AWP 2024

Welcome to the Vanderbilt UP AWP 2024 virtual exhibit!

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  • Learn more about the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
    The Vanderbilt University Literary Prize will be awarded annually to the sole author of a full-length collection of poetry that demonstrates great poignancy combined with rigor in form, language and artistic vision.
    ◦ Winning manuscript will be published in print, e-book, and audio formats by Vanderbilt University Press
    ◦ $10,000 honorarium
    ◦ An invitation to read in the esteemed Gertrude C. and Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series at Vanderbilt University
    ◦ A one-week residency on campus to engage students and local writers in the Nashville community
    ◦ For more information: vanderbilt.edu/vuliteraryprize
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The Gallant Spaniard

Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Krummrich

Deep Dish Conversations

Jerome Moore, Sekou Franklin, Jorge Salles Diaz, Carlos Lara, Christiane Buggs, Calvin Bryant, Dawn Deaner, Jamel Campbell-Gooch, Joshua Black, Rahim Buford, Sheila Calloway, Theeda Murphy, Tim Wise, Will Acuff, Marcus Trotter-Lockett, Emma Crownover

Ghosts Over the Boiler

Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, Katie Owens-Murphy

The People’s Plaza

Justin Jones, William J. Barber II

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

Oswaldo Zavala, William Savinar

Natural Consequences

Elia Barceló, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Andrea Bell

When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories

Francisco García González, Bradley J. Nelson

Mastodons to Mississippians

Aaron Deter-Wolf, Tanya M. Peres

I'll Take You There

Amie Thurber, Learotha Williams Jr.

Hot, Hot Chicken

Rachel Louise Martin

Jaguars' Tomb

Angélica Gorodischer, Amalia Gladhart