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

2022 Publications

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce our two publications for 2022, both of which happen to be bilingual collections: Ulalume González de León’s Plagios/Plagiarisms Vol. 2, translated by Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales; and Marjorie Agosín’s Beyond the Time of Words/Más allá del tiempo de las palabras, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman….Read More

NCBA in Poetry Translation goes to PLAGIOS/ PLAGIARISMS Vol. 1

Congratulations to Terry Ehret, Nancy J. Morales, and John Johnson, who won the NCBA this afternoon for Poetry in Translation for their work on PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL I by Ulalume González de Leόn. What an honor to be chosen among such a strong field of nominees. Watch the ceremony on YouTube.

2021 Books by Dane Cervine and Stella Beratlis

Sixteen Rivers is pleased to announce the April 2021 publication of two collections of poetry: The World Is God’s Language by Dane Cervine and Dust Bowl Venus by Stella Beratlis. Both titles are available for purchase in a bundle for $30 or separately at $16.00 each on our Order Books page. You can also become…Read More

Submission period now open through Feb. 1, 2021

We invite authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2020 and February 1, 2021.Selected manuscripts will be scheduled for publication in Spring 2023. Please read our Submission Guidelines for details.