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ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS

We Who Walk the Seven Ways

Dog on Fire

Mine Mine Mine

Two Open Doors in a Field

Breaking the Silence

Toby's Last Resort

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

The Sound of Undoing

Keorapetse Kgositsile

There Where It's So Bright in Me

Might Kindred

Living Room

Mummy Eaters

Woman Pissing

If This Were Fiction

Vanished

Under My Bed and Other Essays

Voice First

The Time Left between Us

Welcome to our AWP virtual book exhibit! Attending the conference virtually or perhaps can’t make it? Check out our virtual book exhibit for the same great books and conference discount. Use code 6AWP23 at checkout for 40% off plus free shipping through 3/30/2023.

We welcome new submissions. Submission guidelines can be found here.

FEATURED SERIES

AMERICAN LIVES

Tobias Wolff, series editor

The singular American life is a source of endless diversity, and the methods of telling the life are as important as the details themselves. The American Lives series, called “splendid” by Newsweek, features works of creative or literary memoir that, whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, provide glimpses into singular American lives. Taken together, these stories coalesce into a richly textured and colorful portrait of our contemporary culture.


ZERO STREET FICTION

Timothy Schaffert and SJ Sindu, series editors

Zero Street invites submissions of novels and short story collections, from LGBTQ+ authors new and established, that feature LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes. We are particularly interested in BIPOC authors, trans authors, and queer authors over 50. Zero Street is committed to literary fiction with commercial potential, and to providing marginalized authors opportunities for a wide readership in the trade fiction market. We are seeking literary fiction of all kinds, from stories of modern life to innovations on traditions of genre.

Zero Street Fiction invites submissions of novels and short story collections from new and established LGBTQ+ authors that feature LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes. Submissions to the series are accepted annually November 1–April 1 via Submittable.


FLYOVER FICTION

Ron Hansen, series editor

The books in the Flyover Fiction series are set on the Great Plains, a region located in the center of the country and referred to either sentimentally as the Heartland or dismissively as flyover country, a region more clearly defined by what it is not than by what it is. Books in this series actively engage–through plot, character, setting, or theme–with what it means to inhabit this region.


BACKWATERS PRESS

Emily Casillas, managing editor

The Backwaters Prize in Poetry, an international poetry book competition initiated by The Backwaters Press in 1998, has produced award-winning books by some of America’s finest authors. Building upon an impressive backlist in poetry and prose that contributes to the cultural landscape of our state and region, one poetry manuscript is selected each year as a winner, and one as a honorable mention, by a committee of preliminary judges and one final judge for inclusion in this series. The selected volumes are published by the University of Nebraska Press. Submission guidelines for the prize series can be found at nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwaters-press-prize/.


THE BACKWATERS PRIZE IN POETRY

An annual prize of $2,000 for the top poetry collection and $1,000 for an honorable mention. Both winners will be awarded the publication of their book by the University of Nebraska Press under its imprint, The Backwaters Press. The judge for the 2022 contest is Christine Stewart-Nuñez, South Dakota poet laureate from 2019–2021. The Backwaters Prize submission period is April 1–May 1.

Click here for more information.


AFRICAN POETRY BOOK

Kwame Dawes, series editor

Under the helm of series editor Kwame Dawes, the African Poetry Book Series seeks to discover and highlight works of African poetry with a wide-ranging scope; from classic works to modern and contemporary voices. The greatest challenge facing African poetry in English is a lack of access to both classic works and the stream of works from new African writers. Currently there is no press in the United States, or elsewhere, that devotes itself entirely to the publication of African poetry written in English. This series looks to rectify this gap and also collect works of classic African poetry that have otherwise been forgotten.

With the help of an Editorial Board made up of gifted and internationally regarded poets, Kwame Dawes looks to publish two to three new titles per year. Submission guidelines for the series can be found on the African Poetry Book Fund website.


TED KOOSER CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Ted Kooser, series editor


THE RAZ/SHUMAKER PRAIRIE SCHOONER BOOK PRIZE

Kwame Dawes, series editor

Throughout its years of continuous publication Prairie Schooner has consistently maintained a national reputation for literary excellence. Building upon this venerable history, the journal selects one short story collection and one poetry collection from contemporary writers each year for this prize series. The series is sponsored and vetted by the staff of Prairie Schooner and a venerable committee of judges, and the selected volumes are published each year by UNP. Submission guidelines for the prize series can be found on the Prairie Schooner website: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize.

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NEW IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

If This Were Fiction

If This Were Fiction

Jill Christman

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

Chachi D. Hauser

The Sound of Undoing

The Sound of Undoing

Paige Towers

The Time Left between Us

The Time Left between Us

Alicia DeFonzo

Under My Bed and Other Essays

Under My Bed and Other Essays

Jody Keisner

Unpapered

Unpapered

Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez

Voice First

Voice First

Sonya Huber

We Who Walk the Seven Ways

We Who Walk the Seven Ways

Terra Trevor

Wheels on Ice

Wheels on Ice

Edited by Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos

Woman Pissing

Woman Pissing

Elizabeth Cooperman

NEW IN FICTION

Dog on Fire

Dog on Fire

Terese Svoboda

Toby's Last Resort

Toby's Last Resort

Pamela Carter Joern

Vanished

Vanished

Karin Lin-Greenberg

NEW IN POETRY

The Beauty Hunters

The Beauty Hunters

Adil Babikir

Mine Mine Mine

Mine Mine Mine

Uhuru Portia Phalafala

Two Open Doors in a Field

Two Open Doors in a Field

Sophie Klahr 

Breaking the Silence

Breaking the Silence

Edited by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile
Edited and with an introduction by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers and Uhuru Portia Phalafala

