📚 Word Raccoon Was Here: Publications

Poetry

Recognition

“Mutual Mass” — Pushcart Prize Nomination (2025), The Dewdrop
Intellectual Domme Energy — Semi-finalist, Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest (Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College)
Look, I Built a Cathedral — Longlisted, 2025 C&R Press Awards
Waxing the Parasitical Muse (manuscript) — Longlisted, Idaho Prize for Poetry (2025), Lost Horse Press

Publications

Drema Drudge’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals, anthologies, and literary spaces including:

The Word’s Faire
The Daily Drunk
The Rye Whiskey Review
Cathexis Northwest Press
Suspended Magazine
The Write Launch
The Macrame Journal
Wingless Dreamer
The Dewdrop
Enola’s Magazine
The Louisville Review
Red Door Magazine
Poetry Habitat
The Tulane Review
Faerie Archives
Infocalypse
Midsummer Dream House

Anthologies and special projects: Remembering Ezra Pound Anthology (Moonstone Arts Center)
Bards Against Hunger
University of Alabama: Al Dente: Our Roots
Fox Island County Park’s Winter Art & Poetry Walk (Allen County, Indiana)

Novels

Southern-Fried Woolf (2023)

Southern-Fried Woolf is now available.

Awards & Recognition

Finalist, Self-Publishing Review
Semi-finalist, The Best of Indie (12th Annual Kindle Book Awards), Literary Fiction
Silver Literary Titan Book Award
Runner-up, 2022 Page 100 Competition
Shortlisted, 2023 Somerset CIBAS Literary & Contemporary Fiction
Red Ribbon Winner, Wishing Shelf Book Awards

Victorine (2020)

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Victorine is a historical novel about the artist Victorine Meurent, often remembered only as Édouard Manet’s model.

Awards

First Place, Goethe Book Awards
Semi-finalist, Somerset Book Awards

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