Judson Mitcham's poetry has appeared in journals such as Chattahoochee Review, Harper's, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Antioch Review, New England Review and Southern Review. In 2007, Perkolator Press published Heart of All Greatness, a limited edition letterpress print featuring Mitcham's poems. The New York Times described his second novel, Sabbath Creek, as a “sober and lovely novel” that is “generous in humor but anchored in grief and interspersed with forebodings of tragedy.” A reviewer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that "Mitcham has an affinity for people on the fringes of life and an ability to look at their lives and see the threads common to all of us." He is the only author to win the Townsend Prize for Fiction