Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Black Lawrence Press Independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. ## Posts - [News](https://blacklawrencepress.com/news/) - [Consultation Program Alums](https://blacklawrencepress.com/consultation-program-alums/) - "List of published works by Black Lawrence Press consultation clients. - [Black Lawrence Press Events](https://blacklawrencepress.com/events/) - Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press events! How Musical is PoetryCraft WorkshopInstructor: Antonis BargillyDate: 8/11/2026Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM Eastern, VirtualFee: Free In this workshop, Antonis Bargilly explores musicality in poetry, from Homer’s epics to today’s poetry. From historically observing the way poetry was written and sung/recited, to references throughout the centuries - [We Have a Winner :: The 2026 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-the-2026-big-moose-prize/) - The final results of the 2026 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is Division of Birds by Jessica Roeder. We are thrilled to welcome Jessica to Black Lawrence Press! Excerpt Once upon a time—I thought as I walked—once upon a time in this country, a woman died in the forest. If - [The 2026 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2026-hudson-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who shared their manuscripts with us for the 2026 Hudson Prize. And today, we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Finalists On the Divide by Iver Arnegard 21st Century America Boys by Leland Cheuk Wherever Shore by Stephanie Choi The Glass Headstone by Colin - [Beware publishing phishing scams](https://blacklawrencepress.com/beware-publishing-phishing-scams/) - Dear Black Lawrence Community, We've become aware of several instances in which a writer was targeted by an AI-generated phishing scam impersonating one of our editors, so we wanted to take a moment to put out a little PSA about these scams, which have become unfortunately rampant over the past year. The email purported to - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: A Girl with the Sea in Her Eyes](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-immigrant-writing-series-selection-a-girl-with-the-sea-in-her-eyes/) - Maya Kanwal's manuscript Talking with Boys selected for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. Kanwal is the fifth author selected for this series. - [Anthology Proposals - June, 2026](https://blacklawrencepress.com/anthology-proposals/) - Black Lawrence Press welcomes proposals for bold and engaging anthologies that have the potential of contributing to our understanding of literature and the genres within it. Proposals by and/or about historically marginalized groups are especially encouraged. Please include bios for the anthology editor(s), an abstract and proposed outline, and sample selections. Manuscripts should be paginated - [2026 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2026-big-moose-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2024 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the finalists and semi-finalists. - [We Have Winners! 2025 St. Lawrence Book Award & Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-winners-2025-st-lawrence-book-award-fall-2025-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - It's a very exciting week for us at Black Lawrence Press, and we could not be happier to share our big news with you! We've selected the winners of both our 2025 St. Lawrence Book Award and our Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscripts are... 2025 St. Lawrence Book - [Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2025-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semifinalists/) - We're pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists for the Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 10 finalists and 12 semifinalists, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we deeply appreciate every one of you. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and thank you to - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: The Three Sapphic Movements](https://blacklawrencepress.com/iwsnao/) - Maya Kanwal's manuscript Talking with Boys selected for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. Kanwal is the fifth author selected for this series. - [2025 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2025-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2025 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Finalists Allah Forgive Us by Maryam A. Ghafoor – Poetry Drawing the World - [Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner : Emelie Griffin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2025-black-river-chapbook-competition-winner-emelie-griffin/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Emelie Griffin for winning the prize with her chapbook California Pompeii. Congratulations also to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Spring 2025 BRCC! Emelie - [Black Lawrence Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors: 2025 Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2025fellowship/) - In keeping with our commitment to being a clear and consistent home for immigrant writing, we have established The Black Lawrence Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors. We are pleased to announce the first recipient of our fellowship, Anastasios Mihalopoulos. 2025 Fellowship Recipient Anastasios Mihalopoulos is a Greek/Italian writer from Boardman, Ohio. He received his - [2025 Hudson Prize Winner : Greg Nicholl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2025hudsonwinner/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2025 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Greg Nicholl for winning the prize with his poetry collection Ghost in the Graveyard. Congratulations also to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2025 Hudson Prize! - [Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring2025brccfinalists/) - Today's the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 10 finalists and 11 semifinalists, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we deeply appreciate every one of you. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and thank you - [We Have a Winner :: The 2025 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2025bigmoosewinner/) - The final results of the 2025 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is Far Ocean by Emily Mitchell. Excerpt I thought that my father was going to murder me. You want to know how I became that impossible thing, a woman mariner? That is the truth. That is the briefest - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: The Apricot Tree](https://blacklawrencepress.com/iwskaldas/) - Maya Kanwal's manuscript Talking with Boys selected for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. Kanwal is the fifth author selected for this series. - [The 2025 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2025hudsonfinalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2025 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Finalists All Possible Exits and Other Stories by Patricia McCrystal The Deep End of Butchery by Alexandra Munck Ghost in the Graveyard by Greg Nicholl Keeping Track - [2025 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2025bigmoosefinalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2024 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the finalists and semi-finalists. - [Black Lawrence Press at AWP '25 in Los Angeles](https://blacklawrencepress.com/awp25/) - We look forward to seeing all of you who plan to attend AWP in Los Angeles! Here are all the ways you can connect with Black Lawrence Press authors and editors... Black Lawrence Press Events Queer Author Celebration & Reading Date: Wednesday, March 26 Time: 7-9 PM Location: The Redwood Bar, 316 W. - [Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Results are in!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2024-black-river-chapbook-competition-results-are-in/) - Thank you to our Fall 2024 judges for their hard work in selecting the Black River Chapbook Competition winners, which we are thrilled to share with you! The winning manuscripts are ... Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner -- Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture by Noelle Catharine Allen Noelle Catharine Allen has worked as a freelance - [2024 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner & Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/slba24winner/) - We received an especially strong crop of submissions for the 2024 St. Lawrence Book Award. In addition to choosing a winner, we have selected two finalists for publication. Congratulations to Jill Rosenberg who won the competition with the short story collection Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself ! And we extend a warm - [Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2024-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semifinalists/) - Today's the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 8 finalists and 8 semifinalists, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we deeply appreciate every one of you. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and thank you - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: Seagulls](https://blacklawrencepress.com/iwschayka/) - Maya Kanwal's manuscript Talking with Boys selected for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. Kanwal is the fifth author selected for this series. - [2024 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2024slba/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2024 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Finalists ground-glass by Joshua Aiken – poetry Homebake by Ann-Marie Blanchard – poetry Where Everything - [2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2024pushcart/) - We re delighted to nominate Carolyn Dekker, Michal 'MJ' Jones, Arthur Kayzakian, Shubha Sunder, Enzo Silon Surin, and Rebecca Turkewitz for the Pushcart Prize! - [Our First Act of Resistance](https://blacklawrencepress.com/our-first-act-of-resistance/) - We at Black Lawrence Press are devastated by the results of the 2024 presidential election and we are gravely concerned about what a second Trump administration means for our country as a whole and the arts community in particular. Our first act of resistance is to continue our work. We'd like to share news and - [We Have Winners! 2024 Hudson Prize & Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2024hudsonbrccwinners/) - It's a very exciting week for us at Black Lawrence Press, and we could not be happier to share our big news with you! We've selected the winners of both our 2024 Hudson Prize and our Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscripts are... 2024 Hudson Prize: The Earth Room by Dana - [Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2024-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semifinalists/) - Today's the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 10 finalists and 12 semifinalists, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we deeply appreciate every one of you. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and thank you - [2024 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2024-big-moose-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2024 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the finalists and semi-finalists. - [We Have a Winner :: The 2024 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2024bigmoosewinner/) - The final results of the 2024 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is Cyan Magenta Yellow Black by Kevin Fenton. Excerpt No one was having a good day. It was December in Minnesota in 1993 and we were all at a stage in our life where our therapist thought we might - [2023 Open Reading Period Selections](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2023-open-reading-period-selections/) - We are delighted to announce the manuscripts that we have accepted from our 2023 Open Reading Periods! We will publish these titles in 2025 and early 2026. - [The 2024 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2024-hudson-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2024 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Prose Finalists The Earth Room – Dana Diehl Amongst the Monsters – Emily Ellis Motorcycle Angel and other Stories – Ronald Hartley Jill Against the Unicorns – - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Eva-Lynn Jagoe](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alumjagoe/) - After participating in our Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Eva-Lynn Jagoe published her memoir Take Her, She's Yours with Punctum Books. - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: Talking with Boys by Maya Kanwal](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-immigrant-writing-series-selection-talking-with-boys-by-maya-kanwal/) - Maya Kanwal's manuscript Talking with Boys selected for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. Kanwal is the fifth author selected for this series. - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Jeanne-Marie Osterman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/manuscript-consultation-program-alum-jeanne-marie-osterman/) - After participating in our Manuscript Consultation Program, Jeanne-Marie Osterman published her poetry collection Who Killed Marta Ugarte? with Broadstone Books. In this interview we will discuss finding community with other writers, writing as an editor, and the kinds of research that go into poetry collections based on real events. Black Lawrence Press: Please give - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Samantha Cramer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/manuscript-consultation-program-alum-samantha-cramer/) - After participating in our Manuscript Consultation Program, Samantha Cramer went on to publish her debut poetry collection, In Situ, with Allegory Ridge Publishing. In this interview, we will discuss advice for publishing a first collection, the role that poetry fills when processing our pasts, working with new presses, and more. Black Lawrence Press: - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Mary Hickey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alumhickey/) - After participating in our Manuscript Consultation Program, Mary Hickey published her short story collection, Cautionary Tales with GammonGo Publishing. In this interview, we discuss writing for the sake of writing, an author's creative control when publishing, her next book, and more. Black Lawrence Press: Can you give our readers a brief description of your book, Cautionary - [We Have Winners! 2023 St. Lawrence Book Award & Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2023winnersslbabrcc/) - It's a very exciting week for us at Black Lawrence Press, and we could not be happier to share our big news with you! We've selected the winners of both our 2023 St. Lawrence Book Award and our Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscripts are... 2023 St. Lawrence Book Award: Python - [Black Lawrence Press at AWP '24 in Kansas City](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blpawp24kc/) - We look forward to seeing all of you who plan to attend AWP in Kansas City! Here are all the ways you can connect with Black Lawrence Press authors and editors... Black Lawrence Press Events Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series - Reading & Information Session Date: Thursday, February 8 Time: 6-9 PM Location: - [Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2023-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semifinalists/) - Today's the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 7 finalists and 10 semifinalists, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we deeply appreciate every one of you. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and thank you - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Rasma Haidri](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alumhaidri/) - In this interview, we discuss autobiographical poems, the decades Rasma Haidri she put into her book, the revision process, & her experience with her publisher. - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Beth SKMorris](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alummorris/) - Beth SKMorris was at work on a series of poems about 9/11 when she decided to participate in our Manuscript Consultation Program. - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Chris Hansen-Nelson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alumhansennelson/) - Chris Hansen-Nelson discusses his books, his journey to publication, and founding a press for his work. "...The discovery itself is the unchallenged prize. - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Nicole Tallman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alumtallman/) - After entrusting her debut manuscript to our consultation program, Nicole Tallman found homes for both individual poems and her full manuscript. - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: John Holgerson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alumholgerson/) - John Holgerson discusses how he prepped his poetry manuscript and ultimately found a publisher on the other side of the world. - [Manuscript Consultation Program Alum: Carla Damron](https://blacklawrencepress.com/alumdamron/) - Carla Damron discusses working with a manuscript consultant on her novel THE ORCHID TATTOO, which is now in print and has won numerous awards. - [2023 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2023slbafinalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2023 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Finalists Lake Effect by Hillary Behrman – prose Four Cities by Mihir Bellamkonda - [Welcome, Brandon Logans!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebrandonl/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Brandon Logans, - [2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2023pushcart/) - We re delighted to nominate Carolyn Dekker, Michal 'MJ' Jones, Arthur Kayzakian, Shubha Sunder, Enzo Silon Surin, and Rebecca Turkewitz for the Pushcart Prize! - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: Sidework by Sasha Hom](https://blacklawrencepress.com/iwshom/) - Sasha Hom's manuscript SIDEWORK selected for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. Hom is the fourth author selected for this series. - [Speak the Unspeakable: Writing Poetry as an Act of Mental Health Advocacy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/speaktheunspeakable/) - Jeanann Verlee discusses distigmatizing mental health through poetry, offers writing prompts and provides a list for further reading. - [Grab them by the Eyeballs: How to Get and Keep the Attention of Small Press Editors](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fivetips/) - It is a Thursday in September and I am just beginning my workday. I’ve got lots to do. Today I have to connect with our book distributor to make sure that copies will be available at an upcoming event, proof a manuscript before it goes to press, issue a reprint of a title that we’ve - [Spring 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition Results](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2023-black-river-chapbook-competition-results/) - The Spring 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition Results are here! We're thrilled to announce this spring's BRCC winner-- Horsemouth and Aquariumhead by Elizabeth Horner Turner Elizabeth Horner Turner’s debut poetry chapbook, The Tales of Flaxie Char, was published through dancing girl press in 2017. Her work has been published widely in journals such as Cutbank, - [Spring 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2023-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semifinalists/) - Today's the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Spring 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 8 finalists and 10 semifinalists, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we deeply appreciate every one of you. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and thank you - [2023 Hudson Prize Winner : Jeremy Griffin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2023hpwinnergriffin/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2023 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Jeremy Griffin for winning the prize with his short story collection Scream Queen. Congratulations also to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2023 Hudson Prize! - [We Have a Winner :: The 2023 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2023bigmoosewinner/) - The final results of the 2023 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is The Forest for the Trees by Leslie Li. Excerpt It had been a couple of weeks since Denise trained Bert to hew to a schedule of maximum toilet training in a minimum of time and space. Especially - [Welcome, Lyn Patterson!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomelynp/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Lyn Patterson, - [Welcome, Amber Allen-Peirson!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeclarity/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Amber Allen-Peirson, - [Welcome, Norm Mattox!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomenormm/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Norm Mattox, - [Welcome, Rebecca Meacham!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomerebeccam/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Rebecca Meacham, whose forthcoming book Feather Rousing will be published next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are looking - [Welcome, Emily Jon Tobias!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeemilyjt/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Emily Jon - [Welcome, Jessica Morey-Collins!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejessicamc/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Jessica Morey-Collins, whose forthcoming book We Were More Than Kindling will be published in October. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading - [Welcome back, David Rigsbee!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackdavid23/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you David Rigsbee, whose forthcoming book Watchman in the Knife Factory: New and Selected Poems will be published next summer. This will be David's fifth book with - [Welcome, Joshua Garcia!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejoshuag/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Joshua Garcia, whose forthcoming book Pentimento will be published next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are looking - [Welcome, Noelia Cerna!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomenoeliac/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Noelia Cerna, - [Welcome back, Simone Muench & Jackie K White!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebacksimonejackie/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Simone Muench and Jackie K White, whose forthcoming book The Under Hum will be published next spring. This will be Simone's fifth book with Black Lawrence - [The 2023 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hudson2023finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2023 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Finalists They're Not Lying When They Tell You You'll Dream of the Dead - Mary Ardery At Risk – Teresa Cader Next Door & Others – Patrick Cantrell - [Welcome, Bob Ostertag!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeostertag/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Bob Ostertag, - [Welcome, Alysse Kathleen McCanna!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomealyssekm/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Alysse Kathleen McCanna, whose forthcoming book Fishwife will be published next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [Welcome, Violeta Orozco!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomevioletao/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Violeta Orozco, - [Welcome, Tureeda Mikell!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcometureeda/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Tureeda Mikell, - [Welcome back, Lindsay Illich!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebacklindsayi/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Lindsay Illich, whose forthcoming book Earthwhere will be published next summer. This will be Lindsay's second book with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript you think - [Welcome, Elizabeth Stix!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeelizabeths/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Elizabeth Stix, whose forthcoming book Things I Want Back from You will be published next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open - [Welcome, Stephanie Sherman!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomestephanies/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. Some of them, like the one we're pleased to present today, came to us by way of Nomadic Press. Read more about our plans to welcome Nomadic Press titles to Black Lawrence Press here. Today we bring you Stephanie Sherman, - [Welcome, John Linstrom!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejohnlinstrom/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you John Linstrom, whose forthcoming book To Leave for Our Own Country will be published next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open - [Welcome back, Marcela Sulak!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackmarcelas/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Marcela Sulak, whose forthcoming book The Fault will be published next summer. This will be Marcela's fifth book with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript you - [Welcome back, Carol Guess!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackcarolg/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Carol Guess, whose forthcoming book Infodemic will be published next summer. This will be Carol's sixth book with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript you think - [Welcome, Erin Hoover!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeerinh/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Erin Hoover, whose poetry collection No Spare People is due out next fall. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [2023 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2023-big-moose-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2023 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the finalists and semi-finalists: Finalists The Bodies of Others—Laurie Blauner The Snows of Mount Ida—Margot Demopoulos Other People's Stories—William Hicks 1,000 Years of Peace—James Kaelan Tree of Heaven—Leslie Li There Should Be - [Nomadic Press + Black Lawrence](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nomadic-press-black-lawrence/) - We are very excited to announce that, starting in June, Black Lawrence Press will open its doors to over 100 Nomadic Press authors! From J.K. Fowler, Nomadic Press Founder As of June 1, we are extremely excited to announce that the vast majority of Nomadic Press titles will be migrating to a new publishing house—Black - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: Caulbearer by Luisa A. Igloria](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-immigrant-writing-series-selection-caulbearer-by-luisa-a-igloria/) - Upon careful review, the Editorial Board of the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series recommends Caulbearer: Poems by Luisa A. Igloria for publication through Black Lawrence Press. About the Author Originally from Baguio City, Luisa A. Igloria is the author of Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Co-Winner, 2019 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Prize, Southern Illinois University - [Inaugural Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection](https://blacklawrencepress.com/inaugural-black-lawrence-immigrant-writing-series-selection/) - Upon careful review, the Editorial Board of the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series recommends The Book of Redacted Paintings by Arthur Kayzakian for publication through Black Lawrence Press About the Author: Arthur Kayzakian is the winner of the 2021 Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series award for his collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, which was - [Immigrant Writing Series: Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/immigrant-writing-series-finalists/) - The Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series editors have been hard at work reviewing the submissions that have come in since November 2021 and have narrowed the candidates down to the following finalists. Our second Immigrant Writing Series selection will be chosen from the following titles: Adedayo Agarau - The Morning The Birds Died - - [2022 Pushcart Prize Nominees](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2022-pushcart-prize-nominees/) - We're thrilled to share our 2022 nominations for the Pushcart Prize! Adam McOmber's "For Witches" from Fantasy Kit David E. Yee's "Heaven for Your Full Lungs" from Mongolian Horse Kim Sousa's "Poem for my immigrant father who has now left and will not come back" from Always A Relic Never A Reliquary Gaia Rajan's "Ghost Town, Ohio" - [Fall 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2022-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semifinalists/) - Once again, we received an impressive number of compelling manuscripts and are thrilled to share the Fall 2022 finalists and semifinalists! All entries were read blind by an editorial team of BLP editors and judges and kept anonymous until today. Thank you to everyone who sent in work for consideration in the Fall 2022 BRCC, - [Fall 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Results](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2022-black-river-chapbook-competition-results/) - The Fall 2022 BRCC Results are in! We are pleased to announce that the winner is: Snake Lore by Jane Morton Jane Morton received their MFA from the University of Alabama, where they currently teach English and creative writing. Their poems are published or forthcoming in journals including Gulf Coast, West Branch, Boulevard, Ninth - [Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing](https://blacklawrencepress.com/immigrant-writers-on-immigrant-writing/) - Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing is a Black Lawrence Press prose-series initiative aimed at addressing the dearth of critical consideration on new immigrant writings, especially by immigrant authors. With this stated goal, Black Lawrence Press will begin publishing book-length essays on immigrant writings and the immigrant experience by contemporary immigrant authors. Manuscripts will be solicited - [AWP 2023: Black Lawrence Press Author Panels & Events](https://blacklawrencepress.com/awp2023/) - Thursday 12:10 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4 T175. Textploitation: Topical Issues in Fiction (Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Tomas Moniz, Miah Jeffra, Joseph Han, Keenan Norris) In an adrenaline-driven culture rife with fearmongering and trauma porn, how do we write conscientious fiction about local, national or global issues - [Immigrant Writing Series: Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/immigrant-writing-series-finalists-2/) - The Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series editors have been hard at work reviewing submissions and have narrowed the candidates down to the following finalists. Our third Immigrant Writing Series selection will be chosen from the following titles: Balikbayan Box by Francis Johann Verdote (Poetry) Beside the Sickle Moon by Thaer Husien (Fiction) The Translator’s - [2022 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2022-st-lawrence-book-award-winner/) - We are so pleased to announce that Charlie Peck has won the 2022 St. Lawrence Book Award with his poetry collection World's Largest Ball of Paint. Congratulations, Charlie! Charlie Peck grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and received his MFA from Purdue University. His poetry has appeared previously in Cincinnati Review, Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review, and - [2022 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2022-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2022 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Prose Finalists Love the Abyss by Gessy AlvarezBodies of Other Women by Allison - [Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection: Dressing the Saints by Aracelis González Asendorf](https://blacklawrencepress.com/iwsselectionasendorf/) - Upon careful review, the Editorial Board of the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series recommends DRESSING THE SAINTS (formerly titled "The Last Lock") by Aracelis González Asendorf for publication through Black Lawrence Press. About the Author: Aracelis González Asendorf was born in Cuba. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Brevity Magazine, Kweli Journal, Aster(ix) Journal, The - [2022 Hudson Prize Winner : JoeAnn Hart](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2022hudsonprizewinnerhart/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2022 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to JoeAnn Hart for winning the prize with her short story collection Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival. Congratulations also to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in - [Spring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2022-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semifinalists/) - Today's the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Spring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition! From more than 900 entries, we’ve narrowed it down to 13 collections, which was not easy! We received many compelling manuscripts, and we appreciate every one of you deeply. Thank you for trusting us with your work, and - [Spring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Results](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2022-black-river-chapbook-competition-results/) - The Spring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Results are here! We're thrilled to announce this spring's BRCC winner-- Ten More Things About Us: Stories by Nancy Welch Nancy Welch’s short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and elsewhere with citations in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, O. Henry, and Pushcart. Her debut collection, The - [The 2022 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2022hudsonfinalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2022 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Finalists Lake Effect - Hillary Behrman The Hanged Man: Stories - Katherine Conner The Last Knife Sharpener of Guardiaregia: Stories - Anthony D'Aries Methods of Apparition - - [We Have a Winner :: The 2022 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-the-2022-big-moose-prize/) - The final results of the 2022 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is… Down Here We Come Up by Sara Johnson Allen Down Here We Come Up exposes the connection, specifically in eastern North Carolina, between rural poverty, drug trafficking, and violence. Exploring the complexities of what happens to people caught in - [Welcome back, Adrian Van Young!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackadrian/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Adrian Van Young, whose short story collection Midnight Self will be published next fall. This will be Adrian's second book with Black Lawrence Press. Have a - [Welcome back, Jenny Irish!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackjenny2022/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Jenny Irish, whose forthcoming book Lupine will be published next spring. This will be Lisa's third book with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript you think - [Welcome back, Enzo Silon Surin!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackenzo/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Enzo Silon Surin, whose forthcoming book American Scapegoat will be published next spring. This will be Enzo's second book with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript - [Welcome back, Jason Tandon!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackjasont2022/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Jason Tandon, whose poetry collection This Far North will be published next March. This will be Jason's fourth book with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript - [Welcome, Michal ‘MJ’ Jones!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomemj/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Michal ‘MJ’ Jones, whose poetry collection HOOD VACATIONS is due out in early 2023. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we - [Welcome, Geoff Bouvier!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomegeoffbouvier/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Geoff Bouvier, whose epic poem Us From Nothing is due out in 2024. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [Welcome, Devin Murphy!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomedevinmurphy/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Devin Murphy, whose short story collection Unbend the River is due out in early 2024. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period - [Welcome, Rebecca Turkewitz!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomerebeccat/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Rebecca Turkewitz, whose short story collection Here in the Night is due out next summer. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period - [Welcome back, Lisa Dordal!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebacklisad22/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Lisa Dordal, whose forthcoming book Next Time You Come Home will be published next fall. This will be Lisa's third book with Black Lawrence Press. Have - [2021 Pushcart Prize Nominees](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021-pushcart-prize-nominees/) - We're thrilled to share our 2021 nominations for the Pushcart Prize! Isaac Pickell’s “imbrute” from EVERYTHING SAVED WILL BE LAST Danielle Rose’s “this is a trans poem about swans” from AT FIRST & THEN Ananda Lima’s “Inflight Entertainment while the Doomsday Seed Bank is Breached” from MOTHER/LAND Miah Jeffra’s “Babies” from THE VIOLENCE ALMANAC Gwendoyln - [Welcome, Carolyn Dekker!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomecarolyndekker/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Carolyn Dekker, whose memoir in essays North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac is due out next year. