We are very pleased to announce the 2024 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
ground-glass by Joshua Aiken – poetry
Homebake by Ann-Marie Blanchard – poetry
Where Everything Begins and Ends in America by Michael Todd Cohen – prose
The Hanged Man by Katherine Conner – prose
Figure Studies by Asha Dore – prose
Neither Kind of Body by AM Goodhart – poetry
Bottom Feeders by Arielle Hebert – poetry
In the Time of Sonic Booms by B. Fulton Jennes – poetry
Half Moon: Stories by Leslie Johnson – prose
The House Witch by Amy Kesegich – poetry
Everything Is Fine or Else by JP Mayer – prose
Chimera by LeeAnn Olivier – poetry
Upstate Auguries by Nick Rattner – poetry
Now I’m Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself by Jill Rosenberg – prose
Strange and Constant by Max Schleicher – poetry
White Camellias by Joyce Schmid – poetry
Chill & Stupor by Franke Varca – poetry
Public House by Dylan Weir – poetry
Field Notes from the Daylight Factory by Tara Westmor – poetry
The Source Of Dew by Beth Oast Williams – poetry
Semi-Finalists
Lead Whale by Molly Akin – poetry
Shooting the Moon by Charles Antin – prose
endless pit of need by Jeremy Boyd – poetry
blue collar eclogue by Jay Brecker – poetry
The Wayback Machine by Charles Clifton – poetry
One Time by Ciaran Cooper – prose
All the Ways This Could End by Lisa Higgs – poetry
Designated Wilderness by Vincent Hiscock – poetry
Open World by Adriana Jacobs – poetry
Steel, a Body – Erin Kae – poetry
girl, possessed! by Tara Labovich – poetry
Monopoly Nights by James Long – poetry
Light Travels by Olga Maslova – poetry
Not Not-Jane by Jessica Melilli-Hand – poetry
Bald Spot by J. Dominic Patacsil – prose
The Origin of Wounds by Malik Rasaq – poetry
Willowwacks by John Tobin – poetry
Parable of a Distant Animal by Cindy Watkins – poetry
Wish by Donald Wildman – poetry
Catfish Belly by Jessica Willingham – poetry