Winners of the Rising Writer Prizes Announced!
Autumn House congratulates the winners of our 2021 Rising Writer Prizes in Poetry and Fiction
Poetry Winner: The Gardens of Our Childhoods by John Belk, selected by Matthew Dickman
Fiction Winner: Myth of Pterygium by Diego Gerard Morrison, selected by Maryse Meijer
We’re so pleased to publish these debut books in March 2022. Thanks to judges, Matthew Dickman and Maryse Meijer, for all their hard work!
We’d also like to congratulate the finalists and the semi-finalists for their incredible manuscripts. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We’re grateful for the opportunity to have gotten to read your work, and we are wishing you success.
Finalists
Poetry
Femme D’Interieur by Stephanie Berger
the swailing by Patrick Errington
The Linen Spells by Sara Fetherolf
Swan Hammer: An Instructor’s Guide to Mirrors by Maggie Graber
Water Boundaries by Ethan Heusser
It’s not over once you figure it out by Isaac Pickell
Ghost Family by Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Fiction
Smaller Lives by Whitney Lawson
How do you like these bad days? by Maggie Smith
Ore Vein by Danilo Thomas
Semi-Finalists
Poetry
What Good Is Heaven by Raye Hendrix
otherhood by Emily Hunerwadel
Facing the Mirror: An Essay by Katherine Indermaur
Arcanum by Elisa Karbin
Seasons of Dust by Daniel Moysaenko
Spoon for a Sparrow, a Wolf, a Girl by E.B. Schnepp
Specter by Tori Sharpe
Public House by Dylan Weir
Fiction
Thanks for This Riot by Janelle Bassett
The Last of the Light and Other Stories by Alexander Joseph
The Familiar Dark by Tyler McAndrew
History’s Best Wishes by Keene Short