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading - [2022 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2022-big-moose-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2022 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the finalists and semi-finalists: Finalists The Witches of Detroit – Maureen Aitken Down Here We Come Up – Sara Allen Dust Country – Claire Fuqua Anderson Stray Dog, Watch Over – Susanne - [AWP 2022: Black Lawrence Press Author Panels & Events](https://blacklawrencepress.com/awp-2022-black-lawrence-press-author-panels-events/) - Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. 109AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level When Women Break Bad: Writing Unladylike Rage (Leigh Camacho Rourks, Rebecca Hazelwood, Sharon Harrigan, Nikki Dolson, Alison Pelegrin) There is such a profound cultural discomfort around women's anger, especially women's rage, that when it is depicted, it is generally either sublimated or fetishized. - [We Have a Winner :: The 2021 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021bigmoosewinner/) - The final results of the 2021 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is… News of the Air by Jill Stukenberg When two strange children show up alone, by canoe, Allie Krane, her husband Bud, and their daughter Cassie must reexamine the nature of their reality at the remote Northwoods resort for which - [The Fall 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition Results Are Here!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2021-black-river-chapbook-competition-results/) - We’re so excited to announce the results of the Fall 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscript is … In Life There Are Many Things by Lucy Wainger Lucy Wainger grew up in New York City. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry, DIAGRAM, The Margins, POETRY, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. She - [Fall 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists and Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2021-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - Today's the day: the short list for the Fall 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition is here! From nearly 700 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 13 semi-finalists and 9 finalists. (As always, this was definitely not easy! We read and agonized over many more than these 22 entries. There are excellent manuscripts that aren’t reflected - [2021 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021-st-lawrence-book-award-winner/) - We are so pleased to announce that Shubha Sunder has won the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award with her short story collection BOOMTOWN GIRL. Congratulations, Shubha! We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award and send further congratulations to the finalists and semi-finalists. Shubha Sunder’s stories and essays have - [2021 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021slbafinalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Fiction Finalists Alien Talk - Julian Darragjati Rabbit Moon - Alicia Fuhrman Spatfall - [Virtual Reading Series](https://blacklawrencepress.com/summer-virtual-readings-workshops/) - Our virtual reading series continues with monthly author readings! We're hosting these events for free on Zoom and registration is required for attendance. Can't make it? Catch up on past events with captioned readings on our YouTube Channel. SEPTEMBER AUTHOR READING Tuesday, 9/28 @ 8PM ET: MIAH JEFFRA, JOE DORNICH, SIMONE MUENCH & JACKIE WHITE Register to - [The Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition Results Are Here!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-spring-2021-black-river-chapbook-competition-results/) - We’re so excited to announce the results of the Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscript is … Killing It by Gaia Rajan Gaia Rajan's work has been published in The Kenyon Review, Split Lip Magazine, diode, Muzzle Magazine, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of the WOC Speak Reading - [Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists and Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2021-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - Today's the day: the short list for the Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition is here! From nearly 1,000 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 12 semi-finalists and 9 finalists. (As always, this was definitely not easy! We read and agonized over many more than these 21 entries. There are excellent manuscripts that aren’t reflected - [An Interview with Mary Fifield & Kristin Thiel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/an-interview-with-mary-fifield-kristin-thiel/) - Mary Fifield & Kristin Thiel are the editors of the anthology Fire & Water, Stories from the Anthropocene. Fire & Water is an anthology about climate change. What is climate change, what are its causes, and why does it deserve our attention? We could give you lots of thoughts on climate change and its causes: - [2021 Hudson Prize Winner : Raena Shirali](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021hudsonprizewinner/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2020 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Raena Shirali for winning the prize with her poetry collection summonings. Congratulations also to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2021 Hudson Prize! Raena Shirali is - [Welcome, Adam McOmber!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeadammcomber/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Adam McOmber, whose short story collection Fantasy Kit is due out next summer. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [Welcome, Midwinter Constellation!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomemidwinter/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you the collaborative project Midwinter Constellation, due out in December. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are looking for poetry - [Welcome, Lisa Hiton!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomelisah/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Lisa Hiton, whose poetry chapbook The Clearing is due out next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [Welcome back, Miah Jeffra!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackmiah/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Miah Jeffra, whose novel American Gospel will be published in early 2023. American Gospel will be Miah's second title with Black Lawrence Press. His short story collection - [Welcome, David E. Yee!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomedavideyee/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you David E. Yee, whose short story collection Mongolian Horse is due out next summer. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we - [Welcome, Hilary Plum!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomehilaryplum/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Hilary Plum, whose poetry collection Excisions is due out in 2023. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are looking - [Welcome, R. Cathey Daniels!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomercatheydaniels/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you R. Cathey Daniels, whose novel Live Caught is due out next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [Welcome, José Angel Araguz!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejoseangelaraguz/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you José Angel Araguz, whose poetry collection we say Yes way before you is due out next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June - [Welcome, H.R. Webster!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomehrwebster/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you H.R. Webster, whose poetry collection What Follows is due out next summer. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [2021 Virtual Reading Series](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021-virtual-reading-series/) - We're back this spring, hosting virtual readings with Black Lawrence Press authors and Far Villages Anthology workshops. All events are free, hosted on Zoom, and require registration to attend. Can't make it? Catch up on past events with captioned readings on our YouTube Channel. JUNE MONTHLY AUTHOR READING Tuesday, 6/29 @ 8PM EDT: KEVIN PILKINGTON - [Welcome back, Lisa Dordal!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebacklisad/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Lisa Dordal, whose poetry collection Water Lessons will be published next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are looking - [Welcome back, Christopher Locke!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackclocke/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Christopher Locke, whose essay collection Without Saints will be published next fall. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are - [The 2021 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021hudsonfinalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2021 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Finalists Some is Skin, Some is Flesh by Brendan Egan Scream Queen by Jeremy Griffin Every Goddamn Day by Carrie Grinstead Things Every Woman Should Know About - [Welcome, Patricia Horvath!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomephorvath/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Patricia Horvath, whose short story collection But Now Am Found is due out next spring. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading - [Welcome, Kristina Marie Darling!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomekmdarling/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Kristina Marie Darling, whose poetry collection Daylight Has Already Come: Selected Poems 2014-2020 is due out next summer. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During - [Fire & Water](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fireandwater/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene edited by Mary Fifield & Kristin Thiel. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period - [Welcome, Deborah Thompson!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomedeborahthompson/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we've acquired over the past twelve months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Deborah Thompson, whose essay collection Animal Disorders will be published this fall. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our June Open Reading Period we are looking - [Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mamasmartyrsjezebels/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the books that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You've Been Told about Black Women. Drs. Jan Boulware, Rondrea Mathis, Clarissa West-White, and Kideste Yusef of Bethune-Cookman University will serve as - [Black Lawrence Press Virtual Readings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-press-virtual-reading-series/) - Join us for virtual readings from recently published authors, or catch up on past events with captioned readings at our YouTube Channel. PAST EVENTS Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier reads from her fiction chapbook Something Like the End, Winner of the Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition. Watch here. Marcela Sulak reads from her lyric memoir Mouth Full of Seeds. - [2021 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2021-big-moose-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2021 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists Socorro – Sara Alemán Blue Violet No. 87 – Gaylen Ducker Veiled Men – Ann Stewart McBee The Second Coming of Octavio Paz – Maceo Montoya Lost - [The Fall 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition Results Are In!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2020-black-river-chapbook-competition-winner/) - We’re so excited to announce the results for the Fall 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscript is … Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two novels. Her first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award and was a Stonewall Honor - [Fall 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists and Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2020-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - It's time–the short list for the Fall 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition is here! From over 900 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 11 semi-finalists and 13 finalists. (As always, this was definitely not easy! We read and agonized over many more than these 24 exciting, well-crafted entries. There are excellent manuscripts that aren’t reflected - [2020 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2020-st-lawrence-book-award-winner/) - We are so pleased to announce that Kim Sousa has won the 2020 St. Lawrence Book Award with her poetry collection ALWAYS A RELIC NEVER A RELIQUARY. Congratulations, Kim! We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the 2020 St. Lawrence Book Award and send further congratulations to the finalists and semi-finalists. Kim Sousa is - [2020 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2020-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2020 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Fiction FinalistsSome is Skin, Some is Flesh by Brendan EganAs If You Had a - [Welcome, JoAnna Novak!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-joannanovak/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in 2020. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you JoAnna Novak, author of the poetry collection New Life, which will be published next year. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our November Open Reading Period we are looking - [Welcome back, Mary Biddinger!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-mary-biddinger2020/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in 2020. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Mary Biddinger, author of the poetry collection Department of Elegy, which will be published in 2022. This will be Mary's seventh title with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript you - [The Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition Results Are In!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-spring-2020-black-river-chapbook-competition-results-are-in-2/) - We’re so excited to announce the results for the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscript is … Black Under by Ashanti Anderson Ashanti Anderson (she/her) is a Black Queer poet, screenwriter, and playwright. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY magazine, World Literature Today, Foothill Journal, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and - [2020 Hudson Prize Winner :: Ananda Lima](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2020-hudson-prize-winner-ananda-lima/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2020 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Ananda Lima for winning the prize with her poetry collection Mother/land. Congratulations also to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2020 Hudson Prize! Ananda Lima’s work - [Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists and Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2020-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - Today's the day! We have the short list for the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition! From a record-breaking number of entries (over 1,100!) we’ve narrowed things down to 16 semi-finalists and 10 finalists. (As always, this was definitely not easy! We read and agonized over many more than these 26 exciting, well-crafted entries. There - [The 2020 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2020hudsonfinalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2020 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Finalists Camp Stories: An Inheritance In Pieces by Christopher Berardino South by Southwest by Sallie Bingham As If You Had a Say by Jennifer Fliss If Everything - [Fall Virtual Events: Far Villages Anthology](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-virtual-events-far-villages-anthology/) - We’re celebrating the launch of Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets, edited by Abayomi Animashaun, with all-new virtual events. Starting September 1st, at 8PM EST, we hope you will join us for weekly readings, craft talks, and discussions with anthology contributors. Of the anthology, Judith Vollmer writes: "Far Villages is invaluable for beginners, to - [We Have a Winner :: The 2020 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-the-2020-big-moose-prize/) - The final results of the 2020 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is… The Stone Sister by Caroline Patterson Spanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, The Stone Sister is told from three points of view -- a father's, a nurse's, and a - [2020 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2020-big-moose-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2020 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown - Annie Dawid Crooked Out of Compton - Ron Dowell Keep On - Suzanne Greenberg Hungry Town - Jason Kapcala The Stone - [Black Lawrence Press at AWP 2020](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-press-at-awp-2020/) - We're very sorry that Black Lawrence Press won't in in San Antonio for AWP, but delighted to take part in this virtual book fair! We are having remote signings! Here's how it works: If you purchase copies of any of the following books on our website, we'll send you a signed copy! If you are - [The Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition Results Are In!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-fall-2019-black-river-chapbook-competition-results-are-in/) - We’re so excited to announce the results for the Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscript is … at first & then by Danielle Rose Danielle Rose is a poet whose work can be found in The Shallow Ends, FIVE:2:ONE, Sundog Lit, Pidgeonholes, Glass Poetry, and elsewhere. She studied with Carolyn Forché at - [Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists and Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2019-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - It's here, it's here! We have the short list for the Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition! From well over 600 entries we’ve narrowed things down to 17 semi-finalists and 10 finalists. (As always, this was definitely not easy! We read and agonized over many more than these 27 exciting, well-crafted entries. There are excellent - [Welcome back, Charlotte Pence!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-charlotte-pence/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Charlotte Pence, author of the poetry collection Code, which will be published in May of 2020. This will be Charlotte's third title with Black Lawrence Press. Have - [2019 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2019-st-lawrence-book-award-winner/) - We are so pleased to announce that Anna B. Sutton has won the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award with their poetry collection Savage Flower. Congratulations, Anna! We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award and send further congratulations to the finalists and semi-finalists. Anna B. Sutton was born and raised in - [Welcome back, Laura McCullough!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-laura-mccullough-2/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Laura McCullough, author of the poetry collection Dumb Beautiful Beast, which will be published in 2021. This will be Laura's third title with Black Lawrence Press. Have - [Welcome, Brian Simoneau!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-brian-simoneau/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Brian Simoneau, author of the poetry collection No Small Comfort, which will be published in 2021. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our November Open Reading - [Welcome, T.J. Sandella!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-t-j-sandella/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you T.J. Sandella, author of the poetry collection Ways to Beg, which will be published in 2021. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our November Open Reading - [Welcome, Miah Jeffra!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-miah-jeffra/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Miah Jeffra, author of the short story collection The Violence Almanac, which will be published in 2021. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our November Open - [Welcome, Ösel Jessica Plante!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-osel-jessica-plante/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Ösel Jessica Plante, author of the poetry collection Waveland, which will be published in 2021. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our November Open Reading Period we - [Welcome back, Rob Carney!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-rob-carney/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Rob Carney, author of the poetry collection Call and Response, which will be published in 2020. This will be Rob's second title with Black Lawrence Press. Have - [2019 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2019-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winning manuscript, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Poetry Finalists What Light - Evelynn BlackAbattoir - Angelo MaoCatalog the Girls - Victoria - [Welcome, Grant Faulkner!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-grant-faulkner/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Grant Faulkner, author of the short story collection All the Comfort Sin Can Provide, which will be published in 2020. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? - [Welcome, Carrie Bennett!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-carrie-bennett/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Carrie Bennett, author of the poetry collection Lost Letters and Other Animals, which will be published in 2020. Have a manuscript you think we’d like? During our November - [Welcome back, Kevin Pilkington!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-kevin-pilkington/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Kevin Pilkington, author of the poetry collection Playing Poker with Tennessee Williams, which will be published in 2020. This will be Kevin's third title with Black Lawrence - [Welcome back, Jacob Appel!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-jacob-appel/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Jacob Appel, author of the short story collection Winter Honeymoon, which will be published in the summer of 2020. This will be Jacob's sixth title with Black - [Welcome back, Marcela Sulak!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-marcela-sulak-2/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Marcela Sulak, author of the poetry collection City of Skypapers, which will be published in 2020. This will be Marcela's fourth title with Black Lawrence Press. Have - [Black Lawrence Press at the 2019 Brooklyn Book Festival](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-press-at-the-2019-brooklyn-book-festival/) - Black Lawrence Press is headed to the Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend! Come out Saturday, 9/21, for our off-site reading at St. Lydia's, 304 Bond Street, Brooklyn, from 7-10PM. Readings by: Beth Mayer, Denise Bergman, Thomas Cotsonas, Cynthia Manick, Jo Sarzotti, David Rigsbee, Jason Tandon Sunday, 9/22, we'll be at the Brooklyn Book Festival Book - [Contest results: Spring 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/contest-results-spring-2019-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We’re so excited to let you know that the results for the Spring 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition are in. And the winning manuscript is … The Sound of Her Voice (working title) by Veronica Montes Veronica Montes was born in San Francisco and raised in the Filipino American enclave of Daly City, California. Her short stories - [Spring 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2019-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - [2019 Hudson Prize Winner :: Gwendolyn Paradice](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2019-hudson-prize-winner-gwendolyn-paradice/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2019 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Gwendolyn Paradice for winning the prize with her short story collection More Enduring for Having Been Broken. Congratulations also go to this year’s finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in the - [The 2019 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2019-hudson-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2019 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Finalists On the Divide - Iver Arnegard The Paper Anniversary - Dinah Cox More Enduring for Having been Broken - Gwendolyn Edward Last of the Species - [We Have a Winner :: The 2019 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-the-2019-big-moose-prize/) - The final results of the 2019 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is… The Book of Lost Light by Ron Nyren Ron Nyren’s fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Mississippi Review, Fourteen Hills, Able Muse, Dalhousie Review, 100 Word Story, and elsewhere. His stories have - [National Poetry Month: On Immigration](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-on-immigration/) - Throughout April 2019, Abayomi Animashaun, BLP poet, and Angela Leroux-Lindsey, BLP senior editor, highlighted the work of immigrant poets. We wanted to both celebrate their poetry and push back against the angry and uninformed rhetoric that has for too long permeated our discourse. Abayo puts it thusly: "Many people in America, including some public officials, hold - [2019 Big Moose Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/13177-2/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2019 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists Other Deserts – Steve Adams Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown – Annie Dawid Radio Riviera & Olivier, The Second Dentist – Sharon Dilworth The Stars Lay - [AWP 2019: Black Lawrence Press Author Panels & Events](https://blacklawrencepress.com/awp-2019-black-lawrence-press-author-panels-events/) - Wednesday March 27 Time: 6:00 PM Location: Dig A Pony, 736 SE Grand Ave Event: Psychopomp Magazine Reading BLP Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu Time: 7:00 PM Location: Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont Street Event: Tupelo Quarterly & Fordham University Press: A Reading and Party BLP Authors: Mary Biddinger & Rebecca Hazelton Thursday, March 28 - [Contest results: Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/contest-results-fall-2018-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We’re so excited to let you know that the results for the Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition are in. And the winning manuscript is … 25 Trumbulls Road by Christopher Locke Christopher Locke’s writing has appeared in such magazines as The North American Review, The Rumpus, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Sun, Poetry East, Verse Daily, Southwest Review, - [Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2018-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - Black Lawrence is excited burst through this wintery cold snap with an exciting announcement: we have the short list for the Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition! From close to 600 entries we’ve narrowed things down to 15 semi-finalists and 8 finalists. (As always, this was definitely not easy! We read and agonized over many - [2018 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2018-st-lawrence-book-award-winner/) - We are so pleased to announce that Jody Chan has won the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award with their poetry collection sick love. Congratulations, Jody! We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award and send further congratulations to the finalists and semi-finalists. Jody Chan is a writer, - [The 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award : Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2018-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winner, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Fiction Finalists The Seventh Wonder of the Appalachians – Bonnie Roop Bowles I Love - [Welcome back, Denise Bergman!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-denise-bergman/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Denise Bergman, author of the poetry collection The Shape of the Keyhole, which will be published in late 2020. This will be Denise's second title with Black Lawrence Press. - [Welcome back, Abayomi Animashaun!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-abayomi-animashaun/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Abayomi Animashaun, author of the poetry collection Seahorses, which will be published in early 2020. This will be Abayomi's fifth title with Black Lawrence Press. Have a manuscript you - [Welcome back, Marcela Sulak!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-marcela-sulak/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Marcela Sulak, author of the lyric memoir Mouth Full of Seeds, which will be published in early 2020. This will be Marcela's third title with Black Lawrence Press. Have - [Welcome, W. Todd Kaneko!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-w-todd-kaneko/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you W. Todd Kaneko, author of the poetry collection This is How the Bone Sings, which will be published in the summer of 2020. Have a manuscript you think we'd - [Welcome, Lindsay Illich!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-lindsay-illich/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Lindsay Illich, author of the poetry collection Fingerspell, which will be published in late 2020. Have a manuscript you think we'd like? During our November Open Reading Period we - [Welcome, Kirun Kapur!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-kirun-kapur/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Kirun Kapur, author of the poetry collection Women in the Waiting Room, which will be published in late 2020. Have a manuscript you think we'd like? During our November - [Welcome, Becca Klaver!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-becca-klaver/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Becca Klaver, author of the poetry collection Ready for the World, which will be published in early 2020. Have a manuscript you think we'd like? During our November Open - [Welcome, Shanna Compton!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-shanna-compton/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Shanna Compton, author of the poetry collection Creature Sounds Fade, which will be published in the summer of 2020. Have a manuscript you think we'd like? During our November - [Welcome back, Kristy Bowen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-kristy-bowen-2/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Kristy Bowen, author of the poetry collection sex & violence, which will be published in the spring of 2020. This will be Kristy's third title with Black Lawrence Press. - [Welcome back, Ruth Baumann!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-ruth-baumann/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Ruth Baumann, author of the poetry collection Thornwork, which will be published in the summer of 2020. This will be Ruth's third title with Black Lawrence Press. Have a - [Welcome, Enzo Silon Surin!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-enzo-silon-surin/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Enzo Silon Surin, author of the poetry collection When My Body Was A Clinched Fist, which will be published in the summer of 2020. Have a manuscript you think - [Welcome, Beth Alvarado!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-beth-alvarado/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Beth Alvarado, author of the cycle of fabulist tales Jillian in the Borderlands, which will be published in the autumn of 2020. Have a manuscript you think we'd like? - [Welcome back, Lisa Fay Coutley!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-lisa-fay-coutley/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Lisa Fay Coutley, author of the poetry collection Tether, which will be published in the spring of 2020. This will be Lisa's second title with Black Lawrence Press. Have - [Welcome, Sarah Giragosian!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-sarah-giragosian/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired during 2018. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods. Today we bring you Sarah Giragosian, author of the poetry collection The Death Spiral, which will be published in the spring of 2020. Have a manuscript you think we'd like? During our November - [2018 Hudson Prize :: Winner Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2018-hudson-prize-winner-announced/) - We’re so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2018 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Alan Chazaro for winning the prize with his poetry manuscript Piñata Theory. This comes on the heels of Alan winning our Spring 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition, which was adjudicated by a completely - [Contest Results: Spring 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/contest-results-spring-2018-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We’re so excited to let you know that the results for the Spring 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition are in. And the winning manuscript is … This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album by Alan Chazaro Alan Chazaro is a high school teacher at the Oakland School for the Arts, the former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow - [Spring 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2018-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - With spring long gone and summer slipping away, we're excited to close out the season with an exciting announcement: we have the short list for the Spring 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition! From well over 700 entries (our largest chapbook competition to date!) we’ve narrowed things down to 19 semi-finalists and 8 finalists. (As always, this - [The 2018 Hudson Prize : Finalists and Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2018-hudson-prize-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2018 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Finalists Accepted Forms of Ruin by Jessica Barksdale Hold Off The Night by Teresa Burns Gunther The Machine We Trust & Other Stories by Tim Conrad - [We Have a Winner :: The 2018 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-the-2018-big-moose-prize/) - The final results of the 2018 Big Moose Prize are in! And the winning manuscript is... The Thirteenth Month by Colin Hamilton During his twenties, Colin Hamilton published poetry and essays in various journals, as well as a chapbook with the Kent State University Press. He then set that life aside for a while to - [2018 Big Moose Prize - Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2018-big-moose-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2018 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists The Sound of Rabbits - Janice Deal We Eat This Gold - Chris Drew The World Does Not Know - Mark Fabiano The Capable Dead and Their Sultry - [BLP @ AWP 2018](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-awp-2018/) - We're getting excited for AWP in Tampa! We've got lots going on, and there are many ways to connect with our editors and our authors: 1) Come see us at the book fair! We'll be at booth 1410. Interested in meeting our authors? Here's our book signing schedule: Thursday, March 8, 2018 11:00 – noon - [2017 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2017-st-lawrence-book-award-winner/) - We are so pleased to announce that Leigh Camacho Rourks has won the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award with her short story collection Moon Trees and Other Orphans. Congratulations, Leigh! We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award and send further congratulations to the finalists and semi-finalists. . - [We Have a Winner :: Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2017-black-river-chapbook-competition-winner/) - We’re so excited to let you know that the results for the Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition are in. And the winning manuscript is… Something Like the End by Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University and an undergraduate degree in English Education from Point Loma Nazarene University. Her stories and - [Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2017-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - With 2018 long rung-in and the first month of the new year already slipping away, we’re excited to break through the winter doldrums with an exciting announcement: we have the short list for the Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition! From nearly 700 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 15 semi-finalists and 10 finalists. (As always, this was definitely - [2017 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2017slbafinalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winner, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Fiction Finalists: On the Divide – Iver Arnegard The Beard of - [Welcome, Samantha Deal!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomesamanthad/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Samantha Deal, who was a finalist for the 2017 Hudson Prize. Samantha is the author of the poetry collection Something Opened, - [Welcome back, Jason Tandon!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackjasont/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Jason Tandon, author of the poetry collection The Actual World, which will be published in the summer of 2019. This will - [Welcome back, Terrell Jamal Terry!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackterrelljt/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Terrell Jamal Terry, author of the poetry collection Eyeless Light Seeing, which will be published in the fall of 2019. This - [Welcome back, Jenny Irish!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackjennyi/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Jenny Irish, author of the short story collection I am Faithful, which will be published in late 2019. This will be - [Welcome, Kristin Chang!