Sundress Publications is excited to announce the results of our 2024 open reading period for full-length poetry manuscripts. The winning selections are: Rebecca Pinwei Tseng’s I Hope We All Kiss at the End, Amanda Nicole Corbin’s a say in patience, Ayendy Bonifacio’s Rios are for Chivos and Eternity, nat raum’s origin trilogy—all of which are due for publication in 2027.
Rebecca Pinwei Tseng is a Taiwanese American poet and library worker. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a School of the Arts News Writing Fellow. Her work can be found inThe Academy of American Poets, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Tupelo Quarterly, Honey Literary, and others. She currently resides in Jersey City with her pet spaniel and two bunnies. I Hope We All Kiss at the End is her debut collection of poems. www.rebeccatsengx.com.
Amanda Nicole Corbin is an award-winning Ohio-based poet who has had her work published in Black Warrior Review, New Ohio Review, Notre Dame Review, The London Magazine, Door is a Jar, Palette Poetry, and more. She is the winner of the 2025 Mississippi Review Poetry Contest, where her work received a Pushcart Nomination. Other works of hers have been nominated for Best Microfiction 2024 & 2025. Her debut full-length collection, addiction is a sweet dark room, was published by Another New Calligraphy in 2024. You can find her playing Magic: The Gathering or on Instagram and Threads @ancpoet.
Ayendy Bonifacio is a Dominican American writer, poet, and scholar whose work explores memory, migration, race, and the legacies of colonialism in the Americas. He is the author of Dique Dominican: A Memoir; To the River, We Are Migrants: Poems/Poemas; and the scholarly monograph Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the U.S. Press, 1855–1901. His debut novel, Bless Me, Papi, is forthcoming in 2026. Bonifacio’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other outlets. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Toledo in Ohio, where he lives with his partner and daughter.
nat raum (they/them) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They hold an MFA from the University of Baltimore and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. nat is the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press, the web editor for Welter, and a first reader for MEMEZINE. They are the author of fruits of the valley, journal of various worries, this book will not save you, and many chapbooks, full-length collections, and photography publications. Past and upcoming publishers of their work include Poet Lore, beestung, Baltimore Beat, Split Lip Magazine, Poetry Online, and others. Find them online at natraum.com.
Congratulations also to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists:
Finalists
- Stranger I Love by Noah Arhm Choi
- Delineations by Rose Du Charme
- Allah Forgive Us by Maryam Ghafoor
- Beloved Marrow by Phil Goldstein
- Life Model by Adam Grabowski
- Overwintered by Elina Katrin
- Pork Belly by Joey Kim
- Deep-Fried Daffodils by Sarah Mackey Kirby
- QUITTING THE MUSE by Caits Meissner
- Bad Miracle by Rebecca Pelky
- Reviews of Rooms and Lovers by Kristin Sanders
- diasporous by Grace H. Zhou
Semi-Finalists
- Fire/Burning/Water: Poems by Prince Cunningham
- Talking to the Dead by Nicelle Davis
- Another Bastard Peace by Sarah Elkins
- Parallel to Shore by Lynne Ellis
- Broken Country by Guiseppe Getto
- A Patch In the Astral Flowerbed by Adam Gianforcaro
- Let Me Grow Old by Darla Himeles
- That Ribbon of Highway by Alexis Ivy
- The Seeds We Sow by Alexis Jaimes
- Alabama Tulip by Amelie Langland
- Rx: Demonology by Jason Masino
- Datura by Adrian Quintanar
- Near Stranger by Katharine Rauk
- Lesbian Dinosaurs / Dinosaur Lesbians by Nicole Santalucia
- Dragon Year by T. Dallas Saylor
- Midnight Rivers by Pamela Sinicrope
- Final Status: Pending by Andre Swanepoel
- deepcut by Malik Thompson
- They Did Not Comply by Otto Vock
- Tooth Gaps in the Archives by Francis Dylan Waguespack
- Between Storms by Brett Warren
- We Are Milkweed by Kim Welliver
- PEST by Angelica Whitehorne
