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 …
New titles for 2025 selected by Jennifer Oakes: Spoke and All Were Limones Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
2023 Selections for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection! Read More »
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 …
Radha Marcum Wins The Word Works Washington Prize! Read More »
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Remembering September 11: Andrea Carter Brown’s September 12 Read More »