2025 Call for Submissions for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Collective invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2025 and February 1, 2026. Sixteen Rivers values diversity. We encourage poets of color, young poets, and LGBTQ poets to submit. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s…Read More
Welcoming our newest members: Janet Jennings and Greg Mahrer
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 at the factory, amid the smell of roasting cocoa beans, where I packed twenty-five-pound boxes of chocolate drops and learned to drive a…Read More
Welcoming Our Newest Member, Lenore Myers
Lenore Myers’s poems and essays can be found in The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Indiana Review, LIT, and One, among other literary journals. Her chapbook, Regards to Balthus, was published in 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press. She teaches English as a Second Language at the Napa Adult School and is a faculty writing tutor and ESL…Read More
Announcement: Jacqueline Kudler
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 supporter of the press from its founding up to the time of her death; and a dear, long-time friend and poetry companion…Read More
Publish with Sixteen Rivers Press
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.
Welcome to Our New Press Members
Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong has creations in video, dance, spoken word, live music and software. ravel, her first book, was a finalist for prizes by White Pine Press and New Rivers Press. Her second book, The Quenching (Finishing Line Press, 2022), furthers her multilingual, experimental aesthetic. The dance, music and poetry performance Liriope at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve was the culmination of Bonnie’s residency at Stanford University. …Read More