Winner of The 2025 Beverly International Prize Announced

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 International Beverly Prize, a literary prize from BSPG names after the lawyer, feminist and long-time book collector, Beverly Swift.

Scott Hobbs Bourne, Good Morning Captain

Scott Hobbs Bourne is originally from North Carolina, the author of the novel, A Room With No Windows,  a book of short stories, several journals and a trilogy of poems. His poetry has been put to score by American composer Shinji Eshima, and premiered at the San Francisco Opera in April of 2016. His most recent work, An Act of Imagination, is an illustrated book of poems for children. Scott lives in Paris with his wife and two children. See a full documentary about his work here: http://vimeo.com/64647082.