CLMP Firecracker Award

Given by Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)

Other Names: Firecracker Alternative Book Award, Firecracker Award, Firecracker CLMP award
214 Works 52,851 Books 1,349 Reviews ½ 3.9
The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually to celebrate books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers show more that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (17), Finalist (119), No Stage (78)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2020 (1), 2019 (28), 2018 (21), 2017 (28), 2016 (31), 2015 (28), 2002 (10), 2001 (9), 2000 (11), 1999 (13), 1998 (13), 1997 (11), 1996 (9)

Winner 17

Finalist 119

WorkCategoryYear
An Imperfect Rapture by Kelly J. BeardCreative Nonfiction2019
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne BoyerCreative Nonfiction2019
False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia by María Sonia CristoffCreative Nonfiction2019
Before They Left Us by Rosemary Ann DavisCreative Nonfiction2019
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance HayesCreative Nonfiction2019
Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship by Sarah RuhlCreative Nonfiction2019
No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta SinghCreative Nonfiction2019
Mating in Captivity: A Memoir by Helen ZumanCreative Nonfiction2019
All Roads Lead to Blood (2040 Books Awards) by Bonnie ChauFiction, Finalist2019
Disoriental by Négar DjavadiFiction, Finalist2019
Strawberry Fields: A Novel (Fence Modern Prize in Prose) by Hilary PlumFiction, Finalist2019
A Bright and Pleading Dagger by Nicole RivasFiction, Finalist2019
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera-GarzaFiction, Finalist2019
Mina by Kim SagwaFiction, Finalist2019
Trick by Domenico StarnoneFiction, Finalist2019
DayStalker by Kristen StoneFiction, Finalist2019
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua WhiteheadFiction, Finalist2019
Dissolve by Sherwin BitsuiPoetry, Finalist2019
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani DoshiPoetry, Finalist2019
Body & glass by Rodney KoenekePoetry, Finalist2019
Milk by Dorothea LaskyPoetry, Finalist2019
Post Traumatic Hood Disorder by David Tomas MartinezPoetry, Finalist2019
Baby, I Don't Care by Chelsey MinnisPoetry, Finalist2019
GOOD MORNING AMERICA I AM HUNGRY AND ON FIRE by Jamie MortaraPoetry, Finalist2019
Crosslight for Youngbird by Asiya WadudPoetry, Finalist2019
In the province of the gods by Kenny FriesCreative Nonfiction2018
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (American Lives) by Sonya HuberCreative Nonfiction2018
Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life by Chelsea MartinCreative Nonfiction2018
Acker by Douglas A. MartinCreative Nonfiction2018
Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America by Kate MccahillCreative Nonfiction2018
Surviving Jersey: Danger & Insanity In The Garden State by Scott Loring SandersCreative Nonfiction2018
North Station by Suah BaeFiction, Finalist2018
The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology by Sheila BlackFiction, Finalist2018
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea LawlorFiction, Finalist2018
I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On by Khadijah QueenFiction, Finalist2018
Empire of Glass by Kaitlin SolimineFiction, Finalist2018
The Passion of Woo & Isolde by Jennifer TsengFiction, Finalist2018
Tom o' Vietnam by Baron WormserFiction, Finalist2018
Silk Poems by Jen BervinPoetry, Finalist2018
I Know Your Kind: Poems by William BrewerPoetry, Finalist2018
While Standing in Line for Death by CA ConradPoetry, Finalist2018
blud by Rachel McKibbensPoetry, Finalist2018
The Happy End / All Welcome by Monica de la TorrePoetry, Finalist2018
Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian BlanchfieldCreative Nonfiction2017
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome CharynCreative Nonfiction2017
The Estrangement Principle by Ariel GoldbergCreative Nonfiction2017
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew LanhamCreative Nonfiction2017
Sublime Physick: Essays by Patrick MaddenCreative Nonfiction2017
The Voyager Record: A Transmission by Anthony Michael MorenaCreative Nonfiction2017
Coast Range: A Collection from the Pacific Edge by Nick NeelyCreative Nonfiction2017
My Private Property (Wave Books) by Mary RuefleCreative Nonfiction2017
Nine Island by Jane AlisonFiction, Finalist2017
Into the Sun: A Novel by Deni Ellis BechardFiction, Finalist2017
Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio CardosoFiction, Finalist2017
The Measure of Darkness by Liam DurcanFiction, Finalist2017
