The Lily Poetry Review Books has selected Melody Wilson as the winner of the 2025 Paul Nemser Prize for her manuscript currently titled Swan Song.
Melody Wilson is a pushcart nominated poet whose poems appear in Pangyrus, VerseDaily, The Fiddlehead, Catamaran, Crab Creek Review, San Pedro River Review, Watershed, Rust + Moth, West Trade Review, Emerson Review, and others. Find more of her work at melodywilson.com.
Wendy Drexler’s Harvest of What Remains has been named as an honorable mention and both books will be published in March 2026.
Congratulations!
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