Recent Awards for Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors

Paula Bohince and Tomás Q. Morín received 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships.

John W. Evans won the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Competition for his book The Fight Journal.

B.K. Fischer was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for her book Cieve.

Amina Gautier’s story “What the Mouth Knows” was winner of the 2021 CRAFT Flash Fiction Contest.

Amina Gautier was winner of the 2022 Blackwell Prize in writing.

torrin a. greathouse was a finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book Wound from the Mouth of a Wound.

Jennifer L. Knox’s poem “Old Women Talking about Death” received a Pushcart Prize.

Irène P. Mathieu’s poem “the junkyard galaxy knocks” was chosen for The Best American Poetry 2022.

Amber McBride’s debut novel Me (Moth) received a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award.

City Scattered by Tyler Mills won The Snowbound Chapbook Award.

Diane Seuss won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for her book frank: sonnets.

Diane Seuss won the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry for her book frank:
sonnets.

Diane Seuss was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for her book frank: sonnets.

Diane Seuss was a finalist for 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her book frank: sonnets.

Diane Seuss was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book frank: sonnets.

Simon Shieh received a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

Alison Stine’s novel Trashlands was longlisted for the 2022 Reading the West Book Award.

Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award.

Phillip B. Williams was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry for his book Mutiny.

Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry.

Kevin Wilson’s novel Nothing to See Here was chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the Big Read program.

Where You Come From Is Gone by Annie Woodford was awarded the Adrienne Bond Poetry Award.

C. Dale Young’s Prometeo was a finalist for 2022 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas.

Recent Books by Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors

Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You
Craig Beaven
CutBank

Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes
Nicky Beer
Milkweed Editions

Choreomania
Bruce Bond
MadHat Press

Invention of the Wilderness
Bruce Bond
Louisiana State University Press

Liberation of Dissonance
Bruce Bond
Schaffner Press

If This Makes You Nervous
Elena Karina Byrne
Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.

Remembering Lethe
Brian Culhane
Able Muse Press

The Fight Journal
John W. Evans
Rattle (Spring 2023)

Bad Hobby
Kathy Fagan
Milkweed Editions

The Glass Globe
Margaret Gibson
Louisiana State University Press

The Judas Ear
Anna Journey
Louisiana State University Press

The Mothers
Dorianne Laux and Leila Chatti
Slapering Hol Press

City Scattered
Tyler Mills
Tupelo Press

Embouchure
Emilia Phillips
University of Akron Press

Field Notes from the Flood Zone
Heather Sellers
BOA Editions

Trashlands
Alison Stine
MIRA

Meltwater
Claire Wahmanholm
Milkweed Editions (2023)

Star-Tent: A Triptych
Amie Whittemore
Tolsun Books (2023)

Where You Come From Is Gone
Annie Woodford
Mercer University Press