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
Annual Call for Submissions: November 1, 2023 – February 1, 2024
Call for Submissions 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…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
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 for Pushcart Prize: Stella Beratlis’s “Prayer for You on the Way to Wherever You’re Going,” from her book, Dust Bowl Venus Dane Cervine’s “In My Dreams,” from his book, The World is God’s Language. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the…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