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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
2019 Publications Available
We're proud to announce our 2019 publications, Barbara Swift Brauer’s Rain, Like a Thief, Maya Khosla’s All the Fires of Wind and Light and Camille Norton's, A Folio for the Dark.
New 2018 Chapbook by Lynne Knight
Sixteen Rivers Press poet Lynne Knight, author of The Language of Forgetting, has a new chapbook. The Argument Against Eternity appears in MUDLARK (Never in and never out of print).
Beverly Burch wins 2018 John Ciardi Poetry Prize
Beverly Burch, whose collection How a Mirage Works was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2014, has won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Latter Days of Eve, will be published by BkMk Press in 2019.
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