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California Book Award

Cal Book Award Finalists

The Commonwealth Club of California has just announced their finalists for the 82nd California Book Award, and in the poetry category 4 out of 5 are by SPD publishers!  Congrats to the authors, and especially the publishers: Atelos, Nightboat, Tupelo, and City Lights.  Here's those finalists:

 

   After Urgency  
Sea and Fog
 Citizen    Journey to the Sun

Oregon Book Award

Oregon Book Award!

Congratulations to SPD author (and publisher) Zachary Schomburg, whose Black Ocean book Fjords Vol. 1 has been named the winner of the Oregon Book Award in poetry! Mary Jo Bang judged this year's Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry and wisely give it to one of SPD's bestselling books. Is it time to start looking forward to Vol. 2?

 

 
Fjords Vol. 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
Poetry Society of America

Norma Farber Book Award

Congratulations to Nick Twemlow, who won this year's Norma Farber First Book Award, judged by Timothy Liu and administered by the The Poetry Society of America.  Nick is also a co-publisher of SPD publisher Canarium Books, so we are doubly proud of him.  Read Palm Trees, you won't regret it!

Palm Trees | Nick Twemlow
 
  
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