Elixir Press

{{Short description|American literary press}}

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{{Infobox publisher

| name = Elixir Press

| founded = 2000

| country = United States

| headquarters = Denver, Colorado

| distribution = Small Press Distribution

| publications = Books

| website = [http://elixirpress.com elixirpress.com]

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Elixir Press is an American, independent, nonprofit literary press located in Denver, Colorado.{{cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/412003780|title=Nonprofit Explorer: Elixir Press|website=ProPublica|date=9 May 2013 |access-date=3 June 2017}} The press was founded by Dana Curtis in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2000 and relocated to Denver in 2004.{{cite web|url=https://winningwriters.com/the-best-free-literary-contests/interviews/dana-curtis-editor-in-chief-of-elixir-press|title=Dana Curtis, Editor-in-Chief of Elixir Press|website=Winning Writers|last1=Reiter|first1=Jendi|accessdate=3 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://elixirpress.com/about/|title=About|website=Elixir Press|accessdate=3 June 2017}}

Authors published by Elixir Press include Diann Blakely, Bruce Bond, Amina Gautier, Erin Hoover, Sarah Kennedy, Kathryn Nuernberger, Jane Satterfield, Seth Brady Tucker, Anthony Varallo, and Jake Adam York. Elixir Press titles have been reviewed in venues including Publishers Weekly{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-932418-58-3|title=The Prayer Book of the Anxious|website=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=3 June 2017}}{{cite web|title=Flammable Matter|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-932418-59-0|website=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=4 June 2017}} and the New York Times Book Review.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/books/review/short-stories.html?_r=1|title=Short Stories|last1=Ruiz-Camacho|first1=Antonio|work=The New York Times |date=April 2016 |accessdate=3 June 2017}} Diann Blakely's book, Cities of Flesh and the Dead, won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Books published by Elixir Press have won awards from the Chicago Public Library{{cite web|url=https://www.chipublib.org/carl-sandburg-literary-awards/|title=Carl Sandburg Literary Awards|website=Chicago Public Library|accessdate=3 June 2017}} and The Independent Publisher Book Awards,{{cite web|url=http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1298|title=Announcing 2009 IPPY Awards National and Regional Results|website=Independent Publisher|accessdate=3 June 2017}} as well as being nominated as a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards in Poetry.{{cite web|title=Join Us at the Colorado Book Awards|url=http://www.coloradohumanities.org/content/join-us-colorado-book-awards|website=Colorado Humanities|accessdate=4 June 2017|archive-date=23 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123094104/http://www.coloradohumanities.org/content/join-us-colorado-book-awards|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://www.denverpost.com/2014/04/12/2014-colorado-book-awards-finalists-named/|title=2014 Colorado Book Awards Finalists Named|work=Denver Post|last1=Brown|first1=Suzanne|accessdate=3 June 2017}}

Elixir Press holds three national book contests open to authors writing in English. Each prize offers a cash award and publication of the winning manuscript. Each year the Elixir Poetry Book Awards features a Judge's Prize and an Editors' Prize competition open to all poets.{{cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/poetry_awards|title=Elixir Press Poetry Awards|website=Poets & Writers|accessdate=3 June 2017}} Begun in 2006, the Elixir Press Fiction Award is presented to the writer of a novel or short story collection every two years.{{cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/fiction_award_0|title=Elixir Press Fiction Award|website=Poets & Writers|accessdate=3 June 2017}} The Antivenom Prize has been awarded annually for first or second books of poetry since 2009.{{cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/antivenom_poetry_award|title=Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award|website=Poets & Writers|accessdate=3 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://elixirpress.com/contest-winners/|title=Winners|website=Elixir Press|accessdate=3 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620142057/http://elixirpress.com/contest-winners|archive-date=20 June 2017|url-status=dead}}