Winner of the 2024 AHP Poetry Prize

October 1, 2024

Autumn House is pleased to announce that self-driving by Betsy Fagin was selected by Kazim Ali as our 2024 Poetry Prize winner. We’re so pleased to publish this stunning collection in October 2025.

Betsy Fagin is the author of Fires Seen From Space (Winter Editions), All is Not Yet Lost(Belladonna), and Names Disguised (Make Now Books). Her work has received support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Provincetown Community Compact, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

We’d also like to congratulate the runner-up, finalists, and semi-finalists for their beautiful words and thank everyone who submitted and trusted us with their manuscripts.

Thanks also to the judge, Kazim, for all his hard work.

RUNNER-UP

Singing Ground by Samantha DeFlitch

FINALISTS

Vigil by Mary Ardery

WANTLESS by Katie Condon*

Ghost in the Archive by jennifer loyd

Vernacular Geography by Mary Rose Manspeaker

Singing Under Snow by Anne Haven McDonnell

Year of the Labyrinth by Brian Sneeden

Public House by Dylan Weir

Pearl by Cecilia Woloch

SEMIFINALISTS

How We Keep Each Other Company by Talia Bloch

Bewilderness by Corinne Dekkers

Interior Weather by Avren Keating

The Transmutation Notebook by Michael Lavers

Architecture of Grief by Sarah Nance

The Origin of Wounds by Malik Rasaq

Survey by Kelly R. Samuels

The Star Cabins by Sara Wainscott

*indicates a manuscript that was withdrawn before the judge’s final selection was made

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