Switchback Books is thrilled to announce the results of the 2020 Gatewood Prize. The winner is "when the signals come home" by Jordan E. Franklin, selected by judge Prageeta Sharma.

Thank you to everyone who submitted manuscripts to this year’s contest. We are honored to read your work. Congratulations also to our finalists and semi-finalists, selected by the editors:

Finalists:

Marina Blitshteyn, "i take your voice”
Isabel Sobral Campos, “How to Make Words of Rubble”
Stella Corso, “Rat Year”
Caroline Crew, “Bucolia"
Mónica Gomery, “Our Next and Hybrid Selves”
Diana Lee, “Dramedy”
Alyssa Moore, “The Entertainment Issue”
Emma Winsor Wood, “Preferred Internal Landscape”

Semi-Finalists:

Danielle Blau, “peep”
Ceridwen Hall, “Acoustic Shadows”
Marielle Prince, “Will You Tell Me If You If You Will”
Suzi Q. Smith, “A Gospel of Bones"

Judge Prageeta Sharma's remarks on "when the signals come home":

The first thing that greeted me was the song of the rain/against the hospital windows

The first...

If you'll be in San Antonio at AWP this week, please come by and see us at table 1237! We'll be hosting signings on Thursday and Friday, and a reading with Octopus, Jellyfish, and Ricochet on Thursday, 3/5 from 7-9 p.m. at SoHo Wine and Martini Bar.

Switchback Books is thrilled to announce the results of the 2019 Gatewood Prize. The winner is Adelante by Jessica Guzman, selected by judge Patricia Smith.

Thank you to everyone who submitted manuscripts to this year’s contest. We are honored to read your work. Congratulations also to our finalists and semi-finalists, selected by the editors:

Finalists:

Marina Blitshteyn, "A Conversion”
Kelly Caldwell, “Letters to Forget”
Naomi Extra, “Ratchet Supreme”
Jordan Franklin, “When the Signals Come Home"
Gloria Muñoz, “Dawn’s Early”
Ines Pujos, “Lilly the Valley”
Nichole Riggs, “Lumes”
Mary Wilson, “Let’s Have Both”
Emma Winsor Wood, “Preferred Internal Landscape”

Semi-Finalists:

Julie Choffel, “At/Home”
C.R. Grimmer, “The Lyme Letters”
Alexis Jackson, “My Sister’s Country”
Safia Jama, “My Brother’s Menagerie"

Judge Patricia Smith's remarks on Adelante:

Adelante is unerringly fresh and restless, a treasure of deftly-honed narratives that manage to be both unleashed and enviably controll...

Fear not, dawdlers! We are extending the submission period for the 2019 Gatewood Prize by one week. We will now be accepting manuscripts through April 7th. You can submit your manuscripts through Submittable here, or read more about the contest guidelines and our esteemed judge Patricia Smith. 

If you'll be in Portland at AWP this week, please come by and see us at table T13096! We'll be hosting signings throughout the week, and a reading with Counterpath on Friday, 3/29 from 7-9 pm at Strum, 1415 SE Stark St. #C.

We're now open for pre-orders for our two new titles, Kristen Case's Principles of Economics and Irène Mathieu's Grand Marronage, which will launch at AWP 2019 in March. Order now to receive your copies of both titles as soon as they become available!

Switchback Books is thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of two books of poetry.

Principles of Economics by Kristen Case is the winner of the 2017 Gatewood Prize, selected by judge Heather Christle. The contest runner-up, Grand Marronage by Irène Mathieu, will be published as an Editor’s Choice selection.

Thank you to everyone who submitted manuscripts to this year’s contest. We are honored to read your work. Congratulations also to our finalists and semi-finalists, selected by the editors: 

Finalists
Nikia Chaney, akhi
Ines Pujos, Lilly of the Valley
Gale Thompson, Expeditions to the Polar Seas
Laura Wetherington, Parallel Resting Places

Semi-Finalists
Isabel Sobral Campos, Surrogate Language
Liz Chereskin, weather/report
Stella Corso, TEDIUM
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, The Many Names for Mother
Caridad Moro, Tortillera
Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, So I Waited
Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Sticks


Judge Heather Christle’s remarks on Principles of Economics: 

Principles of Econom...