Awards & Prizes

Brian Tierney Wins the Fifth Annual Jake Adam York Prize

Milkweed Staff — 02/18/2021

ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2020–21 JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE!

Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are thrilled to announce that judge Randall Mann has chosen Brian Tierney’s book Rise and Float as the winner of the 2020–21 Jake Adam York Prize. Rise and Float will be published by Milkweed Editions in February, 2022, and Tierney will receive $2,000.

Brian Tierney’s poetry appears in Agni, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a graduate of the Bennington College MFA Writing…

Brian Tierney

Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, which was selected by Randall Mann as the winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize.

Minneapolis, MN —

Seed Week: Virtual Launch for The Seed Keeper, hosted by All My Relations Arts & Birchbark Books

Seed Week is a week-long series of programs celebrating Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper and the power of seeds through storytelling, art, music, gardening, and cooking, presented by All My Relations Arts in collaboration with Milkweed Editions, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Dream of Wild Health, Hennepin County Library, and Birchbark Books. On Tuesday, tune in for the virtual book launch of The Seed Keeper. Wilson will be joined by Dakota writers Teresa Peterson and Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan and Indigenous filmmaker Missy Whiteman. Learn more here!

Knoxville, TN —

Rural Assembly Everywhere: Margaret Renkl Delivers Keynote Speech

Award-winning essayist Margaret Renkl will join Rural Assembly Everywhere as the first keynote speaker at the two-day virtual festival this April. Renkl and the Rural Assembly’s Whitney Kimball Coe will discuss the shifting culture and demographics in the South, how we stay connected to one another in this time of deep division, and Renkl’s 2019 essay collection Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. The live event will kick off Rural Assembly Everywhere at 2 p.m. ET on April 20 and will feature a question and answer session with viewers. Register here!