Award-Winning Books
- Dialogue’s Bodies of Christ Contest
- 2018 Clint Larson Poetry Contest
- 2017 Hayman Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society
Paul Buchheit ~ Alice’s Adventures: A Modern Version of Lewis Carroll’s Classic, in Verse
Also by Buchheit ~ Sonnets of Love and Joy
- The BookFest Awards (1st Place, Fall 2023)
- Feathered Quill Book Awards (1st Place in Inspirational Category and 3rd Place in Poetry Category, 2024)
- IAN Book of the Year (Finalist, 2023)
- Colorado Independant Publishers Association EVVY Awards 2021: 3rd place in the Poetry Category
- 2021 Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards: Finalist
- 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards: First Place Poetry Prize
- Reader Views Choice Awards 2020: Bronze Award in categories of Poetry
- Independent Press Awards 2022: Distinguished Favourite Award in the Travelogue/Poetry category
Kathleen Calby ~ Flirting with Owls
- Rash Awards Poetry Finalist 2022: “Harvest of Ice”
- Kakalak: “Cider Press” (Honorable Mention 2020)
- Pinesong Awards Anthology: “Garden Tender,” originally titled "Whose Garden Is It?” (Honorable Mention 2021)
DeWitt Clinton ~ At the End of the War
Ken Craft: Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems
Daun Daemon ~ A Prayer for Forgiving My Parents
Lauren Davis ~ When I Drowned
Albert DeGenova ~ Human Nature
Deborah DeNicola ~ The Impossible
Joanne Durham ~ On Shifting Shoals
- Evening Street Press, Sinclair Poetry Prize (Winner, 2021)
- Lena Shull Book Award (Honorable Mention, 2021)
- Litmosphere, Lit/South Award (Finalist, 2023)
- Naugatuck River Review, Narrative Poetry Contest (Finalist, 2024)
- NC Literary Review, James Applewhite (Semi-Finalist, 2023)
- NC Poetry Society, Mary Ruffin Poole Award First (1st Place, 2023)
- NC Poetry Society, Poet Laureate Award (Finalist, 2021)
- NC State Poetry Contest (Finalist, 2021)
- Mary Blinn Prize (Finalist, 2023)
- Prime Number Summer Challenge (Winner, 2021)
- Ruminate Broadside Prize (Finalist, 2021)
- Third Wednesday, Annual Poetry Contest (Winner, 2023)
- Third Wednesday, 50/50 Contest (Winner, Fall 2021)
Alfred Encarnacion ~ Precincts of the Passion Dragon
Marc Frazier ~ If It Comes to That
J.V. Foerster ~ Holy Mess of a Girl
- Atlanta Reviews International Poetry Contest, Merit Award (Recipient, 2023)
- Quartet Magazine, 2nd Editor’s Choice Single Poem Award (Runner-Up, 2023)
Keith Gaboury ~ The Cosmos Is Alive
Joy Gaines-Friedler ~ Capture Theory
- Edward Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award Finalist
- Foreword Review Indies Press Best Book of 2018 Award Finalist
An intimate study of orbiting forces: beauty, loss, aging, love. We are scarred with the truth that our “lost ones follow us” and, “what we think we are holding, actually holds us.” We are reminded that the body – as a core of all experience – is like a night blooming flower, or a bird, “the color of darkness trying to escape.” These poems are preoccupied with justice and reconciliation. They show justice as a kind of a vital force, like a “conduit of seed.”
Hayley Haugen ~ Blue Wife Poems
- "Blue Wife in the Kitchen" - 105th Moon Prize
Gloria Heffernan ~ Peregrinatio: Poems for Antarctica
- Grayson Chapbook Competition (Finalist, 2020)
Karen Paul Holmes ~ Untying the Knot
- "Rug" - Top 10 Red Poems, tweetspeak poetry
- "Waking Without Alarm" - Top 10 Tea Poems, tweetspeak poetry
Talya Jankovitz ~ girl woman wife mother
Judith Janoo ~ Just This
- Arthur Wallace Peach Memorial Award: "Marking Time"
- The Carol Lee Vail Prize for Emerging Poets: "Machias Seal Island"
- Fish Poetry Prize (Finalist): "Sugar Kelp"
Marianne Smith Johnson ~ Tender Collisions
Yasmin Kloth ~ Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation
Samantha Kolber ~ Birth of a Daughter
- Gold Realistic Poetry Human Relations Indie Book Award
- San Francisco Book Festival 2023 Poetry Winner
Laurie Kuntz ~ Talking Me Off the Roof
Ron Lauderbach ~ Snapshots
Brenda Kay Ledford ~ Red Plank House
Michele Lesko ~ Kneeling Under the Lemon Tree
Lori Levy ~ What Do You Mean When You Say Green? And Other Poems of Color
- Wax Poetry & Art ~ Angela Poetry Magazine (1st Place)
- Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge: Color (2nd Place)
- Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge: Fruit (1st Place)
Lenny Lianne ~ Sunshine Has Its Limits
- Poetry Society of Virginia 1st Place in the 2007 Bess Gresham Memorial Contest
Cynthia Linkas ~ Tumbled Time
Barbara Loots ~ Windshift
Mary Makofske ~ No Angels
- Atlanta Review (1st Place)
- New Millennium Writings (1st Place)
Dave Malone ~ Bypass
Tim Mayo ~ Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper
Ken Meisel ~ The Light Most Glad of All
- Sheila-Na-Gig Editor’s Choice Award (2022)
Mary K. O’Melveny ~ Flight Patterns
- Jewish Currents: “Cease Fire” (Raynes Poetry Competition Winner 2017)
Jane Muschenetz ~ All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents
- NFPW 2024 National Communications Contest (Creative Verse, 3rd place)
- California Press Women 2024 Communications Award (Winner)
- 2024 San Diego Writers Festival Poetry Collection of the Year
- Book Reviews and Award Contest Reader's Favorite
- The Good Life Review 2023 Best of the Net Nominee
- The Good Life Review 2022 Pushcart Nominee
- Honeybee Poetry 1st Prize Winner (2022)
Burt Myers ~ This Late Hour
- "The Puzzle" - New York Encounter Poetry Contest 2020: 1st Place
Anita Nahal ~ kisses at the espresso bar
Also by Nahal ~ What's Wrong With Us Kali Women?
