Elixir Press
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Founded | 2000 |
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Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Denver, Colorado |
Distribution | Small Press Distribution |
Publication types | Books |
Official website | elixirpress.com |
Elixir Press is an American, independent, nonprofit literary press located in Denver, Colorado.[1] The press was founded by Dana Curtis in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2000 and relocated to Denver in 2004.[2][3]
Authors published by Elixir Press include Diann Blakely, Bruce Bond, Amina Gautier, , Sarah Kennedy, Kathryn Nuernberger, Jane Satterfield, Seth Brady Tucker, Anthony Varallo, and Jake Adam York. Elixir Press titles have been reviewed in venues including Publishers Weekly[4][5] and the New York Times Book Review.[6] Diann Blakely's book, Cities of Flesh and the Dead, won the from the Poetry Society of America. Books published by Elixir Press have won awards from the Chicago Public Library[7] and The Independent Publisher Book Awards,[8] as well as being nominated as a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards in Poetry.[9][10]
Elixir Press holds three national book contests open to authors writing in English. Each prize offers a cash award and publication of the winning manuscript. Each year the Elixir Poetry Book Awards features a Judge's Prize and an Editors' Prize competition open to all poets.[11] Begun in 2006, the Elixir Press Fiction Award is presented to the writer of a novel or short story collection every two years.[12] The Antivenom Prize has been awarded annually for first or second books of poetry since 2009.[13][14]
References[]
- ^ "Nonprofit Explorer: Elixir Press". ProPublica. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ Reiter, Jendi. "Dana Curtis, Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press". Winning Writers. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "About". Elixir Press. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "The Prayer Book of the Anxious". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Flammable Matter". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ Ruiz-Camacho, Antonio. "Short Stories". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Carl Sandburg Literary Awards". Chicago Public Library. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Announcing 2009 IPPY Awards National and Regional Results". Independent Publisher. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Join Us at the Colorado Book Awards". Colorado Humanities. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ Brown, Suzanne. "2014 Colorado Book Awards Finalists Named". Denver Post. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Elixir Press Poetry Awards". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Elixir Press Fiction Award". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ^ "Winners". Elixir Press. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
External links[]
- Literary publishing companies
- Poetry publishers
- Book publishing companies of the United States
- Book publishing companies based in Colorado