WINNER: The Book Eaters by Carolina Hotchandani
In Carolina Hotchandani’s debut The Book Eaters, the poet’s desire for agency over her life’s narrative is counterbalanced by her awareness that poetry is written precisely when life wrests control from us. This book, conceived in loss, examines shifts in identity due to Partition, immigration, …
The 2023 Perugia Press Prize contest for a first or second book of poetry by a woman will be open for submissions from August 1-November 15, 2022. We’re accepting submissions of full-length poetry …
WINNER: American Sycamore by Lisbeth White
American Sycamore is an exploration of racial identity and the natural world, rooted in the mythopoetics of wilderness and ancestry as sources of trauma, grief, wonder, and tremendous resource. In pursuit of understanding the nuances of belonging and displacement in a Black mixed-race …
The 2022 Perugia Press Prize contest for a first or second book of poetry by a woman will be open for submissions from August 1-November 15, 2021. We’re accepting submissions of full-length poetry …
WINNER: THROUGH A RED PLACE by Rebecca Pelky
Rebecca Pelky’s story-in-poems assembles the author’s research into her Native and non-Native heritage in the land now known as Wisconsin. Through the poet’s ancestors—and documented through text and image—this book relates narratives of people who converged on and impacted this space in myriad …