NEW 2018 ANTHOLOGY
America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states, high schools and nursing homes, big cities and small towns—with the voices of poets from other countries and other times. From Virgil and Dante…Read More
2018 Publications Available
We’re proud to announce our 2018 publications, Lynne Knight’s The Language of Forgetting and Beth Spencer’s The Cloud Museum. Early in the fall of 2018, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience.
Rosa Lane wins 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize
Rosa Lane, whose first collection Tiller North was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2015, has won the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Chouteau’s Chalk, was selected by judge Magdalena Zurawski and will be published by University of Georgia Press in February 2019.
Submission Period Opens
We invite authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2018, and February 1, 2019. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. It is possible no manuscript will be chosen in any given year. The winner/s will be announced on the press’s website in early…Read More
This Sweet Haphazard reviewed in New Pages
Gillian Wegener’s collection, This Sweet Haphazard, published in April of this year, was reviewed in New Pages by Daniel Klawitter. For more information about This Sweet Haphazard, please see Wegener’s author page.
Sixteen Rivers Press Announces Our Newest Authors
Sixteen Rivers Press is delighted to welcome new author-members Camille Norton and Maya Khosla, whose poetry collections will be published in 2019, along with Rain, Like a Thief, a second collection by press member Barbara Swift Brauer. Norton’s manuscript—A Folio for the Dark—and Khosla’s—Unknown World on Fire—were chosen in our 2016–17 open-submission call for full-length manuscripts…Read More