Backwaters Press

The Backwaters Press is a small press based in Omaha, Nebraska that publishes poetry. Many of the authors published by the press are also based in Nebraska. The Backwaters Press has in the past offered the Backwaters Prize, the Weldon Kees Award, and the Omaha Prize, but discontinued the prizes in 2005. In 2012, The Backwaters Press revived the Backwaters Prize for an original book length manuscript. The press has been awarded fourteen Nebraska Book Awards since 2000 for anthologies, design and poetry. The editor of the Backwaters Press is Greg Kosmicki. In 2011, Kosmicki and the press were awarded the Jane Geske Award "exceptional, long-term contribution" to books in Nebraska.