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomekristinc/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Kristin Chang. Kristin is the author of the poetry chapbook Past Lives, Future Bodies, which will be published in the fall - [Welcome back, Mary Biddinger!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackmaryb6/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Mary Biddinger, author of the prose poetry collection Partial Genius, which will be published in the summer of 2019. This will - [Welcome, Jo Sarzotti!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejos/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Jo Sarzotti. Jo is the author of the poetry collection Waiting for Achilles, which was a finalist for this year's Hudson - [Welcome, Sunni Wilkinson!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomesunni/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Sunni Wilkinson, author of the poetry collection The Marriage of the Moon and the Field, which was a finalist for this - [Welcome back, Callista Buchen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackcallista/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Callista Buchen, author of the poetry collection Look Look Look, which will be published in late 2019. This will be Callista's - [Welcome back, Bryan Furuness!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackbryan/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Bryan Furuness, author of the novel Do Not Go On, which will be published in late 2019. This will be Bryan's - [Welcome back, Jen Michalski!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackjenm/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Jen Michalski, author of the novel, The Summer She Was Under Water, which will be published in December. This will be - [Welcome, Beth Mayer!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebeth/) - . This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Beth Mayer, author of the short story collection We Will Tell You Otherwise, which won our 2017 Hudson Prize and - [Welcome Back, Elizabeth J. Colen & Carol Guess!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackelizabethcarol/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Elizabeth J. Colen & Carol Guess, co-authors of the short story collection True Ash, due out next summer. This will be - [Welcome, Gayle Brandeis!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomegayle/) - This month we are celebrating the titles that we’ve acquired in the past six months. These manuscripts came to us through our open reading periods and our 2017 Hudson Prize. Today we bring you Gayle Brandeis, author of the poetry collection Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony), due - [The 2017 Hudson Prize : Finalists and Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2017-hudson-prize-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2017 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Finalists Heroes by Farah Ali On the Divide by Iver Arnegard Mathematics in an Age of Anxiety by Emily Franklin Stripped by Leah Griesmann Oceanography by - [We Have a Winner :: Spring 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-spring-2017-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We’re so excited to let you know that the results for the Spring 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition are in. And the winning manuscript is… Primitivity by Amy Sayre Baptista Amy Sayre Baptista’s writing has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017), Corium, SmokeLong Quarterly, Ninth Letter, The Butter, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. She was a - [Spring 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2017-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - As summer comes to a close (seriously, where did it go!?!?), we’re excited to ring in the changing seasons with an excellent list of manuscripts: the short list for the Spring 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition! From over 600 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 17 semi-finalists and 8 finalists. (As always, this was definitely - [We Have a Winner :: The 2017 Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-the-2017-big-moose-prize/) - We are thrilled to let you know that we've selected a winner for the 2017 Big Moose Prize! And the winning manuscript is... The Good Echo by Shena McAuliffe Shena McAuliffe has published stories and essays in Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA from Washington University - [Welcome, Nina Boutsikaris!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeninab/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Nina Boutsikaris, author of the creative nonfiction title I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych, which is due out in May of 2019. The Author Nina Boutsikaris' nonfiction - [Welcome, Jaclyn Dwyer!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejaclynd/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Jaclyn Dwyer, author of the poetry collection The Bride Aflame, which is due out in April of 2019. The Author Jaclyn Dwyer has published fiction and poetry in a number of - [Welcome, Denise Bergman!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomedeniseb/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Denise Bergman, author of the poetry collection Three Hands None, which is due out in March of 2019. The Author Denise Bergman’s A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea won - [Welcome back, Simone Muench & Dean Rader!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebacksimonedean/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Simone Muench and Dean Rader, who have been hard at work editing They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, due out in June of 2018. Simone Muench is the - [Welcome, Maureen Seaton!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomemaureens/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Maureen Seaton, author of the poetry collection Fisher, which is due out in September of 2018. The Author Maureen Seaton has authored nineteen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative— most - [Welcome back, Megan McNamer!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackmeganmcn/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Megan McNamer, who is returning to us with a second novel, Home Everywhere, due out in November of 2018. The Author Megan McNamer grew up in northern Montana and studied music - [Welcome, Sarah McKinstry-Brown!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomesarahmb/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Sarah McKinstry-Brown, author of the poetry collection This Bright Darkness, which is due out in January of 2019. The Author Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and two Nebraska - [Welcome, Ben Nickol!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebenn/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Ben Nickol, author of the short story collection Sun River, which is due out in May of 2019. The Author Ben's earlier books are Adherence (2016) and Where the Wind Can - [Welcome, LaTanya McQueen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomelatanya/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you LaTanya McQueen, author of the creative nonfiction volume And It Begins Like This, which is due out in October of 2018. The Author LaTanya McQueen’s writing has been published in The - [Welcome, Jeanann Verlee!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejeanann/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Jeanann Verlee, author of the poetry collection prey, which is due out in August of 2018. The Author Jeanann Verlee is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow and the author of - [Welcome back, Ruth Baumann!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackruth/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Ruth Baumann, author of the poetry collection Parse, which is due out in November of 2018. Parse will be Ruth's second title with Black Lawrence Press. The Author Ruth Baumann is a - [Welcome back, Abayomi Animashaun!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeabayo4/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Abayomi Animashaun, editor of the forthcoming anthology Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets. Submissions for this anthology just opened. Read on to learn more about the project and - [Welcome, Courtney Craggett!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomecourtney/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Courtney Craggett, whose debut fiction collection Tornado Season is due out in January of 2019. The Author Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in creative writing and multi-ethnic - [Welcome, Avery Moselle Guess!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeavery/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Avery Moselle Guess, whose first full-length collection (title TBD) is due out in April of 2019. The Author Avery Moselle Guess is a recipient of 2015 NEA Fellowship for Poetry, grants - [Welcome, Rob Carney!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-robc/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Rob Carney, author of the poetry collection The Book of Sharks, which is due out in July of 2018. The Author Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the - [Welcome, Laurie Filipelli!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-laurie-filipelli/) - During the month of June, we are celebrating the authors that came to us during our last open reading period. Today we bring you Laurie Filipelli, author of the poetry collection Girl Paper Stone, which is due out in June of 2018. The Author Laurie Filipelli is the author of Elseplace (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). - [2017 Big Moose Prize - Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2017bigmoosefinalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2017 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists A Debtor's Diary -- Lisa K. Buchanan Across the Wide --- -- Charles Nauman The Good Echo -- Shena McAuliffe Slow Burning Lions -- Mark Rogers Still Come - [2016 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2016-st-lawrence-book-award-winner/) - We are so pleased to announce that Vedran Husić has won the 2016 St. Lawrence Book Award with his short story collection Basements and Other Museums. Congratulations, Vedran! This year we also selected one of the finalists for publication, so a hearty welcome goes out to Matt McBride, author of the poetry collection Polis. Both - [We Have a Winner :: Fall 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-fall-2016-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We’re so excited to let you know that the results for the Fall 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition are in. And the winning manuscript is… Barataria (working title) by Nancy Reddy Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Best New Poets, - [2016 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2016-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2016 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winner, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Finalists Kilby Allen -- Mating Habits of the California Land Snail - [Fall 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2016-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - As January draws rapidly to a close (and let's be honest, we're not too terribly sad to see this month go), we’re excited about a bit of light in our darkness: the short list for the Fall 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition is here! From over 500 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 12 semi-finalists and 8 - [Welcome, Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-ines-rivera/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past six months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Ines Rivera, whose poetry collection Love Letter to an Afterlife will be published in May of 2018. The - [Welcome, Ruth Williams!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomeruthw/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past six months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Ruth Williams, whose poetry collection Flatlands will be published in April of 2018. The Author Ruth Williams is - [Welcome, Paula Carter!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomepaulac/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past six months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Paula Carter, whose flash memoir No Relation will be published in March of 2018. The Author Paula Carter’s essays have - [Welcome, Scott Shibuya Brown!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomescottb/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past six months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Scott Shibuya Brown, whose novel The Traders will be published in November of 2017. The Author Scott Shibuya - [Welcome, Sara Lefsyk!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomesaral/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past six months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Sara Lefsyk, whose poetry collection We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds will be published in May of 2018. - [Books, Not Bigotry](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books-not-bigotry/) - Dear Friends, We are broken-hearted, but not broken. Here is how we triage our sorrow: we organize. Here is how we channel our fury: we act. From now until the end of 2016, Black Lawrence Press will donate $1 to the American Civil Liberties Union for every book that is purchased through our site. You - [Welcome Back, Marc McKee!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackmarc/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past six months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Marc McKee. We've already published two of Marc's poetry collections, and we're thrilled to announce that we've now got - [Welcome Back, Carol Guess and Daniela Olszewska!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomecgdo/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past six months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Carol Guess and Daniela Olszewska whose collaborative poetry collection Human-Ghost Hybrid Project, will be published next March. This will - [We Have a Winner :: Spring 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-spring-2016-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We’re so excited to let you know that we've selected the winner of the Spring 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscript is… The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle Jacqueline Doyle lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is a professor at California State University, East Bay. Her flash, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared - [Spring 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2016-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - Drum roll, please! We’re excited to share the short list for the Spring 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition. From over 500 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 10 semi-finalists and 1o finalists. (As always, this was definitely not easy! We read and agonized over many more than 20 exciting, well-crafted entries. There are excellent manuscripts that aren’t reflected in - [The 2016 Hudson Prize :: Winner Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2016-hudson-prize-winner-announced/) - We're so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2016 Hudson Prize. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Caroline Cabrera for winning the prize with her poetry manuscript Saint X. Congratulations also go to this year's finalists and semi-finalists. Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2016 Hudson Prize! - [The 2016 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2016-hudson-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We'd like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2016 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Finalists In the Red Room by Maureen Aitken Jungles of America and Other Stories by Jessica Barksdale I’m Here: Alaska Stories by David Crouse Coyotes in - [Robley Wilson wins The Big Moose Prize!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2016bigmoosewinner/) - We are thrilled to announce that Robley Wilson has won the 2016 Big Moose Prize for his novel After Paradise. We congratulate the authors that made it to the finalist and semi-finalist rounds and thank everyone who participated this year. . . About the Author Robley Wilson is the author of three earlier novels: - [Welcome, Dean Rader! (And Welcome Back, Simone Muench!)](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomedeansimone/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Dean Rader and Simone Muench, whose collaborative poetry collection Suture, will be published during National Poetry Month next year. This will be - [Welcome, Meghan McClure & Michael Schmeltzer!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomemegmich/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Meghan McClure and Michael Schmeltzer, whose collaborative creative nonfiction work A Single Throat Opens will be published next summer. The Authors Meghan - [Welcome Back, David Rigsbee!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-davidr/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you David Rigsbee whose poetry collection This Much I Can Tell You will be his fourth publication with Black Lawrence Press. The - [Welcome, Lisa Dordal!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomelisad/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Lisa Dordal, whose poetry collection Mosaic of the Dark will be available in the winter of 2017/2018. The Author Lisa Dordal holds a - [Welcome, Kamden Hilliard!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomekam/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Kamden Hilliard, whose chapbook perceived distance from impact is due out next spring. The Author Kamden Hilliard is author of the chapbook - [Welcome Back, Erica Wright!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackerica/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Erica Wright whose poetry collection All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned will be her second with Black Lawrence Press. The Author Erica - [Welcome, Christine Gardiner!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomechristineg/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Christine Gardiner, whose debut poetry collection My Sister's Father is due out next fall. The Author Christine Gardiner holds a BA - [Welcome, Joe Oestreich!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomejoeo/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Joe Oestreich, whose essay collection Partisans is due out next May. The Author Joe Oestreich is the author of three books of - [Welcome Back, Valerie Bandura!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomebackvb/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Valerie Bandura whose poetry collection Human Interest will be her second with Black Lawrence Press. The Author Born in the former Soviet - [Welcome, Terrell Jamal Terry!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-terrell-jamal-terry/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Terrell Jamal Terry, whose debut collection Aroma Truce is due out from Black Lawrence Press next summer. The Author Terrell Jamal Terry - [Welcome Back, Jacob M. Appel!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-jacob-m-appel/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us since last summer—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Jacob M. Appel, who has two short story collections with Black Lawrence Press and a third due out this fall. We - [2016 Big Moose Prize - Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2016-big-moose-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2016 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists The Evolution of Love – Lucy Jane Bledsoe The Sleeping Indian – Paul Cohen Resurrection City: A Novel of Jonestown – Annie Dawid Reading J. Wisdome – Amalia - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Saunier](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-saunier/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Hayden Saunier, author of Tips for Domestic Travel. SELF-PORTRAIT WITH THE SMITHFIELD HAM I COOKED THAT WE HAD TO - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Michele Battiste](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-battiste/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Michele Battiste, author of Ink for an Odd Cartography and Uprising. Miksa Beckmann When the Arrow Cross came in 44, - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Claudia Cortese](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-cortese/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Claudia Cortese. Her collection Wasp Queen will be published in late 2016. Lucy Mad Lib She hates herself because ________ - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Bettina Judd](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-judd/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Bettina Judd, author of Patient, which won the 2013 Hudson Prize. Joice Heth Presents: The Showman as Dentist* . When - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Hala Alyan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-alyan/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Hala Alyan, author of Four Cities. Narcissus The clouds owl-eye the sky, gaped at by moon. Yes, I dreamt we - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Valerie Bandura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-bandura-2/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Valerie Bandura, author of Freak Show. Jews for Jesus I wish Jesus came to my sister on the electroshock table as - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Daniele Pantano](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-pantano/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Daniele Pantano, author of The Oldest Hands in the World. LAST VISIT & SUPPER PRIOR TO THE INVASION ONLY WE KNEW - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Kevin Pilkington](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-pilkington/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Kevin Pilkington, author of The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree and Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Charlotte Pence](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-pence/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Charlotte Pence, author of The Branches, The Axe, The Missing and Many Small Fires. Architecture of the Veil Islamic architecture - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Scott Alexander Jones](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-jones/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Scott Alexander Jones, author of elsewhere. Where we climb sequoias toward the stratosphere robotically pursued by turquoise reincarnations of Toulouse-Lautrec— Crocodiles - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Amelia Martens](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-martens/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Amelia Martens, author of Purgatory. The dog needs to go out, and it’s always your turn to take him. You can see - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Kristy Bowen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-bowen/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Kristy Bowen, author of girl show. Her new collection, salvage, will be published in May. {interior} See here this circle - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Renée Ashley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-ashley/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Renée Ashley, author of The View from the Body. THINGS AS THEY ARE WHEN THEY TAKE YOU It is the now - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Simone Muench & Dean Rader](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-muenchrader/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today we are featuring poets Simone Muench and Dean Rader whose collaborative collection of sonnets, Suture, will be published in the spring of 2017. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Marcela Sulak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-sulak/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Marcela Sulak, author of Immigrant and Decency. Ecclesiastes Katamon, Jerusalem It’s so nice to be pretty and wearing polka dots on - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Brandi George](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-george/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Brandi George, author of Gog. HERO . All words collapse. Calypso. Sun. A garden weaving. I invoke him: Cloud glove. Tree - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Michelle Reed](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-reed/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Michelle Reed. Her poetry collection I Don't Need to Make a Pretty Thing is due out from BLP in December. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Gillian Cummings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-cummings/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Gillian Cummings who won the 2015 Hudson Prize with her manuscript My Dim Aviary, which is due out from BLP in - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Meghan Privitello](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-privitello/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Meghan Privitello, who won the Spring 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition with her manuscript Notes on the End of the World, - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Cynthia Manick](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-manick/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Cynthia Manick, author of Blue Hallelujahs which is due out this summer. What I Know About Blues I know butterflies - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Jenny Drai](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-drai/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Jenny Drai, author of the chapbook The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow (2015) and the full-length collection Wine - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-mccullough/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Laura McCullough, author of Speech Acts, Rigger Death and Hoist Another, and Jersey Mercy. Moon Croon in Eatontown Mercy and - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lisa Fay Coutley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-coutley/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Lisa Fay Coutley, who won the Fall 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition for In The Carnival of Breathing. The - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lawrence Matsuda](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-matsuda/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Lawrence Matsuda, author of A Cold Wind From Idaho. The Noble Thing Dad never talked about Minidoka. That was the noble - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Helen Marie Casey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-casey/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Helen Marie Casey, who won the inaugural Black River Chapbook Competition with Inconsiderate Madness, a series of poems chronicling the life - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: B.C. Edwards](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-edwards/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is B.C. Edwards, author of From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes: Adapted Poems. No. 31. A cure - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Maggie Schwed](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-schwed/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Maggie Schwed, author of Driving to the Bees. Country Ways If she be not nimble, she that holdeth a bucket will - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Brenda Sieczkowski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-sieczkowski/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Brenda Sieczkowski, author of Like Oysters Observing the Sun. Sonnet Malhônnete . Je suis réellement d’outre-tombe, et pas de commissions. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/natpomo16-biddinger/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2016! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Today's featured poet is Mary Biddinger, author of Saint Monica, O Holy Insurgency, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, and Small Enterprise. HARD LABOR Some - [BLP at #AWP16](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-at-awp16/) - We're looking forward to seeing you at AWP! We've got lots going on in Los Angeles, so there are many ways to connect with us: 1) Come see us at the book fair! We'll be at booth 1526. While you're there, get a book signed by one of our fantastic authors. Here's the book signing - [AWP 2016: BLP Author Events](https://blacklawrencepress.com/awp-2016-blp-author-events/) - We hope to see you at AWP in Los Angeles! Black Lawrence Press will be at booth #1526, so please come see us! If you can, stop by during one of our many author signings, or come to our offsite event at the CB1 Gallery on Thursday the 31. Also, check out all the great - [We Have Winners! 2015 St. Lawrence Book Award & Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-winners-2015-st-lawrence-book-award-fall-2015-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - It's a very exciting week for us at Black Lawrence Press, and we could not be happier to share our big news with you! We've selected the winners of both our 2015 St. Lawrence Book Award and our Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition. And the winning manuscripts are... For the 2015 St. Lawrence Book - [Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2015-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - It’s announcement time! We’re excited to share the short list for the Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition. From over 550 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 17 semi-finalists and 1o finalists. (As always, this was no easy feat! We read and agonized over FAR more than 27 exciting, well-crafted entries. There were many excellent manuscripts that aren't reflected - [2015 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2015-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists/) - We are very pleased to announce the 2015 St. Lawrence Book Award finalists and semi-finalists. We look forward to announcing the winner, which will be chosen from the pool of finalists, in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who participated! Fiction Finalists On the Divide—Iver Arnegard Magic for Unlucky Girls—A.A. Balaskovits Consuming the Body—Christine Grimes - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Yvonne Garrett](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-yg/) - For the final days of NaNoWriMo 2015, we're featuring work from BLP's editorial staff. Today we present Yvonne Garrett, BLP's Senior Fiction Editor. ______________________________ Excerpt The day opened up into pale blue sky and a watery sunshine that drew her out onto the back porch. The house had two neighbors: a small, maybe 1920s or - [2015 Pushcart Nominations](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2015-pushcart-nominations/) - We are very pleased to announce and present our nominations for The Pushcart Prize. The following works were all published by Black Lawrence Press in 2015: "Elegy" from A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us, a poetry chapbook by by Caleb Curtiss "With Animal" from With Animal, a collaborative short story collection by Carol Guess - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Adrian Van Young](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-avy/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today’s featured writer is Adrian - [NaNoWriMo Consultant: Tracy DeBrincat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-td2/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We’re celebrating all month long with a sale on some of our favorite novels, daily discussions with Black Lawrence Press novelists on craft and writing habits, and this–a consultation program for those of you with in-progress novels that could use an expert eye. Today, we'd like to introduce - [NaNoWriMo Consultant: Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-ew2/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We’re celebrating all month long with a sale on some of our favorite novels, daily discussions with Black Lawrence Press novelists on craft and writing habits, and this–a consultation program for those of you with in-progress novels that could use an expert eye. Today, we'd like to introduce - [NaNoWriMo Consultant: Genanne Walsh](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-gw2/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We’re celebrating all month long with a sale on some of our favorite novels, daily discussions with Black Lawrence Press novelists on craft and writing habits, and this–a consultation program for those of you with in-progress novels that could use an expert eye. Today, we'd like to introduce - [NaNoWriMo Consultant: TJ Beitelman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-tjb2/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We’re celebrating all month long with a sale on some of our favorite novels, daily discussions with Black Lawrence Press novelists on craft and writing habits, and this–a consultation program for those of you with in-progress novels that could use an expert eye. Today, we'd like to introduce - [NaNoWriMo Consultant: Richard Thomas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-rt2/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We’re celebrating all month long with a sale on some of our favorite novels, daily discussions with Black Lawrence Press novelists on craft and writing habits, and this–a consultation program for those of you with in-progress novels that could use an expert eye. Today, we'd like to introduce - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Christopher Torockio](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-ct/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today’s featured writer is Christopher - [NaNoWriMo Consultant: Jon Chopan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-jc2/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We’re celebrating all month long with a sale on some of our favorite novels, daily discussions with Black Lawrence Press novelists on craft and writing habits, and this–a consultation program for those of you with in-progress novels that could use an expert eye. Today, we'd like to introduce - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Marcel Jolley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-mj/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today’s featured writer is Marcel - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Megan McNamer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-mm/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today’s featured writer is Megan - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Lucy Rosenthal](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-lr/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Lucy - [The 2015 Holiday Gift Guide](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2015gifts/) - Looking for great gifts for the writers and readers in your life? We've got you covered! Great Gift Idea #1: Sapling Black Lawrence Press staff developed the weekly e-newsletter Sapling to highlight the best of the small press world for writers looking for new venues for their work. We believe in small press - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Okla Elliott](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-oe/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Okla - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-ew/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Erica - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Jenny Drai](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-feature-jd/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Jenny - [NaNoWriMo Feature: John Mauk](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-feature-jm/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is John - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Genanne Walsh](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-feature-gw/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Genanne - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Elizabeth Colen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-feature-ec/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Elizabeth - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Jacob M. Appel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-feature-jma/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Jacob - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Jon Chopan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-jc/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured writer is Jon - [NaNoWriMo Feature: TJ Beitelman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-tjb/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured novelist is TJ - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Hardy Jones](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-feature-hj/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured novelist is Hardy - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Deborah Clearman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-dc/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured novelist is Deborah - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Tracy DeBrincat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-td/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured novelist is Tracy - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Richard Thomas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-rt/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured novelist is Richard - [NaNoWriMo Feature: Betsy Robinson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nanowrimo-br/) - Welcome to National Novel Writing Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long with a gangbuster sale on some of our favorite novels, a consultation program for those of you with in-progress manuscripts, and this--a daily feature profiling a Black Lawrence Press author who has done the unthinkable: completed a novel. Today's featured novelist is Betsy - [Open Reading Period Picks](https://blacklawrencepress.com/open-reading-period-picks/) - You may hear a lot from us about the winners and finalists of our various contests. And we'll always shout that sort of news from the electronic rooftops, but today we're bringing you news of fourteen exceptional writers who joined BLP's ranks through one of our previous open reading periods. Since July of 2014, we've - [We have a winner: Spring 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-spring-2015-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We are beyond thrilled to share the news that Meghan Privitello is the winner of the Spring 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition for her poetry chapbook Notes on the End of the World. Meghan Privitello is the author of A New Language for Falling Out of Love (YesYes Books, 2015). Poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online, Boston - [Welcome Back, Laura McCullough!