Sixteen Rivers East Bay Spring Book Launch: Poetry Flash Event on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 3pm
Mark your calendars! 2026 Sixteen Rivers authors Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, and Lenore Myers are coming your way soon: March 29, 2026 at 3 pm, at the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center in Berkeley.
Our Newest Author
Congratulations to Barbara Swift Brauer whose manuscript was selected as the winner of our 2011 Manuscript Competition. Her book will be published in spring of 2013 along with a new collection by...
In the Body of Our Lives by Jeanne Wagner – 2011
Jeanne Wagner’s poetry rides through a landscape both familiar in its humanity and astonishingly new. Her fluid syntax and inventive diction flood into hidden and unexpected fissures of experience...
The Stranger Dissolves by Christina Hutchins – 2011
Christina Hutchins’ The Stranger Dissolves is an exquisite debut volume. This superb collection is elegant, impassioned, and consistently wise in its reckonings. Few poets so carefully embody the...
Chapbook Contest Winner
Congratulations to Judy Halebsky, the winner of the Sixteen Rivers chapbook contest with her manuscript Space, Gap, Interval, Distance. Our judge, Forrest Hamer, made the final selection from a...
Accolades
Read the review by Alexa Mergen of The Place That Inhabits Us in Rattle's online blog (1/25/11). Jeanne Wagner has won the $1,000 Inkwell Award, sponsored by Manhattanville College and judged by...