Submission Deadline Extension!!!

Sixteen Rivers Press is excited to announce that the deadline for submissions for the 2013 manuscript competition has been extended! Manuscripts will now be accepted up to March 1, 2013 both online and through regular mail. All other submission guidelines still apply. Please see our complete guidelines at https://sixteenrivers.org/wordpress/submit-work/. We very much hope to read your work.

Happy New Year

Sixteen Rivers Press wishes you a very happy new year, and we hope to do our part to fill your year with poetry. In this edition of our newsletter, you’ll learn about upcoming book releases, readings, submission deadlines, and all things Sixteen Rivers, ending with a poem by Gerald Fleming from his 2005 book Swimmer…Read More

Our Annual Benefit

Sixteen Rivers Press will host its annual benefit reading the evening of November 17, 2012 at a beautiful home in San Rafael. The featured reader is esteemed poet Jane Hirshfield. If you would like an invitation, please contact us at info@sixteenrivers.org. Help support our independent poetry press, and join us for what we know will…Read More

Summer Is Upon Us

Summer is upon us and great things are afoot at Sixteen Rivers Press! We have new books from our members, a new chapbook from our Poets Under Forty series, and our first translation project, all in the pipeline working their way toward you, our readers. We couldn’t be more excited. Read on to learn the…Read More

Sixteen Rivers Spring Newsletter

Spring is here and so are two new books from Sixteen Rivers Press. We are excited to share these new titles with you, and to let you know about upcoming readings and events. We hope to see you at one or more readings and to include you in the celebrations of our new books! Read…Read More

Upcoming Readings

Here is a list of our upcoming readings: Our two newest authors, Jacqueline Kudler (Easing Into Dark ) and Judy Halebsky (Space/Gap/Interval/Distance) will be reading in the following series of events in the Bay Area: April 1, 3 p.m., Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland. April 10, 6 p.m., The Barkin’ Dog Grill, 914…Read More

Announcing the 2012 Sixteen Rivers Press Chapbook Contest for Poets Under Forty

Sixteen Rivers Press is seeking submissions for a chapbook by a poet under forty years of age, to be published in Spring 2013. All styles and forms are welcome. The winner will receive $500 and 25 free copies of the chapbook. The winner will not be required to become a member of the collective, though…Read More

Our Upcoming Benefit

We are excited about our annual benefit, to be held this year on October 22. Our reader is the internationally acclaimed poet Eavan Boland, author of New Collected Poems (W.W. Norton & Co., 2009) and winner of a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry, among other honors. Boland, considered one of the most important contemporary Irish poets, is…Read More