Pushcart Prize nominations from Červená Barva Press for “Counting” and “A Death”
from God of the Jellyfish

2006

Finalist, Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Competition, for The Book of Answers

Finalist, Blue Light Book Award, for Color of the Universe (re-titled The Curvature of Blue)

Second Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “God of the Jellyfish”

Third Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “The Poem’s Feet”

Honorable Mention, Passager Poetry Contest, for “Aunt Ethel, Please”

Honorable Mention, Society for Humanistic Anthropology Poetry Contest, for “I Always Knew It”

2005

Second Place, Blue Light Book Award, for Color of the Universe (re-titled The Curvature of Blue)

Finalist, Dorset Prize, for Color of the Universe (re-titled The Curvature of Blue)

Finalist, Červená Barva Press Chapbook Competition, for The Book of Answers

Finalist, Poetry West Chapbook Competition, for The Book of Answers

Finalist, Two Rivers Review Chapbook Prize, for The Book of Answers

Semi-finalist, Paumanok Poetry Award, Visiting Writers Program of Farmingdale
State College, New York

Pushcart Prize nomination from River Styx for “Mictlantecutli at the Health Museum”

2003

Third Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “Song of the
Slender Salamander”

1999

Third Prize, Ann Fields Poetry Contest, for “Birth of the Universe,” “Fear of Science,” and “Self-Portraits at the Health Museum”

1998

First Prize, Dancing Poetry Contest of Artists Embassy International, for “Dancers”

Third Prize, Barbara T. Ewing Poetry Contest of the Maryland Poetry Review for “Converting”

1996

Appalachia Poetry Prize for “Tracking”

1982

Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature for Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope

1979

Third Prize, Free Verse, Chabot College Spring Arts Festival, for “The Bed and the Boxcar”

Third Prize, Southern California Chapter of the California State Poetry Society, for “Glass Animals”

Honorable Mention, Galbraith Memorial Prize of the Academy of American Poets, UC Berkeley, for group of eight poems

1977

First Prize, Poets of the Vineyard Annual Poetry Competition, for “Edge”

Fourth Prize, Hibiscus Press Poetry Contest, for “Heart Patient”

1971

Honorable Mention, Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize Competition in Lyric Poetry, UC Berkeley, for group of seven poems