There Where It's So Bright in Me

There Where It's So Bright in Me

Tanella Boni
Translated by Todd Fredson
Foreword by Chris Abani

Might Kindred

Might Kindred

Mónica Gomery

Living Room

Living Room

Laura Bylenok

Mummy Eaters

Mummy Eaters

Sherry Shenoda
Foreword by Kwame Dawes

Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy

Ted Kooser

NEW IN PAPER

From Chernobyl with Love

From Chernobyl with Love

Katya Cengel
With a new chapter, preface, and afterword

Exiled

Exiled

Katya Cengel
With a new afterword by the author

War Flower

War Flower

Brooke King

Fidelis

Fidelis

Teresa Fazio

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Do What They Say or Else

Do What They Say or Else

Annie Ernaux
Translated by Christopher Beach and Carrie Noland

SELECTED BACKLIST

Knocked Down

Knocked Down

Aileen Weintraub

Shadow Migration

Shadow Migration

Suzanne Ohlmann

Let Me Count the Ways

Let Me Count the Ways

Tomás Q. Morín

This Jade World

This Jade World

Ira Sukrungruang

What Becomes You

What Becomes You

Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz

To Hell with It

To Hell with It

Dinty W. Moore

Sky Songs

Sky Songs

Jennifer Sinor

Anything Will Be Easy after This

Anything Will Be Easy after This

Bethany Maile

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Sue William Silverman

Borderline Citizen

Borderline Citizen

Robin Hemley

Unpapered

Unpapered

Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez

Wheels on Ice

Wheels on Ice

Edited by Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos

Animal Bodies

Animal Bodies

Suzanne Roberts

The Great Indoorsman

The Great Indoorsman

Andrew Farkas

Flock Together

Flock Together

B.J. Hollars

From the Mouths of Dogs

From the Mouths of Dogs

B.J. Hollars

Sublime Physick

Sublime Physick

Patrick Madden

Go West, Young Man

Go West, Young Man

B.J. Hollars

A Harp in the Stars

A Harp in the Stars

Edited by Randon Billings Noble

Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited

Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited

Mimi Schwartz

Get Thee to a Bakery

Get Thee to a Bakery

Rick Bailey

More in Time

More in Time

Edited by Jessica Poli, Marco Abel, and Timothy Schaffert
 

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Tiffany Midge
Foreword by Geary Hobson

Bad Tourist

Bad Tourist

Suzanne Roberts

Celeste Holm Syndrome

Celeste Holm Syndrome

David Lazar

Delusions of Grandeur

Delusions of Grandeur

Joey Franklin

The Heart of California

The Heart of California

Aaron Gilbreath

Bitterroot

Bitterroot

Susan Devan Harness

Disparates

Disparates

Patrick Madden

All I Feel Is Rivers

All I Feel Is Rivers

Robert Vivian

Apple, Tree

Apple, Tree

Edited and with an introduction by Lise Funderburg

Bodies of Truth

Bodies of Truth

Edited by Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy, and Renée K. Nicholson
Foreword by Jacek L. Mostwin
 

The Shell Game

The Shell Game

Edited and with an introduction by Kim Adrian
Foreword by Brenda Miller
Postscript by Cheyenne Nimes

Private Way

Private Way

Ladette Randolph

The Front

The Front

Journey Herbeck

Deer Season

Deer Season

Erin Flanagan

The Leave-Takers

The Leave-Takers

Steven Wingate

Mahagony

Mahagony

Édouard Glissant
Translated by Betsy Wing

Over Seas of Memory

Over Seas of Memory

Michaël Ferrier
Translated by Martin Munro
Foreword by Patrick Chamoiseau

An Otherwise Healthy Woman

An Otherwise Healthy Woman

Amy Haddad

Long Rules

Long Rules

Nathaniel Perry 

In the Net

In the Net

Hawad
Translated from French by Christopher Wise
Translated from Tuareg (Tamajaght) into French by the poet and Hélène Claudot-Hawad
Foreword by Hélène Claudot-Hawad

The Rinehart Frames

The Rinehart Frames

Cheswayo Mphanza
Foreword by Kwame Dawes

Your Crib, My Qibla

Your Crib, My Qibla

Saddiq Dzukogi

The Beauty Hunters

The Beauty Hunters

Adil Babikir

Produce Wagon

Produce Wagon

Roy Scheele
Introduction by Ted Kooser

The Track the Whales Make

The Track the Whales Make

Marjorie Saiser
Introduction by Ted Kooser

Carrying Water to the Field

Carrying Water to the Field

Joyce Sutphen
Introduction by Ted Kooser

Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy

Ted Kooser

Letter from a Place I've Never Been

Letter from a Place I've Never Been

Hilda Raz
Edited by Kwame Dawes
Introduction by John Kinsella

Nebraska

Nebraska

Kwame Dawes

Bodies Built for Game

Bodies Built for Game

Edited by Natalie Diaz
Hannah Ensor, Associate Editor

What Isn't Remembered

What Isn't Remembered

Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

Dear Diaspora

Dear Diaspora

Susan Nguyen

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