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Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Northern California poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay.
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News and Events
October fundraiser features Matthew Zapruder & Prageeta Sharma
Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3 pm PDTOur annual fundraiser will feature Matthew Zapruder and Prageeta Sharma reading their work to celebrate our 21 years of publishing fine books of poetry by Northern California poets. We hope you will join us and consider a donation in...
Erin Rodoni’s third collection wins award
Erin Rodoni, whose first collection Body, in Good Light was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2017, has recently won the 2020 Southern Indiana Review Michael Waters Poetry Prize for her third manuscript. And if the Woods Carry You is forthcoming in fall 2021....
The Distant Sound featured
Eliot Schain’s 2020 collection, The Distant Sound, is featured at Katherine Hastings’s Word Temple blog (May 26, 2020).
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