Recent Winners
42 Miles Press
POETRY AWARD
Bryce Berkowitz of Butte, Montana, won the 2019 Poetry Award for Bermuda Ferris Wheel. He received $1,000, and his book will be published by 42 Miles Press in October 2020. He will also give a reading at Indiana University in South Bend. David Dodd Lee judged. The annual award is given for a poetry collection. The next deadline is March 15, 2020.
42 Miles Press, Poetry Award, Indiana University, English Department, 1700 Mishawaka Avenue, P.O. Box 7111, South Bend, IN 46634. David Dodd Lee, Editor in Chief. 42milespress@gmail.com
Ahsahta Press
SAWTOOTH POETRY PRIZE
Rosie Stockton of Los Angeles won the 2019 Sawtooth Poetry Prize for Permanent Volta. They received $1,500, and their book will be published by Ahsahta Press in January 2020. Brian Teare judged. The annual award was given for a poetry collection. This was the final year the award was offered by the press.
Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, English Department, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. (208) 866-8017. Janet Holmes, Director.
Before Columbus Foundation
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
Nine writers and translators received 2019 American Book Awards. They are poet Ángel García of Lincoln, Nebraska, for Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press); fiction writers May-lee Chai of San Francisco for Useful Phrases for Immigrants (Blair), Tommy Orange of Angels Camp, California, for There There (Knopf), and Mark Sarvas of Santa Monica, California, for Memento Park (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux); nonfiction writers Halifu Osumare of Sacramento, California, for Dancing in Blackness (University Press of Florida), Jeffrey C. Stewart of Santa Barbara, California for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Oxford University Press), William T. Vollmann of Sacramento, California, for Carbon Ideologies, Volume I: No Immediate Danger and Volume II: No Good Alternative (Viking), and the late Louise DeSalvo for The House of Early Sorrows (Fordham University Press); and translator Christopher Patton of Bellingham, Washington, for his translation from the Old English of Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen From the Exeter Book (Gaspereau Press). The annual awards are given for books published in the United States during the previous year to recognize “outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.” (SEE DEADLINES.)
Before Columbus Foundation, American Book Awards, Raymond House, 655 13th Street, Suite 302, Oakland, CA 94612. (916) 425-7916.
beforecolumbusfoundation@gmail.com
www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com
Beloit Poetry Journal
CHAD WALSH CHAPBOOK SERIES
Christine Gosnay of Greenbelt, Maryland, won the 2019 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series for The Wanderer. She received $1,000, 50 author copies, and publication of her chapbook by Beloit Poetry Journal. The annual award is given for a poetry chapbook. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Beloit Poetry Journal, Chad Walsh Chapbook Series, P.O. Box 1450, Windham, ME 04062. Rachel Contreni Flynn, Coeditor. bpj@bpj.org
BkMk Press
CIARDI/CHANDRA PRIZES
of Albuquerque, New Mexico, won the 2019 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry for The Dark Braid. of Salem, Oregon, won the 2019 G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction for One of Us. They each received $1,000 and their manuscripts will be
