One of our illustrious authors (and press co-founder), Andrew Faulkner, has got himself onto the shortlist for the 2009 bpNichol Chapbook Award for Useful Knots and How to Tie Them. 

Gary Barwin, of Chora Sea fame, also made the list for his chapbook Inverting the Deer published by his own serif of nottingham editions. In fact, congrats to the whole damn shortlist: 

John R. Barlow, The Longest Day
Gary Barwin, Inverting the Deer
Andrew Faulkner, Useful Knots and How to Tie Them
Daphne Marlatt, Between Brush Strokes
Sandra Ridley, Lift

[Golf claps]