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....
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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 ...
Poetry. DEED by Justin Wymer is the winner of the 2018 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. DA Powell had this to say about it: "Justin Wymer's poems make a faith of longing, shedding clothes, body, chrysalis to commune deeply with the world. He tak...
Fiction. Christy Stillwell's THE WOLF TONE won the Elixir Press 2017 Fiction Award. This novel, set in a Montana college town, takes us on a journey through such issues as motherhood and freedom, accompanied by a buoyant soundtrack like no other. De...
Poetry. BARNBURNER by Erin Hoover is the winner of the 2017 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Kathryn Nuernberger, contest judge, had this to say about it: "The epigraph to BARNBURNER is a call to burn it all down: 'According to an old story, the...
Poetry. RISE AND FALL OF THE LESSER SUN GODS by Bruce Bond is one of the winners of the 17th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. Laura Kasischke had this to say about it: "Bruce Bond has written a book length poem of spectacular beauty-incantatory, s...
Poetry. I WILL NOT KICK MY FRIENDS by Kathleen Winter is one of the winners of the 17th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. Contest judge, Jane Satterfield, had this to say about I WILL NOT KICK MY FRIENDS: "Sparkling, satirical, and highly referenti...
Poetry. Winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award in 2016. Contest Judge, Seth Brady Tucker had this to say about it: "Michael Brooks Cryer's poetry comes to us riding on static radio frequencies, channeled through the ether of our disconten...