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-laura-mccullough/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Laura McCullough whose poetry collection Jersey Mercy will be her third with Black Lawrence Press. The Author Laura McCullough - [Welcome, Jon Steinhagen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-jon-steinhagen/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Jon Steinhagen, whose collection The Big Book of Sounds and Other Stories will be published next summer. The Author - [Spring 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2015-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - It’s announcement time! We’re excited to share the short list for the Spring 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition. From over 500 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 20 semi-finalists and 1o finalists. (Perhaps needless to say, this was no easy feat! We read and agonized over FAR more than 30 exciting, well-crafted, and drool-worthy entries. We appreciate every one - [Welcome Back, Russel Swensen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-russel-swensen/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Russel Swensen, who won the Black River Chapbook Competition in 2011. We're very pleased to announce that his full-length - [The 2015 Hudson Prize :: Winner Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2015-hudson-prize-winner-announced/) - We're so pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2015 Hudson Prize. But that's not all! We've also selected three Hudson Prize finalists for publication. A big, heartfelt congratulations goes to Gillian Cummings for winning the prize with her poetry manuscript My Dim Aviary. And we warmly welcome finalists Claudia Cortese, Jenny Irish, - [Welcome, Okla Elliott!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-okla-elliott/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Okla Elliott, author of the Jürgen Becker translation Blackbirds in September, which will be published in December. The Author Okla - [Welcome, Jay Robinson! (And welcome back, Mary Biddinger!)](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-robinson-biddinger/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Mary Biddinger and Jay Robinson collaborative authors of the poetry collection The Czar, which we selected for publication last - [Welcome, Elizabeth Colen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-elizabeth-colen/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Elizabeth Colen, whose prose poetry novel What Weaponry was accepted earlier this summer and will be released next August. - [Welcome, Renée Ashley!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-renee-ashley/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Renée Ashley, whose poetry collection The View from the Body was accepted in February and will be released next - [Welcome Back, Jenny Drai!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-jenny-drai/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Jenny Drai, and we have to admit that we are more than a little in love with her. We - [Welcome Back, Kristy Bowen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-back-kristy-bowen/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Kirsty Bowen whose poetry collection Salvage will be her second with Black Lawrence Press. The Author A writer and - [Welcome, Sequoia Nagamatsu!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-sequoia-nagamatsu/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Sequoia Nagamatsu, whose Japanese folklore and pop culture inspired story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is - [Welcome, Cynthia Manick!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcomecynthiamanick/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Cynthia Manick, whose poetry collection Blue Hallelujahs was accepted in April and will be released next summer. About the Author - [Welcome, Callista Buchen!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-callista-buchen/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Callista Buchen, whose poetry chapbook The Bloody Planet was accepted last September and will be published this October. About - [Welcome, Hala Alyan!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/welcome-hala-alyan/) - This month we are featuring the poets and writers who have signed with us in the past twelve months—all writers who submitted work during one of our two annual open reading periods. Today we bring you Hala Alyan, whose poetry collection Four Cities was accepted last summer and will be available next month. About the Author - [2015 Big Moose Prize Winner Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/big-moose-prize-winner-announced/) - We're so, so thrilled to announce that Megan McNamer has won the 2015 Big Moose Prize for her incredible novel Children and Lunatics. A resounding, sincere thanks to everyone who submitted, and to the finalists and semi-finalists; the caliber of entries this year was stunning, and selecting just one winning manuscript is a very difficult job. (But - [The 2015 Hudson Prize: Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2015-hudson-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We'd like to thank all of the poets and writers who participated in the 2015 Hudson Prize. And we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists: Fiction Semi-Finalists Jessica Barksdale—All the Time in the World and Other Stories Christian Felt—My Sister's Book Helen Gildfind—Gently, Gently Christine Grimes—Consuming the Body George Looney—The Visibility of Things - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sarah Messer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-sarah-messer/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Sarah Messer, author of the forthcoming collection Dress Made - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Brandi George](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-brandi-george/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Brandi George, author of the forthcoming collection Gog. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Rachel Galvin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-rachel-galvin-2/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Rachel Galvin, author of Pulleys & Locomotion. Pilgrim Road I am chasing a bus on a Texas road - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lawrence Matsuda](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-lawrence-matsuda-3/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Lawrence Matsuda, author of A Cold Wind From Idaho. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Caleb Curtiss](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-calebcurtiss/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Caleb Curtiss, author of A Taxonomy of the Space - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-biddinger/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Mary Biddinger, author of Saint Monica and O Holy - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Bettina Judd](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-judd/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Bettina Judd, author of Patient. Betsey Invents The Speculum - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Maggie Schwed](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-schwed/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Maggie Schwed, author of Driving to the Bees. Remembrancer: - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: James Reidel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-reidel/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is James Reidel, author of My Window Seat for Arlena Twigg - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sandra Kolankiewicz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-kolankiewicz/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Sandra Kolankiewicz, who won the Fall, 2007 Black River Chapbook - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-guess-olszewska/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poets are Carol Guess and Daniela Olszewska, authors of How to Feel - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Jessica Piazza](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-piazza/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Jessica Piazza, author of This is not a sky. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sam Sax](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-sam-sax/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Sam Sax, winner of the Spring 2014 Black River - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Elizabeth Cantwell](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-cantwell/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Elizabeth Cantwell, author of Nights I Let The Tiger - [2015 Big Moose Prize - Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2015-big-moose-prize-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We'd like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2015 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists Dream Museum by Michelle Blake Girl from Soldier Creek by Patricia Foster Nightbirds in an Age of Light by Catherine Gammon Kill the Indian by Christine G Javid - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Hayden Saunier](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-saunier/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Hayden Saunier, author of Tips for Domestic Travel. GROUNDHOG - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Amelia Martens](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-martens/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Amelia Martens, who won the Fall, 2010 Black River - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lisa Fay Coutley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-coutley/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Lisa Fay Coutley, author of In the Carnival of - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Travis Cebula & Sarah Suzor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-cebula-suzor/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poets are Travis Cebula and Sarah Suzor, authors of After the - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Charlotte Pence](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-pence/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Charlotte Pence, author of The Branches, The Axe, The - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Marc McKee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-mckee/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Marc McKee, author of Fuse and Bewilderness. Alternative - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Hala Alyan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-halaalyan/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Hala Alyan, whose collection Four Cities is due out - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Kristy Bowen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-bowen/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Kristy Bowen, author of girl show. disassembling maria - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Jo Ann Clark](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-clark/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Jo Ann Clark, author of 1001 Facts of Prehistoric - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Nick McRae](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-mcrae/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Nick McRae, whose collection Mountain Redemption won the Fall, - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Abayomi Animashaun](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-animashaun/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Abayomi Animashaun, author of the poetry collections The Giving - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Philip Schaefer & Jeff Whitney](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-schaefer-whitney/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poets are Philip Schaefer and Jeff Whitney, winners of the Fall - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: KMA Sullivan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-kma-sullivan/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is KMA Sullivan, whose collection Necessary Fire is hot off the presses! - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Marcela Sulak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-marcela-sulak-4/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Marcela Sulak, author of Immigrant (2010). The following poem is - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Brenda Sieczkowski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-brenda-sieczkowski/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Brenda Sieczkowski, author of Like Oysters Observing the Sun. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Simone Muench](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-simone-muench-2/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We're celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love--a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April! Today's featured poet is Simone Muench, author of Trace. Wolf Cento There - [BLP at AWP](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-at-awp/) - We're looking forward to seeing you at AWP! We've got lots going on in Minneapolis, so there are many ways to connect with us: 1) Come see us at the book fair! We'll be at table 2030. While you're there, get a book signed by one of our fantastic authors. Here's the book signing lineup: - [St. Lawrence Book Award Winner Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/st-lawrence-book-award-winner-announced-2/) - We are thrilled to announce that we have selected a winner for the 2014 St. Lawrence Book Award! Congratulations to Thomas Cotsonas for winning the award with his short story collection Nominal Cases! We are pleased to present the first story from the collection: COMPANY Harold Cornelius Eccles was watering the yard from the patio, - [The 2015 Hudson Prize :: Open to Submissions!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2015-hudson-prize-open-to-submissions/) - Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes awarded on publication. The deadline is - [We have a winner (actually, two!): Fall 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-actually-two-fall-2014-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We are beyond thrilled to share the news that Philip Schaefer and Jeff Whitney are the winners of the Fall 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition for their collaborative poetry chapbook Radio Silence. Radio Silence will be published by Black Lawrence Press in spring 2016. We’re so happy to welcome both Philip and Jeff to the BLP family! Philip Schaefer (left) is - [Fall 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2014-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - It's announcement time! We're excited to share the short list for the Fall 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition. From over 500 entries we’ve narrowed things down to 10 semi-finalists and 1o finalists. (Perhaps needless to say, there were more than a few really exciting chapbooks that don’t appear here. And a few chapbooks that we loved along the way - [St. Lawrence Book Award Finalists Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/st-lawrence-book-award-finalists-announced/) - We received an excellent pool of manuscripts for the 2014 St. Lawrence Book Award. We're looking forward to diving back in and selecting a winner from the list of finalists. Congratulations to those who made it to the finalist and semi-finalist round, and thanks to everyone who participated! FINALISTS (alphabetical) Standing Deadwood by Thomas - [2014 Pushcart Nominations](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2014-pushcart-nominations/) - We are very pleased to announce that we have nominated six selections from our 2014 catalogue for The Puschart Prize. "Wolf Cento" [When tenderness seems tired] from Trace, a poetry chapbook by Simone Muench "A Family Among Us" from Families Among Us, a fiction chapbook by Blake Kimzey "In 2006 I Had an Ordeal With - [Letter from the Editor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/letter-from-the-editor/) - I’ve received many messages in the past month regarding Black Lawrence Press’s decision to remove a novella by Elizabeth Ellen from a forthcoming anthology. I’ve been called a censor, a McCarthyist, and a coward. I’ve been asked why I cut a piece of creative work from a text because the author voiced unpopular opinions in - [Matthew Cheney - Winner of the 2014 Hudson Prize!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/matthew-cheney-winner-of-the-2014-hudson-prize/) - We are very pleased to announce that we have chosen a winner for the 2014 Hudson Prize. Congratulations to Matthew Cheney! His manuscript Blood: Stories will be published by Black Lawrence Press in January, 2016. We offer this excerpt of the title story for your reading pleasure. "Blood" was originally published in One Story, along - [Statement Regarding Elizabeth Ellen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/statement-regarding-elizabeth-ellen/) - Last week, Black Lawrence Press made the difficult decision to drop a novella written by Elizabeth Ellen from our forthcoming anthology, The Lineup. It was a novella that the press and the anthology editor particularly liked. The irony that it was being dropped from an anthology of provocative women writers was lost on no one. - [Hudson Prize Finalists Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hudson-prize-finalists-announced-2/) - Well, writers, you've made the life of the Black Lawrence Press editorial team difficult. Very difficult. Here's the problem--you're good at your job; you write wonderful books. And we fall in love with them. We read them again and again, and then we have to choose one to win our prize. It's an embarrassingly wonderful - [We have a winner: Spring 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-spring-2014-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We are beyond thrilled to share the news that Sam Sax is the winner of the Spring 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition for his poetry chapbook sad boy / detective. sad boy / detective will be published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2015. We’re so happy to welcome Sam to the BLP family! Sam Sax is a fellow - [Spring 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2014-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - Things are happening at the editorial at Black Lawrence Press…the short list for the Spring 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition has been determined, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it! From over 600 entries (our largest and most competitive batch of chaps ever), we’ve narrowed things down to 12 semi-finalists and 7 finalists. (Perhaps - [Announcing the 2014 Big Moose Prize Finalists and Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/announcing-the-2014-big-moose-prize-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - We're thrilled to announce the list of finalists and semi-finalists for the 2014 Big Moose Prize! We received so many riveting submissions, it wasn't easy to narrow it down. And it'll be even tougher to select a winner from this list of finalists...but that announcement will be made soon. Congrats to each of these superb - [National Poetry Month: Nick McRae](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-nick-mcrae/) - This is it! The final installment of our National Poetry Month celebration. Today, we are proud to bring you a poem by Nick McRae, author of the chapbook Mountain Redemption. Genesis It may have been a whim on which the world— the universe—was spoken into matter. Then we happened and made ourselves the master of - [National Poetry Month: Brittany Cavallaro](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-brittany-cavallaro/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Brittany Cavallaro, co-author of the chapbook No Girls No Telephones, which is available for pre-order now. In Us We Trust Sky clouds at noon, Oconomowoc storms - [National Poetry Month: Marc McKee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-marc-mckee/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Marc McKee, author Fuse and the forthcoming Bewilderness. How About Telling Us What It Am? In this garden party, in this flux like a multitude of - [National Poetry Month: Jessica Piazza](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-jessica-piazza-2/) - Today, we bring you a poem from Jessica Piazza, author of This is not a sky, which is due out from Black Lawrence Press in November. The following was originally published in Forklift, Ohio. Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway after Turner The weather’s an eddying yellow, above and below. The - [National Poetry Month: Scott Alexander Jones](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-scott-alexander-jones/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Scott Alexander Jones, author of the forthcoming long poem elsewhere. from elsewhere That finger on your temple is the barrel of my raygun— That wretched dull resonance breaching - [National Poetry Month: Bettina Judd](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-bettina-judd/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Bettina Judd, winner of the 2013 Hudon Prize. Her collection Patient. will be published this fall. AFTER MEMORY i keep on remembering mine. —Lucille Clifton It’s - [National Poetry Month: Jenny Drai](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-jenny-drai-2/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Jenny Drai, author of the forthcoming chapbook The New Sorrow is Less Than the Old Sorrow. from THE NEW SORROW IS LESS THAN THE OLD SORROW - [National Poetry Month: Charlotte Pence](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-charlotte-pence/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Charlotte Pence, author of The Branches, The Axe, The Missing. WANTED: A PRETTY PICTURE Sometimes, a discussion with the family is not possible. Instead: ----------------------------A - [National Poetry Month: James Reidel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-james-reidel/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is James Reidel, author of My Window Seat for Arlena Twigg and Jim's Book. (Me)los She was made to catch herself, Endowing her forever with this - [National Poetry Month: Brad Ricca](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-brad-ricca/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Brad Ricca, author of American Mastodon. Bartleby and Emily Dickinson’s First Date He answers the ad: SWF seeks Master – after studying it for weeks. - [National Poetry Month: Maggie Schwed](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-maggie-schwed/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Maggie Schwed, author of the forthcoming poetry collection Driving to the Bees. White Pelican Another trick of memory— it’s not the past The first - [National Poetry Month: Kristy Bowen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-kristy-bowen/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Kristy Bowen, author of girl show. rope dance Morning is a burned thing, Louise. Spoiled like a shuttered house. Paper everywhere--under the beds, in the - [National Poetry Month: Valerie Bandura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-valerie-bandura/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Valerie Bandura, author of Freak Show. Two Weeks That’s how much time they give you to bribe the hall of records for the paperwork you - [National Poetry Month: Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-carol-guess-daniela-olszewska/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day. Today we're pleased to bring you the work of two poets, Carol Guess and Daniela Olszewska, co-authors of the forthcoming How to Feel Confident with Your Special Talents. How to Do the Cha Cha Stay alert in red rolling - [National Poetry Month: Caleb Curtiss](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-caleb-curtiss/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Caleb Curtiss, author of A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us, which won the Black River Chapbook Competition and will be published by Black Lawrence Press - [National Poetry Month: Elizabeth Cantwell](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-elizabeth-cantwell/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Elizabeth Cantwell, author of Nights I Let the Tiger Get You, which will be published next month. MY MEMORIES OF YOU ARE SILENT In that - [National Poetry Month: Brandi George](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-george/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Brandi George, author of Gog, which is forthcoming in 2015. Homunculus I couldn’t stand silent while my father cocked his rifle at each thing weak enough for - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sarah Suzor and Travis Cebula](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-sarah-suzor-and-travis-cebula/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poets are Sarah Suzor and Travis Cebula, who co-authored the forthcoming collection After the Fox. Sarah is also the author of The Principle Agent. From Atlantic In other words, the coastline. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Matthew Gavin Frank](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-matthew-gavin-frank-3/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Matthew Gavin Frank, author of Sagittarius Agitprop and The Morrow Plots. Antebellum The tornado inside Andromeda laid seeds of clover in the sky. We took - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Keith Taylor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-keith-taylor-3/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Keith Taylor, author of Marginalia for a Natural History. The Last Roost There’s a record written years later: up in Emmett County, after years of slaughter--50,000 a - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Helen Marie Casey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-helen-marie-casey-3/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Helen Marie Casey, author of My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer and Inconsiderate Madness. New World Fog swallows the ocean, the sky, everything but sound. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Marcela Sulak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-marcela-sulak-3/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Marcela Sulak, author of Immigrant. The History of Brussels Sprouts This vegetable evolved from primitive non-heading Mediterranean kraut. It wrapped its crinkly little leaves about its - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Kevin Pilkington](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-kevin-pilkington-3/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Kevin Pilkington, author of the poetry collection The Unemployed Man Who Became A Tree and the forthcoming collection Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems. The - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lawrence Matsuda](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-lawrence-matsuda-2/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Lawrence Matsuda, author of A Cold Wind From Idaho. Nazi Death Train, 1943 Under a French full moon, the Bordeaux Express flies a crooked German flag. Wheels - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-joe-wilkins-4/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Joe Wilkins, author of Killing the Murnion Dogs. The following poem is a selection from Far Enough, a chapbook-length western in prose poems, which will be published by - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Simone Muench](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-simone-muench/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Simone Muench, author of Trace. Wolf Cento There are wolves in the next room waiting when I turn towards you snake-spined, all Pentecostal shivers beneath the - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Amelia Martens](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-amelia-martens/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today’s featured poet is Amelia Martens, author of Purgatory. from Purgatory This morning your house exploded and in a separate incident a coop caught fire—ten thousand chickens burned to death, - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lisa Fay Coutley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-lisa-fay-coutley-4/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Lisa Fay Coutley, author of In the Carnival of Breathing. Errata As the story goes, the raven’s wings aren’t black. They’re waves capping dark omens. Crows - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: B.C. Edwards](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-b-c-edwards-3/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is B.C. Edwards, author of the short story collection The Aversive Clause and the forthcoming poetry collection From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes. No. 647. To clean Oily or - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sandra Kolankiewicz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-sandra-kolankiewicz-5/) - Here at Black Lawrence Press we are celebrating National Poetry Month with a poem a day, featuring a total of 30 authors from our list. Today's featured poet is Sandra Kolankiewicz, author of Turning Inside Out. Keeping Pigeons If you knew about having to keep the loft, How they need perches, baths, enriched feed, Fresh water - [Black Lawrence Press at AWP Seattle](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-press-at-awp-seattle/) - Our bags are packed for #AWP2014, and we can't wait to unleash our host of gorgeous books and kickass authors on the Seattle literati! A few things to keep on your radar: FRIDAY, FEB 28, 7pm: Black Lawrence Press Offsite Reading & Party at LEFT BANK BOOKS Let's all party at one of Seattle's historic bookstores! - [Announcing the BLP Chapbook Broadside Series](https://blacklawrencepress.com/announcing-the-blp-chapbook-broadside-series/) - Like peanut butter & jelly, Kate & Rooney Mara, champagne & caviar, Jay Z & Lady Bey....chapbooks & broadsides are a perfect pair! Black Lawrence Press is pleased to introduce the Chapbook Broadside Series: beginning with our 2014 new releases, we'll release a handmade, limited edition broadside to accompany each new chapbook on our list. Our - [Finalists Announced for the 2013 St. Lawrence Book Award](https://blacklawrencepress.com/finalists-announced-for-the-2013-st-lawrence-book-award/) - We're thrilled to share with you the list of finalists and semi-finalists for the 2013 St. Lawrence Book Award! Thank you to everyone who submitted; we love reading your work. The winner will be announced soon... Finalists: Nuclear by Sean Bernard (fiction) The Lapis Child by Julie R Bouwsma (poetry) At Night by Lisa Ciccarello (poetry) - [We have a winner: Fall 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-fall-2013-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We are beyond thrilled to share the news that Caleb Curtiss is the winner of the Fall 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition for his poetry chapbook A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us. A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us will be published by Black Lawrence Press in February 2015. Caleb is a two-time finalist for - [Fall 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2013-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - Drum roll please…the short list for the Fall 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition is chock full of chapbook-y goodness, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it! From over 400 entries, we’ve narrowed things down to 10 semi-finalists and 8 finalists. (Perhaps needless to say, there were more than a few really exciting chapbooks - [2013 Hudson Prize Winner!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2013-hudson-prize-winner/) - We’re thrilled to announce the winner of the 2013 Hudson Prize: PATIENT. by Bettina Judd. We couldn’t stop thinking about this poetry manuscript, and are so excited to share it with you next year! And more good news: we were so impressed with the submissions we received for this year’s prize that we’ve offered a - [2013 Hudson Prize Finalists and Semi-Finalists!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/2013-hudson-prize-finalists-and-semi-finalists/) - We're so pumped to share the names of the finalists and semi-finalists for the 2013 Hudson Prize! All of these manuscripts are stellar; it's harder each year to choose, but we'll announce the winner soon. Stay tuned, and happy end-of-summer! -BLP staff Finalists: ALL THE GIRLS IN FRANCE: STORIES by Sheryl Monks DEATH CLOUD AND - [We have a winner: Spring 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-spring-2013-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We could not be more excited to tell the world -- that's you -- that Blake Kimzey is the winner of the Spring 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition, for his fiction manuscript Families Among Us. Families Among Us will be published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2014. We're beyond happy to welcome Blake to the BLP family. - [Spring 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition finalists & semi-finalists announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2013-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists-announced/) - We've been itching to announce the finalists & semi-finalists for the Spring 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition, and the moment is finally here! We received close to 500 submissions this spring, so needless to say, the process of narrowing those entries down to a short list of awesomeness was no easy feat! A huge thanks to - [Five Burning Questions for Emerging Writers: Ish Klein](https://blacklawrencepress.com/five-burning-questions-for-emerging-writers-ish-klein/) - Ish Klein is the author of two poetry collections, Moving Day (Canarium Books, 2011) and Union! (Canarium Books, 2009), and a collection of short films, Success Window (Poor Claudia, 2011). Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Tell us about the process of getting your first two poetry collections, Union! and Moving Day, out in the world. Did you enter contests? Open reading periods? What transpired - [Spinning Jenny](https://blacklawrencepress.com/for-this-weeks-feature-sapling-talked-to-c-e-harrison-editor-of-spinning-jenny-journal/) - For this week’s feature, Sapling talked to C. E. Harrison, Editor of Spinning Jenny journal Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Spinning Jenny is a print journal published by Black Dress Press. You’ve been putting issues out since the fall of 1995, which is quite an impressive run for an independent journal. Tell us your - [Early Bird Special!