2022 C&R Press Awardees, Shortlist, and Longlist.
We are pleased to announce our 2022 awardees, shortlist, and longlist in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
Each year C&R Press awards $1000 for a book of Poetry, $1000 for a book of Fiction (Novel or Short Story Collection), and $1000 for a book of Nonfiction (Memoir, Essay, or Creative Nonfiction) along with publication of selected manuscripts. C&R Press also hosts two Chapbook competitions each year. C&R Press also holds open submissions for full-length manuscripts in each genre throughout the year. To see our other published titles please click HERE.
2023 C&R Press Awards open on January 1, 2023.
The Press congratulates the awardees, the shortlist and longlist, and notes that the selection process was full of strong writers across all genres with a very high quality of writing.
Poetry Award
Curtis Crisler Doing Drive-bys on How to Love in the Midwest
Fiction Award
Tariq al Haydar Notes from the Land of Two Holy Mosques
Nonfiction Award
Leslie Contreras Schwartz From the Womb of Sky and Earth
SHORTLIST
Poetry Shortlist
Kamal E. Kimball
Hamsa Nguyễn
Rush Rankin
Fiction Shortlist
Sophie Neville
Avi Wrobel
Adam Reger
Non-Fiction Shortlist
Lisbeth White
James Kates
Cherie Nelson Senie
LONGLIST
Poetry Longlist
Kwame Daniels
Jennifer Louvet
Tina Schumann
Ryan Clinesmith
Lenora Hay
Claudia F. Saleeby Savage
Dan Murphy
Gina Evers
Cristina Radaelli
Fiction Longlist
Sherry Ferrell
Robert Daseler
Heather Debling
James Ulmer
Elizabeth Collison
Deborah Gang
Janelle Bassett
Maureen Holtz
Annie Lampman
Non-Fiction Longlist
Casey Knott
Emily Kiernan
R. Okpara Danjuma
Eszi Waters
Will McMillan
Emilio Carrero
John Philip Drury
David Liepert
Marilyn Moriarty