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The semifinalist longlist has been announced for the 2025 Front Range Book Prize to celebrate the stories of Colorado.
We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Front Range Book Prize Longlist! From more than 250 manuscripts of all types, lengths, styles, and genres submitted to Alternating Current Press for the book prize, we’ve narrowed the first round of reading down to this longlist of semifinalists. The Front Range Book Prize is Alternating Current Press’ annual book award to recognize an unpublished manuscript of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, play script, or hybrid work that is written by a Colorado author or on the theme of Colorado. Congrats to all of these authors, whose manuscripts will now go on to the next round of readers to create a shortlist. From the shortlist, we’ll then select a winner to receive $1,000 and publication, plus several finalists who may also be offered publication to join our 2026 through 2027 publishing seasons. Congrats to these longlisters, and we’ll see you in the next round!
- Field Guide: Poems of the Colorado Front Range by Kathleen Cain
- Hell Is Empty by Robert Cooperman
- Jackalope by Janna L. Goodwin
- Take This Car for the Healer by David Alan Graham
- Night of the Shooting Stars by Elisabeth Hyde
- Here’s the Situation by Malinda Miller
- Nothing to Cry About by Ryan Pollard
- The Cost of Living by Johnny Redway
- Singed Seeds: A Marshall Fire Year by Erin Robertson
- The Mountain by Doug Sherr
- Faraway Rain by Lisa Zimmerman
Thanks to these authors for sharing their incredible work with us and for trusting us to share it with the rest of the world. Congratulations on the longlist selections, and we wish you the best of luck in the next round.
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