We're absolutely over the friggin moon to announce that Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and Water & Power, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press, has won a Whiting Award for Fiction. The $50,000 award is "based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come." Indeed!
We are thrilled to announce that Lauren Russell is the 2021 recipient of the Anna Rabinowitz Prize from the Poetry Society of America, for Descent, published by Tarpaulin Sky Press: "a project of personal historical documentation that has resonances for many in this country."
We're unsurprised, but delighted to announce that Lauren's Russell's Descent is a Poetry Bestseller at Small Press Distribution.
"Descent is a book about identity, about family—and a book about Black women and their erasure. How they were and in some ways continue to be erased from the historical record, from positions of power. From control over their own bodies. From what can be considered beautiful or joyful." -- Jesi Buell, The Rumpus
Poets & Writers Page One -- "Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin" -- features Lauren Russell's Descent, including audio of Lauren reading an excerpt from the book.
Poets & Writers interviews Lauren Russell about her new book from Tarpaulin Sky Press, a hybrid of poetry and memoir, Descent.
Our sincere thanks to novelist Wendy J. Fox for including Steven Dunn's novel, water & power, among her BuzzFeed showcase of "books that prove indie presses deserve your attention."
Foothills Productions releases The Usual Route, a short film based on Steven Dunn's novel Potted Meat, published by Tarpaulin Sky Press.
We are very pleased to announce that Piper J. Daniels’s debut essay collection, Ladies Lazarus, published by Tarpaulin Sky Press, has been chosen as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.