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STEEL TOE BOOKS 2022 BOOK AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Steel Toe Books is excited to announce our Steel Toe Books Poetry Award Winner and our Steel Toe Books Prose Award Winner. The titles will receive publication in Fall 2023. Congratulations to our shortlist and longlist authors, and thank you to all of the authors that submitted to the prize. The 2023 Steel Toe Books Poetry and Prose (fiction and nonfiction) Awards for full-length books will open January 1, 2023.
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POETRY WINNER
Ana Maria Caballero Mammal
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POETRY SHORTLIST
Ansley Clark
Jennifer Jabaily-Blackburn
Michael Bondhus
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POETRY LONGLIST
Clint Frakes
Pan Morigan
Scott Withiam
Kateri Kosek
Devon Miller-Duggan
Paloma Yannakakis
Christina M. Rau
Kamal Kimball
Alamgir Hashmi
Ashley Roach
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PROSE WINNER
dm Armstrong The Correspondence Principle
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PROSE SHORTLIST
Shannon Robinson
George Choundas
Dennis McFadden
Peter Selgin
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PROSE LONGLIST
Rebecca Berg
Thomas M Atkinson
Melvin Sterne
Danilo Thomas
Wes Jamison
Sara Greenslit
Kate Garklavs
Matthew Meade
Virginia Bell
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The press thanks everyone who submitted to the contest and notes that the work submitted to contest was very strong across the board.