The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses announces the winners of the 2019 FIRECRACKER AWARDS, given for the best self- and independently published books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The LORD NOSE AWARD is given in recognition of a lifetime of superlative small press publishing.

This year’s LORD NOSE AWARD recipient is Tender Buttons Press, founded by poet Lee Ann Brown in 1989 with the aim of publishing the best in experimental women’s writing.

Here you will see Lee Ann's June 5, 2019 acceptance speech at Poets House in New York City.

Tender Buttons Press receives the 2015 Firecracker Award in Poetry Publishing for the 25th Anniversary Edition of Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets! Lee Ann Brown accepts the award from judge Stacy Szymaszek, accompanied by Tender Button's own Katy Bohinc & author Bernadette Mayer. Also at the podium are Bernadette's daughter Marie Warsh, who designed the cover of the original edition, Bernadette's daughter-in-law Alyssa Gorelick who designed the cover of the new edition, and granddaughter Zola Ray, "our inspiration".