Winners of the 2021 Autumn House Full-Length Prizes Announced!
Autumn House is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Prizes
Winners
POETRY: Seed Celestial by Sara Burnett, selected by Eileen Myles
FICTION: Entry Level by Wendy Wimmer, selected by Deesha Philyaw
NONFICTION: The Running Body by Emily Pifer, selected by Steve Almond
We’re so honored to be publishing manuscripts by these incredible authors. Their books will be released in Fall 2022.
We’d also like to congratulate the following finalists and semifinalists for their wonderful manuscripts and offer appreciation to everyone who submitted this year.
POETRY FINALISTS
The Traveling of Sound by Tara Ballard
Canoe of Stars by Bruce Bond
No Name Machine by Caroline Chavatel
Some Instinctive Need of Distance and Blue by C. J. A.
Small Things at all Hours by Kay Cosgrove
Another Sky by Ryler Dustin
Mother, Float by Ellen Elder
Vore by James Ellenberger
Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi
Black Swan Theory by Samantha Grenrock
Beehive State by Christian Gullette
What Good Is Heaven by Raye Hendrix
Against Indulgences by Michael Homolka
Perish / Abolish by Mia Kang
An improvised song is likely to come apart and scatter in infinite directions by Nawal Nader
Hour Song by Katie Naughton
THINE by Kate Partridge
Blur by Doug Ramspeck
The Undrowned World by Austen Leah Rose
Hymn Gasoline by Philip Schaefer
Quench by Brandon Thurman
The New Crucifix by Alejandro Villa Vasquez
A Real Man Would Have a Gun by Stacey Waite
Public House by Dylan Weir
FICTION FINALISTS
As If You Had a Say by Jennifer Fliss
The Ghosts in the Glen by Kerry Jones
Behind the Higher Hill: A Novel by Bradford Kammin
Behold the Birds of the Heaven by Michael Keen
FICTION SEMI-FINALISTS
After We Drowned by Jill Goldberg
Nothing to Declare by Edward Hamlin
The Man with A Camera Eye by Xiaoqiu Qiu
Free Ms. Greene by Jan Richman
Vexing Gifts by Rudy Ruiz
NONFICTION FINALISTS
The Long Hallway by Richard Larson
The Truth About Unringing Phones: Essays on Yearning by Lara Lillibridge
Year Thirteen by Deborah Thompson
Breathing, One Adult by Robin Troy
NONFICTION SEMI-FINALISTS
An Argument with My Mother About the Existence of God by Andrew Bertaina
The Mango Chronicle by Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi
The Itch and the Touch by Evan Lavender-Smith
Spare by Michelle Lewis
Spirography by Cara Stoddard
