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.