2024 Prize Winners’ Anthology

View of bridge over the Concord River

Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Enzo Silon Surin

“my own animal” by Jennifer Garfield

Honorable mentions: 

“Manchester” by Ivy Schweitzer

“Phantasia on Dvořák’s Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85” by Carolyn Oliver

Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Sarah Audsley

“The Rainmaker” by J. Kates

Honorable mentions: 

“Gossip and Metaphysics” by Wendy Drexler

“A Matter of Physics” by Laura Rodley

“Dying Laughing” by Quintin Collins

E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Marcia Karp

“(from captivity) When living children” by Owen Lewis

Honorable mentions:

“Shifting” by Sara Backer

“Chattanooga Choo Choo” by Susan Donnelly

“Waking Uncle Edward” by Mary Beth Hines

Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by George Kalogeris

The Girl Grown Up” by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Donald Mace Williams

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Jennifer Jean

We All Might Be by Naomi Mulvihill

Honorable mention:

Night Ocean by Carolyn Oliver

Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the NEPC Board

Auguries & Divinations by Heather Treseler

Honorable mentions: 

The Sorrow Apartments by Andrea Cohen

The Mansions by Daniel Tobin

Finalists:

Dot Girl by Linda Carney-Goodrich
Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner
Dear Yiddish by Richard Fein
The Third Renunciation by Matthew E. Henry
Lost in Living by Halyna Kruk, translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella
Marble Dust by Gary Metras
Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory by Jeffrey Thomson