Week 20 Recap: Theophanies Revels in Glory
Theophanies crowned in luminous splendor
Weaving Qur’an and Bible imagery into a tapestry of faith and fracture, Theophanies rose above last week’s sacred and surreal covers in a radiant win.
Week 20 Winner: Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Congrats to Sarah Ghazal Ali and the Alice James Books team!
Week 21: Title Alone
No illustrations. No Photoshop. Not a pattern in sight. These titles stand alone.
- Young Santa by Joe Deany-Braun (Thiessen Press, Sept 15, 2025): A debut poetry collection that imagines the man before the myth. These verses evoke primordial landscapes of human development, where santa still means saint, and the magic is a warmth within a soul seeking more.
- Notes on Nothing: The Joy of Being Nobody by Anonymous (As Is Press, Oct 15, 2024): An anonymous account of “Nothing-as-Everything,” written from direct experience for seekers, skeptics, and everyone in between.
- But Did You Die? by Precious Okoyomon (Wonder, Aug 6, 2024): Okoyomon’s divinely inspired lyricism meets experimental writing and drawing in a formally inventive collection.
- trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer (Hesse Presse, Nov 30, 2019): A hallucinatory mix of ketamine spiral, critical theory, and confessional travelogue that meditates on gender, drugs, and the wish to exist.
Week 21 Lineup
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