2023 AWP Conference UPDATE!
After the Covid shutdown, The Word Works got back in the saddle and had a highly successful AWP in Seattle, Washington, March 8-11, 2023. This means we sold these new …
AWP, here we come!
Oh yeah, we’re dizzy with excitement! It’s been three years of solitude, trying to keep up with book production during the era of You Know What, avoiding crowds, and finally, …
Jennifer Richter wins the 2022 Tenth Gate Prize!
The Tenth Gate Prize, given to a mid-career poet writing in English, has been awarded to Jen Richter of Oregon for her poetry collection Dear Future. The book was chosen …
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2023 Titles Under Way!
What a roller coaster in 2022, choosing just five books for 2023 from the tremendous submissions we received during our May reading period! But now that the selection jitters have …
Timothy Liu selects the next Hilary Tham Capital Collection books!
Thank you, Timothy Liu, for judging this year’s Hilary Tham Capital Collection! Tim has selected two marvelous books for us to publish in 2023: A pooka in Arkansas by Ed Madden (SC) and In …
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Doug Ramspeck Wins the 2021 Tenth Gate Prize
Lauren Camp has selected Doug Ramspeck‘s poetry collection Blur as the winner of this year’s Tenth Gate Prize. It will be released in the spring of 2022. Doug Ramspeck is …
Cynthia Arrieu-King Selects Nikia Chaney for the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection!
Nikia Chaney of San Bernardino, CA, is the author of us mouth (University of Hell Press, 2018) and two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, …
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Cynthia Arrieu-King Selects Tara Betts for the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection!
Tara Betts of Chicago is the author of Break the Habit and Arc & Hue. A teaching artist and mentor for young poets, she has taught at Rutgers University, University …
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Sharon Suzuki-Martinez Wins the 2021 Washington Prize
From a fine pod of finalists bursting with vitality, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez‘s The Loneliest Whale Blues rose to claim this year’s Washington Prize. It will be released in the spring of …
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Remembering September 11: Andrea Carter Brown’s September 12
The twentieth anniversary of 9/11/2001 sees Andrea Carter Brown gathering her work into one devastating bouquet of terror, survival, grief, and recovery. From stark moment-to-moment narrative of the flight from …
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