Sundress Publications is thrilled to announce the results of the 2024 Poetry Broadside Contest judged by Ashley Hajimirsadeghi. This year’s winner is Jaye Nasir with the poem “Palestine is a Place.” Nasir’s poem will be letterpress-printed as an 8.5″ x 11″ broadside and will be made available for sale in our online store. Orders for our broadside will open this summer.
Jaye Nasir is a poet and fiction writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has recently appeared in The Suburban Review, International Human Rights Arts Movement, and Passport of Witness, a handcrafted anthology created to raise funds for Gaza. Her first chapbook, Full of Eyes Within, is available from The Fabulist, and her poetry is featured in the video game Life is Strange: Double Exposure, as well as the newly released anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry.
This year’s contest judge is Ashley Hajimirsadeghi. Ashley is an Iranian American multimedia artist, journalist, and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, U.S. State Department, University of Arizona, and Brooklyn Poets. From 2024-2025, she will be in Kolkata, India creating ethnographic and documentary poetry around climate change, migration, and India’s Chinatowns through an arts-based Fulbright-Nehru Open Research Award. She received her MA in Global Humanities from Towson University, and a Bachelor of Science in International Trade & Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her creative poems, essays, and fiction have appeared in Passages North, Salt Hill, Salamander, and The Journal, among others. Previously, she was a film & television critic at MovieWeb. Find her at www.ashleyhajimirsadeghi.com // Instagram: @nassarine
Runners-up:
- “The doctor declares it a threatening miscarriage….” by Mia Herman
- “Okán” by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
Finalists:
- “Tomorrow 만약에” by Melanie Han
- “Grandma’s Chin” by Anu Mahadev
- “At al-Taba’een School” by Shahe Mankerian
- “Morning” by Jaye Nasir
- “Elegy with Sumac and Praying Mantis” by Lisa Marie Oliver
- “Rotonda” by Para Vadhahong
- “A Grief Catalogue” by Mustafa Zewar
