2021
October 2021:
Honey in the Dark by Lee Colin Thomas is published and available to order!
September 2021:
Narrative Magazine names “In the Season of Facing Away” by Lee Colin Thomas among the finalists for their thirteenth annual poetry contest.
April 2021:
Honey in the Dark by Lee Colin Thomas is named the winner of the 2020 Brighthorse Prize for Poetry and will be published by Brighthorse Books.
2020
Honey in the Dark manuscript is a semi-finalist for the University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series.
2019
Narrative Magazine names “Cooking Pasta for My Parents” by Lee Colin Thomas among the finalists for their eleventh annual poetry contest.
2015
Narrative Magazine names “Guest of the Lacuna” by Lee Colin Thomas among the finalists for their seventh annual poetry contest.
The Next Strange Place manuscript by Lee Colin Thomas is named a finalist for the Trio Award (Trio House Press), the Jacar Press Book Contest, and the Unicorn Press First Book Award. The manuscript is also a semi-finalist for the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.