The Port-Wine Stain by Norman LockFiction, Finalist2017
Gesell Dome by Guillermo SaccomannoFiction, Finalist2017
Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar JimenezFiction, Finalist2017
Say Something Nice About Me by Sara SchaffFiction, Finalist2017
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte WoodFiction, Finalist2017
Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-RichPoetry, Finalist2017
Hammer with No Master by René CharPoetry, Finalist2017
Hardly War by Don Mee ChoiPoetry, Finalist2017
Hell Figures by E. Tracy GrinnellPoetry, Finalist2017
Remembering Animals by Brenda IijimaPoetry, Finalist2017
Profeta Without Refuge by Raina J. LeónPoetry, Finalist2017
Post-: Poems by Wayne MillerPoetry, Finalist2017
The Tornado Is the World by Catherine PiercePoetry, Finalist2017
Suite Venitienne/Please Follow Me by Sophie CalleCreative Nonfiction2016
My Chinese-America (SFWP Literary Awards) by Allen GeeCreative Nonfiction2016
The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan's America by Allison GreenCreative Nonfiction2016
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori JakielaCreative Nonfiction2016
Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects by Daniel NesterCreative Nonfiction2016
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (The Art of the Essay) by Melissa PritchardCreative Nonfiction2016
Because You Asked: A Book of Answers on the Art and Craft of the Writing Life by Katrina RobertsCreative Nonfiction2016
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael WhiteCreative Nonfiction2016
Wide Open: My Adventures in Polyamory, Open Marriage, and Loving on My Own Terms by Gracie XCreative Nonfiction2016
The Listener: A Novel by Rachel BaschFiction, Finalist2016
Home by Leila S. ChudoriFiction, Finalist2016
The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang HilbigFiction, Finalist2016
Pinkies: stories by Shane HintonFiction, Finalist2016
On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World by Elizabeth KadetskyFiction, Finalist2016
American Meteor by Norman LockFiction, Finalist2016
Ciao, Suerte by Annie McGreevyFiction, Finalist2016
Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza MujilaFiction, Finalist2016
Medicine Walk by Richard WagameseFiction, Finalist2016
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri BarakaPoetry, Finalist2016
Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne BettsPoetry, Finalist2016
Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada LimónPoetry, Finalist2016
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy MartinPoetry, Finalist2016
Illocality by Joseph MasseyPoetry, Finalist2016
Let’s Let That Are Not Yet : Inferno (National Poetry Series) by Ed PavlicPoetry, Finalist2016
Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille RankinePoetry, Finalist2016
What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford by Frank StanfordPoetry, Finalist2016
Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners by John WienersPoetry, Finalist2016
The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All by C. D. WrightPoetry, Finalist2016
Loitering: New and Collected Essays by Charles D'AmbrosioCreative Nonfiction2015
Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays by Bonnie FriedmanCreative Nonfiction2015
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie JamisonCreative Nonfiction2015
The Other Side: a Memoir by Lacy M. JohnsonCreative Nonfiction2015
The Search for Heinrich Schlögel: A Novel by Martha BaillieFiction, Finalist2015
Street of Thieves by Mathias ÉnardFiction, Finalist2015
Songs for the Deaf by John Henry FlemingFiction, Finalist2015
The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir LorchenkovFiction, Finalist2015
Us Conductors by Sean MichaelsFiction, Finalist2015
Hum by Michelle RichmondFiction, Finalist2015
List: A Novel by Matthew RobersonFiction, Finalist2015
Sister Golden Hair: A Novel by Darcey SteinkeFiction, Finalist2015
Family Ties: An Alaskan Crime Drama by Eric HobbsGraphic Novel, Finalist2015
All Star by Jesse LonerganGraphic Novel, Finalist2015
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself by Walt WhitmanGraphic Novel, Finalist2015
Exclosures by Emily AbendrothPoetry, Finalist2015
Beast Feast by Cody-rose ClevidencePoetry, Finalist2015
Tree Line (Green Rose Prize) by Judy HalebskyPoetry, Finalist2015
Blue Hanuman by Joan LarkinPoetry, Finalist2015
My So-Called Ruined Life (Tate McCoy Series) by Melanie BishopYoung Adult, Finalist2015
Rebels by Accident by Patricia DunnYoung Adult, Finalist2015
Hollow City by Ransom RiggsYoung Adult, Finalist2015
A Boy Like Me by Jennie WoodYoung Adult, Finalist2015

