New titles for 2025 selected by Jennifer Oakes
Many thanks to Jennifer Oakes for selecting Spoke by Arden Levine and All Were Limones by Luisa Caycedo-Kimura as the 2024 selections for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Series Editor …
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Time for poet-volunteers to reap their reward!
Submit a full-length poetry manuscript to the Hilary Tham Capital Collection Nominations: April 30. Submission deadline for poets: May 15. A message from Series Editor Brad Richard: As editor of …
2024 AWP Conference and Bookfair – Kansas City!
The Word Works had another successful AWP Conference and Bookfair in Kansas City, Missouri, February 7-10, 2024, announcing new books and visiting with our the authors and friends: Leah Umansky’s …
Nicole Callihan Wins the 2023 Tenth Gate Prize
Series Editor Jennifer Barber is delighted to announce that Judge Sandra Lim has selected chigger ridge by Nicole Callihan of Miami, Florida, as the winner of the 2023 Tenth Gate …
2023 Selections for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection!
The Word Works is proud to announce the 2023 selections for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection: Only Believe, by Jennifer Bartell, of Columbia, SC; and Around the Gate, by M.A. …
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Radha Marcum Wins The Word Works Washington Prize!
Pine, Soot, Tendon, Bone by Radha Marcum is the winner of the 2023 Washington Prize. Marcum will receive the prize of $1,500 and the book will be published early in …
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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, …
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 …
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 …
Remembering September 11: Andrea Carter Brown
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 …