If you’d like to read a little bit about our work and authors at C&R Press, please read our short introduction, or skip to our author’s awards & accolades. We’ve worked diligently on these lists and will make updates every six months.
Founded in 2006, C&R Press came under new management in 2015 with the specific goals of diversifying the catalog through inclusion, building a sustainable business model to keep books in print for decades, bringing great independent literature to a wide audience, and helping to elevate literature into mainstream culture. Since 2015, C&R Press has published an average of eight books per year across genres drawing from our open full-length submissions, as well as our fiction, nonfiction, and poetry awards that began in 2019, and also our Winter Soup Bowl and Summer Tide Pool chapbook programs. We also solicit manuscripts and work with agents, though the majority of our books are from our submission programs and awards.
After eight strong years, we wanted to take stock of some of our author’s accomplishments. And so, we’ve curated a list of some of our author’s book awards and accolades. The list includes awards, notable accolades, reviews, and interviews as an illustration of the author’s and press’s hard work in writing and promoting the important literature C&R has published since 2006. Years and months are noted where it is important.
All of C&R’s published full-length titles are sent to numerous industry, university, and independent reviewers, and entered into numerous awards. We also publish chapbooks to enable evolving, experimental, and often new authors to find a readership and build a career beginning with the important contribution of short works.
We will continue to add to our Awards and Accolades every six months. We invite readers to learn more about our authors from our Meet the Authors program which consists of micro-interviews on why they write; new authors are added each month.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about C&R press! And now, back to reading submissions and prepping books for publication. Take care and long live books!
AWARDS
Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Gold Award in Poetry 2022 for How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children by Quincy Scott Jones
Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Gold Award in Poetry 2021 for The Rented Altar by Lauren Berry
Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Independent Voice Award 2021 for A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less by Fu Shivani (Anis Shivani)
Foreword Reviews Bronze Award in War & Military Fiction 2021 for A Mother’s Tale & Other Stories by Khahn Ha
Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Gold Award in Humor 2020 for No Good Very Bad Asian by Leland Cheuk
Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Silver Award in Military/Wartime Fiction 2020 for Life During Wartime by Katie Rogin
Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Silver Award in Visionary/New Age Fiction 2020 for Made by Mary by Laura Catherine Brown
ACCOLADES
Lists
Salon Favorite Books of 2022 Fiction and Nonfiction for All I Should Not Tell by Brian Leung
Buzzfeed Books Recommendation 2019 for No Good, Very Bad Asian by Leland Cheuk
Poetry Foundation Reading List inclusion of The Miracles by Amy Lemmon
Independent Publishers 10 Latino Books 2018 for Death of Art by Chris Campanioni
NBC News Great Latino Books of 2017 for All My Heroes are Broke by Ariel Francisco
Notable
Grayson Books Poetry of Presence II anthology inclusion of “What It’s Like to Fall in Love” from Give a Girl Chaos by Heidi Seaborn
Visible Poetry Project adapts the poem “The Flame in Mother’s Mouth” into a short film from A Family is House by Dustin Pearson
Verse Daily selects Before Snowfall as the daily poem from All My Heroes are Broke by Ariel Francisco
Bestsellers
Small Press Distribution (SPD) Fiction Bestseller July & August 2020 for No Good Very Bad Asian by Leland Cheuk
Small Press Distribution (SPD) Poetry Bestseller December 2019 and Poetry Bestseller January 2020 for What Need Have We For Such As We by Amanda Auerbach
Small Press Distribution (SPD) Fiction Bestseller May & June 2019 for Surrendering Appomattox by Jacob M. Appel
Small Press Distribution (SPD) Fiction Bestseller May & June 2017 for The Protester Has Been Released by Janet Sarbanes
Small Press Distribution (SPD) Poetry Bestseller October 2013 for The Real Cause for Your Absence by Curtis Bauer
REVIEWS
Industry Reviews
Foreword Reviews review of Ivy vs. Dogg by Brian Leung
Foreword Reviews review of Give a Girl Chaos by Heidi Seaborn
Publishers Weekly review of Dark Horse by Kristina Marie Darling
Publishers Weekly review of The Protester Has Been Released by Janet Sarbanes
Kirkus Review review of Notes to the Beloved by Michelle Bitting