No Stage 78

WorkCategoryYear
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears by Johannes Anyuru2020
Devil's Advocate: The Art of Coop by Chris CooperArt/Photo2002
Junkie Love by Phil ShoenfeltDrugs2002
This Too Can Be Yours by Beth LisickFiction2002
Palestine by Joe SaccoGraphic Novel2002
Strange Stories for Strange Kids by Art SpiegelmanKids2002
We Owe You Nothing by Daniel SinkerMusic2002
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric SchlosserNonfiction2002
Cunt-Ups by Dodie BellamyPoetry2002
9-11 by Noam ChomskyPolitics2002
Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits And Politics of Sex in Performance (Critical Performances) by Annie SprinkleSex2002
This is Blythe by BlytheArt/Photo2001
Aunt Mary Jane's Baking With Pot (High Times Classics) by Mary JaneDrugs2001
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack by Neal PollackFiction2001
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris WareGraphic Novel2001
The Real Rules for Girls by Mindy MorgensternKids2001
Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song by David MargolickMusic2001
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander TherouxNonfiction2001
The Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph NaderPolitics2001
Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex by Katharine GatesSex2001
From Girls to Grrlz : A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines by Trina RobbinsArt/Photo2000
Pot Stories for the Soul by Paul KrassnerDrugs2000
Po Man's Child by Marci BlackmanFiction2000
My New York Diary by Julie DoucetGraphic Novel2000
Fucked Up & Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement by Bryan Ray TurcotteMusic2000
The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian by Howard ZinnNonfiction2000
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry by Alan KaufmanPoetry2000
No More Prisons by William Upski WimsattPolitics2000
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix: A Memoir by Shawna KenneySex2000
Dori Stories: The Complete Dori Seda by Dori SedaSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories2000
Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970 by Ken SmithSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories2000
The Beauty of Fetish by Steve Diet GoeddeArt/Photo1999
Steven Cerio's ABC Book: A Drug Primer by Steven CerioDrugs1999
Leather Daddy and the Femme by Carol QueenFiction1999
Street Posters and Ballads by Eric DrookerGraphic Novel1999
Facetasm : Creepy Mix-And-Match Book of Face Mutations by Charles BurnsKids1999
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael MoynihanMusic1999
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga MuscioNonfiction1999
Burning in Paradise by Michael MadsenPoetry1999
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion by Gary WebbPolitics1999
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate BornsteinSelf Improvement1999
Maurice Vellekoop's ABC Book: A Homoerotic Primer by Maurice VellekoopSex1999
Dancing with the Skirt (Teletubbies) by Scholastic BooksSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1999
The Story of Colors/La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas by Subcomandante MarcosSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1999
Devil Babe's Big Book of Fun by Isabel SamarasArt/Photo1998
The Joint Rolling Handbook by Bobcat PressDrugs1998
In Awe by Scott HeimFiction1998
Minimum Wage: Book 2: The Tales of Hoffman by Bob FingermanGraphic Novel1998
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka SteptoeKids1998
Monk by Laurent De WildeMusic1998
Ono Ono Girl's Hula by Carolyn Lei-LanilauNonfiction1998
Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry (Queer Dog) by Gerry Gomez PearlbergPoetry1998
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy by Howard ZinnPolitics1998
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women by Tristan TaorminoSex1998
Red Meat: A Collection of Red Meat Cartoons From the Secret Files of Max Cannon by Max CannonSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1998
Original Sin: The Visionary Art of Joe Coleman by Jim JarmuschSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1998
NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America by Constance PenleySpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1998
Nothing But The Girl; The Blatant Lesbian Image by Susie BrightArt/Photo1997
Everything I Know I Learned on Acid by Coco PekelisDrugs1997
Distorture (Black Ice Books) by Rob HardinFiction1997
Real Americans Admit: "The Worst Thing I'Ve Ever Done" by Ted RallGraphic Novel1997
The Palm of My Heart by Davida AdedjoumaKids1997
I Need More by Iggy PopMusic1997
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie FeinbergNonfiction1997
Home in Three Days, Don't Wash (Lingo Books) by Linda SmuklerPoetry1997
Censored 1997 (Censored) by Peter PhillipsPolitics1997
InterCourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook by Martha HopkinsSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1997
Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook by Sean TejaratchiSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1997
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft by Dale PendellDrugs1996
A Void by Georges PerecFiction1996
The Narrative Corpse: A Chain-Story by 69 Artists by Art SpiegelmanGraphic Novel1996
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag by Henry RollinsMusic1996
In Defense of Mumia by S. E. AndersonPoetry1996
Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty by Leonard WeinglassPolitics1996
Breathless: Erotica by Kitty TsuiSex1996
Saving Graces by David RobinsonSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1996
Pirate Utopias by Peter Lamborn WilsonSpecial Recognition/Wildcard Categories1996
Guide To Getting It On by Paul Joannides

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