Zarpamos by Guadalupe Ángela, translated from the Spanish by Yael Kiken winner of the WWPH Poetry in Translation Prize Publication date: January 26, 2027 WWPH press release for Zarpamos can be found here.

Dictionary of Air, a debut poetry collection, by Jason Gebhardt Winner of the 50th Anniversary Editor’s Prize Publication Date: January 26, 2027 WWPH Press release for Dictionary of Air here

Villians: a short story collection by Samantha Neugebauer Winner of the 2025 WWPH Fiction Award Publication date: January 26, 2027 WWPH Press Release can be found here.

Notifications On, a debut poetry collection by Emily Holland Winner of the 2025 Jean Feldman Poetry Award Publication date: January 26, 2027 WWPH Press release for Notifications On here

Set between the 1920s and the present day, Strivers and Other Stories explores a range of African-American and Southern voices reflecting characters striving towards their versions of the American dream. In 15 stories, we meet teachers and doctors, train porters and factory workers, soldiers and musicians; mothers, fathers, children and spouses; mentors and mentees. With […]

A silent old man climbs into his secret hole, burdened by his Great War bargain–his voice for life with his beloved. On this night in April 1963, the burden of silence passes from old to young. The debut novel of Texas native Elizabeth Bruce is a lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed through […]

The characters in Kathleen Wheaton’s linked stories are exiles-from their native countries, their families, their objects of desire. Political refugees from Argentina’s “dirty war,” survivors of a Cuban shipwreck and of Franco’s Spain all navigate life as foreigners, whether in Madrid, Buenos Aires or suburban Washington, D.C. With wry, nuanced compassion, Wheaton follows these resilient […]

In this brave, elegiac debut, How to Prove a Theory, Nicole Tong relies on empirical evidence to construct meaning in the wake of a series of losses that include a childhood lost to trauma, a best friend lost following childbirth, a brother-in-law, a father, and a generation of children in the poet’s hometown after a […]

Elizabeth Knapp’s poetry explores the intersections between modern society, personal mortality, and cultural immortality. In this, her second collection, celebrities come and go, while the collection’s patron saint, Emily Dickinson, presides over all. At its heart, this book is about loss and its endless reverberations, while at the same time, it embraces the notion of […]

Kira Franklin, a black newspaper reporter in Southwest Virginia in 1993, begins to question her own culture when she pursues a story on a local Cherokee community raising money to reclaim ancestral lands. The Harper family is part of a long line of Cherokee tribe leaders, and their knowledge and devotion to retaining their history […]