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Call for Submissions Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2023 and February 1, 2024. We look forward to reading your work.
Annual Call for Submissions: November 1, 2023 – February 1, 2024
Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2023 and February 1, 2024. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s will be announced on the press’s website during Summer 2024. Selected manuscripts will be scheduled for publication in…Read More
Youth Poetry Contest Winners
Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our first Youth Poetry Contest. This nationally advertised contest for teen poets opened with a call for submissions on August 4, 2021. The contest was limited to 100 entrants. Ninety-seven teens, from 15 states and the District of Columbia, entered. Thanks to an…Read More
Sixteen Rivers Press Pushcart Nominations
Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to have nominated two poems published by us in 2021 forPushcart Prize: Stella Beratlis’s “Prayer for You on the Way to Wherever You’re Going,” from her book, DustBowl VenusDane Cervine’s “In My Dreams,” from his book, The World is God’s Language. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published…Read More
New press members Matthew Monte & Joseph Zaccardi
Sixteen Rivers Press is happy to introduce our new members, whose books will appear in 2023: Matthew Monte and Joseph Zaccardi. Matthew M. Monte grew up near San Francisco, California and went to the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he studied botany. His fiction, poetry, book reviews, music reviews, journalism, and essays have appeared in Sidestream, Creosote Journal, Transfer, Ashcan Magazine, The…Read More
The Distant Sound featured
Eliot Schain’s 2020 collection, The Distant Sound, is featured at Katherine Hastings’s Word Temple blog (May 26, 2020).