The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Christopher Hewitt is the winner of the twenty-fourth New Criterion Poetry Prize. Mr. Hewitt will receive $3,000, and his collection The Summer After will be published by Criterion Books in the winter of 2025.
Established in 2000, the New Criterion Poetry Prize is awarded each year to a book-length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. This year’s judges were Editor & Publisher Roger Kimball, Poetry Editor Adam Kirsch, and the poet Jacqueline Osherow. Previous winners of the prize can be found for sale here.
Christopher Hewitt was raised in Dallas, Texas, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Houston. His poems have appeared in Able Muse, The Adroit Journal, Ecotone, The Southampton Review, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. The Summer After is his first book.
The submission window for the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize will open in the winter of 2025.