Early this fall, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience. Born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, this...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tiller North by Rosa Lane was selected as the winner of the poetry category in the 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Congratulations, Rosa! A list of winners and finalists can be found...

Sixteen Rivers is delighted to welcome Beth Spencer, whose poetry collection will be published in 2018. Beth brings with her years of editorial and design expertise, having run Bear Star Press since...

Alkali Sink by Stella Beratlis has been nominated for a Northern California Book Award for Poetry  published in 2015. Dan Bellm, whose book Practice was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2009 is a...

Sixteen Rivers is proud to nominate poems from our 2015 publications for the Pushcart Prize. From Stella Beratlis's ALKALI SINK, "Koda Farms, South Dos Palos" and "Patterson Pass." From Lisa Erin...

Nina Lindsay, author of Today's Special Dish (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2007) and the forthcoming Because, has recent work in two journals online: The Cortland Review and Serving House Journal.

Our submission period opens November 1. Please see our Submit Work page for complete guidelines.

Congratulations to Gillian Wegener, whose poem "The Old Mill Cafe" won the Zocalo Public Square 2015 Poetry Prize for a poem of place.

In June of 2015, an article about Gillian Wegener, poet laureate of Modesto, appeared in the Modesto Bee.

Congratulations to Gillian Wegener, who won the 1st annual poetry prize awarded by Wherewithal, for her poem "A Boy Comes Toward You."  

Jeanne Wagner, author of In The Body of Our Lives, won the Arts and Letters, Rumi Prize in Poetry contest!

Erin Rodoni is a third generation Point Reyes native, but was born with a severe case of wanderlust and has found many temporary homes all over the world. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA...

Welcome to Point Reyes poet Erin Rodoni, whose manuscript Rotating Exhibit will be published by Sixteen Rivers in 2017. Rodoni's manuscript was chosen by the press from a field of very strong...

Michael Dennis' review of Alkali Sink was featured in Today's Book of Poetry.            

"In This Afterlife" was featured in Poetry Daily, on Friday April 17.

is published in the KYSO Flash Anthology. 

are published in issue 2 of KYSO: Flash

Rosa Lane won the 38th Annual New Millennium prize for poetry for her poem "Father."

Read Gerald Fleming's new work in Mudlark No. 5

Helen Wickes' poem, "Secret Lives of Trees," was featured in Sweet: A Literary Confection, Issue 7.2.

Beverly Burch read from How a Mirage Works, on the KUSP podcast.

Miriam Bird Greenberg, whose collection All night in the new country was the 2012 winner of the Sixteen Rivers Poets-Under-40-Chapbook contest, will be included in the Best New Poets...

Helen Wickes has three poems, "Harrow,"Still Life on the Road to Los Ojos," and "The Vagrant Spirit," published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Citron Review.

Carolyn Miller's essay Fruit Focaccia: Breakfast With Susan, an homage to Susan Sibbet (1942-2013), was featured on Poetry Flash.

A Thresher of Dust and Dreams: Miriam Bird Greenberg's All Night in the New Country was reviewed by Mindy Kronenberg, in Weave Magazine

Helen Wickes' poem "Strategies in Pink" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Read Nina Lindsay's poem, “The Two Worlds,” in Blue Fifth Review.

Sixteen Rivers Press has submitted the following Pushcart nominations: “Crucifixion, Kinetic,” and “Passencore,” from Gerald Fleming’s The Choreographer, and “Love Poem,” and “Arrival,” from Miriam...

Sixteen Rivers Press co-founder Carolyn Miller has an essay, "Always," in the November issue of The Sun. Her college memoir, "Arts and Science," published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Missouri...

The following interview in English with Ito Naga was conducted in English by e-mail in May 2013. Could you talk a little bit about how Je sais came into being? I had been looking for Georges Pérec’s...

The Huffington Post reviews Sixteen Rivers’ latest full-length book today, Lynne Knight’s translation of Ito Naga’s I Know (Je Sais).  “Aphoristic and Zen-koan-like, I Know is a collection of 469...

The members of Sixteen Rivers Press are deeply saddened by the recent death of our founding member, Susan Sibbet. Not only was Susan a talented poet, but she was a passionate advocate for poetry as...

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce the release of our two newest books: Barbara Swift Brauer’s At Ease in the Borrowed World and Gerald Fleming’s The Choreographer. We are proud of both...

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...