Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press PrizeHolli Carrell's APOSTASIES,

* Our New Book Is Out! *

 

Holli Carrell's stunning first collection Apostasies, winner of

the 2025 Perugia Press Prize, released TODAY!

 

 

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Praise for this powerful collection from poet Taylor Byas:

 

 

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Apostasies was featured at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review:

 

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Apostasies was featured in the Ploughshares newsletter:

 

 

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Holli Carrell's Cincinnati launch is being held September 22:

Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize

Summer Intern: Kamali Williams

 

This summer, Smith College student Kamali Williams completed

an internship with Perugia Press. Read Board President Jean Blakeman's interview with Kamali about her experiences. Gratitude to Jean, to Smith College, and especially to Kamali.

Kamali on what first brought her to poetry:

 

"Growing up, I was always 'the reader' in my family — the one who could be found tucked away in a corner, nose buried in a book, exploring places and lives far beyond my own. Books were how I learned about the world, how I understood people, and how I built my own little mental library of ideas and images. But somewhere between middle school and freshman year of high school, something shifted. Reading no longer felt like an escape; it felt like an obligation. For a while, I wondered if I had lost my love for it completely. Looking back, I realize it wasn’t that I stopped loving to read — it was that I needed different kinds of books, stories that spoke to where I was in life."

 

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The 2026 Perugia Press Prize is open for two more months, till 11/15

Check out the contest tab on our website to learn

more about the prize, including the support

we offer to our poets, eligibility, and guidelines.

 

Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize

Perugia Press at

* Brooklyn Book Festival *

 

Sunday, September 21, 10-6

Come hang out with the editors of Perugia Press & Lily Poetry Review Books at the Brooklyn Book Fest on Sunday, September 21. We’ll be sharing Booth #104 and showcasing our beautiful books in the Literary Marketplace, 10-6. And Perugia has a sale going to mark the occasion through September - 20% off your cart at perugiapress.org with the code BrooklynBonus!

 

Winner of the 2020 Perugia Press Prize

* Poet News *

 

Carolina Hotchandani has a new poem "The Burning" in the latest issue of Peripheries (no 7) from Harvard Divinity School, in a guest edited folio called “Rooms,” selected by Amanda Gunn. An excerpt:

 

 

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Catherine Anderson’s new book Afloat (coming out this fall from Meadowlark Press) was announced in Poets & Writers magazine:

 

 

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Abby E. Murray's poem “I Can’t Find My Gender”

was nominated for Best of the Net by ONE ART.

Cheers to all the nominees!

 

 

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Joan Kwon Glass's Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms was featured in the September edition of CLMP's “Indie Lit on the Shelf,” in the Great Lakes Regional Spotlight. Many poems from Glass’s book are set in Michigan. Read about her book & others set in the Great Lakes area:

 

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Gail Thomas will be reading in Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshops

Fall Literary Reading on September 20, 7-8:30, in Florence, MA.