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Mary Margaret Alvarado's manuscript Chrome of Iris has been selected as the winner of the 2023 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Look for Chrome of Iris in 2024!
Winner:
Mary Margaret Alvarado, Chrome of Iris
Finalists:
- Kristian O'Hare, A Sudden Heaven
- Stella Corso, Valentine's Day//Yrs, Maybe
- Naoko Fujimoto, This Future, Again
- J.C. Rodriguez, Everything's Pointless, Wanna Go Talk About It?
- Erin Mizrahi, Desert Kaddish
- Leslie Ullman, Self Portrait as Vanishing Act
- Allan Peterson, First Aid
- Allison Blevins, Portland
- Michael Chang, New National Anthem
- Elizabeth Sylvia, My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties
Jaswinder Bolina has selected Samodh Porawagamage’s manuscript becoming sam as the winner of the 2022 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Look for becoming sam in 2024!
Winner:
Samodh Porawagamage, becoming sam
Runner-up:
Katharine Ogle, Seeing the Big Dog
Finalists:
- Dani Putney, Mix-Mix
- Megin Jimenez, Escape Plan
- Patrick Milian, Pleasure Centers
- Prudence Arceneaux, Proprioception
- Eva Heisler, The Sea and the Residency Permit
- Rebecca Lilly, Night Westerly
- Michael Chang, Creatures of Habit
- Corrie Williamson, Your Mother's Bear Gun
- Adam Day, American Elision
- Jack Jung, I Am From The Last Country I Am From
Join Burnside Review Press, Saturnalia Books, Letter Machine Editions, Barrow Street Press, and Black Ocean for an AWP offsite reading in Seattle on Friday, March 10! And come find us at Table T1227 at the book fair!
Tim Greenup's manuscript Crisis Mode has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Look for Crisis Mode in 2023!
Winner:
Tim Greenup, Crisis Mode
Finalists:
- Jackie Clark, To Surrender
- Dennis Etzel, Jr., Fourteeners for Two Mothers
- SM Stubbs, Apokalypsis
- Moskoula Harisiadis, (Untitled)
- Connor Fisher, The Anointed Botanists of Morning
- Janice Northerns, Tongues of Men and Angels
- Chrissy Martin, Ditch Daisies
- Justin Rigamonti, Songbird Disorder
- Rachel Abramowitz, Flea with Martyrdom
- Patrick Dundon, Matthew
Sommer Browning has selected Nathaniel Rosenthalis’s manuscript I Won’t Begin Again as the winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Look for I Won’t Begin Again in 2023!
Winner:
Nathaniel Rosenthalis, I Won’t Begin Again
Runners-up:
Megin Jimenez, Escape Plan
Suzanne Wise, Archive of Silence and Noise
Finalists:
- Nicole Callihan, Of Many Rooms
- Emily Carr, The Stork Rides Shotgun & other statistically significant poems
- Michael Chang, Synthetic Jungle
- Adam Day, Whip the Sea
- Henrietta Goodman, Antillia
- Jeffrey Hecker, I Love a Nun
- Michael Leong, Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light
- Daniel Moysaenko, Seasons of Dust
- Christina Olson, The Anxiety Workbook
- Susan Parr, Devera
- Jared Stanley, So Tough
- Lindsey Webb, Plat
Ari Banias has selected Haines Whitacre's manuscript Haptic Verse: In Imaging Vessels as the winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Look for Haptic Verse in 2022!
Winner:
Haines Whitacre, Haptic Verse: In Imaging Vessels
Runner-up:
Lucía Orellana Damacela, Partitions
Finalists:
- Zoë Fay-Stindt, Bird Body
- Andre Wilson, Trailhead
- Michael Chang, 50% Love 50% Rage
- Susan Terris, Fractured Alphabet of the Unknown
- Jack Jung, Interregnum
- BJ Soloy, HIM
- Elsbeth Pancrazi, The Feelings, The Garden, Work Life & The Remnants
- Benjamin Grossberg, As Are Right Fit
Jennifer Chang has selected Meghan Maguire Dahn’s manuscript Domain as the winner of the 2020 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Look for Domain in 2022!
Winner:
Meghan Maguire Dahn, Domain
Runner-up:
Mark Faunlagui, Majnun
Finalists:
- Susan Parr, Devera
- Danielle Blau, Peep
- Vanessa Couto Johnson, pH of Au
- Nicole Callihan, Of Many Rooms
- Matthew Broaddus, Two Bolts
- Sophie Klahr, Two Open Doors in a Field
- Michael Chang, Sean * Lennon
- Rennie Ament, Mechanical Bull
- Alison Powell, Boats in the Attic
- Triin Paja, For Every Shadow
Lara Glenum has selected Jonathan Andrew Pérez's manuscript The Divining: Dark Was the Night of Justice as the winner of the 2020 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Look for The Divining in 2021!
Runner-up:
Michael Chang, (( big shot manifesto ))
Finalists:
- Emily Tristan Jones, Greensleeves
- Madison McCartha, from The Cryptodrone Sequence
- M.G. Moscato, Lovesick / Problems
- Chessy Normille, Hermitude
- Kathleen Heil, Welcome to the Situation
- Lisa Lewis, The Borrowing Days
- Jean-Paul Pecqueur, The Darketypes
- Jan LaPerle, I Asked the Ocean But the Ocean Didn’t Know
Darcie Dennigan has selected Angelo Mao’s manuscript Abattoir as the winner of the 2019 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Look for Abattoir in 2021!
Winner:
Angelo Mao, Abattoir
Runner-up:
Joanne Dominique Dwyer, Hero Hallucination
Finalists:
- JoAnna Novak, New Life
- Kimberly Lambright, Doom Glove
- Michael Chang, The Mystery Files of Michael Pulichino: A Chapbook Made with Love
- MC Hyland, A Book of Borrowed Light
- Patrick Dundon, Brick, Salt, Cake, Flesh
- Suzanne Wise, Selected Notes on Silence and Noise
- Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, They Can Take It Out
- Alice Pettway, Dawn Chorus
