Sixteen Rivers Welcomes Beth Spencer

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 1996, editing, designing and publishing books by poets from the Mountain and Pacific regions. Beth lived in the Bay Area for many years…Read More

Alkali Sink nominee for Northern California Book Award

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  nominee in Poetry in Translation for his translation of Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue by Jorge Esquinca (Unicorn Press). The awards ceremony will be held…Read More

Pushcart Nominations from the press and for press members

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 Robertson’s THE ORBIT OF KNOWN OBJECTS, “Engagement” and “The Mineral Kingdom.” And from Helen Wickes’s WORLD AS YOU LEFT IT, “North” and “Daedalus.” Meanwhile,…Read More

Nina Lindsay’s work appears in two journals

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.

Call for submissions

Our submission period opens November 1. Please see our Submit Work page for complete guidelines.