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/early-bird-special-3/) - Black Lawrence Press is offering a reduced entry fee for the St. Lawrence Book Award. Regular Deadline: August 31 Regular Entry Fee: $25 Early Bird Deadline: June 30 Early Bird Entry Fee: $20 Full details here: blacklawrencepress.submittable.com We look forward to reading your work! - [Betsy Robinson wins The Big Moose Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/betsy-robinson-wins-the-big-moose-prize/) - Congratulations to Betsy Robinson for winning the 2013 Big Moose Prize with her novel The Last Will & Testament of Zelda McFigg! Betsy is the third winner of the annual novel prize and all of the editors here at Black Lawrence Press are thrilled to welcome her--and Zelda--to our publishing family. We'd like to thank - [Last Day to Submit: Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America](https://blacklawrencepress.com/call-for-submissions-others-will-enter-the-gates-immigrant-poets-on-poetry-influences-and-writing-in-america/) - Today is the deadline to submit to our forthcoming anthology Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America. We're so excited to be publishing this collection--and to be working with the inimitable editor Abayomi Animashaun! Submit your essay here. - [An Interview with Bryan Furuness](https://blacklawrencepress.com/an-interview-with-bryan-furuness/) - Hobart recently sat down with novelist Bryan Furuness, whose debut novel THE LOST EPISODES OF REVIE BRYSON was released earlier this year and has basically charmed the pants off of everyone who's read it. Including the folks at Hobart, who write "It’s a novel that does so much, covers so much ground, succeeds so well - [Writers on Writing: Jacob Appel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/writers-on-writing-jacob-appel/) - Passages North recently featured an insightful essay by fiction writer Jacob Appel, whose collection SCOUTING FOR THE REAPER will be released this fall--and actually, we're such huge fans of Jacob's writing that we accepted additional manuscripts! We can't wait to share his stories with you. - [Rebecca Hazelton on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/rebecca-hazelton-on-verse-daily/) - We are so in love with Rebecca Hazelton's poem "Book of Janus," featured on Verse Daily this week. - [Upcoming Reading: Bruce Cohen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-bruce-cohen-2/) - Connecticut: Bruce Cohen will headline the 2013 Rose Garden reading at noon on Saturday, June 22--don't miss your chance to hear this wonderful poet read from his much-loved books. Details here. (Bruce's new collection Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep is so, so good...buy your copy here.) - [Upcoming Reading: Tracy DeBrincat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-tracy-debrincat-2/) - San Francisco: Tracy DeBrincat, whose prizewinning novel HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO is hilarious and epic, is reading in your city on Saturday, June 29. Be there! (And click here to buy a copy of HOLLYWOOD. This novel is the perfect way to kick off summer.) - [Upcoming Reading: Charlotte Pence](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-charlotte-pence/) - The Nantucket Book Festival sounds like a pretty dreamy way to spend a summer weekend, especially since poet Charlotte Pence will be there! Her prizewinning chapbook THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING is one of our favorites, and she'll talk about poetry and song and participate in a reading, all on Saturday, June 22 starting - [Upcoming Reading: Jen Michalski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-jen-michalski/) - San Francisco: Jen Michalski, whose prizewinning novel THE TIDE KING is just-published and already garnering killer reviews, will be in your city this Thursday as part of the "Why There Are Words" reading at Studio 333 in Sausalito. More details here (and buy a copy of this crazy awesome novel here). - ["Under The Kitchen Floor" by Bruce Cohen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/under-the-kitchen-floor-by-bruce-cohen/) - This poem, featured in ALIMENTUM, will be your new favorite. A tease: "The world would be better if there were no floors. We could simply walk on air, without gravity. A full glass of inky wine elbow-knocked from the counter would not fall but rise to the ceiling, out the chimney, towards the clouds, past - [Ron Savage Reads "Dillon"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/ron-savage-reads-dillon/) - Click here to watch Ron Savage read a story, "Dillon," from his stunning collection Loving You the Way I Do. (And after you've been convinced that Ron is a master storyteller, buy a copy of his book here. You'll love each of his shorts just as much as this one.) - [New Review of THE TIDE KING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-tide-king/) - Jen Michalski's debut novel--and Big Moose prizewinner--The Tide King gets some love from The Baltimore Sun: "Michalski creates a tale that sweeps history by marrying icons of childhood nightmares such as witches, magic, and children struggling on their own to the icons of adult nightmares: war battles, socially sanctioned violence and murder, success and failure - [Three Poems by Katie Rauk](https://blacklawrencepress.com/three-poems-by-katharine-rauk/) - Hobart features three new poems by Katie Rauk, whose "hallucinatory, mysterious and beautiful" chapbook Basil is one of our favorites. Check out her new work here, and buy a copy of Basil here. - [Tonight: Adrian Van Young Reads in NOLA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tonight-adrian-van-young-reads-in-nola/) - New Orleans: The Bayou St. John outpost of the Maple Street Bookstore empire (3141 Ponce de Leon) will host Adrian Van Young, author of the prizewinning short story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything, for a reading at 6pm tonight. More details here. Don't miss it! - [Speed Date with Sarah Suzor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/speed-date-with-sarah-suzor/) - The Buoyant Group recently caught up with the lovely Sarah Suzor and asked her a few questions about storytelling: "A simple example: I see a sunset and I think of a song. I think of a song and I remember a lover. I remember a lover and recall the last thing they said to me. - [TOMORROW: Jen Michalski at the Saints & Sinners Reading Series in New Orleans](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tomorrow-jen-michalski-at-the-saints-sinners-reading-series-in-new-orleans/) - Prizewinning novelist Jen Michalski, whose book The Tide King is garnering rave reviews, will read tomorrow at 11:30am at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans as part of the Saints and Sinners Lit Fest. Insanely good fiction, food, and music sounds like a divine combination! Click here for the schedule, and here to buy a copy - [New Reviews of THE MORROW PLOTS and THE LOST EPISODES OF REVIE BRYSON](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-reviews-of-the-morrow-plots-and-the-lost-episodes-of-revie-bryson/) - The latest issue of Mid-American Review is packed with great stuff, including reviews of Matthew Gavin Frank's The Morrow Plots and Bryan Furuness' The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson. This issue isn't online, but click here to order a copy. (And click here and here to buy copies of Matt's and Bryan's stellar books.) - [THE TIDE KING Giveaway (and reading tonight!)](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-tide-king-giveaway-and-reading-tonight/) - Jen Michalski's prizewinning novel The Tide King can be yours for free via Goodreads--enter here. It's a delicious book. Also, Jen reads tonight in NYC at 7pm in the East Village. Don't miss it! - [Tomorrow: LA Reading with Sarah Suzor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tomorrow-la-reading-with-sarah-suzor/) - The lovely and brilliant Sarah Suzor, author of the prizewinning poetry collection The Principle Agent, will read tomorrow as part of the "This Side of the 405" exhibit at the Ben Maltz Gallery in Los Angeles. All readings will also be streamed online here. (And keep an eye out for her forthcoming collaboration with Travis - [New Poems from Russel Swensen and Matthew Gavin Frank](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-from-russel-swensen-and-matthew-gavin-frank/) - The new issue of The Carolina Quarterly is especially awesome, featuring poems by Russel Swensen (Santa Ana) and Matthew Gavin Frank (The Morrow Plots). It's a BLP double-dip! - [Brent Goodman's Prizewinning Poem in PUERTO DEL SOL](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brent-goodman-wins-poetry-prize/) - Brent Goodman's poem "One Eye Will Never See the Other" has been awarded 2nd place in Puerto del Sol's 2013 Poetry Contest: “This poem has the satisfying quality of a Koan – its brevity, the open-endedness, and whisper of something important just beyond its edges.” Congrats, Brent! Celebrate with a copy of his brand-new (and spectacular) collection - [New Poem by Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-laura-mccullough-2-2/) - Laura McCullough's gorgeous poem "Out of the Blue, Who" is featured in the new issue of Tab. Savor it, and then get excited for her almost-here new collection Rigger Death and Hoist Another, available here. - [B.C. Edwards' THE AVERSIVE CLAUSE Makes Frank O'Connor Longlist](https://blacklawrencepress.com/b-c-edwards-the-aversive-clause-makes-frank-oconnor-longlist/) - Some well-deserved, super exciting news: The Aversive Clause by B.C. Edwards made the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award longlist! This collection is getting nothing but rave reviews, and is so much fun to read. See for yourself and buy a copy here. - [This Sunday: Jen Michalski Reads in NYC](https://blacklawrencepress.com/this-sunday-jen-michalski-reads-in-nyc/) - Jen Michalski's Big Moose Prize-winning novel The Tide King drops this week, and if you're lucky enough to be in New York on Sunday night, you'll get to hear her read! She'll join Joshua Henkin, Scott Nadelson, and Rachel Sherman at Jimmy's No. 43 at 7pm. More details here. Don't miss out; this book is - [Tonight: Jen Michalski on WYPR](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tonight-jen-michalski-on-wypr/) - Jen Michalski's prizewinning novel The Tide King will be released next week, and to kick things off, Jen will read an excerpt tonight at 7:00pm on WYPR (and again tomorrow at 1:00pm). Details here. This book is gorgeous and wonderfully strange--the perfect combination. Buy your copy here. - [Mary Biddinger on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddinger-on-verse-daily-3/) - Check out Mary's new poem, "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise," featured today on Verse Daily. It will make you smile. - [New Review of THE LOST EPISODES OF REVIE BRYSON](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-lost-episodes-of-revie-bryson-2/) - HTML Giant reviews Bryan Furuness' debut novel, writing "I was first introduced to Furuness – and to Revie Bryson – in a story called “Ballgrabber” that appeared in Hobart 9. Revie surveyed the world of kids in such an irreverent, fresh, hilarious way that I filed Furuness’s name away and vowed to read his first novel - [Upcoming Reading: Michele Battiste](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-michele-battiste/) - Colorado, take note: Michele Battiste will read from her upcoming collection Uprising (it's so, so good) at the Bouldering Poets reading series on Saturday, May 18 in Boulder. Don't miss it! Where: Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Pearl Street, Boulder When: Saturday, May 18, 7:30pm Sarah Elizabeth Schantz and Robert Snyderman will also be reading along with music - [New Poem by Michele Battiste](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-michele-battiste/) - A poem from Michele Battiste's forthcoming collection, Uprising, is featured in the new issue of Midway Journal--it's a lovely and evocative slice of this powerful book. (You should also check out Ink for an Odd Cartography, available here.) - [Upcoming Readings: Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-laura-mccullough/) - The ever-brilliant Laura McCullough, author of acclaimed poetry collections Rigger Death & Hoist Another and Speech Acts, has two readings coming up. Trust us, you'd be remiss to stay home: Saturday, April 27 at 2pm Middletown Library on Monmouth Ave. New Jersey Sunday, May 19 at 7pm Julliard School with The Georgia Review New York - [Tomorrow: West Coast Reading](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tomorrow-west-coast-reading/) - 8pm tomorrow night at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA: Tracy DeBrincat, Michael Hemmingson, Frank Montesonti, James Morrison, Jessica Piazza, Sarah Suzor. Be there. - [Bruce Cohen on the Joe Milford Poetry Show](https://blacklawrencepress.com/bruce-cohen-interview/) - Here's something to boost your mid-week: Bruce Cohen, author of the sublime collections Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep and Swerve, is interviewed on the Joe Milford Poetry Show. Bruce is lovely, and it's always wonderful to hear him read his work--and Joe calls Placebo "his favorite new collection." Buy yourself a copy, we know you'll agree. - [Big Moose Prize Finalists and Semi-Finalists Announced](https://blacklawrencepress.com/big-moose-prize-finalists-and-semi-finalists-announced/) - We're thrilled to post the finalists and semi-finalists of the 2013 Big Moose Prize! It's always difficult to narrow down the excellent submissions we receive, and this year was especially tough. Congratulations to everyone selected; winner will be announced next month. Finalists 1. The Good Girl: A Novel - Angela Jane Fountas 2. - [Two Poems by Russel Swensen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/two-poems-by-russel-swensen/) - PANK Magazine features two stellar poems by Russel Swensen this month: "Tourism is Important" and "Danielle." Read them, make your day awesome. (And it should be noted that buying Russel's prizewinning chapbook, Santa Ana, will also make you smarter and more fun.) - [Lisa Fay Coutley on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/lisa-fay-coutley-on-verse-daily-2-2/) - A lovely Monday perk: Lisa Fay Coutley--author of the prizewinning poetry chap In the Carnival of Breathing--is Verse Daily's Web Weekly feature poet. Enjoy. (And buy Carnival here.) - [Tonight: Mary Biddinger talks poetry on Google+](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tonight-mary-biddinger-talks-poetry-on-google/) - Don't miss this chance to see the brilliant Mary Biddinger (author of O Holy Insurgency and Saint Monica) read and discuss poetry with Aaron Belz, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Nate Pritts, and Robert Lee Brewer tonight at 7pm on Google+. Details here. Do yourself a favor and tune in. - [Sarah Suzor Guest Blogs at BEST AMERICAN POETRY](https://blacklawrencepress.com/sarah-suzor-guest-blogs-at-best-american-poetry/) - Friends: Poet extraordinaire Sarah Suzor is guest blogging over at Best American Poetry all week. It's a glorious match. (And check out Sarah's beautiful collection, The Principle Agent, here.) - ["When Jesus Was a Boy in Gary, Indiana"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/when-jesus-was-a-boy-in-gary-indiana/) - Butler University's Newsroom recently posted a new interview with novelist Bryan Furuness, author of the hilarious and poignant book The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson. Bryan provides insight to his inspiration for his characters, and his process for writing humor--we laughed out loud when we first read this book, so he's on to something. Read - [New Review of THE AVERSIVE CLAUSE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-aversive-clause-3/) - Grady Harp raves about B.C. Edwards' prizewinning short story collection: "B.C. Edwards may just be one of the more bizarre and immensely gifted writers to come down the pike in a long time. Leave it to Black Lawrence Press to discover these disparate geniuses - wherever do they find them? THE AVERSIVE CLAUSE is a - [Call for Submissions: An Anthology of Essays by Immigrant Poets](https://blacklawrencepress.com/call-for-submissions-an-anthology-of-essays-by-immigrant-poets/) - Our forthcoming anthology of essays, Others Will Enter the Gates, is shaping up to be a stunner, and we're excited to read more of your provocative and insightful submissions. Abayomi Animashaun, author of the prizewinning poetry collection The Giving of Pears, will edit. Here are the details: Abstract: No two immigrant poets are the same. Even those from - [Upcoming Reading: Brent Goodman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-brent-goodman/) - Save the date: Wisconsin native Brent Goodman will read from his new poetry collection, Far From Sudden, at Ripon College (his alma mater) next Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 pm. We can't think of a better way to celebrate National Poetry Month! Details here, and buy a copy of this magnificent book here. - [Jen Michalski on Literary Baltimore](https://blacklawrencepress.com/jen-michalski-on-baltimore/) - "Like an imperfect gemstone, Baltimore’s real value lies in it being one of a kind." Prizewinning novelist Jen Michalski gives us a tour of her literary Baltimore in a charming piece in Poets & Writers. Click here to read the entire essay, and don't forget to order a copy of The Tide King, due out next month. - [Upcoming Reading: West Coast Poetry & Prose](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-west-coast-poetry-prose/) - It's an all-star cast: Tracy DeBrincat, Michael Hemmingson, Frank Montesonti, James Morrison, Jessica Piazza, and Sarah Suzor. Seriously, so much stellar writing all in one place. Don't miss it. April 26 at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA. More details here. - [Three Questions with Shane McCrae](https://blacklawrencepress.com/three-questions-with-shane-mccrae/) - Pen America sat down with award-winning poet Shane McCrae to ask about love, community, and history. A tease: "It’s something like a tingling, like a small tingling rush of joy that seems to start in my chest, just above my heart and below my throat, and spreads both up and down, so that I want - [New Poem by Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-laura-mccullough/) - The brilliant Laura McCullough has a new poem in Interrupture titled "Vegamite and Vajazzle." Read it, love it. (Also, pre-order her new book here.) - [New Review of SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-school-of-the-americas/) - David Rigsbee's new full-length collection of poems, School of the Americas, is brilliant--and Literary Aficionado agrees: "David Rigsbee knows his craft well and somehow manages to spread his creative shadow over a very broad spectrum of topics and ideas and thoughts and challenges - and he keeps us with him at every step, whether in - [New Review of THE AVERSIVE CLAUSE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-aversive-clause-2/) - The Nervous Breakdown says it best: "The Aversive Clause is out from Black Lawrence Press. And it is fucking great." They're totally right. Buy it here. - [Abayomi Animashaun: On Winning the Hudson Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/on-winning-the-hudson-prize/) - Poet Abayomi Animashaun talks about his experience winning the 2008 Hudson Prize for his sublime collection The Giving of Pears: "For me, news of winning the Hudson Prize came at a time of great difficulty. A time when I was so thoroughly cornered, I became convinced that I was a loser pretending at verse. So, - [Recommended Reading: "The Sub-Leaser" by Adrian Van Young](https://blacklawrencepress.com/recommended-reading-the-sub-leaser-by-adrian-van-young/) - Electric Literature recommends Adrian Van Young's potent short story "The Sub-Leaser" this week, an inspired choice! Here's a teaser: 'AND SO I RETURNED FROM A SERIES OF ERRANDS to find my apartment unalterably changed. Which change, I should say, was in fact several changes that had, in collusion, effected the one by dint of a - [First Book Interview: Marc McKee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/first-book-interview-marc-mckee/) - We love Marc McKee's poetry collection Fuse, and love even more that looking at his book gives Marc "a trill of excitement"--we feel the exact same way. It's stunning inside and out. Read on for Marc's insights on being a first-time author, his advice to aspiring poets, and how poetry can change the world. (And - [New Story by Norman Waksler in PRICK OF THE SPINDLE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-story-by-norman-waksler-in-prick-of-the-spindle/) - It looks like winter is still hanging on, making this afternoon the perfect time to curl up with some tea and dig into Norman Waksler's new short story "The Great God Morel," published in Vol. 6.4 of Prick of the Spindle. Norman's writing will make you forget all about the snow... (Also, check out his short - [New Review of THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-branches-the-axe-the-missing-4/) - Diagram has lovely things to say about Charlotte Pence's prizewinning poetry chapbook: "Like the early humans conjured in The Branches, the Axe, the Missing, Pence crafts a subtly intricate world with 'just' branches, fire, darkness, memory, and the sharp scythe of questions. No doubt, her poems will continue to evolve, too. This is a wise and - ["Splendid, Silent Sun" Reprinted in NEW STORIES FROM THE MIDWEST](https://blacklawrencepress.com/splendid-silent-sun-reprinted-in-new-stories-from-the-midwest/) - We're happy to see that Yelizaveta Renfro's beautiful short story, "Splendid, Silent Sun" (originally published in her collection A Catalogue of Everything in the World: Nebraska Stories), was included in New Stories from the Midwest, an anthology of midwestern writing available now from Indiana University Press. (Of course, you should also pick up a copy of Catalogue, - [Katie Rauk Poem in 2012 Best of the Net Anthology](https://blacklawrencepress.com/katie-rauk-poem-in-2012-best-of-the-net-anthology/) - Katie Rauk's gorgeous poem "Casida of the Weeping," originally published in Pebble Lake Review, was selected for publication in the 2012 Best of the Net Anthology. Listen to her stirring reading here (and buy a copy of her equally lovely chapbook, Basil, here.) Congrats, Katie! - [The Making of MY DEAR GIRL: THE ART OF FLORENCE HOSMER](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-making-of-my-dear-girl-the-art-of-florence-hosmer/) - Helen Marie Casey, author of the beautiful nonfiction title My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer, was the featured speaker at The College Club of Boston in February, where she spoke about she created this true-to-life narrative in text and images. Helen is a tour de force in lyrical historical nonfiction! (Buy a copy - [New Review of THE MAN WHO NOTICED EVERYTHING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-man-who-noticed-everything/) - Speaking of Adrian, his prizewinning short story collection gets some love from Vol. 1 Brooklyn: "Adrian Van Young’s debut collection, The Man Who Noticed Everything, sits neatly between Donald Ray Pollock’s rust-stained noir and Brian Evenson’s more surreal tales of existential horror and bloodletting." What else do you need to know? Read the whole review here, and buy - [AWP Offsite Reading: Adrian Van Young, Patrick Michael Finn, Allison Adair, and Jessica Roake](https://blacklawrencepress.com/awp-offsite-reading-adrian-van-young-patrick-michael-finn-allison-adair-and-jessica-roake-2/) - We know there are a lot of fabulous readings to choose from at AWP, but seriously, this one can't be missed: Adrian Van Young, Patrick Michael Finn, Allison Adair, and Jessica Roake will slay you with their skills. Plus it's a house party. Everyone loves house parties. Saturday, March 9 6-8pm 42 Dana St. Apt. - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-66/) - "When I started conceptualizing the journal, I wanted to create a journal that really took advantage of the nuances of the technology. There are a lot of amazing magazines out there that effectively use the traditional publishing model of issues, but I was a little frustrated so many journals failed to utilize what I felt - [BLP editor Kit Frick is The Next Big Thing](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-editor-kit-frick-is-the-next-big-thing/) - Our Chapbook Editor, Kit Frick, has joined The Next Big Thing crowd. Find her interview over on her website. Folk ballads! Troubled men-folk! Ed Norton! Need we say more? - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-65/) - "It is such an immense privilege and responsibility to say yes to a manuscript. It’s a new adventure every time."--KMA Sullivan, Publisher of YesYes Books, from this week's feature. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: The Pinch! 6×6! City Lights! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and - [How Bryan Furuness Became a Writer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/how-i-became-a-writer-bryan-furuness/) - Bryan's much-anticipated debut novel The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson was just released, and in celebration, enjoy this funny and inspiring interview. Bryan talks about who inspired him, what his writing process is like, and how he envies the reading speed of his nine-year-old self. You'll also get a hint of his voice as a - [A New Collection by Anis Shivani](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-collection-by-anis-shivani/) - The wildly prolific and talented Anis Shivani, author of Anatolia and Other Stories, has a new short story collection, The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, on shelves; check out a recent NewPages review, in which Shivani's stories are called "compelling, interesting, and useful in unpacking complex strata of cultural identity". (And buy Anatolia here...) - [The Next Big Thing: Valerie Bandura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-next-big-thing-valerie-bandura/) - Check out Valerie's interview with Matthew Lippman, where she talks about Glen Close, exorcism, voyeurism, and gives the best one-sentence synopsis of a book we've ever read. See it here. (And keep an eye out for her forthcoming collection Freak Show, available for pre-order now.) - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-64/) - In this week's double feature (!), we talk to wife & husband authors extraordinaire, Ashley Farmer and Ryan Ridge, about their experiences as emerging writers. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Kore Press! LaPetiteZine! Sheep Meadow Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to - [Tomorrow: Jen Michalski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tomorrow-jen-michalski/) - Baltimore: Jen Michalski, author of the widely acclaimed novella Could You Be With Her Now, is reading in your city tomorrow! Click here for details. (And keep an eye out for Jen's forthcoming Big Moose Prize-winning novel, The Tide King; pre-order your copy here.) - [Upcoming Reading: Tracy DeBrincat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-tracy-debrincat/) - Save the date: Tracy DeBrincat, novelist extraordinaire, will read from her Big Moose Prize-winning title Hollywood Buckaroo on February 23 at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, CA. Don't miss out! (And buy a copy of this hilarious and incisive book here...) - [New Review of THE AVERSIVE CLAUSE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-aversive-clause/) - Tor.com loves B. C. Edwards' prizewinning short story collection: "The stories in The Aversive Clause draw your attention all over the place, creatively, and delightfully so. If you think the premise of a zombie-romance ala Warm Bodies sounds exciting, wait until you read this book’s gay zombie story 'Sweetness!' These stories are loaded with high-concept imagination, but carry real - [Tomorrow Night: Travis Cebula, Sarah Suzor, Sara Nolan, and Daniel Dissinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tomorrow-night-travis-cebula-sarah-suzor/) - Friends, don't miss your chance to celebrate Travis Cebula's stunning new book of poetry, Ithaca: he'll read at 7pm at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, joined by fellow BLP author Sarah Suzor (The Principle Agent), Sara Nolan, and Daniel Dissinger. (Also, stay tuned for Travis and Sarah's forthcoming BLP collaboration, After the Fox...it's going to be - [Conduit](https://blacklawrencepress.com/conduit/) - For this week’s feature, Sapling talked to William D. Waltz, Editor of Conduit Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Conduit has been “risking annihilation” since 1993 – you’re now entering your 20th year of publication. For an independent (i.e. not university sponsored) literary journal, that’s rare, and a true accomplishment. Can you tell us a little about Conduit’s origin story, and how - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-63/) - "So, first there’s the theme...and then we assemble the contents. This may surprise you, but whether or not a poem speaks to the theme is not a consideration. We select poems that we like and admire. If a poem speaks to the theme, 99 times out of a 100, it’s a coincidence, a happy accident."--William - [Erica Wright: Writer's Digest Interview](https://blacklawrencepress.com/erica-wright-writers-digest-interview/) - The Poetic Aside blog recently sat down with Erica Wright to talk rattlesnakes, writer's block, and, of course, her sublime poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal. Read it here (and buy her book here!) - [New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-7/) - Publishers Weekly reviews Adam Prince's dark and funny collection, writing "Throughout he seeks the coupling of despicable actions and intentions, mining that seedy side of humanity only faintly illuminated by the stubborn hope that we have the power to transcend such ugliness. Prince's stories are both entertaining and insightful." Check out the entire review here, - [Upcoming Event: Eric Gamalinda at Le Poisson Rouge](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-event-eric-gamalinda-at-le-poisson-rouge/) - This Sunday, February 17, Eric Gamalinda will bring one of the stories from his transcendent collection People Are Strange to the stage at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. We're beyond excited for this event! Click here for details (and here to order a copy of People Are Strange). - [New Review of AMERICAN MASTODON](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-american-mastodon-2/) - Gulf Coast loves Brad Ricca's prizewinning poetry collection: "The Cleveland-based poet and filmmaker writes absurd narratives filled with pop-culture allusions, bizarre descriptions of domestic tranquility and strange asides. The often-whimsical poems delight in their imaginative leaps, fresh subject matter and unique language." Pick up your copy here! - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-62/) - "The second best part of my job is finding an incredible piece of writing. The first best part is contacting the author and telling them how amazing it is. Being an author, no matter how successful you are, is a lot of rejection. It’s nice to be able to give praise. Authors don’t get enough."--Becky - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-61/) - "We want authors who aren’t afraid to expand the landscape of their books. Best are obsessive-types with notebooks blackened with crazed rants, absurdly detailed doodles. We use that stuff. If we’re going to fulfill our mission of breaking the boundaries of what a book can be, we need big voice, tumbling ideas, and a sprawling - [Publishers Weekly Praises BLP's Literary Philosophy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/publishers-weekly-praises-blp-literary-philosophy-2/) - This pretty much sums it up: "Ten-year-old Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books, had its editorial approach to publishing contemporary literature and creative nonfiction affirmed last month when the National Endowment of the Arts chose three of its authors to receive 2013 Literature Fellowships. Twenty-five fellowships were awarded in all. “It was very - [A Radio Interview with Marcel Jolley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-radio-interview-with-marcel-jolley/) - KUFM-Montana Public Radio recently interviewed fiction writer Marcel Jolley about his new short story collection Priors, and posted the audio here. It's a lovely introduction to Marcel's work, which we adore--as evidenced by the fact that we've published three of his books! (His novel, The Following Sea, is available for pre-order; Priors and Neither Here - [Helen Marie Casey: Double Winner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/helen-marie-casey-double-winner/) - We're so pleased to share that Helen Marie Casey, author of the brilliant poetry chapbook Inconsiderate Madness and the gorgeous nonfiction title My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer, has won the 2012 Barbara Bradley Award from the New England Poetry Club and also the Anita McAndrews Award Poetry Contest from Artists in Action international, - ["Action Figure" by Adam Prince Named a Distinguished Story of 2011](https://blacklawrencepress.com/action-figure-by-adam-prince-named-a-distinguished-story-of-2011/) - Adam Prince's acclaimed short story collection continues to impress: The Best American Short Stories 2012 lists "Action Figure," a piece from The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, as a distinguished story from 2011. Congrats, Adam! Buy the collection here to see what all the buzz is about... - [Upcoming Readings: Adrian Van Young](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-adrian-van-young/) - Adrian is on fire: he's crossing the country to read from his stunning short story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything, and has a few more to go. Don't miss out on the fun (and pre-order the book here!): January 18-Write by Night in Austin, TX at 7 p.m. w/ Jess Saur and Meg McCarron - [New Review of AMERICAN MASTODON](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-american-mastodon/) - No surprise to us: The Rumpus raves about Brad Ricca's "entertaining, bold, and wholly original" poetry collection, writing "Few poets choose to share poignant emotions with a cheeky smile and a sly wink. It is rare indeed when a poet manages to successfully blend comedy with genuine emotional insight, but that is exactly what Brad - [We have a winner! Fall 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/we-have-a-winner-fall-2012-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We're so excited to announce the winner -- congratulations to Simone Muench, whose manuscript Trace has won the Fall 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition! We're also pleased to announce that Black Lawrence Press will be publishing two chaps from among our finalists: The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow by Jenny Drai and Oh My Darling by Cate Stevens-Davis. - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-60/) - "I’ve read great books of poems in which very few of the poems were previously published. I don’t think it’s an indicator of quality; I do think it might indicate how engaged a writer is with the writing world, and it’s up to each reader to determine how important that is to him or her."--Shane - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-59/) - "Know what kind of poet you are and submit to journals that publish poets like you. Don’t choose a journal via some database or website that gathers info on journals…get out there and read and follow your favorite contemporaries and submit to where they publish. Publish where you enjoy reading."--Chris Tonelli, editor and series curator, - [Fall 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2012-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists-semi-finalists/) - Here they are: the finalists & semi-finalists for the Fall 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition! Now that we have a short list to focus on, we'll be announcing a winner from among the finalists in the next week or so. Many thanks to all who sent manuscripts our way; we were blown away by the - [An excerpt from AFTER THE FOX](https://blacklawrencepress.com/an-excerpt-from-after-the-fox/) - We can't wait for the Suzor/ Cebula collaboration After the Fox to drop, and neither can the folks at Cricket Online Review--they've posted a delicious excerpt here. (Buy Sarah's equally fabulous collection The Principle Agent here.) Enjoy, and happy new year! - [New Poems by Rebecca Hazelton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-by-rebecca-hazelton/) - The current issue of Floating Wolf Quarterly features a beautiful set of new poems by Rebecca Hazelton, whose chapbook No Girls No Telephones is forthcoming from BLP. Click here to read, and you'll quickly see why we're so excited to be publishing her work! - [Research Notes: Jen Michalski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/research-notes-jen-michalski/) - Necessary Fiction invited Jen Michalski, whose Big Moose Prize-winning novel The Tide King will be released later this year, to describe how she approached research for her new collection Could You Be With Her Now. Click here to read this charming essay--and to learn how Jen's dreams play an integral role in how she builds - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-58/) - "The idea at the core of this notion of collaboration is that we don’t want to operate out of some fixed idea of what poetry or literature or the book can be but we want to constantly redefine and challenge our editorial criteria...I think that collaborative model results in amazingly varied choices and surprising juxtapositions - [My First Time: Jen Michalski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/my-first-time-jen-michalski2/) - The Quivering Pen interviews Jen Michalski, whose wondrous debut novel The Tide King won the 2012 Big Moose Prize (and is now on sale at a discounted price!). Read on to learn which childhood literary hero influenced her writing (and click here to pre-order The Tide King). - [The Cortland Review December Feature: A Tribute to Carolyn Kizer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-cortland-review-december-feature-a-tribute-to-carolyn-kizer/) - David Rigsbee, author of School of the Americas and The Pilot House, guest-edited a lovely issue of The Cortland Review in tribute to the poet Carolyn Kizer. Filled with art, video, and essays, the issue is at once poignant and celebratory. Click here to take a look. - [New Poem from Jason Tandon](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-from-jason-tandon/) - The Winter 2012 issue of New Delta Review features a striking new poem by Jason Tandon titled "Your Voice," a selection from his forthcoming collection Quality of Life (available now at the low pre-sale price of $11!). Click here to read the poem, and here to buy the book. - [New Poems from Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-from-mary-biddinger/) - Mary is one of the most prolific and talented poets out there (have we mentioned how psyched we are to be publishing more of her work?). Feast your eyes and imagination on two new poems published at Connotation Press this month. Click here to read them. (And buy both of her already-published books here. So - [New Review of MARGINALIA FOR A NATURAL HISTORY](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-marginalia-for-a-natural-history-2/) - Great reviews of Keith Taylor's stunning poetry chapbook keep rolling in: the LA Review writes "[Taylor] encapsulates a bold rendering of everyday detail within the fabric of natural and human existence. Marginalia for a Natural History, a series of eight-line, nine-syllable-per-line poems, seeks to carry out a project in formal constraints by condensing vibrant and - [Brad Ricca on 3QuarksDaily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brad-ricca-on-3quarksdaily/) - One of our favorite Ricca poems, "The Beautiful Sandwich," was recently featured on the art/science/design blog 3QuarksDaily as their "Thursday Poem." Click here to experience the poetic deliciousness (and here to buy a copy of Brad's equally delectable and prizewinning collection American Mastodon). - [Happy Holidays from Sapling and BLP!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/happy-holidays-from-sapling-and-blp/) - One year for $50 $25 or 6 months for $30 $15 Happy Holidays from Sapling and all of us here at BLP! We've got some good news for small press lovers: We were so thrilled by the response to our summer newsletter sale that we've decided to retain our sale price year-round. Same great Sapling—at - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-57/) - "Much like submitting to contests, I think it’s important to send work out throughout the writing process. It’s kind of like throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks."--Lily Ladewig, author of The Silhouettes, from this week's feature. