Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Deborah Landau, has selected Before the Flood & After by Stephen Tuttle of Provo, Utah as the winner of the 2025 Snowbound Chapbook Prize! Stephen Tuttle will receive a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion. All manuscripts were judged anonymously.
Stephen Tuttle’s poetry has appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a writing fellowship from The Ragdale Foundation, and his work has been a finalist for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the Moon City Press Poetry Award. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, and he is the author of the forthcoming story collection We Should Be Somewhere by Now (Cornerstone Press). He is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University where he teaches courses in creative writing and American literature. He also serves as a mentor with the PEN Prison and Justice Writing Program.
Our sincere congratulations to Stephen Tuttle and all of our distinguished finalists and semi-finalists.
Finalists for the 2024 Snowbound Chapbook Prize
Sandra Doller of Chatham, New York. Architecture is an idea that you live in.
Joshua Garcia of Brooklyn, New York. Nudes: 21 Poems After Philip Pearlstein.
Mia Malhotra of Burlingame, California. The Organ Sonnets.
Abigail Minor of Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania. Infinity Ballot.
Ashley Navarro of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Idolatry.
Marc-Anthony Valle of St. Louis, Missouri. Desire & Other Flightless Birds.
Julie Marie Wade of Dania Beach, Florida. Capriccio.
Matthew Whitman of Houston, Texas. Scenes from the Campus Novel.
Kathleen Winter of Glen Ellen, California. Medieval Sentences.
Semi-finalists for the 2024 Snowbound Chapbook Prize
Robin Clarke of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Birds of America.
Colin Criss of Moscow, Idaho. Hinterman.
Nicelle Davis of Quartz Hill, California. Plant Questions.
Ryan Tito Gapelu of Honolulu, Hawaii. What does the Taro dream of?
Alison Granucci of Millbrook, New York. The Prayerful Eye.
Benjamin Grossberg of West Hartford, Connecticut. Ars Octopoetica.
Harrison Hamm of Los Angeles, California. Hauntology.
Stephen Hitchcock of Charlottesville, Virginia. The Gift of Loitering.
C. E. Janecek of Salt Lake City, Utah. Bathing These Bodies.
Ricardo Jaramillo of Los Angeles, California. Amateur Hour.
Jon Lee of Dedham, Massachusetts. Eden.
Shireen Madon Brooklyn, New York. Acres of Red.
Suzanne Mason of Newton, Massachusetts. As Creatures.
Edward Mayes of Durham, North Carolina. The Boys that Whistled Are Extinct.
Mira Rosenthal of San Luis Obispo, California. Inside the Aftermath.
Ralph Sneeden of Exeter, New Hampshire. Contrapunctus.
Clayton Spencer of Columbus, Ohio. The Arsonist.
Amish Trivedi of Elkton, Maryland. Land of Light & Joy.
Jenessa VanZutphen of Portland, Oregon. Arrivals or departures.
Enormous thanks as well to our accomplished team of Preliminary Readers and our final judge, Deborah Landau, who is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Skeletons, which was named one of The New Yorker’s “Best Books of 2023.” Her other books include Soft Targets (winner of The Believer Book Award), The Uses of the Body, and The Last Usable Hour, all Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Our heart-felt gratitude goes out to all who sent us your manuscripts and who, by your writing, link arms in the tireless, solitary, and so-important work of making poetry. So many more manuscripts than we can mention here gave us countless hours of reading pleasure.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we hope you will consider letting us see your manuscript again, as our July Open Submission Period will open this summer. Thank you and we look forward to reading your work!
