Meet the finalists for the Firecracker Awards

The Firecracker Awards are in their eighth year now, but 2022 marks the first time that there'll be a cash prize associated with them.

The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, which administers the award celebrating indie publishing, will reveal the winners on June 23.

Here are the books in the running; the winning author/translator will receive $1,000, with another $1,000 going to the press.

Fiction 

• Farthest South and Other Stories, by Ethan Rutherford

• Householders, by Kate Cayley

• The House of Rust, by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

• Pleasantview, by Celeste Mohammed

• The Trees, by Percival Everett

Creative nonfiction 

• Dear Memory: Letters on Writing Silence, and Grief, by Victoria Chang

• Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way, by Caseen Gaines

• Migratory Birds, by Mariana Oliver (translated by Julia Sanches)

• Names for Light: A Family History, by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint 

• Plastic: An Autobiography, by Allison Cobb

Poetry 

• book of the other: small in comparison, by Truong Tran

• CURB, by Divya Victor

• Phantompains, by Therese Estacion

• To Know Crush, by Jennifer Jackson Berry

• Winter Phoenix: Testimonies in Verse, by Sophia Terazawa

You can see the magazines that are competing for their own Firecracker at the CLMP's website.