C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl 2023 Chapbook Awardee, Shortlist, and Longlist
C&R Press publishes 2-6 chapbooks of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and other creative genres each year through our Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook and Summer Tide Pool Chapbook series. Manuscript authors selected for publication receive ten copies of the book, a $100 dollar honorarium, $500 social media and ad network promotional campaign, alongside publication of the manuscript.
We are pleased to announce our 2023 Winter Soup Bowl awardee as well contest shortlist and longlist.
AWARD
Allison A. deFreese’s translation from Spanish of Luciana Jazmín Coronado’s Dinner at Las Heras
About the Author of Dinner at Las Heras
Luciana Jazmín Coronado was born in Buenos Aires in 1991 and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Buenos Aires. She has published three books of poetry, La insolación/Sunstroke (Viajero Insomne, 2014), Catacumbas/Catacombs (Valparaíso, 2016), winner of the First San Salvador Prize for Hispano-American Poetry, and Los hijos Imperfectos/Imperfect Children (RIL, 2023). She has been awarded artists grants from the Antonio Gala Foundation for Young Creators (Córdoba, Spain, 2017) and the Writers Residency from UNESCO and University of Granada (Granada, Spain, 2019), among others. Her poems have been translated into several languages, and published in international anthologies and literary journals. She currently lives in Tarragona, Spain.
About the Translator of Dinner at Las Heras
Allison A. deFreese’s translations of Luciana Jazmín Coronado’s poetry appear in Gulf Coast, Columbia Journal, Pacifica, and Crazyhorse (now swamp pink). She has translated books by other Argentinian writers including Carolina Esses’ Winter Season (Entre Ríos Books, 2023) and María Negroni’s Elegy for Joseph Cornell (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020).
About Dinner at Las Heras
Dinner at Las Heras is a bittersweet lovesong to a broken world, a geographical and psychological cartography spanning cityscapes and tangled internal terrain. The book is a reference to the first section of Luciana Jazmín Coronado’s Catacombs, winner of the Premio Hispanoamericano de la Poesía de San Salvador. In it, each section or “catacomb” is named for an address in Buenos Aires where the poet spent a fragment of her childhood. From Las Heras 3847 (where she lived with her father and stepmother), to Arengreen 1347 (her grandparents’ and mother’s home), to Calle Cero (or “Zero Street,” where she ends her first relationship and loses her little brother), Catacombs and Dinner at Las Heras are deeply personal explorations of past and present. With both real and metaphorical needle and thread, Coronado creates a tapestry from Las Heras that is dystopian yet optimistic, where children raise themselves and sprout from the rubble of adult disillusionment. Here, the dead are never dead, gardens speak, and ravenous flowers wait under the dinner table.
SHORTLIST
R.J. Lambert
Mellisa Dancey Hall
Erika Jeffers
LONGLIST
Mary MacGowan
A Kaiser
Kim Farleigh
Shakiba Hashemi
Kathleen Mitchell
Susan Hamilton
Mario Kersey
Michael Glaser
Thank you to everyone that submitted work for the Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook 2023 Prize, we enjoyed reading the immense work of many great writers across all genres.