CLMP Names 2020 Firecracker Award Finalists

Jun 17, 2020

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) has announced the finalists for its sixth annual Firecracker Awards, which are given each year to the best independently published books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and the best literary magazines in the categories of debut and general excellence. The publishers of winning titles receive a free one-year membership to CLMP, and magazine winners receive a one-year CLMP Member subscription to Submittable. The winners will be announced on June 30, 2020.

The finalists are:

Fiction

Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-nan, translated by Janet Hong, published by Open Letter Books
Glory and Its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres, translated by Eric M. B. Becker, published by Restless Books
The Incompletes by Sergio Chejfec, translated by Heather Cleary, published by Open Letter Books
Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok, published by Kaya Press
The Not Wives by Carley Moore, published by The Feminist Press
Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au, published by Acre Books
Tonic and Balm by Stephanie Allen, published by Shade Mountain Press
The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews, published by Graywolf Press
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears by Johannes Anyuru, translated by Saskia Vogel, published by Two Lines Press

Creative Nonfiction

Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin, published by Transit Books
Blackfishing the IUD by Caren Beilin, published by Wolfman Books
Codepend ence by Amy Long, published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Hatred of Translation by Nathanaël, published by Nightboat Books
Knitting the Fog by Claudia D. Hernández, published by The Feminist Press
Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis by Sarah C. Townsend, published by The Lettered Streets Press
Socialist Realism by Trisha Low, published by Coffee House Press
throughsmoke by Jehanne Dubrow, published by New Rivers Press
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Lou Sullivan, edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma, published by Nightboat Books
White Flights by Jess Row, published by Graywolf Press

Poetry

Dunce by Mary Ruefle, published by Wave Books
Motion Studies by Jena Osman, published by Ugly Duckling Presse
Personal Volcano by Laura Moriarty, published by Nightboat Books
SLINGSHOT by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, published by Nightboat Books
while they sleep (under the bed is another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera, published by Birds, LLC
Woodland by Knox Gardner, with music by Aaron Otheim, published by Entre Ríos Books

Magazines: Best Debut

Magazines: General Excellence