This year's bp Nichol chapbook award has been given to two authors: Stan Dragland for 12 Bars (Running The Goat Books and Broadsides) and Allan Brown for Imagines (Leaf Press). Stan Dragland is the author of Apocrypha: Further Journeys, a book of memoir and literary criticism which includes the poems of 12 Bars. The bp Nichol Chapbook Award was established in 1988, in memory of the noted Canadian poet, who was also one of the founding members of Phoenix Community Works Foundation in 1973. The award is used to promote and encourage the work of Canadian writers through the judging and presentation of the annual Chapbook Award. For more information on the award, see http://www.pcwf.ca/pcwf/new.php?ID=7