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 2024 Hudson Prize and our Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscripts are…
2024 Hudson Prize: The Earth Room by Dana Diehl
Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and the collaborative collection, The Classroom (Gold Wake Press, 2019). Her chapbook, TV Girls, won the 2017-2018 New Delta Review Chapbook Contest judged by Chen Chen. Diehl earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in North American Review, Necessary Fiction, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. She is an educator in Tucson.
Spring, 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition: Sky Tongued Back with Light by Sébastien Luc Butler
Sébastien Luc Butler was born and raised in Michigan. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow in poetry, and served as poetry editor for Meridian. The recipient of the Patricia Cleary Award for Poetry and the Hopwood Award for Poetry, Sébastien has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Levis Book Prize, and the Black Warrior Review Contest. He was also longlisted for the Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry by Adroit. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, Southeast Review, the minnesota review, Four Way Review, Post Road Magazine, Cream City Review, and Southern Indiana Review, among others. He currently serves as an assistant editor at West Trade Review,
and lives in New York City.
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We are thrilled to add these two amazing books to our list, both of which we will publish in 2025. We’re so happy to welcome both Dana and Sébastien to Black Lawrence Press!