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Welcome
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
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...
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,...
Sixteen Rivers Presents reading on Sep. 26 featuring Kim Shuck and Denise Low
Please join us for a special reading on Sunday, September 26th, 3 PM, in the Sacred Hoop Garden of the Northbrae Community Church. In the shadow of the current crises of our society, we seek surcease from the transmitted wisdom of the people who lived on this...
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