Four Way Books is pleased to announce that the winning manuscript of the 2010 Four Way Books Intro Prize is How the Losers Love What’s Lost by Patrick Ryan Frank of Austin, Texas. The judge was Alan Shapiro. Mr. Frank’s book is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2012. He will receive $1000.00 and a reading in a Four Way Books sponsored series in New York City.

In 2011, we will read submissions from January 1 - March 31 through the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry, open to all poets, regardless of their publication history. The judge will be Claudia Rankine.

Four Way Books editors also consider manuscripts outside of the contest each June. For information, please check our guidelines in December for the contest and in May for the June reading period.

Thank you to everyone who submitted for considering Four Way Books for your work.

Congratulations to Joel Brouwer recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Meg Kearney wins The 2010 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award in Poetry
Four Way Books is proud to announce that Meg Kearney, author of HOME BY NOW, is the winner of The L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award in Poetry. Established by The Boston Globe in 1975, and co-sponsored by PEN New England, the award is given for the best book of poetry by a New England author or with a New England setting. Congratulations to Meg!

Four Way Books is delighted to announce that Tina Chang has been appointed Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. (Tina is the second Four Way Books author to be Brooklyn's Poet Laureate. D. Nurkse held the position for several years.) Tina is the author of Half Lit Houses and the forthcoming Of Gods & Strangers (2011). She lives in, well, Brooklyn! Congratulations Tina!