It’s a very exciting week for us at Black Lawrence Press, and we could not be happier to share our big news with you! We’ve selected the winners of both our 2023 St. Lawrence Book Award and our Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscripts are…
2023 St. Lawrence Book Award: Python with a Dog Inside It by Max McDonough
Max McDonough’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the Best New Poets anthology, AGNI, Northwest Review, The Adroit Journal, Ecotone, T Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Vanderbilt MFA program, and now lives and teaches in Philadelphia. Python with a Dog Inside It is his debut collection.
Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition: What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise by Meghann Plunkett
Meghann Plunkett writes television (Station 19, Rebel) and various development projects including adapting the novel “First Lie Wins” for the screen. She also served as a Poetry Reader for The New Yorker from 2018-2020. She is the recipient of the 2017 Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize as well as the 2017 Third Coast Poetry Prize. She was a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Contest, The North American Review’s Hearst Poetry Prize and Nimrod‘s Pablo Neruda Prize. She has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets in both 2016 and 2017. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Pleiades, Rattle, Washington Square Review and Poets.org, among others. Her chapbook What We Did to Her Made the Water Rise won the Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming from BLP in February 2025. Visit her at meghannplunkett.com
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We are thrilled to add these two amazing books to our list, both of which we will publish in the spring of 2025. We’re so happy to welcome both Max and Meghann to the BLP family!