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    Here are the finalists for CLMP’s Firecracker Awards (or, a perfect indie reading list).

    Katie Yee
    By 
    May 18, 2022, 11:38am

    This is the eighth year that the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses is celebrating indie publishing with the Firecracker Awards—and the first year that it’s giving award recipients a cash prize! Each winner in the books category will receive $1,000 for the press and $1,000 for the author/translator; winners in the magazine category will also receive $1,000.

    They have also announced the recipient of this year’s Lord Nose Award (given to an individual who has demonstrated a lifetime of incredible dedication to indie publishing). Give it up for Bradford Morrow, editor of the much-loved Conjunctions—which is NOT shutting down!

    At a virtual ceremony on June 23, Bradford Morrow will be presented with the award, and the winners will be announced. Mark your calendars.

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    FICTION

    Ethan Rutherford, Farthest South and Other Stories
    (A Strange Object)

    Kate Cayley, Householders
    (Biblioasis)

    Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, The House of Rust: A Novel
    (Graywolf)

    Celeste Mohammed, Pleasantview
    (Ig Publishing)

    Percival Everett, The Trees: A Novel
    (Graywolf)

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    CREATIVE NONFICTION

    Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing Silence, and Grief
    (Milkweed Editions)

    Caseen Gaines, Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
    (Sourcebooks)

    Mariana Oliver, tr. Julia Sanches, Migratory Birds
    (Transit Books)

    Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Names for Light: A Family History
    (Graywolf)

    Allison Cobb, Plastic: An Autobiography
    (Nightboat)

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    POETRY

    Truong Tran, book of the other: small in comparison
    (Kaya Press)

    Divya Victor, CURB
    (Nightboat Books)

    Therese Estacion, Phantompains
    (Book*hug Press)

    Jennifer Jackson Berry, To Know Crush
    (YesYes Books)

    Sophia Terazawa, Winter Phoenix: Testimonies in Verse
    (Deep Vellum)

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    MAGAZINES (BEST DEBUT)

    Brink

    Inverted Syntax

    Islandia Journal

    Nowruz Journal

    SISTORIES

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    MAGAZINES (GENERAL EXCELLENCE)

    The American Poetry Review

    Bellevue Literary Review

    Chicago Review

    The Evergreen Review

    Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora

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