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Center for Literary Publishing! Prism International! New Delta Review! New American Writing! Maverick - [New Poetry Collection from Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poetry-collection-from-joe-wilkins/) - We're so happy that Joe Wilkins, author of the divine Killing the Murnion Dogs, has a new poetry collection Notes From the Journey Westward out from White Pine Press. We absolutely can't wait to read it. Congrats, Joe! - [Arielle Greenberg on Shane McCrae’s "[We married in a taxi]"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/arielle-greenberg-on-shane-mccraes-we-married-in-a-taxi/) - Over at Voltage Poetry, Arielle Greenberg writes about a moving poem by Shane McCrae: "“[We married in a taxi]” is a poem whose energy and poignancy come from its constant turning...I love how the form and language of this poem work together, and how they beautifully—almost Cubist-ly—mimic the strange, contemporary phenomenon of having a very - [New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-6/) - Pank Magazine raves about Adam Prince's debut collection of stories, writing "Part of what makes Prince’s characters likeable in face of their ugliness is that they are intelligent, pensive people. One wonders about 'the difficulty of accounting for the distance between who a person was and who that person would like to be, between ourselves - [New Review of OPPRESSIVE LIGHT](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-oppressive-light-2/) - BLP's own David Rigsbee reviews Daniele Pantano's translation of Robert Walser in Issue 58 of The Cortland Review, writing "Daniele Pantano, himself a Swiss poet who has previously translated Durrenmatt and Trakl, does a superb job in making the English speak in German, even as it speaks in English, so that I found myself lifting - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-56/) - "We have a lot of themed issues and it doesn’t mean that we want you to try to shoehorn your story about breaking up with your first girlfriend into the Asian Urbanisms folio just because your protagonist eats a packet of Ramen noodles in the climactic scene. Use discretion and your best judgment."--Ravi Shankar, Editor - [New Review of HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-hollywood-buckaroo/) - The smart folks over at LitStack love Tracy DeBrincat's Big Moose Prize-winning novel Hollywood Buckaroo, and for good reason: "Thank heavens Tracy DeBrincat understands the glitter and glitz of Hollywood; the egotism, the diva moves and the dreams of avarice that go with the Beverly Hills landscape. If she didn’t have such a feel for - [New Review of DREAMWEED](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-dreamweed-2/) - Fuse Poetry Review recently reviewed Nan Watkins' new translation of Yvan Goll's poetry, writing that "Watkins has brought the German across into English more than creditably — and credibly. And, for all of my reservations and those of other readers, the Black Lawrence edition provides the original German text." Translation is a tricky thing, and - [New Interview with Sarah Suzor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-interview-with-sarah-suzor/) - Sarah Suzor's poetry collection The Principle Agent is gorgeous inside and out; we were so thrilled to accept it as the Hudson Prize winner in 2010 (and even happier to accept her forthcoming collaborative manuscript with Travis Cebula, After the Fox). This month, Sarah sat down with Derek Alger at PIF Magazine, and talks about - [First Book Interview with Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/first-book-interview-with-erica-wright/) - Erica's poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal is so lovely, we're shocked it almost had another title! Erica says "For a while, it was called Throwing Matches Around, which is from the Patty Griffin song “Icicles”: “There's always someone throwing matches around / Waving the shiny new knife.” I’m still attached to that title, - [New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-5/) - Adam Prince's collection of stories continues to impress: BULL writes "The eleven stories culminate with the omniscient, first-person account of the Class Reunion—movingly heartfelt, as well as tricky to pull off: A country club full of reminiscing Seniors can easily slip into a pool of pure, sickeningly sweet syrup. 'A. Roolette...' is one of the - [Three BLP Poets Honored by the NEA!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/three-blp-poets-honored-by-the-nea/) - Dear Friends, I am filled with pride. Last week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced the 2013 Literature Fellowships in poetry. Not one, not two, but three Black Lawrence Press poets were included! It is my honor and my pleasure to work with Lisa Fay Coutley, Shane McCrae, and David Rigsbee. I've asked each - [Shane McCrae on Writing and Race](https://blacklawrencepress.com/shane-mccrae-on-writing-and-race/) - Shane McCrae, whose forthcoming poetry chapbook won the Black River Prize, is profiled in a Slate Online piece, where he discusses his inspiration and how identity and diversity factors into his writing. We can't wait to publish his work! - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-55/) - "The conference attracts writers across genres. Poets to memoirists, humor to Young Adult to literary fiction: it’s rare to find such an amalgam."--A. W. Parsons, from this week's feature on the Auburn Writer's Conference. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Epiphany Editions! RipRap! Livingston Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our - [Poem of the Week: Marc McKee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/poem-of-the-week-marc-mckee/) - This may have been posted on November 6, but we think Marc's poetry is the best of every week. Feast your wits on "This Pantsuit Cannot Contain Us" and much more here. (And buy Fuse here!) - [Where Writers Write: Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/where-writers-write-carol-guess/) - Carol Guess, author of the ingenious poetry collection Doll Studies: Forensics, writes about writing: "In fact I don't like thinking of writing as writing, and I don't believe really in the hype about rules, about how and who, about advice, about try this or that. I think some people have very loud radios, and I'm - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-54/) - "I like variety. I like that the work we’ve published doesn’t have just one flavor, one style. At the same time, I’m pretty conventional with my tastes. I wouldn’t say I’m afraid of experimental work, but I prefer experimental tweaks to more traditional styles."--Scott Sweeney, editor and co-founder of Grey Book Press, from this week's feature. - [Craig Bernier - Winner of the 2012 St. Lawrence Book Award!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/craig-bernier-winner-of-the-2012-st-lawrence-book-award/) - We're very pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 St. Lawrence Book Award. Congratulations to Craig Bernier for taking the prize with his short story collection Your Life Idyllic! Congratulations also go to the finalists and semi-finalists of this year's St. Lawrence Book Award. Thanks to all who participated! Craig Bernier is an instructor - [Jacob Appel wins the Dundee International Book Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/jacob-appel-wins-the-dundee-international-book-prize/) - Some stellar news: Jacob Appel won the Dundee International Book Prize for his manuscript The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up. Congrats, Jacob! A well-deserved recognition. Stay tuned for a lot more of this talented author...we've accepted more than one of his manuscripts, including the Hudson prizewinner Scouting for the Reaper, and can't wait to share - [Bruce Cohen: 25 Characteristics of an Enduring Poem](https://blacklawrencepress.com/bruce-cohen-25-characteristics-of-an-enduring-poem/) - Bruce Cohen, author of two sublime poetry collections--Swerve and Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep--delivers a credo of writing advice, infused with his characteristic wit and charm, via LitBridge: "I write my first draft like there’s no tomorrow & the time bomb strapped to my chest is ticking madly away & I revise like I - [New Biddinger Poem in Guernica](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-biddinger-poem-in-guernica/) - Guernica is one of our favorite literary magazines, and we're happy to share that Mary Biddinger has a new poem featured this month. Titled "Risk Management Memo: Continuing Education," here's the opening line: Tonight’s theme is: you are a baby nihilist. It's just a tease, but you can see why we're so excited to publish - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-53/) - "If a writer is interested in becoming involved in the editorial/production/design side of the small press world, then a writer should become involved. There are endless opportunities and ways to be involved. I think what a writer might find is that a little involvement leads to lots of opportunities for involvement. There is nothing to - [Upcoming Readings: Nan Watkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-nan-watkins-2/) - Don't miss your chance to hear Nan Watkins, author of Dreamweed, the fantastic new translation of Yvan Goll, as she reads in person and on the radio in the coming weeks: Sunday, November 18th, 5-6 pm: radio interview with Jeff Davis on "WordPlay," Asheville FM. Sunday, December 2nd, 3 pm: reading at Malaprop's bookstore 55 Haywood St. Asheville, - ["Indie Presses Give the Publishing World Variety and Richness"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/indie-presses-give-the-publishing-world-variety-and-richness/) - Book reviewer Renee Nicholson recently gave BLP a shout-out in a post celebrating indie presses, and we're so grateful for her praise of our collective "beautiful books"--and we agree, obviously, with her sentiment that independent publishing provides imaginative, boundary-pushing, and provocative writing, a much-needed anecdote to (some of) what mainstream houses increasingly produce. Thank you, - [New Review of PURGATORY](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-purgatory-2/) - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has wonderful things to say about Amelia Martens' prizewinning chapbook: "Amelia Martens has resurrected the idea of purgatory in her volume of poetry by the same name: Purgatory. And it is hella good stuff. ...Not only is Martens a constructive genius, she's a talented writer. Some of her descriptions are better than - [New Review of THE LOST EPISODES OF REVIE BRYSON](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-lost-episodes-of-revie-bryson/) - The Rumpus raves about Bryan Furuness' novel: "In this wonderful debut, Furuness demonstrates the power of narrative, whether religious stories or scientific postulates, to provide a container for a person to invest belief, and therefore locate strength. He gives even this devout non-believer hope that telling, hearing, and inventing stories is central to being human, - [New Poems by Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-by-mary-biddinger-2/) - Mary has two new poems, "Risk Management Memo: Life in a Northern Town" and "Risk Management Memo: Stranger Danger," in the Fall 2012 issue of Quarterly West. There is no such thing as too many Biddinger poems, so once you've whet your appetite, buy copies of her two BLP titles here. ps: Mary's wonderful litbridge - [New Review of THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-branches-the-axe-the-missing-3/) - Corduroy Books recently reviewed Charlotte Pence's prizewinning chapbook, and writes "Ms Pence’s weirdly intriguing, come-backly-tugging book is fixated on is this light/heat source we’re drawn toward and, simultaneously, whatever we traded for the clarity or shine of fire-light. Period. It’s ultimately a book of rigorous measurement, a thin chapbook attempting in its way to consider - [BLP on Verse Daily: Wilkins, Olszewska](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-on-verse-daily-wilkins-olszewska/) - We may be a wee bit late posting this, but still, it's so exciting that two BLP authors were featured on Verse Daily this fall: in September, Daniela Olszewska's poem "Designated Driver" was published, and in October, Joe Wilkins' poem "Reckoning." Two wonderfully talented poets whom we're proud to have on our roster! (ps: buy - [A New Story by Deborah Clearman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-story-by-deborah-clearman/) - Deborah Clearman, whose novel Todos Santos is a fantastic read--and it's on sale during NaNoWriMo!--has a new story, "Turista," in The Hamilton Stone Review. Click here to read it, and here to buy Todos Santos. - [New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-4/) - The Los Angeles Review writes "Rage and desperation often mix in unexpected ways as the characters in this collection struggle with the lost legacy of privilege and the empty promises of male fantasy, as they also feebly attempt to engage with friends, lovers, and themselves in pursuit of, if not happiness, then a hard fought - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-52/) - "During the three years that I have attended the Nimrod conference, I have always been struck by the diverse ages and levels of ability of the participants. This year was no exception. On one side of the room, I heard a woman announce: 'I’m 72 and this is the first time I’ve done anything like this!' On - [Anis Shivani: New Poems, New Stories](https://blacklawrencepress.com/anis-shivani-new-poems-new-stories/) - We're happy to report that Anis Shivani, author of the sensational collection Anatolia and Other Stories, is as prolific as ever: his new collection of poems, My Tranquil War, is "daring poetry, critical, a history of art and war in the modern age, it's 'man read[ing] man to swallow him whole'" according to Poetry Daily, - [New Review of KILLING THE MURNION DOGS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-killing-the-murnion-dogs-2-2/) - Joe Wilkins, whose poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs has garnered rave reviews from all over the place, gets some love from his local paper, the Billings Gazette: "Wilkins is a young poet in full command of his art, managing a multitude of forms yet never allowing technique to distract us from the raw content - [New Review of DOLL STUDIES: FORENSICS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-doll-studies-forensics/) - HTML Giant calls Doll Studies "surreal and smart," and writes "Despite its intellectual inclinations, this collection is far from dry. In an interview with for Seattle Star, Guess explains that these poems “do something very different from factual research…Above all, I was working with sound, with music. I hope readers can engage with the sound - [Get a Manuscript Consultation from Black Lawrence Press!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/get-a-manuscript-consultation-from-black-lawrence-press/) - In celebration of NaNoWriMo, all of our novels will be on sale this month. Buy any three and get a complimentary manuscript consultation with a Black Lawrence Press editor. How to Participate: Step 1 Go to the Black Lawrence Press website and order any three novels. They are all priced between $5 and $12. Shop Black Lawrence Press - [Marc McKee: Best of the Net Nomination](https://blacklawrencepress.com/marc-mckee-best-of-the-net-nomination/) - Congrats to Marc McKee, whose poem "Suspense Account" was nominated by Jet Fuel Review for a 2012 Best of the Net prize! "Suspense Account" will appear in Marc's forthcoming collection Bewilderness, which we're so, so excited about. Stay tuned. (And buy a copy of Marc's other great book, Fuse, here.) - [New Interview with Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-interview-with-mary-biddinger/) - A gem of a midday break: this interview with poet Mary Biddinger. She's the best. (And, buy her books. They're the best, too.) - [New Review of THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-branches-the-axe-the-missing-2/) - NewPages raves about Charlotte Pence's "nuanced" and "refined" poetry chapbook: "Varied in form and length, each poem adds another link to the narrative chain that brings together a complex and sophisticated extended poem that dwells on our evolutionary desire to communicate...Displaying a keen sense for nuanced storytelling while remaining in the realm of carefully refined - [Thank you, Boston Book Festival!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/thank-you-boston-book-festival/) - Hurricane Sandy has waylaid our blogosphere a bit, but we had such a good time at the Boston Book Festival and want to send a belated thank you to everyone who pulled the event together. It was especially fun to share a table with BLP author Helen Marie Casey, whose two books--Inconsiderate Madness, a poetry - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-51/) - “I think poetry publishing is thriving, more than ever before! Bookstores as avenues for book distribution are mostly gone, but SPD is stronger than ever. We trade books, give books away—more poetry books are circulating than ever before. Of course there’s no money in it, and for many that fact is a crisis. However, there - [Early Bird Special!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/early-bird-special/) - Each year Black Lawrence Press awards The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. _____ Deadline: January 31, 2013 Entry Fee: $25 Early Bird Deadline: November - [Mary Biddinger in Gulf Coast](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddinger-in-gulf-coast/) - In case you couldn't tell, we here at Black Lawrence Press love Mary Biddinger. Here's just one more reason we think she's tops. - [Chapbook Competition Deadline Extended](https://blacklawrencepress.com/chapbook-competition-deadline-extended/) - DEADLINE EXTENDED- As many of our friends and colleagues have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, we are pushing the Black River Chapbook Competition deadline to November 15. Stay safe, stay dry, and keep writing!Guidelines and instructions here: https://blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit - [The 2012 St. Lawrence Book Award - Finalists Announced!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2012-st-lawrence-book-award-finalists-announced/) - Fiction Finalists:Your Life Idyllic - Craig BernierThorn - Evan Morgan WilliamsLovesick Blues - Jon SealyDocent Posts of New York - Abby WalthausenQuantum Entanglement - John BiggsDon't Tell Me - Chip LivingstonFiction Semi-Finalists:Dead Ends and U-Turns - Christine GrimesLyrics for Rock Stars - Heather SappenfieldAlone - Kathryn ShaverHatchlings - Emily DoakTaking the Cure - James ReddBoth Ways - [CANCELLED: Tonight's Performance of People Are Strange with Eric Gamalinda](https://blacklawrencepress.com/cancelled-tonights-performance-of-people-are-strange-with-eric-gamalinda/) - Sorry, folks: due to the threatening storm and MTA shutdown, tonight's performance with Eric Gamalinda at Le Poisson Rouge has been cancelled. We will reschedule! Stay safe, stay dry. - [BLP author Rebecca Hazelton wins the Yes Yes Books Vinyl 45 Chapbook competition!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-author-rebecca-hazelton-wins-the-yes-yes-books-vinyl-45-chapbook-competition/) - Awesome news from BLP author Rebecca Hazelton: her chapbook Bad Star is the winner of the Vinyl 45 chapbook competition and will be published by Yes Yes Books in 2013! You can check Rebecca out and stay tuned to her news on her blog. Congrats, Rebecca! - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-50/) - “I like pop culture references (particularly absurd ones), and I also like to see poems that respond creatively to current events: for example, it was a real honor to publish a poem responding to the devastation of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti—and to cable TV’s otherworldly response to the earthquake. Another example is the Poets for - [New Review of DREAMWEED](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-dreamweed/) - Nan Watkins' new translation of Yvan Goll's poems, Dreamweed, is so good we can't put it down. Literary Aficionado agrees: "Nan Watkins is responsible for bringing this first English translation of the final poems of the brilliant 20th century poet Yvan Goll and such a gift it is. Her introduction to this collection almost stands - [New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-3/) - Great reviews keep coming in for Adam Prince's dark and intelligent collection of stories: the Rumpus writes "[M]ore than about beauty or ugliness, these are stories about inertia. On the surface, they’re about men driven to break the inertia that keeps their lives anchored in conventionality. Underneath, they’re about the other kind of inertia, the - [Reminder: BLP at the Boston Book Festival: Tomorrow!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/reminder-blp-at-the-boston-book-festival-tomorrow/) - If you'll be near Boston this weekend, make sure to visit Copley Square and the Boston Book Festival! BLP will be holding court at Booth 14 from 10am-5pm, showing off our ridiculously awesome catalog. Special bonus: author Helen Marie Casey, whose biography of Florence Hosmer is so gorgeous, will sign copies of her book at - [TJ Beitelman and Black Lawrence Press Team Up for a Fourth Time](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tj-beitelman-and-black-lawrence-press-team-up-for-a-fourth-time/) - I've been asked a number of times to describe the best part of my job as an editor. My answer: discovery. What I love about being an editor is also what I love about being a reader--finding an author who has written something wonderful, something that shifts the way I look at the world, the - [Upcoming Readings: Hayden Saunier](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-hayden-saunier/) - Don't miss Hayden, author of the fabulous poetry collection Tips for Domestic Travel, as she reads across Pennsylvania--plus a stop in NYC!--this fall: Nov. 1 6:00 pm Doylestown, PA. Opening reception for "Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image" Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA Photographs and poems by various artists and poets Nov. 11 2:00- 4:00 - [New Review of OPPRESSIVE LIGHT](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-oppressive-light/) - Daniele Pantano's sublime translation of Robert Walser's poems continues to get great reviews: Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene writes "Pantano, himself a Swiss poet, does admirable work in conveying the intensity and starkness of Walser’s darkly euphoric vision. The original German is printed on the opposite pages for those interested in Walser’s rhyme - [New Review of THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-branches-the-axe-the-missing/) - Grady Harp, via Literary Aficionado, has lovely things to say about Charlotte Pence's prizewinning poetry chapbook: "[Pence] establishes herself quite quietly as an artist to heed. The collection of poems is only 20 pages in length, but the manner in which she ties together all of the poems in this little tome, each poem enhancing - [Others Will Enter the Gates: Call for Essay Submissions](https://blacklawrencepress.com/others-will-enter-the-gates-call-for-essay-submissions/) - We're thrilled to announce a call for submissions for our forthcoming anthology of essays by immigrant poets in America. Abayomi Animashaun, author of The Giving of Pears, will edit. Here are the details: Abstract: No two immigrant poets are the same. Even those from the same country don’t necessarily answer to the same poetics or, for - [Upcoming Reading: Amelia Martens](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-amelia-martens/) - Amelia Martens, whose poetry chapbook Purgatory won the Black River Chapbook Competition, will read this Thursday at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Peducah, KY, at 2:00pm. Here are the details: October 25, 2:00-3:00pm – MLRC Library Reading Room Amelia Martens will be reading from her chapbook Purgatory in the Matheson Library on October - [Mary Biddinger on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddinger-on-verse-daily-2/) - Today's Verse Daily features none other than the marvelous Mary Biddinger! Click here to read "Oh No She Didn't But Then She Did" (then click here to buy copies of her two beautiful BLP titles). - [Brad Ricca wins "Best of Cleveland 2012: Poetry Debut"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brad-ricca-wins-best-of-cleveland-2012-poetry-debut/) - A huge congrats to Brad Ricca, whose debut--and prizewinning--poetry collection American Mastodon was recognized by Cleveland Magazine as the best poetry debut for 2012! It is that good. Don't miss out...buy a copy of this much-loved book here. - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-49/) - “I believe that publishing a poetry book with a huge publishing company isn’t a smart move. They aren’t interested in new poets and they won’t do any publicity for books that have very little chance of selling. A small press has more to lose and is heavily invested in making a splash in the poetry - [Hardy Jones at the Louisiana Book Festival: October 27](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hardy-jones-at-the-louisiana-book-festival-october-27/) - If you're planning to stop by the Louisiana Book Festival next weekend, make sure to see Hardy Jones, author of the novel Every Bitter Thing. He'll read at 10am, and then will sign copies starting at 11am. Details here. - [Eric Gamalinda's PEOPLE ARE STRANGE: Reading and Performance](https://blacklawrencepress.com/eric-gamalindas-people-are-strange-reading-and-performance/) - NYC: On October 28 at 7pm, Eric Gamalinda will stage a reading/performance of PEOPLE ARE STRANGE, a new collection of stories by Eric Gamalinda. Actors Alexis Camins, Andrew Eisenman, Airrion Doss and Ana Kayne will perform a radio play version of “Formerly Known as Bionic Boy,” about a personal “psychic” and adopted son of the - [Upcoming Readings: Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-carol-guess-2/) - NYC: Don't miss your chance to meet Carol Guess, author of the eerie and wonderful poetry collections Doll Studies: Forensics and Index of Placebo Effects. She'll read with the Stain reading series in Brooklyn on Friday, October 26 at 7pm, and then at the Alice Austen House on Saturday, October 27 at 4pm. (And don't - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-48/) - “In publishing any book, my primary goal is to make the author happy. Whatever that takes. For this reason, there is a vetting process involved, one based on extensive phone conversations with a prospective author, prior to my committing to publishing their book. I don’t like working with neurotics, for example. By contrast, perverse sex acts, - [In Order to Form a More Perfect Union: The Movie Prequel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/in-order-to-form-a-more-perfect-union-the-movie-prequel/) - In celebration of TJ Beitelman's new poetry collection In Order to Form a More Perfect Union, feast your eyes and ears upon this delightful YouTube playlist documenting the collection's assembly. You won't be sorry. (Buy the book here.) - [Laura McCullough in The American Poetry Review](https://blacklawrencepress.com/laura-mccullough-in-the-american-poetry-review/) - Laura McCullough, whose new poetry collection Rigger Death and Hoist Another will be released early next year, has four new poems in the September/October issue of The American Poetry Review. Click here to buy a paper copy. (And here to purchase Laura's first BLP collection, the wonderful and provocative Speech Acts.) - [Charlotte Pence & Adam Prince at the Southern Festival of Books: This Saturday](https://blacklawrencepress.com/charlotte-pence-adam-prince-at-the-southern-festival-of-books-this-saturday/) - Don't miss Charlotte Pence (The Branches, the Axe, the Missing) and Adam Prince (The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men) at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville this weekend! Saturday, October 13 3:00-4:30 pm, Nashville Public Library, Library Auditorium Ladies, Gentlemen, Losers and Loners: Three Story Collections Adam Ross, Adam Prince, Claire Vaye Watkins Saturday, - [Upcoming Readings: Nan Watkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-nan-watkins/) - North Carolina: Nan Watkins, who translated the poetry of of Yvan Goll in her exciting new collection Dreamweed, will read all over your fine state this month! See below for details, and click here to buy a copy. Saturday, October 13, 2012, 3:00 pm Reading/Discussion/Signing Montford Books 31 Montford Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 Monday, October - [Upcoming Reading: Russel Swensen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-russel-swensen/) - NYC: Celebrate the release of Russel Swensen's prizewinning poetry chapbook SANTA ANA next Thursday, October 18, at Bar 2A. Free drinks and killer poems: how can you resist? Thursday, October 18 @ 7pm Bar 2A 25 Avenue A New York, NY 10003 - [Book Trailer for HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO](https://blacklawrencepress.com/book-trailer-for-hollywood-buckaroo/) - If you aren't already intrigued by Tracy DeBrincat's Big Moose Prize-winning novel (case in point, check out this blurb: If Kurt Vonnegut teamed up with J.D. Salinger to write a teaser for Six Feet Under and The Coen Brothers filmed it, you’d have a sense of the gorgeous, off-beat, poetic, deep, astonishingly hilarious, intimate, touching family of characters - [New Review of SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-saint-monica-5/) - Glint Literary Journal recently reviewed Mary Biddinger's chapbook Saint Monica, and after a careful reading, concludes "How is it that a saint survives in the twentieth century? Biddinger’s collection seems to suggest that she does so by nurturing an inner sinner." Read more here, and buy a copy of this acclaimed chapbook here. (Also, keep - [New Review of PEOPLE ARE STRANGE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-people-are-strange-2/) - Eric Gamalinda's enigmatic collection of short stories continues to garner praise: the Asian American Literature Fans write "Ah, what a pleasure to be reading Eric Gamalinda’s first American fictional publication...We revel in the idiosyncratic nature of these stories and we’ll hope that Gamalinda has far more in store for us with fictional publications stateside." Click - [Nick McRae wins the De Novo Poetry Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/nick-mcrae-wins-the-de-novo-poetry-prize-2/) - Some great news: Nick McRae's first full-length collection, The Name Museum, was named the winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize, and will be published next year by C&R Press. Congrats, Nick! Keep an eye out for his forthcoming chapbook Mountain Redemption, winner of the Fall 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition. (And also, if you're near Columbus, - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-47/) - “Middlebury is only a shuttle-ride away, but the Bread Loaf campus itself feels very far away from real life—something about driving up the mountain to get there; something about the fact that your cell phones don’t work."--Caitlin Hayes, from this week's profile of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. Also, we feature the latest from - [The Great Write Off Starts Tomorrow!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-great-write-off-starts-tomorrow/) - Starting October 3, BLP and Dzanc Books will participate in the 2012 Great Write Off, a fundraiser to support a bunch of worth literary non-profits, including the Dzanc Prize and the Writer in Residence Program. Both Diane Goettel and Angela Leroux-Lindsey will represent BLP, and would love your sponsorship (even $5 makes a difference). Click here - [A New Story by Jen Michalski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-story-by-jen-michalski/) - This is sure to brighten your Tuesday: Big Moose prizewinner Jen Michalski has a new short story, "The Goodbye Party," at The Literarian. Click here to read it, and get excited for her novel The Tide King, due out in 2013! BONUS: check out Jen's hilarious advice column, Good Human, penned by her wily and - [THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING is a "is a powerful, dynamic work"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-branches-the-axe-the-missing-is-a-is-a-powerful-dynamic-work/) - The good folks over at The Rumpus recently reviewed Charlotte Pence's prizewinning poetry chapbook The Branches, The Axe, The Missing, writing "The language here is staccato and luminous, sonically and metaphorically reflecting the first intimations of community, of humanity encircling fire to feed and protect itself. Playful and rich, the language shifts again into the - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-46/) - “We are looking for work that moves—moves us as readers, moves on the page, moves out of the expected. We want good poetry in all its many forms."--Natalie Young, Editor & Graphic Designer at Sugar House Review, from this week's feature interview. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Nightboat Books! Tarpaulin Sky! Carnegie Mellon University Press! Sapling - [A New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men/) - The folks over at the Midwest Book Review recently reviewed Adam Prince's funny and smart short story collection The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men: "No matter where our life takes us, we want something more out of life, something beautiful. The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men explores the psyche and imagination of the male species as author - [Thirteen Ways of Looking at Genealogy, Ancestry, and the (Re)making of Selves](https://blacklawrencepress.com/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-genealogy-ancestry-and-the-remaking-of-selves/) - The Michigan Quarterly Review recently worked with several writers (including one of our favorite poets, Mary Biddinger) on a unique and cool project on genealogy: click here to check it out. The collection Mary references, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, won't come out until 2014, but you can buy both of her other fabulous collections - [Upcoming Reading: Bruce Cohen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-bruce-cohen/) - We're so excited that Bruce Cohen's new poetry collection, Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep, is almost here--and if you're near Connecticut on October 11 at 6pm, you can celebrate by hearing Bruce read! Details here. (And pick up a copy of both of his wonderful collections here.) - [Diane Goettel at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival](https://blacklawrencepress.com/diane-goettel-at-the-hong-kong-international-literary-festival/) - Save the date: our brilliant and lovely Executive Editor, Diane Goettel, will take part in a writer's symposium sponsored by the Hong Kong International Literary Festival on Saturday, October 13, at 1:00pm. Her panel is titled "The Writer's Life," and there is no doubt Diane will be an exciting and relevant participant. Don't miss it! - [A New Interview with Kevin Pilkington](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-interview-with-kevin-pilkington/) - Inside Scoop Live recently had the pleasure of speaking with author Kevin Pilkington, whose new novel Summer Shares is out now. Click here to listen to Kevin's thoughts on new technology, the Hamptons, and more. Also, Kevin's fantastic poetry collection, The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, was recently named as a finalist for the Binghamton - [The Best Literary Weekend, Period.](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-best-literary-weekend-period/) - We may be geographically biased, but we think the Brooklyn Book Festival is the absolute--and this year's was better than ever! We rocked a reading at BookCourt; we stopped by the BBF Gala; we met thousands of new friends at the book fair; and we sold lots of books. All on one of the most - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-45/) - “While experience ranged on the side of both panelists and those in attendance, the crowd had one thing in common: an unconditional love of words. Whether this pursuit was helping them pay the bills or draining them of their sustenance and spirit, this shared passion was more than enough to bring this certain group together on - [Bryan Furuness Pre-Sale (plus bonus e-book!)](https://blacklawrencepress.com/bryan-furuness-pre-sale/) - Bryan Furuness's debut novel The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson is already generating buzz, and for good reason: it's funny, and smart, and beautifully crafted. Happily, we're taking pre-orders for only $12--and we'll throw in a bonus e-book collection of short stories, Apocrypha, for free! These additional stories by Bryan introduce Revie Bryson, and will - [Abayomi Animashaun: On Being A Nigerian Poet](https://blacklawrencepress.com/abayomi-animashaun-on-being-a-nigerian-poet/) - Abayomi Animashaun, author of the prizewinning collection The Giving of Pears, writes about his poetics and responsibilities as a Nigerian poet in an essay titled "A Plural Imagination: On Being A Nigerian Poet," which appeared in The Adirondack Review. (Also, a big congrats to Abayo, who recently got married! Celebrate by buying a copy of his - [Sapling summer sale extended through September!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/sapling-summer-sale-extended-through-september/) - We were so thrilled by the amazing response to our summer sale that we've decided to extend our sale price through September. Same great Sapling—at half the price. It's a win-win! Visit our website to subscribe for a year at the reduced price of just $25, or you can choose to sign up for six - [How A Poem Happens: Hayden Saunier](https://blacklawrencepress.com/how-a-poem-happens-hayden-saunier/) - Over at the How A Poem Happens blog, Hayden Saunier reveals the story behind her poem "Day Players in the Makeup Trailer," which appeared in her sublime collection Tips for Domestic Travel. (Click here to buy a copy.) - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-44/) - “As a press specializing in poetry and criticism, we are practically immune to market considerations; or, more accurately, there are no market considerations for us to need to be immune to. We have near-complete freedom and can adjust course at whim."--D. H. Tracy, Executive Editor of Antilever Press, from this week's feature. Also, we feature the - [Brooklyn Book Festival!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brooklyn-book-festival/) - Join Black Lawrence Press in celebrating the Brooklyn Book Festival! We're hosting a stellar reading on Saturday at BookCourt, and will be showing off our beautiful books at table #54 all day Sunday (with special guests). We can't wait to see you there! - [Upcoming Reading: Sarah Suzor and Travis Cebula in Boulder, CO](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-sarah-suzor-and-travis-cebula-in-boulder-co/) - Colorado-area friends: Don't miss your chance to hear Sarah Suzor and Travis Cebula, two fabulous BLP poets who will read from their forthcoming compilation After the Fox. Friday, September 21 @ 7pm Innisfree Bookstore Boulder, CO - [New Poems from Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-from-erica-wright/) - Erica Wright, author of the gorgeous poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal, has four new poems for you to enjoy: "Insurance of the Future" at Vinyl, and "Mortuary Man," "Carpentry," and "Discrepancies" at B O D Y. (And while you're admiring Erica's work, pick up a copy of Instructions here.) - [Congratulations, Shane McCrae!