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Winner of the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award GIRL IN A BEAR SUIT by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is the winner of the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award. Contest judge, Christopher Citro had this to say about it: “As I turned each page, it kept happening,...
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Winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. DEGREES OF ROMANCE by Peter Krumbach won the 2022 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Contest judge, Candice Reffe describes the book: These dazzling prose poems are a portal into “a realm where s...
Winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. THE PAPER ANNIVERSARY won the 2023 Elixir Press Fiction Award. Contest judge, Anthony Varallo priests the book: “These stories leap off the page with so much energy and wit; there’s life in every paragraph,...
Winner of the 23rd Annual Elixir Press Poetry Award. WHEN YOUR SKY RUNS INTO MINE by Rooja Mohassess is the winner of the 22nd Annual Elixir Press Poetry Award. Shara McCallum had this to say about it: “Rooja Mohassessy’s debut collection, When Y...
Winner of the Elixir Press 2021 Antivenom Poetry Award “Lush and frantic, GREEN BURIAL submerges us in a dazzling, apocalyptic pastoral. Here we find a brother’s funeral and a lover’s last drink on the way to rehab as we travel a dreamscape of birds...
Winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. Kirk Wilson’s short story collection, OUT OF SEASON, was the winner of the 2021 Elixir Press Fiction Award. Karen Russell had this to say about it: “I am a long-time fan of Kirk Wilson's darkly funny, slyly...
Ron Tanner's FAR WEST won Elixir Press 2020 Fiction Award. Contest judge, Christy Stillwell, has this to say: "Many of the stories investigate the American West, examining themes like independence, freedom, and space with a lens of honesty and grit....
THE DROWNING HOUSE by John Sibley Williams is the winner of the 2020 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award. Contest judge, John A. Nieves, had this to say about it: "In the dark and shifting world of THE DROWNING HOUSE, Sibley Williams dives deep to try ...
Poetry. WHITE CHICK by Nancy Keating is the winner of the 2020 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Contest judge, Sarah Kennedy, had this to say about it: "Nancy Keating's WHITE CHICK races through self-doubt, dubious prayer, politics, and shame, p...
Poetry. IF WE HAD A LEMON WE'D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN by Christopher Citro was chosen by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis as the winner of the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Lee Upton had this to say about it: "In Christopher Citro's IF WE...
Poetry. THE ERA OF DISCONTENT by Brianna Noll was chosen by Jane Satterfield as the winner of the 2020 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award. Christina Pugh had this to say about it: "THE ERA OF DISCONTENT, Brianna Noll's brilliant second book of poems, ...
Fiction. THE WORST MAY BE OVER, a short story collection by George Looney, won the Elixir Press 2019 Fiction Award. Contest judge, Gary Fincke, had this to say: "These stories open in quick and intriguing ways, but then the writer has the ability an...
Poetry. SOMEWHERE TO GO by Laurin Becker Macios is one of the winners of the 19th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Award. Contest judge, Liz Robbins, had this to say about SOMEWHERE TO GO: "Rilke wrote, 'The only journey is the one within.' Macios takes h...
Fiction. Ann Harleman's TELL ME, SIGNORA won the Elixir Press 2018 Fiction Award. Ann Harleman is the author of Happiness, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, Bitter Lake, Thoreau's Laundry, and The Year She Disappeared. Among her awards are Gug...
Poetry. Winner of the 2018 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award. Contest judge, Kathleen Winter, had this to say about it, "Supple syntax and subtle variations in poetic form also add to this debut collection's complexity and polish. Readers across age ...