Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Big Other Book Awards!

Delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Big Other Book Awards!

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Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2023 Big Other Book Awards:

Fiction:
Jeffery Renard Allen’s Fat Time and Other Stories (Graywolf Press)

Nonfiction:
McKenzie Wark’s Love and Money, Sex and Death (Verso Books)

Poetry:
sadé powell’s wordtomydead (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Translation:
Martín Solares’s How to Draw a Novel (Grove Press), translated by Heather Cleary

Readers’s Choice Award:
Dawn Raffel’s Boundless as the Sky (Sagging Meniscus Press)

Congratulations, again, to all the winners of the 2023 Big Other Book Awards: Jeffery Renard Allen, sadé powell, Dawn Raffel, Martín Solares and Heather Cleary, and McKenzie Wark! Congratulations, again, to the awardees of the 2023 Big Other Lifetime Achievement Award: Rae Armantrout, Rikki Ducornet, Gordon Lish, and Nathaniel Mackey! And congratulations again to the awardees of the 2023 Big Other Literary Citizenship Award: Wendy J. Fox and David Naimon!

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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