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The Alice James Award, formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award, is given annually by
Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: ...
. The award includes publication of a book-length poetry manuscript and a cash prize (currently $2,000). The award was established by the press in 1986 to honor cooperative member author Beatrice Hawley (''Making the House Fall Down,'' 1977) who died in 1985 at forty-one years of age from lung cancer. The Award was renamed, like its sponsoring publisher, after
Alice James Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was an American diarist, and the younger sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have ...
"whose extraordinary gift for writing went unrecognized in her lifetime." The Award is a nationally-offered publication prize open to poets at any stage of their careers. The first award recipient was
Linnea Johnson Linnea Johnson (born 1946 in Chicago) is an American poet, and feminist writer, winner of the inaugural Beatrice Hawley Award for ''The Chicago Home'' (Alice James Books, 1986). Johnson was raised in Chicago, and lives and writes in Topeka, Kans ...
, for ''The Chicago Home.'' Winners of the award have often gone on to receive national attention and further honors for their winning works, most notably, Brian Turner for ''Here, Bullet,'' which received national and international media attention. Turner also received numerous further awards and honors for his work, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2006 Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2006 PEN Center USA "Best in the West" Literary Award in Poetry, a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the 2007 Poets' Prize, and the 2009 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. Catherine Barnett (''Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced,'' 2003) was further recognized with the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a Whiting Award, and a
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Mary Szybist Mary Szybist (born 20 September 1970) is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection ''Incarnadine''. Life She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her Bachelor of Arts, B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching) from the ...
(''Granted,'' 2003) was further recognized with the 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was a 2003
National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".B.H. Fairchild B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is ''An Ordinary Life'' ( W.W. Norton, 2023), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker'', '' The Pa ...
(''The Art of the Lathe,'' 1997) was 1998
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Finalist, and won the 1999 William Carlos Williams Award, the 1999 PEN Center West Poetry Award, the 1999
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...
, and the 1999
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. The 2008 winner, ''Slamming Open the Door,'' by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, was reviewed by ''The New York Times Sunday Book Review,'' and Bonanno was interviewed on NPR's ''Fresh Air'' by Terri Gross.


Beatrice Hawley / Alice James Award Winners

* 1986:
Linnea Johnson Linnea Johnson (born 1946 in Chicago) is an American poet, and feminist writer, winner of the inaugural Beatrice Hawley Award for ''The Chicago Home'' (Alice James Books, 1986). Johnson was raised in Chicago, and lives and writes in Topeka, Kans ...
, for ''The Chicago Home'' * 1987: Laurel Trivelpiece, for ''Blue Holes'' * 1988:
Jean Valentine __NOTOC__ Jean Valentine (April 27, 1934December 29, 2020) was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, ''Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003'', was awarded the 2004 N ...
, for ''Home Deep Blue'' * 1992: Alice Jones, for ''The Knot'' * 1994: Richard McCann, for ''Ghost Letters'' * 1995: Forrest Hamer, for ''Call & Response'' * 1996: Cynthia Huntington, for ''We Have Gone to the Beach'' * 1997:
B.H. Fairchild B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is ''An Ordinary Life'' ( W.W. Norton, 2023), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker'', '' The Pa ...
, for ''The Art of the Lathe'' * 1998: Laura Kasischke, for ''Fire and Flower'' * 1999: Amy Newman, for ''Camera Lyrica'' * 2000: Claudia Keelan, for ''Utopic'' * 2001: Liz Waldner, for ''Self and Simulacra'' * 2002:
Mary Szybist Mary Szybist (born 20 September 1970) is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection ''Incarnadine''. Life She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her Bachelor of Arts, B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching) from the ...
, for ''Granted'' * 2003: Catherine Barnett, for ''Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced'' * 2004: Dobby Gibson, for ''Polar'' * 2005: Brian Turner, for ''Here, Bullet'' * 2006: Henrietta Goodman, for ''Take What You Want'' * 2007: Lia Purpura, for ''King Baby'' * 2008: Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno for ''Slamming Open the Door'' * 2009: Reginald Dwayne Betts, for ''Shahid Reads His Own Palm'' * 2010: Lesle Lewis, for ''lie down too'' * 2011: Jane Springer, for ''Murder Ballad'' * 2012: Jamaal May for ''Hum'' * 2013: Philip Metres for ''Sand Opera'' * 2014: Richie Hofmann for ''Second Empire'' * 2015: Elizabeth Lyons for ''The Blessing of Dark Water'' * 2016: Anna Rose Welch for ''Noah's Woods'' * 2017: Mia Malhotra for ''When I See You Again It Will Be With a Different Face'' * 2018: Amy Woolard for ''Neck of the Woods'' * 2019: Rosebud Ben-Oni for ''If This is the Age We End Discovery'' * 2020:
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for ''Brother Sleep'' * 2021:
Ina Cariño Ina Cariño is a Filipinx American poet. They are the winner of a 2022 Whiting Award for poetry, and the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for her first poetry collection ''Feast'', published by Alice James Books in March 2023. Biography Ca ...
for ''Feast''


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Alice James Books Website > Various Pages
Awards established in 1986 American poetry awards 1986 establishments in Maine