We're so excited to announce the winner of our annual Chapbook contest! The top prize goes to Daniel Riddle Rodriguez, who blew us all away with his prose submission, Low Village.
We'll also be publishing the fantastic poetry manuscripts of our two runners-up:
From by Jill Osier
book of lake by Nicholas Gulig
We received a record amount of submissions this year and were amazed by the quality of the work. Here are our finalists and semi-finalists for each genre:
Poetry Finalists
Elkopocalypse by Adrian Kien
The Math of Gifts that are Not Wages by Heidi Nilsson
Tent City by Kate Partridge
Fail Casing the Namemachine by Victoria Sanz
Her Aversion by Alison Strub
Poetry Semi-finalists
Dead Year by Anne Cecelia Holmes
Contestant by Emily Koehn
Heard Among the Windbreak by Cal Freeman
Then-Wife by Kate Colby
Some Birds by John Bonanni
Prose Finalists
Sons and Other Strangers by Nina Boutsikaris
Adventures in Property Management by Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
Fly Back at Me (A Fragmented Childhood) by Bernard Grant
Repast: Essays on Food, History, and Self by Vivian Wagner
Three Artists in Arrested Time: Tiempo Detenido by Gail Wilson Kenna
Prose Semi-finalists
Delusions of Grandeur (Not Delusions, I’m Fucking Grand): Notes from the Desk of John Wayne by Kayla Miller
The Apprentice by Sandra Worsham
subterranean by Anthony DeGregorio
We by Laura Distelheim
What is Reflected by Susan Rukeyser
We'll feature more information about our winners in the coming weeks. You're going to love these books!