Congrats to the Finalists of the 2024 Howling Bird Press Poetry Contest (listed in alphabetical order)

A winner will be selected from this finalist list in January 2024 and announced by February.

• Villain(era), John Andrews
• subway psalms, Tamar Ashdot
• Venus of the Midwest, Justine Defever
• Divorced Business Partners, Emily Hyland
• Gothic, April Lindner
• Thirsty, C. Eliot Mullins
• Imagine a Woman, Dorothy Neagle
• Heartbreak and Spaceships in the Age of Extraterrestrials, Osmani Ochoa
• Mending of a Body, TW Sia

And congratulations to our semifinalists:

• Finding Meteorites in Antarctica, Paul Brooke
• The Book of Drought, Robert Carney
• Fortuna Redux, Faith Ellington
• The Stoop and the Steeple, Nancy Meyer
• Refugee, Erika Michael
• All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths, Samodh Porawagamage
• Otherly, Rebecca Reynolds
• Rooting for Spices, Rod Carlos Rodriguez
• A Wonder of Furies, Stella Witcher

Thank you to all our incredible submitters. We were blown away by the quality of the submissions we received and had an incredibly difficult time narrowing down to these semifinalists and finalists. We appreciate the talent, time, and dedication that goes into putting together such works and look forward to seeing you continue to blow readers away in your future writing endeavors!