- Best Super Short Film at the 2024 Five Continents International Film Festival (Based on poem "Babylon, my sinful dance muse")
- 2021 Best Poetry Book of the Year: Ars Notoria
Nancy Owen Nelson ~ Five Points South: Poems from an Alabama Pilgrimage
Barbara Nightingale ~ Spells & Other Ways of Flying
Robert Nordstrom ~ Dust on the Sill
- Oregon Poetry Association (Third Place, Fall 2021 Contest)
Athar C. Pavis ~ Pulled Pork in Paris
George Perreault ~ lie down as you were born
Karen Petersen ~ Trembling
Patrick T. Reardon ~ Salt of the Earth
M. Ann Reed ~ ekphrastics & eccentricities
- Halcyone-Black Mountain Press: 64 Best Poets of 2018
- Lazuli Literary Arts Group: 2018 Azure Poetry 1st Place
- Oregon Poetry Association Contest: 2021 Honorable Mention
Linda Neal Reising ~ Stone Roses
- American Book Fest (Finalist in Western Category, 2021)
- Eric Hoffer Book Awards (Winner in Poetry, 2022)
- Royal Dragonfly Book Awards (Honorable Mention in Poetry, 2021)
- Western Heritage Book Awards (Winner in Poetry, 2022)
- The WILLA Literary Award (Finalist, 2022)
Also by Reising ~ Vivia ~ The Legend of Vivia Thomas: A Novelette in Poems
- American Book Fest (Finalist in Narrative Poetry, 2023)
- Literary Global Book Awards (Winner in Novella/Novelette and Fiction Poetry and Finalist in the Historical Category, 2023)
- Royal Dragonfly Book Awards (Honorable Mention in Poetry, 2023)
Laura Rodley ~ Ribbons and Moths: Poems for Children
- International Book Awards, Children's Nonfiction (Winner, 2024)
- Moonbeam Awards, Children's Poetry (Bronze, 2024)
Nicole Rollender ~ The Luster of Everything I’m Already Forgetting
- Palette Poetry, Previously Published Prize (First Place, 2019)
- Parabola, Thomas Mertens Poetry of the Sacred Contest (Winner, 2017)
- Radar Poetry, Coniston Poetry Prize (Finalist, 2017)
Jane Schapiro ~ Warbler
John Schneider ~ Swallowing the Light
- International Book Awards (2023 Poetry Finalist)
- NYC Big Book Award 2023 Distinguished Favorites
- Pinnacle Book Achievement Poetry Best Book Winner
Emily Schulten ~ The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar
Lisa St. John ~ Swallowing Stones
- The Poet’s Billow’s Bermuda Triangle Contest Winner
- 2017 Rash Award in Poetry by Broad River Review Finalist
- New Millennium Writings 44th Literary Awards Finalist
Julie T. Standig ~ The Forsake Little Black Book
- Eric Hoffer Award 2023 Medal Provocateur Finalist
- Eric Hoffer Award 2023 Book Award Category Finalist
Jessica D. Thompson ~ Daybreak and Deep
- American Book Fest: 2022 Narrative Poetry Finalist
- Eric Hoffer Award 2023 da Vinci Eye Finalist
- Indiana Author Awards 2024 Finalist
Pasquale Trozzolo ~ UN/Reconciled
Peggy Turnbull ~ The Joy of their Holiness
Gene Twaronite ~ Trash Picker on Mars, What the Gargoyle Sees, Shopping Cart Dreams
- New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Arizona poetry 2017
- Elgin Award Nomination 2021: Science Fiction & Fantasy Poets Association
- Dwarf Star Awards 2022: 3rd Place
Victoria Twomey ~ Glimpse
- "Paradise" - Broad River Review (2022 Rash Award)
- "White Dress on a Clothesline" - Writing in a Woman’s Voice (95th Moon Prize)
Anastasia Vassos ~ Nostos
- "Dear God," - 2022 Passager Poetry Contest: Honorable Mention
Susan Vespoli ~ One of Them Was Mine
Ann E. Wallace ~ Days of Grace and Silence
Brendan Walsh ~ Go
Kathleen Wedl ~ Ordinary Time
Patricia Williams ~ Midwest Medley: Places & People, Wild Things & Weather
Ellen Wright ~ Family Portrait with Oilwell
- “To a Pariah” - Ellipsis Award 2014
S.K. Yeatts ~ Hologlyphs: Twilight Fields
- Independent Press Awards 2017 Distinguished Favorite
- Next Generation INDIE Book Award 2019 Poetry Winner
- NYC Big Book Award 2017 Distinguished Favorite
- Pinnacle Book Achievement Award 2017 Poetry
Katie Sarah Zale ~ The Weight of a Leaf