Winner of the 2023 Snowbound Chapbook Prize from Tupelo Press
FORTHCOMING!
Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Traci Brimhall, has selected Revenge Bodies by Cate Peebles of Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania, as the winner of the 2023 Snowbound Chapbook Prize! Cate 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.
“Revenge Bodies is a stunner. Through bodies of humans, pythons, foxes, and worms, a personal mythos of madness and desire—and how to survive both—emerges. These poems are formally dexterous, employing everything from erasures to Bingo forms to lyric prose shaped by its shifting margins. And every form is soaked in rich language, a feast of the dictionary and the senses. The poems held me spellbound page after page as they “refilled the grave with breath.” This collection is spectacle and spectacular. It lit me up like a Roman candle.”
–Traci Brimhall