Winners of the 2019 Autumn House Full-Length Contests Announced!

September 16, 2019

Autumn House is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Contests!

Winners

under the aegis of a winged mind by makalani bandele, selected by Cornelius Eady, poetry

Further News of Defeat: Stories by Michael X. Wang, selected by Aimee Bender, fiction

Skull Cathedral: A Life of Vestigial Organs by Melissa Wiley, selected by Paul Lisicky, nonfiction

We’re so honored to be publishing manuscripts by these talented authors! We’d also like to thank our screeners and judges for all their hard work this year.

We’d also like to congratulate the following runners-up and finalists for their wonderful manuscripts:

Runners-up

Poetry: Birds of Prey by M. Soledad Caballero & Salvation Party by Philip Schaefer

Fiction: Absolute Music by Jonathan Monroe Geltner & The Beforeland by Corinna Vallianatos

Nonfiction: Heir to the Crescent Moon by Sufiya Abdur-Rahman

POETRY FINALISTS

The Punishments Must Be a School by Emily August
Like We Still Speak by Danielle Badra
Spoil by Alyse Bensel
How Clearly You Can see Some Nights by Katie Chaple
Movable Orchard by Patty Crane
Tapetum Lucidum by James Ellenberger
Fractures by Carlos Gómez
Wind Answers by Kate Kernan
Hypergraphia by Jennifer Metsker
I Thought There Would Be More Wolves by Sara Ryan
Funeral for a Professional Mourner by D.E. St. John
Place Where Presence Was by Bret Shepard
The Public by Patrick Swaney
Foxlogic, Fireweed by Jennifer Sweeney
Sum Ledger by Adam Tavel
A Different Man by Tobias Wray
Drafting by Z.G. Tomaszewski

FICTION FINALISTS

Relatable Influence by Bradley Bazzle
Sunday Sermon by Edward Black
Legerdemain by Andi Boyd
Hermosa by Marisa P. Clark
Out Stealing Water by Roxanne Lynn Doty
Residential Units by Marcie Friedman
Rescue and Other Relationships by Theo Greenblatt
Little Black Holes by Heather Harms
Missives from the Mountain View Hostage Crisis by Michael Keen
No Diving Allowed: Stories by Louise Marburg
The Part That Burns by Jeannine Ouellette
Winter Skies by Doug Ramspeck
Peripheral Vision by Alan Sincic

NONFICTION FINALISTS

Heart-Shaped Box by April Bailey
In the Lake, Before Dark: Essays by Joshua Bernstein
Apophenia: Essays by Patrick Crerand
I’ll Make Room, Essays on Losing, Looking, and Finding by Brandel France de Bravo
The End of Tennessee by Rachel M. Hanson
Where People Are People by Toni Mirosevich
If I Hung the Moon by Devon Raymond
Where the Water Is by Anjoli Roy
American Lonely: Motherloss, Memory, and the Landscapes of Home by Alison Townsend
Masters in This Hall: a quiet girlhood by Melora Wolff

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