Subscriber News: May 2024
Recent Honors
Winning Writers contest judge Michal 'MJ' Jones was named a finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Awards in Transgender Poetry, for their collection Hood Vacations (Black Lawrence Press, 2023). Winners will be announced in June.
Congratulations to Laurie Klein. Her poetry collection House of 49 Doors: Entries in a Life was released in February by Cascade Books in their Poiema Poetry Series. She kindly shares a sample poem here. Laurie tells Winning Writers, "My ongoing applause for your website, a trove of riches for writers and readers!"
Congratulations to Carlos Andrés Gómez and Sean Nevin. Gómez's poem "Double Golden Shovel Sonnet Found on the Q Train" won the 2024 Yeats Poetry Prize from the W.B. Yeats Society of NYC, and Nevin's "Kapuśniak" won second prize. The most recent submission period for this award, with prizes up to $1,000, was November 1-February 1.
Congratulations to Annie Dawid. Her novel Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown (Inkspot Publishing, 2023) was named a finalist in the Historical Fiction category of the 2024 Colorado Book Awards, sponsored by Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book. The judges called it "an incredibly researched story that gave a voice to people you only heard about in the news." Winners will be announced in late June. Paradise Undone was also favorably reviewed in the International Cultic Studies Association newsletter.
Congratulations to Wendy Adair. Her novel The Broken Hallelujah won the 2024 BookFest Gold Medal for Best Audiobook. This novel centers on a woman's quest to bring home her grandfather, a Vietnam veteran missing in action since 1969.
Congratulations to R. Bremner. His poem "I was a young child, then" tied for third prize in the 2024 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards from Passaic County Community College and will be published in Paterson Literary Review. The most recent deadline for this contest with prizes up to $2,000 was February 1. His poem "360 degrees" was accepted by the literary journal of the American University of Iraq Sulaimani. His poem "Veronica" was accepted for the anthology New Jersey Bards Poetry Review 2024 from Local Gems Press. He tells us, "I wrote it way back in 1983!"
Congratulations to Tamara Kaye Sellman. Her speculative fiction collection Cul de Sac Stories is now available for pre-order from Aqueduct Press. These tales critique patriarchy through the experiences of suburban women in surreal situations. Signed copies can be ordered directly from the author.
Recent Publications
Winning Writers Editor Jendi Reiter's poem "Subtext" was published in Impossible Archetype, Issue 15.2 (March 2024). Their poem "Suicide Squad" was published in the Spring 2024 issue of Solstice Lit Mag. Their poems "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Mother" and "I'm a Laura Ashley Man, Myself" were published in Beneath the Soil: A Queer Survivors' E-Zine, Vol. III (2024). Their poem "Father of Two" made it to the final round of the 2024 Plentitudes Prize.
Diana Goetsch's article "This trans author toured red-state libraries. What she found might surprise you" was published in the L.A. Times on April 17. Her most recent book is the award-winning memoir This Body I Wore (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022).
CB Anderson's flash fiction about the composer Clara Schumann, "River, Love", was published at Electric Literature and featured in their e-newsletter The Commuter. Visit her website for news of her award-winning fiction chapbook, Blue Lion Days, forthcoming this month from The Florida Review.
R.T. Castleberry's poem "A Whiskey Intermission" was published in Sangam Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Winter 2023). Literary Yard published five of his poems in April: "The World Is Not Renewed", "Turning Back", "Never More Beautiful", "A Wariness in Eden", and "Everyone Has Some Kind of Death".
Shobana Gomes's story "Charles & the Lady of the Manor", a historical fiction piece about Versailles painter Charles Le Brun, is available to read at Reedsy.
Patricia Olson's book launch reading for her poetry collection Reflections (Conflux Press, 2024) is now available for viewing on Vimeo.
Published: May 8, 2024
