Annual Call for Submissions for Book-Length Poetry Manuscripts
Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2024 and February 1, 2025. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s will be announced on the press’s website during Summer 2024. Selected manuscripts will be scheduled for publication in Spring 2026.
Sixteen Rivers values diversity. We encourage poets of color, young poets, and LGBTQ poets to submit.
Online Submissions: Send an e-mail to sixteenriverssubmissions@gmail.com with your name, address, phone number, and the name of your manuscript. Attach a PDF of your manuscript to the e-mail (name the PDF with the title of your manuscript). In the body of the e-mail, please include a personal statement (350 to 500 words) about why you want to work in a publishing collective, including any special experience or skills you might contribute, and tell us where you heard about our press and our call for submissions. The manuscript must be e-mailed no later than February 1, 2025.
Please note: We do not accept hard-copy manuscripts sent by US mail. Please do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript, as it is important that your manuscript be a blind submission. The manuscript must be single-spaced and between 60 and 80 pages. Manuscripts must be previously unpublished, although individual poems may have been published online or in print. The manuscript should include a title page without the author’s name and address, a table of contents, and an acknowledgments page listing previous publications of the poems.
Sixteen Rivers Press abides by the Ethical Guidelines of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). We appreciate your interest and wish you all the best in your work.