We would like to say THANK YOU to everyone that submitted a manuscript this year. The winner will be announced soon.
These are the poets/manuscripts that made it to the final round of decisioning, listed in no particular order:
| Jennifer Boyden | We Can’t Tell If the Constellations Love Us |
| Collin Callahan | Thunderbird Inn |
| James Shea | Almost Still Now |
| Erin Malone | Site of Disappearance |
| John Whalen | The Johnson Poems Heart Attack Geological Survey |
| Suzanne Wise | A Primer of Interference |
| Brian Clifton | Beast-Headed |
| Anne de Marcken | The Hinterlands of Paris |
| Nick Admussen | The Weightless Rider Revealed |
| Ellen Kombiyil | Love as an Invasive Species |
| Dan Kaplan | 2.4.18 |
| David Moolten | The Moirologist |
| Julia Cohen | Freak Lip |
| V. Joshua Adams | Past Lives |
| Adam Scheffler | Until I Wear Out |
| Mamie Morgan | Everyone I’ve Ever Danced with Is Dead |
| Arne Weingart | Concentration |
| Sara Burnett | Seed Celestial |
| Jeremy Voigt | Estuary |
| Richard Mullen | Vanished |
| Brian Clifton | Muzzle |
| Michael Marberry | Lineage |
| Graeme Bezanson | High Ping |
| Valentina Gnup | All Those Tennessees |
| Wes Civilz | Oops Sorry I |
| Emily Wolahan | Bitter Bright |
| Joseph Goosey | Climate Denial for Lovers |
| Charles Kell | Ishmael Mask |
| Joshua Butts | Bully Choreography |