The editors of Cider Press Review are delighted to announce a winner in our very close contest for the 2024 Editors’ Prize Book Award.
Edward Wilson of Augusta, Georgia has won the 2024 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize Book Award for his manuscript, A Pound of Cure. Runner-up was Reckless Shelter, by Karen Holmberg, and Honorable Mention goes to The Song inside Your Body by Amanda Auchter. Additional finalists (in alphabetcal order) include deep is the skin of the world by Mermer Blakeslee, Ravel by Jen Stewart, and Salt and Ambrosia by Jennifer Louvet.
CPR Poetry Editor Susan Azar Porterfield said about A Pound of Cure:
“The following is an example of what I like best about this collection–its music:
Pullybone we called it.
You won’t find it
in the bucket or the box
from a fast-food place.
It comes trilling from a cast-
iron-skillet-Crisco-seethe
to drizzle glisten on a paper towel
before it finds the plate
of the oldest or the youngest
in that room.”
Edward Wilson’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Georgia Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Poetry (Chicago), The Southern Poetry Review, The South Carolina Review, and others. His collection, In a Rich Country, won the 2018 Grayson Books Poetry Prize and was published in April of 2019. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, a Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellowship, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the state of Georgia. He lives in Augusta, Georgia.
Wilson will receive a standard publishing contract, 25 author copies of the book, and a $1000 honorarium. A Pound of Cure is scheduled to be published in August, 2025.
