Pleiades Press is pleased to announce Calabash Stories by Jeffrey Higa was selected by C.J. Hauser as the winner of the Robert C. Jones Prize and will be published in 2021. C.J. Hauser praised the book, writing, “I was enchanted by Calabash Stories. This collection is full of small Márquezian marvels: an ice-maker wheeled down a too-narrow Hawaiian road on roller-skates,…
We are excited to announce the judges for our fall book prizes, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry and the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. Both contests will open September 15 and will close November 15. For submission guidelines and more information about the awards, click here. Tiana Clark will judge the Lena-Miles…
We are very pleased to announce The Cipher by Molly Brodak was selected as the winner of the 2019 Pleiades Press Editors Prize and will be published by Pleiades Press in 2020. Molly Brodak is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir (Grove Atlantic, 2016), along with…
We are pleased to announce Miracles Come on Mondays by Penelope Cray was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose and will be published next year. Kazim Ali praised this book, saying, “These dark fractured fables tell stories of strange texture; stories about characters trying to find their way amid currents…
We are pleased to announce Louder Birds by Angela Voras-Hills was selected by Traci Brimhall as the winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry and will be published next year. Traci Brimhall praised this book, saying, “This collection is astonishing. Lines from these poems kept rising in me days after I read them, and each poem’s turn was…
We are very pleased to announce The Imaginary Age by Leanna Petronella was selected as the winner of the 2018 Pleiades Press Editors Prize and will be published by Pleiades Press in 2019. Leanna Petronella’s poetry appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Third Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, CutBank, Quarterly West, ElevenEleven, and other publications. Her fiction…
by Kameshia R. Logan Gary Fincke has published thirty-one books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, most recently The Out-of-Sorts: New and Selected Stories (2017) and Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poetry (2016). Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Ohio State University/The Journal Poetry Prize, he has published…
by Kylie Jacks E. J. KOH’s poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Boston Review, Columbia Review, Southeast Review, World Literature Today, TriQuarterly, Narrative, The Margins, PEN America, and elsewhere. She accepted fellowships at The MacDowell Colony, Kundiman, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Jack Straw Writers Program. She earned her MFA at…
We are very pleased to announce Fluid States by Heidi Czerwiec was selected by Dinty W. Moore and will be published next year. Moore praised this book, saying “Fluid States offers essays that are eclectic, unexpected, and entirely inventive. As the title suggests, the book flows briskly, a river infused with a keen intelligence and subtle…