WINNER: Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead
by Jen Siraganian
In her debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, Jen Siraganian traces a self shaped by history, fragmentation, and memory as she weaves her family’s past in the Middle East with her identity as an Armenian-American woman and mother. Whether portraying a grandparent’s survival during the Armenian Genocide, …
Submissions are already rolling in to the 2026 Perugia Press Prize contest for a first or second full-length book of poetry by a woman, inclusive of gender-expansive identities. We …
WINNER: Apostasies
by Holli Carrell
Holli Carrell’s debut collection Apostasies explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a repressive and patriarchal American religious ideology. Interweaving …
Dear Perugia Community,
We don’t yet have all the words we want or need to say in the wake of this last election cycle, but “we do language,” as Toni Morrison said, and we can and …
Submissions are already rolling in to the 2025 Perugia Press Prize contest for a first or second full-length book of poetry by a woman. We opened for submissions on August 1, and we’ll …