We are very pleased to announce the 2023 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!
Finalists
Lake Effect by Hillary Behrman – prose
Four Cities by Mihir Bellamkonda – poetry
Drawing a Map by Jeanette Burney – poetry
The Sage and the Pine by Kelly Craig – prose
What Used to be Called Ruins by Fay Dillof – poetry
Lucky Bodies by Marianne Erhardt – prose
Swimming Lessons by Michael Horton – prose
Breasts/Mom by Emily Hyland – poetry
The Worried Well by Anthony Immergluck – poetry
Worth Burning by Mickie Kennedy – poetry
Drawing the World by Richard Kenefic – poetry
Landscape, Dad! by Christopher Klingbeil – poetry
The Cosmonaut is Not My Father by Adam Love – poetry
My Prisoner & Other Stories – Tyler McAndrew – prose
Unfolding the Flood by Peter Mason – poetry
Python with a Dog Inside It by Maxwell McDonough – poetry
God of Water & Other Poems by Taiyo Na – poetry
Architecture of Grief by Sarah Nance – poetry
Five Birds by Thomas Francis O’Donnell – poetry
Dream of Low Houses by Max Schleicher – poetry
With Ah! Bright Wings by Joyce Schmid – poetry
Imagining Roses by Lisa Sharon – prose
The Blood Year Daughter by G.G. Silverman – prose
We Will Be Wildflowers by Tria Wen – prose
Field Notes from the Daylight Factory by Tara Westmor – poetry
Semi-Finalists
Dandelion: A Memoir by Danielle Bainbridge – prose
Splice by Anthony Borruso – poetry
The Practices by John Cone – poetry
Extinction Debt by Cole Depuy – poetry
My First Life by Joseph Daniel Duffy – poetry
Wrong Minority by Michael Hahn – prose
Life Camp by Jenny Halper – prose
Something like Redemption by Joy Icayan – poetry
The Heartbeat I’m Feeling Isn’t My Own by Ben Jahn – prose
And Other Myths by Eddie Kim – poetry
Notes Toward a Psalm by Daniel Kraft – poetry
The Seed Review by Dan Mallette – poetry
Sara’s Uprising by Liz Marlow – poetry
Vanishing Point by Wynne Morrison – poetry
Warble by Alicia Rebecca Myers – poetry
Seeing the Big Dog by Katharine Ogle – poetry
Linea Nigra by Haya Pomrenze – poetry
Datura by Adrian T. Quintanar – poetry
I Was, Am, Will Be by Jonathan Rice – poetry
Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth on the Other Side of Tragedy by Marty Ross-Dolen – prose
Shaken: A Recycle by Ellen McGrath Smith – poetry
Afterlife by Carrie Strand Tebeau – poetry
Toy by John Thurgood – prose
48 hours down the shore by Liza Wolff-Francis – poetry