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/congratulations-shane-mccrae/) - Dear Friends, It is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Spring, 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition. Congratulations to Shane McCrae for winning the competition with his manuscript Nonfiction! We are also pleased to announce that two other chapbooks have been selected for publication. Black Lawrence Press will publish No Girls No Telephones by Rebecca Hazelton - [New Review of SIGNS OF LIFE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-signs-of-life/) - Grady Harp gives Norman Waksler's Signs of Life five stars, writing "SIGNS OF LIFE is that sort of book that begs to be read slowly and with return visits - not because it is complex and requires scrutiny-like attention to style, but because Norman Waksler is a writer of such impressive gifts that he is - [Thursday in New York: Deborah Clearman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/thursday-in-new-york-deborah-clearman/) - Join Deborah Clearman, author of the thrilling novel Todos Santos, this Thursday evening as she discusses her experiences in Todos Santos, Guatemala, the town that inspired her novel. Also speaking is Olivia Carrescia, who produced three award-winning documentaries about Todos Santos. Thursday, September 13 at 6:00pm La Casa Azul Bookstore 143 East 103rd Street New York, - [New Poem by Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-joe-wilkins/) - Joe Wilkins, author of the acclaimed poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, has a new poem titled "A Story We Might Follow" published in Nashville Review. Click here to read it, and here to buy a copy of Killing the Murnion Dogs. - [Helen Marie Casey wins the 2012 Barbara Bradley Award](https://blacklawrencepress.com/helen-marie-casey-wins-the-2012-barbara-bradley-award/) - Congratulations to Helen, whose lyric poem "What Winter Brings" won the 2012 Barbara Bradley poetry prize from the New England Poetry Club! This poem isn't currently available online, but click here to check out her two wonderful BLP titles. - [Adam Prince and the Myth of Inspiration](https://blacklawrencepress.com/adam-prince-and-the-myth-of-inspiration/) - The Story Prize interviews Adam Prince, author of the short story collection The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, about his thoughts on talent and inspiration: "I think inspiration is largely a myth. It’s tied to the myth of talent, which makes writers seem like we’re special people, sage-types who channel the infinite. Of course, I’m flattered - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-43/) - “My ideal reader, instead of reading from start to finish, would pick the book up every so often and stumble across a new story. I like to think of the book as a territory rather than a narrative.”—James Tadd Adcox, author of The Map of the System of Human Knowledge, from this week’s feature article. - [Brooklyn Book Festival Reading: September 22 at BookCourt](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brooklyn-book-festival-reading-september-22-at-bookcourt/) - Celebrate the Brooklyn Book Festival with Tracy DeBrincat, Laura McCullough, Charlotte Pence, Adam Prince, and Brad Ricca at BookCourt on Saturday, September 22, at 4pm! Event details here. On Sunday, be sure to stop by Table 54 to see all of our beautiful books, meet BLP authors, and enjoy the finest book fair in the - [New Review of SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-saint-monica-4/) - Joshua Ware posted a thoughtful review of Mary Biddinger's poetry chapbook SAINT MONICA, writing "To ignore physical pain, the sexualized self, and financial strife for the ceremonial crowning of a statue necessarily leads to a future life of abuse in and subservience to a manipulative, abusive, and patriarchal culture that values both misogyny and perseverance - [New Review of PURGATORY](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-purgatory/) - Grady Harp calls Amelia Martens's poetry chapbook PURGATORY "disturbing in that positive sort of way, acting as a signpost to each of us to look around at memories while they are being formed instead of depending on the alterations of time and outside influences that may scar them and make them nightmares." If that doesn't make - [New Flash Fiction by Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-flash-fiction-by-carol-guess/) - Carol Guess, author of DOLL STUDIES: FORENSICS, has a new collection of flash fiction available from Matter Press titled INDEX OF PLACEBO EFFECTS. Click here to check it out, and here to buy a copy of DOLL STUDIES. - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-42/) - “When we weren’t print, we were looking to publish segments of a whole work because we didn’t want to demand a lot. The most obvious thing e-chaps do is make public a taste of the work, so others can see it & seek out an author’s full work.”—J. Michael Wahlgren, Editor of Gold Wake Press, - ["April Snow"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/april-snow/) - The new issue of the Spoon River Poetry Review is out with work from Jean Valentine, Marcela Sulak, Joshua Corey, Jeff Friedman, Hoa Nguyen, Yu Xiang, Rachel Zucker, and a poem by Jason Tandon: APRIL SNOW After we have pushed back from the Easter table, retired to the front porch bathed in a late afternoon - [Spring, 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition - Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2012-black-river-chapbook-competition-finalists/) - At long last, the finalists for the Spring, 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition. We look forward to announcing the winner soon. Poetry Finalists Or, Gone - Deborah Flanagan Left-Handed Saturns - Kristin Abraham No Girls No Telephones - Rebecca Hazelton & Brittany Cavallaro Nonfiction - Shane McRae This is not a sky - Jessica Piazza The - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-41/) - “Honestly, I feel very awkward about publicity and promotion, and I know I shouldn't. It's a necessary part of being a published author, perhaps especially as a poet, and even more as a small press author. Fortunately, Facebook is indeed a mighty force, and friends are kind. Friends are the best press.”—Anne Cecelia Holmes, author - [An Excerpt: AFTER THE FOX](https://blacklawrencepress.com/an-excerpt-after-the-fox/) - Enjoy a preview of AFTER THE FOX, a forthcoming collaborative collection from Sarah Suzor and Travis Cebula, in Otoliths. We absolutely can't wait for this one. (In the meantime, pick up a copy of Sarah's gorgeous book THE PRINCIPLE AGENT here.) - [BLP Reading: Saturday, September 22](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-reading-saturday-september-22/) - Celebrate the Brooklyn Book Festival with Black Lawrence Press! Four fabulous authors will read from their new books: Tracy DeBrincat (HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO), Charlotte Pence (THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING), Adam Prince (THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN) and Brad Ricca (AMERICAN MASTODON). Saturday, September 22 4:00pm BookCourt / 163 Court Street Brooklyn - [New Review of DOLL STUDIES: FORENSICS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-doll-studies/) - Carol Guess's inventive poetry collection Doll Studies: Forensics continues to get great reviews: New Pages writes "Macabre and tragic but with a sense of reverence for the work, the prose poems enact an only half-known narrative, the narrative of aftermath. Transfigured from visual to textual representation, the poems help the audience garner another understanding of - [Eric Gamalinda is "an artist with imagination"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/eric-gamalinda-is-an-artist-with-imagination/) - NewPages recently reviewed Eric Gamalinda's collection of short stories People Are Strange, writing "After reading each of Gamalinda’s stories, I couldn’t wait to see what would come next. He is an artist with imagination who did not disappoint me in this wonderful collection of episodes." We agree! Click here to read the entire review, and - [Hayden Saunier on "Wooden Bowl of Spangled Fruit"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hayden-saunier-on-wooden-bowl-of-spangled-fruit/) - This month, on the Beloit Poetry Journal blog, Hayden Saunier writes about her inspiration for the fabulous poem "Wooden Bowl of Spangled Fruit." You can also listen to her sublime reading here. For more of Hayden's poetry, pick up a copy of her delicious Tips for Domestic Travel here. - [OPPRESSIVE LIGHT is a "remarkable book"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/oppressive-light-is-a-remarkable-book/) - Literary Aficionado raves about Daniele Pantano's new work of translation Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser: "This book honors the memory and the artistry of a great poet: the poetry is beautifully translated and edited by Swiss poet Daniele Pantano. It is a remarkable book and one that every lover of poetry should read - - [Upcoming Reading: Brad Ricca](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-brad-ricca/) - Everyone near Cleveland, Ohio, save the date: Brad Ricca, author of the prizewinning poetry collection American Mastodon, will read at Visible Voice Books on Friday, August 31, at 7pm. Don't miss it! - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-40/) - “I look for poems to give me goosebumps, to surprise and delight me, and to sometimes break my heart. As an editor, I need to see that a poem takes risks. I would rather publish an adventurous poem that has a misstep or two, versus a slick and polished safe poem.”—Mary Biddinger, Editor-in-Chief, along with - [Backlist Bargain: SIGNS OF LIFE by Norman Waksler](https://blacklawrencepress.com/backlist-bargain-signs-of-life-by-norman-waksler/) - Through the end of the month, BLP's Backlist Bargain features Norman Waksler's fantastic short story collection Signs of Life for just $5! Click here to buy. - [New Poems from Sandra Kolankiewicz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-from-sandra-kolankiewicz-2/) - Sandra Kolankiewicz, author of the lovely chapbook Turning Inside Out, has had a prolific year: she published 32 poems! Click here, here, here, and here to read some of her recent fantastic work, and here to treat yourself to a copy of Turning Inside Out. - [Reviews of AGAINST THE WORKSHOP](https://blacklawrencepress.com/reviews-of-against-the-workshop/) - Ans Shivani, author of the acclaimed short story collection Anatolia and Other Stories, recently released a collection of critical essays titled Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies (Texas Review Press). Prairie Schooner writes: "Shivani critiques this literary mainstay that has so permeated the life of American writers that at times it seems absolutely unavoidable. Very little - [New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-2-2/) - Corduroy Books raves about Adam Prince's debut short story collection: "Combining the thematic grittiness of Stewart O’Nan with the narrative passion of Raymond Carver, The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men signals the debut of a writer whose vision is at once both alarming and utterly mesmerizing." Click here to read the entire review, and here to buy a copy - [Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop](https://blacklawrencepress.com/kenyon-review-writers-workshop/) - Wherein Sapling friend Amy Wright shares the highlights of her time at the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop in Gambier, OH. By Amy Wright The Basics: Location: Kenyon College Campus, Gambier, OH Dates: June 16-23, 2012 (The third week of June on average.) What’s offered: Workshops in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry; daily readings by Kenyon Review Workshop faculty, fellows and participants - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-39/) - “Likely because the workshop organizers are down to earth and value talent over accolades, this workshop attracts a diverse demographic. I enjoyed conversations in the dining hall with novelists and professors, an octogenarian, a bartender, and a Brooklyn high school teacher. I appreciate the interaction between writers at varying levels of comfort and publications experience, - [New Poem by Bruce Cohen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-bruce-cohen-2/) - Bruce Cohen, whose smart new collection Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep will be released later this year, has a poem titled "Sour Candy" featured in the Summer 2012 issue of Witness. Click here to read it, and here to pre-order Placebo Junkies. - [On the Road: Charlotte Pence and Adam Prince](https://blacklawrencepress.com/on-the-road-charlotte-pence-and-adam-prince/) - This summer, two of BLP's authors, poet Charlotte Pence and fiction writer Adam Prince, hit the road to promote their new books--and as it happens, they're married, and accompanied by their littlest and most adorable fan, daughter Esme Eleven! Check out our facebook page for more photo evidence of their successful book tour. - [ORIGINS: Shelley Puhak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/origins-shelley-puhak/) - Origins talks to poet Shelley Puhak, author of the award-winning colection Stalin in Aruba, about her inspiration for two poems that appeared in the summer issue of jmww. Shelley writes "These two poems about doomed love affairs spring from my own love affairs, both with the city of Baltimore and the form of dramatic monologue." - [PLOUGHSHARES Interview with Deborah Clearman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/ploughshares-interview-with-deborah-clearman/) - Deborah Clearman, author of the fantastic novel Todos Santos, was recently interviewed in Ploughshares, where she talks about the creative writing workshops she's led every week for the past year for women in jail on Rikers Island. She writes, "This has been an eye-opening and moving experience for me. The stories I've heard and talent I've - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-38/) - “At any one time, there’s always so much new writing, in such a wide range of voices and styles, guided by so many different influences and theories, that no journal could contain or represent all of it. To me the job of an editor is to channel some of that energy and shape it to - [Upcoming Reading: Jo Ann Clark](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-jo-ann-clark/) - If you're in Maine, mark your calendars for a wonderful weekend reading at the York Art Association, where brand-new BLP author Jo Ann Clark will unite with other Maine poets to share their work. Friday, August 3 @ 7pm York Art Association 394 York Street (Rt. 1A) York, Maine - [New Poem by Sarah Suzor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-sarah-suzor/) - Sarah Suzor, whose widely-acclaimed poetry collection The Principle Agent was released last year, has a featured poem titled "If you were smart" in the new issue of OmniVerse. Click here to read it, and here to buy a copy of The Principle Agent. - [SUMMER SHARES: A New Novel by Kevin Pilkington](https://blacklawrencepress.com/summer-shares-a-new-novel-by-kevin-pilkington-2/) - Kevin Pilkington, whose sensational poetry collection The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree was released last year, is celebrating the release of his debut novel, Summer Shares. He's promoting the title around New York, and is set to appear at Author's Night at the East Hampton Library on August 11, an event co-chaired by Alec - [New Poem by Shelley Puhak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-shelley-puhak/) - Shelley Puhak, author of the exceptional poetry collection Stalin in Aruba, has a new poem featured in The Missouri Review titled "Letter to an Old Flame." Click here to read it, and here to buy a copy of Stalin in Aruba. - [New Story by Deborah Clearman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-story-by-deborah-clearman/) - Fiction writer Deborah Clearman, whose sensational novel Todos Santos was released last year, has a new story featured in Green Hills Literary Lantern titled "The Flor." Click here to read it (Deborah writes that "this story will make you think twice before climbing on a chicken bus in Guatemala") and here to buy a copy of - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-37/) - “Given all of its darkness and doubt about language’s ability to convey meaning, I wanted to create a space of excess meaning where language is full of possibility.”—Amaranth Borsuk, on writing her collection Handiwork, from this week’s feature article. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: NANO Fiction! Country Music! McSweeney's! Sapling goes - [A New Novella by James Morrison](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-novella-by-james-morrison/) - James Morrison, whose short story collection Said and Done was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and winner of a ForeWord Book of the Year award, has written a new novella titled Everyday Ghosts, published in a series designed to promote adult literacy. Click here for more details, and here to buy a copy of the exceptional - [The Energy Within: An Interview with Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-energy-within-an-interview-with-carol-guess/) - Carol Guess, author of the remarkable poetry collection Doll Studies: Forensics, recently sat down with FlashFiction.net to talk about her writing process, the importance of compression, and her thoughts on MFA programs. Click here to read the interview, and here to buy a copy of her book. - [A New Poem by Jason Tandon](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-by-jason-tandon/) - Ascent recently published a lovely new poem by Jason Tandon titled "Christmas Lights," which will also appear in his forthcoming collection Quality of Life, to be released early next year. Click here to read the poem, and here to buy a copy of his prizewinning debut collection Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt. - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-36/) - “You figure out what you feel is valuable quickly when you’re going through hundreds of submissions and we’ve become better writers for it. You learn how to better critique your own writing and what projects to take on yourself.”—Mark Rockswold & Erin Costello of SpringGun Press on being small press editors, from this week’s feature - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-35/) - “Though a thousand people may be in the audience, the experience of sitting enclosed by stone walls and surrounded by the color and scent of blossoming flowers provides a level of intimacy unusual for a performance venue.”—Joan Kantor, on the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, from this week’s feature article. Also, we feature the latest from the - [Poets Online: Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/poets-online-erica-wright/) - Erica Wright's poem "If You Have Two Lovers and One Is Imaginary" is featured on Poets Online as their current writing prompt, and they've also re-posted a piece she wrote about her writing process during National Poetry Month. What a great way to get the creative juices flowing! (Another tip: buy a copy of her - [Upcoming Readings: Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-joe-wilkins-2/) - Joe Wilkins, author of the widely acclaimed poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs (and the new memoir The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry), is on the road this month: don't miss out! The Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, Montana 7:00 pm, Tuesday, July 17 Barnes & Noble, Billings, Montana 7:30 pm, Thursday, July - [THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN: Bathroom Flash Fiction](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-bathroom-flash-fiction/) - Friends: if you come across one of Adam Prince's brilliant bathroom ads, featuring flash fiction from his new collection The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, snap a photo and email us (editors@blacklawrencepress.com). These teasers are featured in 15 different cities, offering men everywhere a glimpse of the awesomeness that is Adam's book! (Or you can - [July Sale: Creative Nonfiction](https://blacklawrencepress.com/july-sale-creative-nonfiction/) - Don't miss out on our creative nonfiction sale--prices as low as $5! - [Helen Marie Casey on Florence Hosmer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/helen-marie-casey-on-florence-hosmer/) - Helen Marie Casey, author of the exquisite Florence Hosmer biography My Dear Girl, recently visited Miss Hosmer's studio in Sudbury, Mass., to speak with local Girl Scouts about Hosmer and her passion for art. Click here to buy a copy of this wonderful book. - [Congrats, Lisa Fay Coutley!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/congrats-lisa-fay-coutley/) - Great news: Lisa Fay Coutley, author of the gorgeous poetry chapbook In the Carnival of Breathing, was recently awarded the Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize through the University of Utah. Well deserved! - [Five Stars for Marcel Jolley's PRIORS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/five-stars-for-marcel-jolleys-priors/) - Grady Harp raves about Marcel Jolley's latest collection of short stories, writing "[F]or this reader one of the most exhilarating aspects of the writing is the author's inimitable ability to recreate a sense of place. These stories all take place in the Pacific Northwest, with Portland, Oregon being the lead character. How Jolley is so - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-34/) - “It is crucial to us to build and sustain a relationship with our contributors through open communication and accessibility. Too often editors are not accessible to their contributors or simply unapproachable.”—Helen Vitoria, Editor in Chief of THRUSH poetry journal, from this week’s feature interview. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Texas Review - [New Review of IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-in-the-carnival-of-breathing/) - Blackbird's Spring 2012 issue features a new review of Lisa Fay Coutley's beautiful poetry chapbook In the Carnival of Breathing, writing that "Coutley and Black Lawrence Press have created a small, smart vessel with In the Carnival of Breathing. With perfect binding, blurbs, and a hip design, Coutley’s chapbook feels like the essence of a full - [New Review of PEOPLE ARE STRANGE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-people-are-strange/) - Grady Harp reviews Eric Gamalinda's new short story collection People are Strange, writing "Gamalinda is a wordsmith and a polished one at that... The stories range from bizarre to tender, from hilarious to absurd, from sad to gleefully entertaining." Click here to buy a copy of this marvelously weird book. - [New Book from Daniela Olszewska](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-book-from-daniela-olszewska/) - Great news from forthcoming BLP author Daniela Olszewska: her first chapbook, cloudfang : : cakedirt, is released this month! You can buy a copy via Small Press Distribution or directly from Horse Less Press. Congrats, Daniela! - [Five Burning Questions for Emerging Writers: Leigh Stein](https://blacklawrencepress.com/five-burning-questions-for-emerging-writers-leigh-stein/) - Leigh Stein is the author of The Fallback Plan (Melville House, 2012) and Dispatch from the Future (Melville House, forthcoming July 2012). Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Tell us about the process of getting your first novel, The Fallback Plan, out in the world. Did you enter contests? Open reading periods? What transpired between sending the manuscript out initially - [Preview of Tandon's Quality of Life](https://blacklawrencepress.com/preview-of-tandons-quality-of-life/) - Jason Tandon's poem "Fatherhood, Beginnings," appears in the summer issue of Prairie Schooner and will appear in his next collection, Quality of Life (due out from BLP in February, 2013). This issue also includes poems by Sharon Olds, Maxine Kumin, Bruce Bond, Paul Dickey, Robert Gibb, John Kinsella, Donald Platt, Robert McNamara, Chad Prevost, Floyd - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-33/) - “I’m a slow writer, and I edit as I go, so when something feels done to me, there usually isn’t much to do. But even [my editor, Dennis Johnson’s] small edits were smart…at first, I’d read them and think, ‘I’m not changing that! How could he ask that of me?!’ And then two days later, - [The 2012 Hudson Prize Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-2012-hudson-prize-finalists/) - First of all, I’d like to thank everyone for their patience. It’s taken us much longer than usual to announce the finalists and winner of 2012 Hudson Prize. I hope that you’ll agree with me that we have good reason for the delay. This year the volume and quality of manuscripts that we received was - [Katie Umans On Winning](https://blacklawrencepress.com/on-winning/) - Katie Umans, whose poetry manuscript Flock Book won the 2010 St. Lawrence Book Award, talks about "the intangible benefits of coming out on top" in the May/June 2012 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (not online). We're so excited to share her collection with you later this year! - [You Should Read Joe Wilkins' New Memoir](https://blacklawrencepress.com/you-should-read-joe-wilkins-new-memoir/) - Joe Wilkins, author of the widely-acclaimed poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, has a new memoir out from Counterpoint Press. If it's half as good as Murnion, which is also inspired by Joe's upbringing in Montana, we can guarantee it's awesome. Buy it here. - [New Review of PURGATORY by Amelia Martens](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-purgatory-by-amelia-martens/) - Quiet Mountain Essays reviews Amelia Martens' prizewinning poetry chapbook Purgatory, writing that "Her beings are craftily suspended at the height of frustration, dangling maddeningly over the precipice of eternity." Click here to read the entire review, and here to buy a copy of this lovely chap. - [BLP Poetry Reading: This Saturday, 6/30!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-poetry-reading-this-saturday-630/) - A reminder that the best poetry reading of the summer goes down this Saturday at the Bowery Poetry Club: don't miss your chance to see the fabulous MICHELE BATTISTE, ERICA WRIGHT, and SARAH SUZOR! - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-32/) - “[A Blue Hour digital chapbook] has to be purposeful. It has to have a binding agent that’s palpable. It also has to make sense as a digital document…When someone’s holding a book he or she bought or biked to the library for or borrowed from a friend, I think one feels a physical commitment, and - [New Review of KILLING THE MURNION DOGS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-killing-the-murnion-dogs/) - The Summer Issue of Indiana Review features a lovely review of Joe Wilkins' poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs. It's not available online, but click here to subscribe. (And better yet: click here to buy a copy of this acclaimed collection!) - [St. Lawrence Book Award: Early Bird Special](https://blacklawrencepress.com/st-lawrence-book-award-early-bird-special/) - Black Lawrence Press is offering a reduced entry fee for the St. Lawrence Book Award! Regular Deadline: August 31 Regular Entry Fee: $25 Early Bird Deadline: June 30 Early Bird Entry Fee: $15 Full details here: www.blacklawrence.com/stlawrence_1.html We look forward to reading your submissions! - [Two New Poems by Valerie Bandura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/two-new-poems-by-valerie-bandura/) - The Spring/Summer issue of Alaska Quarterly Review features two new poems, "Jews for Jesus" and "Carnage," by Valerie Bandura, whose collection Freak Show will be released by BLP in 2013. It's a beautiful issue that marks AQR's 30th anniversary; you can subscribe online here. - [New Poem by Bruce Cohen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-bruce-cohen/) - Bruce Cohen has a new poem, "Strange Facts," in Zócalo Public Square; click here to read it. You'll see why we're so excited about Bruce's forthcoming collection Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half-Asleep, which will be released this fall. (And in the meantime, check out his current collection, Swerve, which is just as excellent!) - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-31/) - “We love seeing connections arise between awesome poets after being in the same issue and responding to each other’s work. Chris and I see ourselves as cheerleaders for our kind. (There is talk of pom-poms in the future).”—Caroline Crew of ILK journal, from this week’s feature interview. Also, we feature the latest from the likes - [Birds, LLC](https://blacklawrencepress.com/birds-llc/) - For this week’s feature, Sapling talked to Sampson Starkweather, a Founding Editor at Birds, LLC. Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Birds, LLC is an indie poetry press that “specializes in close author relationships to make the most awesome books in the world.” Cheers to that. As a relatively new small press on the block, what should people - [Upcoming NYC Reading: Erica Wright, Sarah Suzor, and Michele Battiste](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-nyc-reading-erica-wright-sarah-suzor-and-michele-battiste/) - NYC: Join us on June 30 at the Bowery Poetry Club for a knockout poetry lineup: Michele Battiste (INK FOR AN ODD CARTOGRAPHY), Sarah Suzor (THE PRINCIPLE AGENT), and Erica Wright (INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL) will all read from their new and/or forthcoming collections. It will be awesome. We hope to see you there! - [David Rigsbee's "Masha" is the Raleigh Review's Poem of the Fortnight](https://blacklawrencepress.com/david-rigsbees-masha-is-the-raleigh-reviews-poem-of-the-fortnight/) - The Raleigh Review has selected David Rigsbee's poem "Masha" as its Poem of the Fortnight; click here to read this lovely poem, and make sure to listen to David's rendition, as well! Stay tuned for his forthcoming collection School of the Americas, and in the meantime, buy a copy of his wonderful chapbook The Pilot - [Upcoming Readings: Charlotte Pence and Adam Prince](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-charlotte-pence-and-adam-prince/) - California: don't miss Charlotte Pence and Adam Prince as they visit your state to read from their fantastic recent releases! Charlotte's poetry chapbook The Branches, the Axe, the Missing won the Black River Chapbook Award, and Adam's short story collection The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men is already garnering rave reviews. Here's the info: Reading and - [New Poems by Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-by-mary-biddinger/) - Three new poems from Mary Biddinger's forthcoming collection A SUNNY PLACE WITH ADEQUATE WATER are featured in the Spring 2012 issue of Blackbird. Click here to read all three--you'll quickly see why we're so excited to publish this collection! (And click here to buy a copy of her sensational chapbook SAINT MONICA.) - [New Review of THE POSSIBLE IS MONSTROUS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-possible-is-monstrous/) - Make: A Chicago Literary Magazine reviews Daniele Pantano's superb translation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s poetry, writing that "[as] a counter-voice to Dürrenmatt’s plays, The Possible is Monstrous is food for much thought. The juxtaposition sheds much light on the way he achieves his effects of comic numbness, dispersion, and revulsion, as well as on the philosophy behind them." - ["Too Young to Remember" by Larry Matsuda](https://blacklawrencepress.com/too-young-to-remember-by-larry-matsuda/) - The poet laureate of Washington State, Kathleen Flenniken, featured a poem from Larry Matsuda's autobiographical poetry collection A COLD WIND FROM IDAHO on her website The Far Field. Click here to read "Too Young to Remember," and here to buy a copy of this exceptional collection. - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-30/) - “The idea of being a poetry ‘business,’ an LLC, intuitively seems like such a contradiction / oxymoron so it was important for us acknowledge the capitalist side of it, but at the same time it allows us to do what we believe in: to put great books and more beauty into the world.”—Sampson Starkweather of - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-29/) - “I was extremely lucky to work with [my editor, Ryan Murphy] because of the patience it took to see the book not as it was, but what it could be.”—Jennifer Denrow, author of California (Four Way Books) and respondent to Sapling’s Five Burning Questions for Emerging Writers. Also, we feature the latest from the likes - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-28-2/) - “No real deal-breakers, other than just boredom. Average-ness.”—HOBART editor Aaron Burch on reading submissions to the journal, from this week’s feature. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Augury Books! Birkensnake! Projective Industries! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a little - [KILLING THE MURNION DOGS is a Finalist for the High Plains Book Award](https://blacklawrencepress.com/killing-the-murnion-dogs-is-a-finalist-for-the-high-plains-book-award/) - Congratulations to Joe Wilkins, whose poetry collection KILLING THE MURNION DOGS was named a finalist in the Best Poetry Category for the High Plains Book Awards! A well-deserved honor. Click here to buy a copy of this acclaimed book. - [New Review of INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-instructions-for-killing-the-jackal-2-2/) - Erica Wright's gorgeous poetry collection INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL is reviewed in NEON: "Wright is not afraid to use the darkest of imagery combined with a violence of language. A great number of the poems here are in tercets and couplets and Wright makes good use of these forms which allows her to move - [Daniela Olszewska on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/daniela-olszewska-on-verse-daily/) - Daniela Olszewska, whose poetry collection HOW TO FEEL CONFIDENT WITH YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS is forthcoming from BLP, has a poem on Verse Daily this week! Click here to read it; it's sensational, and you'll quickly see why we're so excited to publish her work. - [New Review of THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-the-beautiful-wishes-of-ugly-men-2/) - Adam Prince's debut short story collection, THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN, is already garnering rave reviews: Chapter 16 writes that "The prosaic lives of the men in this collection vibrate in ironic tension with the skilled literary observation that Prince brings to bear in portraying them. He creates messages that are neither merely profane, - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-27-2/) - “Nothing is ordinary about the College of Charleston, one of the oldest and most beautiful college campuses in the country. Spanish moss sways from the arthritic arms of ancient trees and, in March, azaleas bloom as dogwoods dress their limbs in white lace.”—Thus begins writer Brenda Rose’s profile of the Crazyhorse Writers Conference, featured in - [Call for Submissions!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/call-for-submissions/) - Black Lawrence Press is now accepting submissions for a book celebrating food and poetry. Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner is an invitation to host a dinner party and share a meal, as well as a poetic toast or two, with family and friends. “Much depends on dinner,” Lord Byron wrote - [May Sale: Short Story Collections!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/may-sale-short-story-collections/) - Don't miss out on our May Sale! We're celebrating National Short Story Month by offering all of our compelling and inventive short story collections for just $10. Whatever your summer plans, these stories will invigorate your imagination. Don't miss your chance to stock up at this deeply discounted price! Click here to shop. - [New Review of SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-saint-monica-3/) - The Spring 2012 issue of Rain Taxi includes a lovely review of Mary Biddinger's acclaimed poetry chapbook SAINT MONICA: "Biddinger’s tight and vividly detailed narrative poems speak to timeless themes of adolescence, regret, and desire, enlivening a historical figure and religious icon while painting a nuanced portrait of a character who is every bit as imperfect - [KILLING THE MURNION DOGS: Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/killing-the-murnion-dogs-finalist-for-the-paterson-poetry-prize/) - Congratulations to Joe Wilkins, whose poetry collection KILLING THE MURNION DOGS was selected as a finalist for the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize! A well-deserved accolade. Buy yourself a copy of this wonderful collection here. - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-26/) - “What I really care about: full characters and solid writing…But mostly, I just want to be surprised.”—Christy Crutchfield, fiction editor of Dark Sky Magazine and the spotlight of this week’s feature. