Join us as we congratulate Cimarron contributor Rachel Mennies, whose first book of poems, The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, won the 2013 Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry and will be published in Spring, 2014 from Texas Tech University Press.

Cimarron Review contributor Mark Brazaitis’s collection of stories The Incurables, winner of the 2012 Richard Sullivan Prize, is in its third printing. The book, which includes a story first published in the Cimarron Review (“I Return”), also won the 2013 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award for fiction, which is given by Southern Illinois University Carbondale and its undergraduate literary magazine, Grassroots.

Stephen Gibson (Cimarron Review #183) has a new collection of poems, Paradise, now available from The University of Arkansas Press.  Pick up your copy today.

Cimarron‘s Issue #183 has arrived, and editors here are particularly excited about its contents.  Contributors: your copies should arrive in your mailboxes sometime next week; everyone else: become a subscriber today.

Cimarron contributor Peter F. Neumeyer writes to let us know his most recent publication is Floating Worlds: the letters of Edward Gorey & Peter Neumeyer (Pomegranate Press, 2011). Neumeyer’s poem, “Kitchen Love Song” appeared many years ago in the Cimarron; his various accomplishments provide additional proof our contributors go on to great things.