Flower Conroy has won the 2024 Richard Mathews Prize for Poetry for the collection, Zoodikers: A Bestiary. In addition to a $2,000 check, the award includes hardback and paperback book publication in 2025 by the University of Tampa Press. LGBTQIA+ artist, former Key West Poet Laureate, and NEA and MacDowell Fellow, Flower Conroy is the author of … [Read more…]
Cover art: Cara Erskine, Venez ici (Pines), oil on canvas, 16×20 in, 2024
The Tampa Review editorial team is excited to announce that our guest judge, Kirstin Valdez Quade, acclaimed author of Night at the Fiestas and The Five Wounds, has selected a winner for the Danahy Prize for short fiction. This year’s winning story is “Memory Unit” by Louise Marburg. Marburg is the author of three collections of stories, The Truth About Me, No … [Read more…]
Cover art: Kaitlin Crockett, Sandman Motel Sign, 6 x 9 riso print.
with Leslie Vega, Art Editor, and Yuly Restrepo Garcés, Editor-in-Chief Kaitlin Crockett is the proprietor, printmaker, and artist at Print St. Pete, a letterpress and risograph printshop in Gulfport, Florida. As a small business operating in a thriving arts scene and challenging economy, Tampa Review was eager to see what’s up with the state of printmaking in … [Read more…]