We are very pleased to introduce our two newest members, Janet Jennings and Gregory Mahrer. Janet Jennings writes: “I grew up in a Midwestern chocolate-making family. In my teens, I worked summers...

With great sadness, we announce that Jacqueline Kudler, a founding member of Sixteen Rivers Press, has died at age 89 from complications of ALS. She was a wonderful poet; an ardent and active...

Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2024, and February 1, 2025. We look forward to reading your work.

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to have nominated two poems published by us in 2021 for Pushcart Prize: Stella Beratlis’s “Prayer for You on the Way to Wherever You’re Going,” from her book, Dust...

Congratulations to Camille Norton, whose 2019 publication A Folio for the Dark, was a nominee for the Northern California Book Award. The Northern California Book Awards are presented and sponsored...

The translation project Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume One, by Ulalume Gonzalez de Leon, is featured in today's...

Three of the prose poems that will appear in Dane's forthcoming collection, The World Is God’s Language, appear in the Spring 2020 issue of Monterey Poetry Review. Dane's full-length collection will...

Sixteen Rivers Press nominated six poems for the 2020 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XIX: From A Folio for the Dark by Camille Norton: “Quaker Light” and “The Black Dog.” From All the...

Like most independent poetry presses, we can't publish without your support. Because you believe in the power of words, please consider contributing to Sixteen Rivers Press. Projects include three...

In March 2019, an article about Maya Khosla, poet laureate of Sonoma, appeared in the Press Democrat.

We're proud to announce our 2019 publications, Barbara Swift Brauer’s Rain, Like a Thief, Maya Khosla’s All the Fires of Wind and Light and Camille Norton's, A Folio for the Dark.

Sixteen Rivers Press poet Lynne Knight, author of The Language of Forgetting, has a new chapbook. The Argument Against Eternity appears in MUDLARK (Never in and never out of print).    ...

Beverly Burch, whose collection How a Mirage Works was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2014, has won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Latter Days of Eve, will be published by BkMk Press...

America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states,...

Early this fall, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience. Born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, this...

We're proud to announce our 2018 publications, Lynne Knight's The Language of Forgetting and Beth Spencer's The Cloud Museum.  Early in the fall of 2018, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second...

Rosa Lane, whose first collection Tiller North was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2015, has won the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Chouteau’s Chalk, was selected by judge Magdalena...

We invite authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2018, and February 1, 2019. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for...

Gillian Wegener's collection, This Sweet Haphazard, published in April of this year, was reviewed in New Pages by Daniel Klawitter. For more information about This Sweet Haphazard, please...

Sixteen Rivers Press is delighted to welcome new author-members Camille Norton and Maya Khosla, whose poetry collections will be published in 2019, along with Rain, Like a Thief, a second collection...

Tiller North by Rosa Lane was selected as the winner of the poetry category in the 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Congratulations, Rosa! A list of winners and finalists can be found...

Sixteen Rivers is delighted to welcome Beth Spencer, whose poetry collection will be published in 2018. Beth brings with her years of editorial and design expertise, having run Bear Star Press since...

Alkali Sink by Stella Beratlis has been nominated for a Northern California Book Award for Poetry  published in 2015. Dan Bellm, whose book Practice was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2009 is a...

Sixteen Rivers is proud to nominate poems from our 2015 publications for the Pushcart Prize. From Stella Beratlis's ALKALI SINK, "Koda Farms, South Dos Palos" and "Patterson Pass." From Lisa Erin...

Nina Lindsay, author of Today's Special Dish (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2007) and the forthcoming Because, has recent work in two journals online: The Cortland Review and Serving House Journal.