We are very pleased to announce the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Fiction Finalists
Alien Talk – Julian Darragjati
Rabbit Moon – Alicia Fuhrman
Spatfall – Abby Lipscomb
My Prisoner & Other Stories – Tyler McAndrew
A New Day – Sue Mell
Border Love Stories – Jaime Humberto Herrera Montero
The Land of Uz – Aleyna Rentz
Out of Order – Michele Ruby
Boomtown Girl – Shubha Sunder
A Green Raft on a Muddy Swell – Jill Widner
Fiction Semi-Finalists
Women, Working – Ann Epstein
Rescue and Other Relationships – Theo Greenblatt
The Mexican Messiah – Jay Kauffmann
House of D.O.U.B.T. – LN Lewis
The Stone – Ben Libman
Strip Mall – Matthew Meade
Shimmer and Give – Connie Corzilius Spasser
Kaput – Lana Spendl
Courage – Sam Szanto
Secret of Mayo – Andrew Touhy
Poetry Finalists
the Kármán line. – Daisy Atterbury
The Swailing – Patrick James Errington
A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us – Carla Sofia Ferreira
En Caul – Rebekah Denison Hewitt
the archive is all in present tense – Elizabeth Hoover
Black Wick – Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
The Shape That Good Can Take – Hannah Marshall
Rivers of the Blind Field – Darren Morris
Imagine a Woman – Dorothy Neagle
American Sex Tape – Jameka Williams
Poetry Semi-Finalists
Pink Honey Boiling – Sarah Den Boer
A Suit of Paper Feathers – Nate Duke
Chased – Mary Fitzpatrick
Recordings of Dead Languages – Chad Heltzel
Everything Alive – Molly Johnsen
Perish/Abolish – Mia Kang
Seeing the Big Dog – Katharine Ogle
Venus, or Maybe Mercury – Robin Richstone
Can’t Imagine: Pastorals – Ashley Danielle Ryle
Ovumsongs – Ona Woods