Publishers Weekly review of Women in the Literary Landscape, edited by Rosalind Reisner with Valerie Tomaselli
Foreword Reviews review of Immigration Essays by Sybil Baker
New Pages review of Death of Art by Chris Campanioni
Kirkus Review review of The Couple Who Fell to Earth by Michelle Bitting
Foreword Reviews review of Immigration Essays by Sybil Baker
Publishers Weekly review of That Man in Our Lives by Xu Xi
Publishers Weekly review of River Talk by CB Anderson
Kirkus Review review of River Talk by CB Anderson
Foreword Reviews review of River Talk by CB Anderson
Publishers Weekly review of The Fifth Lash by Anis Shivani
Kirkus Review review of The Unspeakable by Peter Anderson
Journal and Magazine Reviews
University Journals
Salamander Magazine review of By the Bridge or By the River? By Amy C. Roma
The Literary Review review of Two Californias by Robert Glick
The Iowa Review review of The Pleasures Of Queuing by Erik Martiny
Hayden’s Ferry Review review of Millennial Roost by Dustin Pearson *
Michigan Quarterly Review review of Millennial Roost by Dustin Pearson *
Harvard Review review of the internet is for real by Chris Campanioni
Fence review of the internet is for real by Chris Campanioni
Chattahoochee Revew review of Holdfast by Christian Anton Gerard
Harvard Review review of Death of Art by Chris Campanioni
The Literary Review review of Dark Horse and Room of Persistent Sorry by Kristina Marie Darling
The Literary Review review of My Stunt Double by Travis Denton
Independent Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
Heavy Feather Review review of How to Kill Yourself instead of Your Children by Quincy Scott Jones
The US Review of Books review of A Mother’s Tale by Khanh Ha
Heavy Feather Review review of Selling the Farm by Debra di Blasi
The Collagist review of Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen*
Asian American Writers’ Workshop review of Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen*
Heavy Feather Review review of Two Californias by Robert Glick
Five Points review of The Miracles by Amy Lemmon
Heavy Feather Review review of The Miracles by Amy Lemmon
The London Magazine review of The Pleasures of Queuing by Erik Martiny
Litro review of The Pleasures of Queuing by Erik Martiny
Glass: A Journal of Poetry review of All My Heroes are Broke by Ariel Francisco
Chicago Review of Books review of Millennial Roost by Dustin Pearson*
Poetry International review of My Stunt Double by Travis Denton
Poetry International review of Give a Girl Chaos by Heidi Seaborn
Tupelo Quarterly review of Give a Girl Chaos by Heidi Seaborn
The Irish Times review of The Pleasures of Queuing by Erik Martiny
Poetry International review of Lessons in Camouflage by Martin Ott
Angel City Review review of Lessons in Camouflage by Martin Ott
Heavy Feather Review review of While You Were Gone by Sybil Baker
Heavy Feather Review review of Made by Mary by Laura Catherine Brown
The Coil review of All My Heroes are Broke by Ariel Francisco
The Rumpus review of Holdfast by Christian Anton Gerard
Tupelo Quarterly review of Holdfast by Christian Anton Gerard
Jamaica Gleaner review of Immigration Essays by Sybil Baker
South China Morning Post review of That Man in Our Lives by Xu Xi
Brooklyn Rail review of Death of Art by Chris Campanioni
Maudlin House review of Death of Art by Chris Campanioni
Heavy Feather Review review of Baby, You’re a Rich Man by Christopher Bundy
Tupelo Quarterly review of The Name Museum by Nick McRae
INTERVIEWS
The London Magazine interview with Leland Cheuk author of No Good Very Bad Asian
The AList Magazine interview with Phong Nguyen author of Pages From The Textbook Of Alternate History
Lit Pub interview with Robert Glick author of Two Californias
Chicago Review of Books interview with Dustin Pearson author of Millennial Roost*
Origins interview with Ariel Francisco author of All My Heroes are Broke
Los Angeles Review of Books interview with Xu Xi author of That Man in Our Lives
Women’s Wear Daily interview with Erik Rasmussen author of A Diet of Worms
Award Finalists and Honorable Mentions
Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Poetry 2021 for The Rented Altar by Lauren Berry
Eric Hoffer Award The Montaigne Medal Finalist 2020 for Surrendering Appomattox by Jacob M. Appel
Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Poetry 2020 for Give a Girl Chaos by Heidi Seaborn
Eric Hoffer Award First Horizon Award Finalist 2020 for Give a Girl Chaos by Heidi Seaborn
Foreword Reviews Indies Finalist 2019 in Literary Fiction for Last Tower to Heaven by Jacob Paul
Foreword Reviews Indies Finalist 2014 in Short Stories for River Talk by CB Anderson
Foreword Reviews Indies Finalist 2013 in Short Stories for The First Time She Fell by Caleb Ludwick
* In some cases C&R Press has acquired the rights to book titles first published by another publisher where the book title was first reviewed.
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