Celebrating our Best Sellers for 2021

Redshift, Blueshift by Jordan Silversmith (2021)/ Redshift, Blueshift (givalpress.com)

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award

A dystopian novel about a man's imprisonment, with echoes of Kafka and Orwell.

Haint: poems by Teri Ellen Cross Davis (2016) / Haint (givalpress.com)

Ohioana Book Award for Poetry 2017

"Haint is a book of life. Not a book of survival, though the poet survives, not a book of reckoning, though the poet comes to terms with many things. Haint is a book of choices, and witnessing. A book of learning the bodies territories, pleasures and sorrows. A book that constructs the irrepressible center of a soul, page by page, plank by plank. A book a reader will put down after reading and mutter yes to themselves, haunted."—Cornelius Eady

Theory and Praxis (2019) / Theory & Praxis (givalpress.com)

Edited by Genevieve Carminati and Heather Rellihan

The first book that focuses on women’s and gender studies at community colleges. It brings together voices from faculty, researchers, program administrators, and students to examine the promise and challenges that these programs have in higher education.

Tina Springs into Summer / Tina se lanza al verano / Tina Springs into Summer (2005) / Tina se lanza al verano (givalpress.com)

Writers Notes Magazine Book Notable Award for the Young Adult Literature Category

"This appealing book with its illustrations can serve as a wonderful learning tool for children in grades 3-6. Bevin clearly understands the thoughts, feelings, and typical behaviors of pre-teen youngsters from multi-cultural urban backgrounds."—Professor/Dr. Nancy Boyd Web

The Smoke Week: Sept. 11-21, 2001 (2003) / The Smoke Week: Sept. 11-21, 2001 (givalpress.com)

Honorable Mention 2004 Eric Hoffer Award for Culture. Winner of the Ohioana Library's Walter Rumsey Marvin Award.

A New Yorker's personal account of the events of the worse terrorist attack the USA has ever faced.

"Here is Witness. Here is Testimony."—Maxine Hong Kingston

COMMONground: A Collaboration with Poetry

Gival Press is pleased to support one of its author's upcoming presentation on Feb. 5, 2022 at 2 to 3 PM (ET) sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. COMMONground: A Collaboration with Poetry Ireland-Poetry Foundation and Poetry Ireland present Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Teri Ellen Cross Davis in conversation. Follow the link to register for free.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commonground-a-collaboration-with-poetry-ireland-tickets-216554980777

Leah Eichler of Toronto, Canada wins the 18th Annual Gival Press Short Story Award-2021

Arlington, VA—January 2022

Gival Press is pleased to announce that Leah Eichler of Toronto, Canada has won the Gival Press Short Story Award-2021 for her story My Pompeii, chosen anonymously by the judge Vikram Ramakrishnan. The award includes a $1K cash prize and the story will be published on Gival Press’s website.

Praise for the Story

“My Pompeii is more than a story. It is a sophisticated excavation of history and memory, known and unknown. It’s a search for who we are–a difficult path to embark on, one that seems to build on itself. Yet, Eichler helps us navigate the path, culminating in a gestalt. The excavation burrows deep. It digs into our core, raising questions of family and self: How do our deep familial histories inform us? How will our brief personal histories guide us? What if we learn something about our past which conflicts with what we think about ourselves? Though Eichler does not directly answer these questions, she instead gives us an eloquent way to think about them: ‘Sometimes you don’t really know who you are, and when you figure it out, it can be hard to be anyone else.’ The work leaves it up to the reader to interpret the questions further. In this way, My Pompeii pushes us to dig deeper into our history. And to that end, the work thrives. An absolute joy to read.”

About the Author

Leah Eichler launched her writing career as a journalist working for the Jerusalem Report. Her success in the Middle East led to a fifteen-year career in journalism, in which she interviewed the famous and infamous alike, including Salman Rushdie, Henry Morgentaler and the Nazi-hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. Eichler spent seven years as a weekly, national business columnist for the Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto with her partner, Isac, and two children, Lilith and Azriel. Her fiction can be found in The Jewish Literary Journal. She recently completed her first novel, The Never Ending.

Here's the link to the winning story by Leah Eichler, posted at ArLiJo.com:

ArLiJo Issue 156

Finalists

Runner up:

Día de los Muertos by Andrea Hansell

of Rockville, Maryland

Milk Tea with Pearls by Emmeline Chang

of Brooklyn, New York

Licking the Sacred Toad by Seth Schindler

of Tucson, Arizona

Civilization by Mark Connelly

of Milwaukee, Wisconsin