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Announcing the 2025 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize Winner!
Our contest judge, Ellen Bass, has chosen "Detail from an Illustration of Paradise" by BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG as the winner of the 2025 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize!
The runner-up is "Man Without a Skirt" by José Enrique Medina.
Here is the full list of the Finalists:
José A. Alcántara
Gayle Brandeis
Fleda Brown
Allison Burris
Tyler Dunston
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Andrea L. Hackbarth
Julie Kane
Susan L. Leary
Brooke Sahni
Laura Theis
Anna Ellyn Wagner
Zachariah Claypole White
Jeff Whitney
Congratulations to Benjamin, José, and to all of the Finalists!
Benjamin S. Grossberg’s latest collection, "My Husband Would" (University of Tampa, 2020), won the 2021 Connecticut Book Award. His earlier books include "Sweet Core Orchard" (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. He also wrote the novel, "The Spring before Obergefell" (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), which was selected by Percival Everett for the AWP Award Series James Alan McPherson Prize.
Benjamin's chapbook "Detail from an Illustration of Paradise" will be published in Fall of 2026.