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Judged by Lily King
WINNER: “Rapture” by Reid Sherline
Judge’s comment: “Rapture” is a marvel of compression and packs the punch of a 300-page novel. The writing is exquisite and the story a brutal and beautiful exploration of the devastating extent a child will go to find an approximation of security and love and a sense of meaning.
HONORABLE MENTION: “The Think Tank” by Nathan Curtis Roberts
Judge’s comment: I just loved being in the house with these far-flung siblings brought together by their mother’s decline. Gorgeously written, “The Think Tank” is full of humor and pathos and a rich understanding of the family web.
FINALISTS:
“Outermark” by Jason Brown
“Tracker on R****” by Niamh Mac Cabe
“Cate Adjacent” by Afton Montgomery
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OUR JUDGE
The judge for the 2023 prize is Lily King, award-winning author of five novels, including Writers & Lovers (2020) and Euphoria (2014), which won the Kirkus Award and the New England Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. Her most recent book, Five Tuesdays in Winter (2021), is a collection of short stories.
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PREVIOUS CHAPBOOKS FROM HARVARD REVIEW
![renga Renga for Obama](https://harvardreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/renga-2.png)
RENGA FOR OBAMA (2017)
by 200+ poets
In early 2017, Harvard Review poetry editor Major Jackson curated the “Renga for Obama” project, a celebration of the Obama presidency featuring over two hundred American poets writing in pairs. The project, which originally appeared at Harvard Review Online, was published two stanzas a day for the first hundred days of the Trump presidency and was highlighted in the Washington Post. It has since been released as a limited edition chapbook with an introduction by Major Jackson and is available for purchase in our online store.
The full text can be read online here.
![ammons Fucking Right by A.R. Ammons](https://harvardreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ammons-1.png)
FUCKING RIGHT (1999)
by A. R. Ammons
An irreverent and humorous collection of poems by A.R. Ammons, one of our foremost environmental poets.
![averoff The Pagana by Tatiana Averoff](https://harvardreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/averoff-1.png)
THE PAGANA: CHRISTMAS 1877 (1999)
by Tatiana Averoff
A winter’s tale by Greek author Tatiana Averoff that interweaves superstition and tradition to paint an evocative picture of a young girl’s Christmas.