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.
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
This year’s reading period buoyed the editors with an embarrassment of riches, and an exciting year of planning and production lies ahead. The new (and returning) authors will be: Jennifer
Lee Ann Roripaugh has chosen Carolyn Guinzio’s (A) V(ertigo Book) for the 2020 Tenth Gate Prize. A Chicago native, Carolyn Guinzio lives in Fayetteville, AR. Her six previous books include
From a crowd of fierce contenders, Black Butterflies Over Baghdad by David Allen Sullivan has been chosen by judge Tim Seibles, Poet Laureate of Virginia. The Hilary Tham Capital Collection
Meg Kearney of NH has won the 2020 Washington Prize for her manuscript All Morning the Crows. Cleopatra Mathis says the book “goes well beyond a metaphoric treatment of birds
Hilary Tham’s Bad Names for Women was the first book selected for publication in the Capital Collection, founded by Karren Alenier. This unique imprint is open only to poet-volunteers who
At the end of 2019 Christine Hamm’s startling collection Gorilla was selected as the winner of the Tenth Gate Prize. The pandemic may have slowed down production of this true original,
Our first book of 2021, Skirted by Julie Marie Wade, will launch this March in three virtual readings shared with Denise Duhamel, who will read from her new collection, Second
Curtis Bauer’s translation of the book Image of Absence (The Word Works, 2018) by the Mexican poet Jeannette Clariond won the International Latino Book Award for “Best Nonfiction Book Translation from