The editors are very pleased to announce that Sarah Burke has won the 2018 Cider Press Review book award with her manuscript Blueprints. Two finalists/Runners-up for the award were Amy Meckler with
The Myth of the Grim Reaper, and Nicole Melanson with her manuscript, Girls on Land.

“Blueprints”  has a tentative release date of August, 2019 from Cider Press Review. All contest entrants will receive a copy of the book.

Sarah Burke lives in Pittsburgh and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Fourteen Hills, Mid-American Review, Midwestern Gothic, Passages North, and other journals.