Poetry. FLICKER by Lisa Bickmore is the winner of the 2014 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. "Lisa Bickmore gives us a powerful new collection, in which 'there are two lives, / the tranqui
FREAKED by Liz Robbins is one of the winners of the 14th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. Contest judge, Bruce Bond, had this to say about it: "Where there are freaks, there are those who f
Poetry. Southeast Asia Studies. VISITING INDIRA GANDHI'S PALMIST by Kirun Kapur is the winner of the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award published by Elixir Press."Kirun Kapur's debut volume VISITING
Poetry. Winner of the 13th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Award. "'At night when the trees are mascara / sketches against the weeping sky. / I fingerpaint on a rented wall,' Sophia Kartsonis says
Poetry. Winner of the 2012 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award."David Ray Vance's STUPOR is unwaveringly contemporary. In this linguistically intriguing and imaginative engagement with Western life, V
Poetry. CURIO by John Nieves is the winner of the 13th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Award. "To enter the world of CURIO, John Nieves' compelling poetic debut, is to enter a world shaped by a curious and
Fiction. TROGLODYTE by Tracy DeBrincat is the winner of the 2012 Elixir Press Fiction Award. It is a collection of short stories that ranges from infancy to adulthood, from illness to love to Bigfoot.
Poetry. LITTLE OBLIVION by Susan Allspaw won the 12th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. LITTLE OBLIVION takes place in Antarctica. It is an extraordinary meditation on a frozen oblivion, a place wher
Poetry. MORMON BOY by Seth Brady Tucker is one of the winners of the Elixir Press 11th Annual Poetry Awards. David Kirby has this to say about it: "A young man goes to a desert war, somehow returns wi
Poetry. NOSTALGIA FOR THE CRIMINAL PAST by Kathleen Winter is the winner of the 2011 Antivenom Poetry Award published by Elixir Press. Contest judge, Deborah Bogen, had this to say about it: "NOSTALGI
Poetry. KINGDOM OF THROAT-STRUCK LUCK by George Kalamaras is the winner of the 11th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. Contest judge, Jenny Mueller, had this to say about the book: "These poems are li
Fiction. Asian American Studies. MEMORY SICKNESS by Phong Nguyen is the winner of the 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Award. It is a loosely related series of short stories, set in Rhode Island, that illumi
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Winner of the Elixir Press 10th Annual Poetry Awards. "SPIT shines. Filled with bravado and brilliance, Lee's debut fills in the blanks it makes profound use of, holler
Poetry. LET ME OPEN YOU A SWAN is the winner of the 2009 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Judge Michele Mitchell-Foust had this to say about the winning manuscript: "Deborah Bogen is the real thin
Poetry. THE RAINDROP'S GOSPEL: THE TRIALS OF ST. JEROME AND ST. PAULA is the winner of the Ninth Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. It is a novel in verse chronicling the lives of St. Jerome and St. P
Poetry. BONNEVILLE by Jenny Mueller is the winner of the Editors' Prize in the Elixir Press Sixth Annual Poetry Awards. Jenny Mueller grew up among the small towns north of Chicago--now a series of co
Poetry. LOOMING by Jennifer Franklin is one of the winners of the 14th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. It is a painful and beautiful book that promises redemption and light."Jennifer Frank