The James Dickey Prize for Poetry

We are pleased to announce that Sean Sutherland has been awarded the Five Points 2025–2026 James Dickey Prize for Poetry. His work will be published in Vol. 24, no. 2, and he will receive $1000.

Sean Sutherland has had poems published in the literary magazines: Atlanta Review, The Florida Review, The Sandhills Literary magazine, Hypertext, The Sky Island Journal, among other journals, along with the 30th anniversary anthology; The Writers Studio at 30, and The Maine Review, for which he won honorable mention for their poetry prize in 2015. He was nominated for a Pushcart by the literary magazine Sleet in 2019. He was also nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by its panel of guest editors. Two of his poems were selected for an anthology titled, Poetry for the Actor- A Guide to Deeper Truth. Sean is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and would like to find more time for camping in a tent!