Noemi Press Book Awards
Contest submissions are now open until May 1, 2020.
Guidelines for Submissions
Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication by Noemi Press are given annually for one book-length poetry collection and one book-length work of prose.
The editors will judge.
POETRY: Poets at any stage in their career may submit a manuscript of no more than 90 pages with a $25 entry fee by May 1.
PROSE: Prose writers at any stage in their career may submit a manuscript (no page limit) with a $25 entry fee by May 1.
All manuscripts are read anonymously. Strip your manuscript of all identifying material, including title pages, dedications, and acknowledgements; otherwise, the manuscript will not be considered.
Contest winners will be announced in summer 2020.
Contest News and Previous Winners
2019 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners and finalists for the 2019 Noemi Press Award in Prose.
Winner: Slim Confessions by Sarah Minor
Finalists
I Was Walking to a Sushi Cafeteria to Eat Quickly by Myself When They Took Me by Lee Spieldenner
Sunflower by Thomas Gresham
To Limn/Lying In by J’Lyn Chapman
2019 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners and finalists for the 2019 Noemi Press Award in Poetry.
Winner: Greyhound by Aeon Ginsberg
We will also be publishing A Better Way To Say Onlys by Nicholas Wong
Finalists
Animal Mineral by Stephanie Cawley (accepted elsewhere)
Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen
Feast by Ina Cariño
Funnel Where the Light May Enter by Christine Robbins
Fusion Figures by Melissa Dias-Mandoly
eclipsing binary by Flower Conroy
On What Day by Emily Perez
Preferred Internal Landscape by Emma Winsor Wood
Tell Me How It Makes You Feel by Valerie Hsiung
The Snake by Amy Lawless
Wax of What’s Left by Kristina Erny
2018 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners and finalists for the 2018 Noemi Press Award in Poetry.
Winner: Travesty Generator by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
We will also be publishing The Fish & The Dove by Mary-Kim Arnold
Finalists
Tropical Sacrifice by Lucas de Lima
What Noise Chafing by Desiree Bailey
THE BEST PREY by Paige Quiñones
Sugar Work by Katie Pryor
Lily of the Valley by Ines Pujos
2018 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners and finalists for the 2018 Noemi Press Award in Prose.
Winner: Almonds are Members of the Peach Family by Stephanie Sauer
Finalists
Beasts of the Interior by Sarah Minor
Say Mother Say Hand: an antimemoir by Marie Conlan
Undersongs by Michael Beeman
Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret by Tim Jones-Yelvington
I Moved to a City by Lee Spieldenner
All that Glitters by Jeremy Townley
Litle A by Bill Lavender
2017 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners and finalists for the 2017 Noemi Press Book Award in Poetry.
Winner: UNMANNED by Jessica Rae Bergamino
We will be also publishing Inland Empire by Leah Huizar
FINALISTS
Orient by Nicholas Gulig
Ochre/Orpheus by Meredith Stricker
Bodega by Su Hwang
STET by Dora Malech
We Are Too Big for This House by Sara Borias
2017 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners and finalists for the 2017 Noemi Press Award in Prose.
Winner: The Itch by Kate Colby
Finalists
Lyrebird by Meredith Clark
Fluid States by Heidi Czerwiec
Beast Grief by Marie Conlan
Echo Park by Ryan Ridge
Body/Language by Anne Riesenberg
NoNo by Jenny Wu
2016 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners, finalists, and semi finalists for the 2016 Noemi Press Book Award in Poetry.
Winner: Indictus by Natalie Eilbert
Finalist: Careen by Grace Shuyi Liew
We will be also publishing Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime by Chaun Webster and A Problem and Some Space by Hannah Ensor
SEMIFINALISTS
The Devil’s Workshop by Xavier Cavazos
Hagia Animalia by Sara Biggs Chaney
Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Leaving Impulse by Rachel Martin
Manipur by Robin McLachlen
The Historians of Redundant Moments: Novel in Poems by Nandini Dhar
Northern Ledger by Kate Partridge
Probable Garden by Bronwen Tate
Saints and Cannibals by Robert Lunday
Winter Swimmers by Carolyn DeCarlo
Woman, Yielding by Andrea Blancas Beltran
un/documented—kentucky—songs by Steven Alvarez
2016 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners, finalists, and semi finalists for the 2016 Noemi Press Book Award in Fiction.
Winner: The Ladies by Sara Veglahn
Finalist: The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, A Haven by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
SEMIFINALISTS
There Are Other People In The Dark, Though by Michael Shelichach
TSK by Caroline Picard
Partners And Strangers by Michael Don
Trouble Will Save You by David Crouse
Polyester Vocabulary by jill darling
The Perception of Partially Occluded Objects by Stephen Tuttle
The Moon Below by Nathan Oates
When The Time Came by Gabriel Houck
Strike a Prose: Memoirs of a Lit Diva Extraordinaire by Tim Jones-Yelvington
2015 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners, finalists, and semi finalists for the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award in Poetry. We received about 400 poetry submissions this year and thank all the writers who submitted for trusting us with their work.
Winner
Bone Confetti by Muriel Leung
Finalists
Natality by E. G. Means
MOUTHS by Claire Marie Stancek
We will also be publishing finalist Vanessa Villarreal’s manuscript Beast Meridian in the Akrilica series.
Poetry Semifinalists
They Go In Pairs by Samuel Ace
Arcadia, Indiana (a tragedy) by Toby Altman
You Can Take It Out by Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
Red of Split Water-A Burial Rite by Lisa Donovan
Century Worm by Todd Fredson
Actual Echo by Matthew Mahaney
A Turkish Dictionary by Andrew Wessels
2015 Winners of the Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction
The editors of Noemi Press are excited to announce the winners, finalists, and semi finalists for the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award in Fiction. We received about 300 fiction submissions this year and thank all the writers who submitted for trusting us with their work.
Winner
Uncountry: A Mythology by Yanara Friedland
Finalist
A Manual for Nothing by Jessica Anne Chiang
Fiction Semifinalists
Gary Oldman Is A Building You Must Walk Through by Forrest Roth
Patchwork: Stories by Cynthia Hawkins
Waters to Swim in Before We Die by Meredith Luby
ANSWERING MACHINE: a novel out loud by Edward Herring
The Rolodex Happenings by Dennis James Sweeney
Project MADAM by Evelyn Hampton
A More Active You by Meagan Cass
These Are Our Demands by Matthew Pitt