Winners of the 2022 Autumn House Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
NONFICTION: Otherwise: Essays by Julie Marie Wade, selected by Lia Purpura
POETRY: Taking to Water by Jennifer Conlon, selected by Carl Phillips
Their books will be released in October of 2023.
We’d also like to congratulate the following finalists and semifinalists for their wonderful manuscripts and say thank you to everyone who submitted this year.
FICTION FINALISTS
In the Shadow of the Architect by Bradley Bazzle
Lake Effect by Hillary Behrman
The Paper Anniversary: Stories by Dinah Cox
No Use Pretending by Thomas Dodson, Runner-Up
FICTION SEMI-FINALISTS
A Report from the Academy by J. A. Bernstein
Neighboring Parts of This Planet by Elizabeth Edelglass
This is Not Skin by Nathan Roberts
Popsicles and Other Objects by Nina Schuyler
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NONFICTION FINALISTS
Those Little Anodynes by Robin Clarke
My Mother in Havana by Rebe Huntman
Into the After by Renee Thompson
NONFICTION SEMI-FINALISTS
Searching for Neptune by Susan Pope
Death of a Dreamer: Retracing a Father’s Fateful Journey by Martha-Grace Duncan
Good Jewish Girl: A Jerusalem Love Story Gone Bad by Liz Shulman
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POETRY FINALISTS
Ecophagy by Alyse Bensel
The Silent Conversation by Bruce Bond
How clearly you can see some nights by Katie Chaple
Resurrection Body by Elizabeth Garcia
BEFORELIGHT by Matthew Gellman
Moon Charger by Julia Anna Morrison
POETRY SEMI-FINALISTS
Dead Things and Where to Put Them by Marina Carreira
The Movement of Fields by Ryler Dustin
Vore by James Ellenberger
Split Tongue Wanting by Sara Femenella
Beckoned Back by Hell-Bent Blackbirds by H. L. Hix