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Coconut Books! Horse Less Review and Horse Less Press! The Lit Pub! Sapling goes out - [New Review of INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-instructions-for-killing-the-jackal/) - The Iowa Review raves about Erica Wright's poetry collection INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL: "Erica Wright’s first full-length collection is clever and sleek, a swift read with sufficient gravity. The book is a paradox, and yet so is the jackal: monogamous and loyal, yet fiercely yapping when it discovers carrion. Wright’s collection includes small towns and - [THE UNEMPLOYED MAN WHO BECAME A TREE: Finalist for the 2012 Kessler Poetry Book Award](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-unemployed-man-who-became-a-tree-finalist-for-the-2012-kessler-poetry-book-award/) - Big congrats to Kevin Pilkington, whose poetry collection THE UNEMPLOYED MAN WHO BECAME A TREE was named a finalist for the 2012 Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. A well-deserved accolade! Buy your copy of this fantastic book here. - [New Review of MARGINALIA FOR A NATURAL HISTORY](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-marginalia-for-a-natural-history/) - Prick of the Spindle posted a lovely review of Keith Taylor's poetry chapbook MARGINALIA FOR A NATURAL HISTORY: "These marginalia record not only close observation of the world, its beauties and truths, but also the poet’s delight in the language that contains it all." Read the entire review here, and buy a copy of this beautiful - [B. C. Edwards, Featured Reader @ EARSHOT: Thursday, May 17](https://blacklawrencepress.com/b-c-edwards-featured-reader-earshot-thursday-may-17/) - New York: B. C. Edwards will be the featured reader at this Thursday's EARSHOT (at Lolita Bar). Don't miss it! - [HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO, Already Acclaimed](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hollywood-buckaroo-already-acclaimed/) - Tracy DeBrincat's soon-to-be-released novel, HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO (which won the Big Moose Novel Prize) is getting some early attention: it was awarded an Honorable Mention in the General Fiction category at the San Francisco Book Fair. Congrats, Tracy! (Everyone else: buy yourself a pre-sale copy of this novel here!) - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-25/) - “I have long abandoned the romantic notion that people should read poetry because of this vague sense that it’s good for them. I’m much more interested now in crafting my work so that others want to read it. And learning what fiction has to offer has been one of my methods for figuring out how - [Keith Taylor: May Readings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/keith-taylor-may-readings/) - Don't miss your chance to see Keith Taylor, author of the gorgeous poetry chapbook MARGINALIA FOR A NATURAL HISTORY. Here's his May schedule: May 19 Adrian Public Library Adrian, MI May 31 - June 4 Bear River Writers Conference Ann Arbor, MI - [B. C. Edwards Reads With The Multifarious Array: This Friday](https://blacklawrencepress.com/b-c-edwards-reads-with-the-multifarious-array-this-friday/) - New York, we're making your weekend plans for you: go see B. C. Edwards read at Pete's Candy Store on Friday night. You're welcome. - [Poets & Writers](https://blacklawrencepress.com/poets-writers/) - We’re really excited about this week’s feature. Let’s be honest, we’re always excited about our features, but this conversation with Melissa Faliveno, the current Diana & Simon Raab Editorial Fellow at Poets & Writers Magazine, is in a league of its own. We're talking an inside look at Grandaddy of Literary Nonprofits! Without further ado… Interview - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-24/) - “It’s a horrible cliché, I know, but it’s true: we all get rejected—all of us, all the time—but we have to use those rejections as fuel for the fire, rather than allow them to smother the flames.”—Melissa Faliveno, from this week’s feature interview with Poets & Writers magazine! Also, we feature the latest from the - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-mary-biddinger-2-2/) - As April draws to a close, we'd like to thank all of the BLP poets who contributed to our poem-a-day feature during National Poetry Month. To cap off the month, we are proud to feature Mary Biddinger, whose chapbook Saint Monica was recently published by Black Lawrence Press. What My Body Taught You It was - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Tina Egnoski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-tina-egnoski/) - Busking, Providence Saxophone moonglint at last-stop bar. Slushy street on a January night. I have fifteen minutes before the horn freezes. Open-fingered wool mittens, shades. The spill of relief: bladder on pavement and bills in my open case. I breathe exhaust and beer and starry night questions. Woman with a black eye holds up two - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Kristy Bowen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-kristy-bowen/) - wax work The hands are just for show, you see. Buttoning and unbuttoning dresses. Fingering the gears of the tiny pink booth. Today, I rearrange the letters of our names. Hide you beneath the trap door. Call you daughter. Call you heretic. Cast candles in the shape of girls, soap in the shape of horses. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-laura-mccullough-3/) - Tropical Reefs The bodies of the dead accrue to the cities’ formation, millions over millennia; every hour, every day, some coral polyps perish and others are born, those two old stories, one way in, one way out, the sea the same, essentially, and our souls soldered by what? Culture reefs, absorbing, releasing, the oil of - [National Poetry Month: Katharine Rauk](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-katherine-rauk/) - Little Dream Gumball Machine Chester collects quarters in an old cigar box. Its lid has a picture of a mermaid perched on a rock. Waves break like wineglasses all around her, and the color of her tail is the color of his mother’s eyes when she listens to too much Liszt after dinner. Neither matches - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Abayomi Animashaun](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-abayomi-animashaun-3/) - Taking a Siren on a Date You need not plug your ears with wool Or bind your chest to a chair’s rest From fear, when she starts talking, Of plunging into your bowl of soup, Ramming your head against the table And splintering your skull with wood. When she comes in, speak to her In - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-23/) - Keith Taylor, poetry editor at Michigan Quarterly Review, talks to Sapling about the history of the journal, reading patterns and imagination, and the value of surprise. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: The Literarian! diode! Lost Horse Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling - [Upcoming Readings: Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-carol-guess/) - Carol Guess, author of the exceptional poetry collection DOLL STUDIES: FORENSICS, has two readings coming up this week: Wednesday April 25th at 7pm @ Village Books in Bellingham, WA Friday April 27th at 7pm @ Rosemont College (in McShain Auditorium) Philadelphia, PA - [Upcoming Reading: Adrian Van Young at the Boston College Arts Festival](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-adrian-van-young-at-the-boston-college-arts-festival/) - Don't miss Adrian Van Young read this Saturday, April 28, at 12:30pm at the Boston College Arts Festival! Adrian is the winner of the 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award, so you know he'll deliver some stellar material. Look for his collection of short stories, THE MAN WHO NOTICED EVERYTHING, forthcoming in early 2013. - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-erica-wright-3/) - If You Have Two Lovers and One Is Imaginary Twice I missed blood on the tile. It dried into the universe, and this is how God makes black holes. By missing the details while he watches someone dry off, cup himself. His hands are romance novels, and I’m embarrassed. Everyone must imagine them on their - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Frank Matagrano](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-frank-matagrano-3/) - Self Portrait with iPod My song is the kind you love ***but would never admit in mixed company. It’s like this ***in heaven, too, where the lung creaks open like a rickety screen door and an old man spends the afternoon ***walking in and out, sometimes with a glass of iced tea, ***sometimes with a - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-joe-wilkins-3/) - Rain Ghazal We drive south out of Memphis, dark shoulders of rain behind us. Now we turn west, towards the river, into rain. The setting sun tumbles like a drunk through the trees, and an old man fishing the bank lifts his face to rain. I sit on the porch, sip whiskey from a jam - [BLP at the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival: This Saturday!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-at-the-sarah-lawrence-poetry-festival-this-saturday/) - Black Lawrence Press loves National Poetry Month, and we'll be showing off all of our spectactular poetry titles at this weekend's Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival & Book Fair. Stop by our table on Saturday afternoon to check out our beautiful books (and those of many other wonderful small presses). We hope to see you - [Shelley Puhak: New Poem, New Review in THE POTOMAC](https://blacklawrencepress.com/shelley-puhak-new-poem-new-review-in-the-potomac/) - The Spring 2012 issue of THE POTOMAC has a lovely review of Shelley Puhak's prizewinning poetry collection STALIN IN ARUBA. Roman Gladstone writes: "You could say that the poems in Stalin in Aruba are about power, its corruption and abuse, and you wouldn’t be wrong, but this oversimplifies Puhak’s work, and as she notes - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Charlotte Pence](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-charlotte-pence-2/) - PIG AND A BOTTLE ********—Funeral sacrifice in Sulawesi, Indonesia, June 2011 The blood, too fresh for flies, a newly skinned Skull left to dry, but otherwise this dulled Dirt-patch where animals are sacrificed Is just another piece of empty ground. I’m ten thousand miles from where I grew up By S.D. Johnson Elementary. At recess, - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Michele Battiste](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-michele-battiste-3/) - American Proverb: when a woman reigns, the devil governs. The hail fell and no one would suggest it landed randomly. The father called the insurance man out to look at the roof. The cursed know. Those who don't know cackle and fix chips in the paint. His wife likes mutton and the butcher looks at him strangely. I'll have - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: B.C. Edwards](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-b-c-edwards-2/) - 662. To prepare and Bleach Skeletons. I cling to your femur like waking up with our hairs tangled like waking up with our arms and legs around each other, I have filled your ribs peninsulas of whiskey and lubricant. It would be impossible to extract all this, but still, make a tin box. Pack your - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-22/) - Poet Brent Goodman talks to Sapling about sending to book contests, open reading periods, and the perks of working with a fledgling press. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Sonora Review! Sixth Finch! Keyhole Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Valerie Bandura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-valerie-bandura/) - On the Other Hand In one hand my father holds patience, in the other, rage. I wonder which one held the telephone through which the lieutenant, at four a.m., delivered the news that he stopped a young woman tonight on the freeway who thought she’d been released by—and here he paused to say—aliens. And then, - [Keith Taylor: April Readings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/keith-taylor-april-readings/) - Keith Taylor, author of the beautiful poetry chapbook MARGINALIA FOR A NATURAL HISTORY, has a slew of readings lined up across the US this spring/summer; here's his schedule for April. Don't miss your chance to see Keith read! (And click here to buy a copy of MARGINALIA.) April 18 Brilliant Books, Traverse City, MI. April - [National Poetry Month: Matthew Gavin Frank](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-matthew-gavin-frank/) - Life Sciences When the corn is painted with the most exotic thing we can imagine— a goat, perhaps, or the blood of the goat—clench your fists to your chest, mimic the chambers of the heart. In this, you show your fear at being the object of another’s initiation into the patch-worthy, a symbol to carry - [Carol Guess on POET AS RADIO](https://blacklawrencepress.com/carol-guess-on-poet-as-radio/) - Carol Guess, author of the acclaimed poetry collection DOLL STUDIES: FORENSICS, recently read for the "Poet as Radio" show on KUSF in Exile. Click here to listen, and here to buy a copy of this wonderful collection. (By the way, all BLP poetry is half off this month!) - [Upcoming Reading: B. C. Edwards at The Poetry Project](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-b-c-edwards-at-the-poetry-project/) - This is an apt and awesome way to celebrate National Poetry Month: Hudson Prize-winning author B. C. Edwards will read at The Poetry Project in New York on Monday, April 23, at 8:00pm. (And keep an eye out for his forthcoming short story collection, The Aversive Clause, due out later this year!) - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sandra Kolankiewicz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-sandra-kolankiewicz-3/) - The Acrobat Of course you are terrified, your breath gone, heart in your ears like a dull adz thumping the branch you can’t split, that pins your joy to the ground, torn from the tree that you climbed the day you first learned you had wings. Certainly all admired your fix on the view, the - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Shelley Puhak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-shelley-puhak-2/) - On Having Sex, Grief-Stricken Summer underfoot: toads, vipers, adders and serpents, even ambulances, and in the eaves, chipmunks, and on our napes, the rubber paw of the attending. Driving home, the car clings to the yellow line and I will it to cross over. You pull over for gas, but can only beat the car - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lisa Fay Coutley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-lisa-fay-coutley-3/) - Her Father Says She Worries Too Much but she’s only trying to prepare *******for the worst in a world of paper **************lamps and Zippo lighters, at a breakfast nook with two teen sons *******whose yolks explode in their mouths **************and drip on their plates— one who cuts his meat into man-sized *******bites with a butter - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-21/) - Sapling friend Valerie Bandura shares the highlights of her time teaching at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers' Conference in Tempe, AZ. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Marsh Hawk Press! Catch Up! Longleaf Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to - [Five Stars for DOLL STUDIES: FORENSICS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/five-stars-for-doll-studies-forensics/) - Grady Harp reviews Carol Guess' inventive and compelling poetry collection DOLL STUDIES: FORENSICS, writing: "As Carol Guess moves through these captured images of things wrong, things gone awry, things that smell of crime she seduces us with her intelligent and sensitive eye, able to transform horror into tolerable poetry. She takes us into those realms where - [A New Review of THE OLDEST HANDS IN THE WORLD](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-the-oldest-hands-in-the-world/) - Kristina Marie Darling reviews Daniele Pantano's fantastic poetry collection in the new issue of THE LITERARY REVIEW, and writes that "Each poem ...offers readers a carefully-crafted stylistic engagement with the Modernist legacy of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Richard Aldington. Daniele Pantano reworks and modernizes this longstanding literary tradition while still honoring his predecessors’ preoccupations - [Marc McKee's FUSE is "Really damn good"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/marc-mckees-fuse-is-really-damn-good-2/) - Jay Robinson, for for BARN OWL REVIEW, raves about Marc McKee's poetry collection FUSE: "[W]hat I want to tell you about Marc McKee’s poems is that they balance on the exact edge between life and the cost of living, that they bounce off the not-so-padded walls of the human condition like a supernatural echo. Often elegiac, - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Lawrence Matsuda](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-lawrence-matsuda/) - Woman Who Paints with Fire For Etsuko Ichikawa Pot of green tea steams near a porcelain cup, but no one is there. Seven year old Etsuko slides Aida sensei’s studio door. The room is a hive, a bear’s den, magician’s lair littered with worn paint brushes and rice paper stacked on dusty shelves. Etsuko - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: James Reidel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-james-reidel-3/) - The Krewe of Orpheus Poems that pull his strings instead of him— Operas in which his head sings on a ruff— That Dance of Furies more leg than fury— Painters who must like painting sheets pulled from people— Fables of being steered by the arm through howling cave winds, With just this flap, this flutter - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sarah Suzor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-sarah-suzor-2/) - From The Human Condition ...so the dream ends with my friend shaking my shoulders, telling me what she’s told me a thousand times: “Pay attention to what people tell you about themselves.” I still tell people the same things about myself. I mean, I say the same things I used to say to you. Anyway, - [Congratulations, Jen Michalski!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/3806/) - BIG congratulations go to Jen Michalski, who has won the 2012 Big Moose Prize with her novel The Tide King. Jen Michalski's first collection of fiction, Close Encounters, is available from So New (2007); her second, From Here, is forthcoming from Aqueous Books (2013); and her collection of novellas is forthcoming from Dzanc (2013). She - [Best "Letter to the Editor" Ever](https://blacklawrencepress.com/best-letter-to-the-editor-ever/) - Sit back and enjoy Associate Editor Kent Leatham's on-point response to David Orr's recent essay in the NY Times: Reading Transtromer Published: March 22, 2012 To the Editor: I can think of nothing less true than David Orr’s concluding statement in his discussion of various translations of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer (“On Poetry: - [A New Review of ANATOLIA AND OTHER STORIES](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-anatolia-and-other-stories/) - Anis Shivani's acclaimed short fiction collection ANATOLIA AND OTHER STORIES gets some praise from Brian Palmu: "Shivani writes with great insight and depth, remarkable for the convincing and numerous angles he allows between characters. The final story, in particular, "Tehran", is a gem, more dramatically insistent than the somewhat understated, casual pace of the other - [Hardy Jones at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival -- This Friday!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hardy-jones-at-the-scissortail-creative-writing-festival-2/) - Hardy Jones, author of the terrific novel EVERY BITTER THING, will read at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival at East Central University in Ada, OK, on Friday, April 6 at 3:30. This event is free and open to the public--don't miss this opportunity to see Hardy! (And click here to buy a copy of EVERY BITTER - [Congrats, Laura McCullough!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/congrats-laura-mccullough/) - Some fantastic (and well-deserved) news: Laura McCullough's poetry collection PANIC (Alice James Books) is a finalist for a Book of the Year Award! - [Marc McKee: Verse Daily's Weekly Web Feature](https://blacklawrencepress.com/marc-mckee-verse-dailys-weekly-web-feature/) - Check out Marc McKee's poem "Blooper Real," which is this week's Verse Daily Web feature! What a great way to kick off National Poetry Month! - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Daniele Pantano](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-daniele-pantano-3/) - Slapstick (H.) And the disciple mimes ******Delivering a set of keys. And this is where he crashed, ******Isn’t it? His face there is Mine. Built in 1843. ******And white. Before black Milk. The transition(s). ******And the riots only gulls Remember. And bicker. ******And dance. Some water Damage. Odd feature unlocked. ******And space now of loose - [Coming up in this week's Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-20/) - The dynamic editorial duo from The Destroyer give us the low down on why the potential “contamination” of literature is bs, why they’ll stay on the web thankyouverymuch, and why they want you to Vent. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Paper Darts! Willow Springs! Octopus Books! Sapling goes out via email - [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/national-poetry-month-spotlight-carol-guess-3/) - As many of you know, April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, we will be featuring a poem buy a BLP author every weekday for the rest of the month. Kicking us off is Carol Guess, who's new poetry collection, Doll Studies: Forensics, was just published by Black Lawrence Press last month. Fallen Medicine The - [Michele Battiste Reading: Boulder, Colorado](https://blacklawrencepress.com/michele-battiste-reading-boulder-colorado/) - Michele Battiste, author of Ink for an Odd Cartography and the forthcoming Uprising (2013) will be reading at Yellow Pine on Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm. -- Battiste will read new work to honor the night's theme, "Smoke and Mirrors: Deception, Embellishment, Reflection." -- Malinda Miller and Clarissa Cutrell will also be reading. -- Where Wild - [Today's Nook Daily Find: THE CONSEQUENCE OF SKATING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/todays-nook-daily-find-the-consequence-of-skating/) - Today only, Steven Gillis's widely acclaimed novel--and 2011 Ippy Award winner--THE CONSEQUENCE OF SKATING will be the Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find, and thus available for the bargain price of $3.50. Literary excellence for less than a cup of coffee--how can you resist? - [The Big Moose Prize - SHORT LIST](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-big-moose-prize-short-list-4-2/) - Congratulations to the writers who made it to the 2012 Big Moose Prize Short list! Friday Night Tacos – Kayleen Dunson Il Villaggio di Trevi – Patricia Lawson The Latecomers – Peter Anderson Lesson Plans – Suzanne Greenberg Let There Be Lite – Joe Taylor Percherons – Joan Maki Slow Burning Lions – Mark Rogers - [New Jason Tandon Poem](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-jason-tandon-poem/) - Poet Jason Tandon, author of GIVE UP THE HECKLER AND EVERYONE GETS HURT, has a new poem in Cold Mountain Review titled "Mother's Day." This poem will also appear in Jason's forthcoming collection, QUALITY OF LIFE, due out in early 2013. Happy almost-poetry month! - [Marc McKee: Weekend Readings in Texas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/marc-mckee-weekend-readings-in-texas/) - Texas-area Marc McKee fans, you're in luck: he'll be reading in two Lone Star cities this weekend! Don't miss your chance to hear him read some of FUSE, one of the best poetry collections out there. Thursday, March 29 Poison Pen Reading Series 1641B Westheimer Houston, TX 77006 Friday, March 30 Lord Weary's Reading - [Biddinger/Wasserman Reading & Discussion: March 31](https://blacklawrencepress.com/biddingerwasserman-reading-discussion-march-31/) - Clear your Saturday: Mary Biddinger (author of the sensational poetry chapbook SAINT MONICA) will read with Eric Wasserman at the Learned Owl Book Shop in Hudson, Ohio at 1:00pm. Click here for more details. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-19/) - Writer Jensen Beach offers us an inside look at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in Sewanee, TN. Think: observational and discussion-based workshops; a schedule packed with readings, panels, and talks; and a welcoming environment on a beautiful campus. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Green Mountains Review! Harp & Altar! Curbside Splendor! Sapling goes - [Marc McKee Reads in Brooklyn This Friday](https://blacklawrencepress.com/marc-mckee-reads-in-brooklyn-this-friday/) - You absolutely cannot miss the chance to see Marc McKee read from his much-loved poetry collection Fuse: he'll be in Brooklyn as part of the Bogart reading series this Friday, March 23, at 7pm (at Studio 10). Click here for more info. - [Carol Guess on the Orange Alert Podcast](https://blacklawrencepress.com/carol-guess-on-the-orange-alert-podcast/) - Carol Guess reads from her new collection of poems Doll Studies: Forensics on the Orange Alert podcast. These fascinating prose poems are based on crime-scene dioramas, and it's a treat to hear carol bring them to life. Click here to listen (and here to buy a copy of her book). - [Mary Biddinger on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddinger-on-verse-daily/) - Mary Biddinger, author of the divine poetry chapbook Saint Monica, has a new poem on Verse Daily titled "A Coin-Operated Button-Down Collar." My favorite line: "You used / the word math like it was a sexual innuendo." Click here to read the whole thing, and here to buy a copy of Saint Monica. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-18/) - Sapling is excited to bring you the concluding installment in our two-part series on manuscript construction from poet Laura McCullough. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: The University of Utah Press! 32 Poems! Engine Books! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to - [The Big Moose Prize - LONG LIST](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-big-moose-prize-long-list/) - 2012 has bee a great year for The Big Moose Prize. We've found quite a few great contenders. With no further ado, here is the 2012 Big Mose Prize Long List: & then there's that - Calvin Haul Alma - Anne Elliott American Weather - Charles McLeod The Carnivore of Yod - Scott Anderson Distrust - [Patrick Michael Finn's "Writing Is a Marvel"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/patrick-michael-finns-writing-is-a-marvel/) - Chamber Four's Robert Cooperman is lured into Patrick Michael Finn's story collection From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet, writing "Think of Dante’s Inferno and Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” shuffled together and you begin to get a picture of just how grim this world is, and how pitilessly Finn depicts it, while still making us care - [Adrian van Young: On the Horror Movie Franchise](https://blacklawrencepress.com/adrian-van-young-on-the-horror-movie-franchise/) - Adrian van Young, whose short story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything is forthcoming, has a glorious essay in this month's Believer (the Film Issue) in which he reexamines horror-movie sequels: "Each of these horror franchises can and should be distinguished from horror series to the extent that they portray not a succession or continuum - [KILLING THE MURNION DOGS: "Every Poem is a Little Gem"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/killing-the-murnion-dogs-every-poem-is-a-little-gem-2/) - NewPages posted a lovely new review of Joe Wilkins' Killing the Murnion Dogs, concluding, "At his best, Wilkins recalls the rural flavor of Wendell Berry, but in a world all his own. Read him. This is your life; wrap your cracked hands around this book. Order some pie. You will keep on driving." You can read the - [David Rigsbee at the Southern Writers Symposium on March 17](https://blacklawrencepress.com/david-rigsbee-at-the-southern-writers-symposium-on-march-17/) - David Rigsbee, author of the poetry chapbook The Pilot House and the forthcoming collection School of the Americas, will be a featured writer at the 22nd Southern Writers Symposium at Methodist University, which takes place on March 17. Don't miss this chance to spend time with David--he's absolutely one of the best poets working today. - [An Interview with Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/an-interview-with-carol-guess-2/) - The Seattle Star interviews Doll Studies: Forensics author Carol Guess, whose "mesmerizing" poetry collection found inspiration in forensic dioramas from the 1940s. Trust us, the resulting poems are phenomenally intriguing! Read the interview here, and buy a copy of Doll Studies here. - [FUSE is "brilliant"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fuse-is-brilliant/) - Jeff Simpson at The Fiddleback recently reviewed Marc McKee's poetry collection Fuse, and basically writes that Marc redeems optimism about American poetry. We agree, this book is that good! Check out the entire glowing review here, and buy your copy of Fuse here. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-17-2/) - This week, Sapling talks to Publishing Genius Press’s Adam Robinson about YA lit, the bizarre process of manuscript acceptance, and the possibility of actually making money (!?) in the small press business. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: South Loop Review! Mead magazine! Featherproof Books! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. - [New Review of SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-saint-monica-2/) - Fiddler Crab Review published a lovely short review of Mary Biddinger's poetry chapbook, calling it "harrowing and hilarious" ... "marvelous lyric and prose poems." Click here to read the entire review, and here to buy a copy of this exceptional book. - [Hayden Saunier Wins the 2011 Rattle Poetry Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hayden-saunier-wins-the-2011-rattle-poetry-prize/) - Congratulations to Hayden Saunier, whose poem "The One and the Other" was selected as the winner of the 2011 Rattle Poetry Prize! - [James Reidel at the James Merrill House in 2013](https://blacklawrencepress.com/james-reidel-at-the-james-merrill-house-in-2013/) - James Reidel, author of My Window Seat for Arlena Twigg and other poems (Black Lawrence, 2006), will be writer in residence at the James Merrill House during the winter and spring of 2013. His expanded translation of Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (Godine, 2012) and Werfel’s novella Pale Blue Ink in a Lady’s Hand (Godine, 2012) are now available - ["AMERICAN MASTODON is a museum of everything"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/american-mastodon-is-a-museum-of-everything/) - Neon reviews Brad Ricca's prizewinning poetry collection American Mastodon, writing "Even the wildest and most bizarre-sounding pieces from American Mastodon are layered with a kind of heartfelt sadness that’s all the more powerful for the fact that it emerges from such comedic subject matter." Click here to read the entire review, and here to buy a copy - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-16-2/) - This week, writer Ashley M. Nissler offers us an inside look at the online writing workshops offered through the Dzanc Sessions. Think: craft-based workshops that participants can “attend” from anywhere, at any time. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: The Missouri Review! Bellday Books! Phoebe! Accents Publishing! Sapling goes out via email every - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-15-2/) - This week, we talk upstart poetry journals, Helen Vendler, and the manticore at the palace gate with Anti- Editor Steven D. Schroeder. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Colorado Review! Devil’s Lake! Elixir Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-14-2/) - This week, fiction writer Monica Carter offers us an inside look at the Lambda Literary Foundation Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices in Los Angeles, CA. Think: a gathering of LGBT writers of all ages and genres in a supportive, creative atmosphere amongst the rolling hills of LA. Also, we feature the latest from the likes - [A New Book by Matthew Gavin Frank](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-book-by-matthew-gavin-frank/) - Matthew Gavin Frank, author of the wonderful poetry collection Sagittarius Agitprop, has a new book out titled Pot Farm, published by University of Nebraska Press. Dinty Moore writes "Pot Farm is smart, sly, revelatory, often laugh-out-loud funny, and entirely legal." Click here to buy a copy, and here to buy Sagittarius Agitprop. - [News Poems by Brad Ricca](https://blacklawrencepress.com/news-poems-by-brad-ricca/) - Brad Ricca, author of the award-winning poetry collection American Mastodon, has three new poems up at Marco Polo. Click here, here, and here to read them; and here to buy a copy of American Mastodon. - [A new Poem by Sandra Kolankiewicz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-by-sandra-kolankiewicz/) - Sandra Kolankiewicz, author of the prize-winning chapbook Turning Inside Out, has a new poem titled "The Doll House" in the Cortland Review. Click here to read it, and here to buy a copy of Turning Inside Out (all chaps ar $5 this month!) - [Larry Matsuda Remembers the Japanese Internment](https://blacklawrencepress.com/larry-matsuda-remembers-the-japanese-internment/) - 70 years ago this month, as war threataned, Executive Order 9066 forced thousands of Japanese-American Seattle residents to flee their homes or face internment; poet Larry Matsuda, who was born in Minidoka and whose poignant collection A Cold Wind in Idaho addresses the tragic events, is profiled in a recent Seattle Magazine piece. His poem - [New Novella by Tina Egnoski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-novella-by-tina-egnoski/) - Tina Egnoski, author of the beuatiful fiction chapbook Perishables, has a new book out titled In the Time of the Feast of Flowers. Published by Texas Review Press, Tina's novella won the Clay Reynolds Prize, and was hailed as “Poetically rendered, originally crafted, artfully revealed, this is the kind of writing that Annie Proulx would - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-13-2/) - This week, Patasola Press editor Lisa Marie Basile talks to us about what it means to be an author-focused press, the bittersweet reality of working alone, and a certain one-footed seductress with destruction on the brain. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: the first ever CutBank Chapbook Competition! Anti-! Casperian Books! Sapling - [Katharine Rauk on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/katharine-rauk-on-verse-daily/) - A lovely poem titled "January," from Katharine Rauk's chapbook Basil, is up at Verse Daily. You can buy a copy of Basil here for just $9! - [A New Review of SPEECH ACTS by Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-speech-acts-by-laura-mccullough/) - Word For/Word loves Laura McCullough's poetry collection Speech Acts: "[McCullough's poems] confront us with ourselves, our own identities, our own zones of comfort and understanding, our own concepts of self and of language. Ultimately, what McCullough gives us is a concomitance of poetic “speech acts” that are at once provocative, erotically charged, intellectually complex, and shockingly - [Title as Invitation: poetry contests as dinner party by Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/title-as-invitation-poetry-contests-as-dinner-party-by-laura-mccullough/) - Sapling is pleased to bring you the first in a two-part series on manuscript construction from Black Lawrence Press author Laura McCullough. Black Lawrence Press published my collection of poems, Speech Acts, and in 2013 will publish a new collection, Rigger Death & Hoist Another. In between these two, my book, Panic, won a Kinereth Gensler Award and was published by Alice - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-12-2/) - This week, poet Laura McCullough looks long and hard at the complex business of manuscript construction, focusing in on titles—book and poem alike. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Converse College! Gulf Coast! Poor Claudia! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to - [Shelley Puhak Included in Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry](https://blacklawrencepress.com/shelley-puhak-included-in-anthology-of-contemporary-persona-poetry/) - A poem titled "Nadya to Stalin, 1925" from Shelley Puhak's sensational poetry collection Stalin in Aruba will be published in a forthcoming anthology of persona poems: A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Click here to pre-order a copy. - [A New Story by Norman Waksler](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-story-by-norman-waksler/) - The Winter 2011 issue of the Valparaiso Fiction Review features a new story titled "Winner of $175 Mil" by Norman Waksler. Click here to read it. (Norman is also author of the terrific short story collection Signs of Life; click here to buy a copy). - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-11-2/) - This week, we talk first and last lines, upping the ante, and buffalo chicken with La Petite Zine editor Melissa Broder. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Barely South Review! failbetter.com! Ahsahta Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a - [An Interview with Marc McKee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/an-interview-with-marc-mckee/) - Barn Owl Review's Eric Morris recently interviewed Marc McKee, author of the poetry collection Fuse. He writes "Marc, aside from being a cool, funny dude, provides some generous insight into the poetic craft, from catalyst (is that what we want to call it?) to the evitable chaos one incurs when experiencing poetry." Click here to - [A New Review of SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-saint-monica/) - The National Poetry Review loves Mary Biddinger's chapbook Saint Monica, writing "Monica’s is that most epic and ordinary of tales, and like a series of images on a reel, the poems show us fragments of her life, woven together in a story that is both arbitrary and of universal, archetypal importance, a poetic reminder of - [Brad Ricca on Writer's Almanac](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brad-ricca-on-writers-almanac/) - Check out Brad Ricca's poem "The Beautiful Sandwich," from his collection American Mastodon, on The Writer's Almanac! It's a thrill to hear one of our authors read for such a storied program. You must read the rest of this tremendous collection; click here to buy a copy. - [Upcoming Readings: Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-readings-joe-wilkins/) - Don't miss these upcoming opportunities to hear Joe read from his acclaimed poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs. (Note that the Chicago date is at AWP, where we're throwing a killer party with our friends at Devil's Lake! We're so excited!) Wednesday, February 8th Briar Cliff University Stark Student Center Assisi Room Sioux City, IA 7:00 pm - [Reminder: The Big Moose Prize Deadline is Jan. 31!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/reminder-the-big-moose-prize-deadline-is-jan-31/) - Fiction writers, don't forget that next Tuesday is the deadline for our Big Moose Novel Prize: click here for more details. Last year we offered contracts to the winner of the contest and to the first runner-up, so don't let this opportunity pass you by! - [Larry Matsuda Reads "Higo's Five and Dime"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/larry-matsuda-reads-higos-five-and-dime/) - Larry Matsuda, author of the incredible poetry collection A Cold Wind From Idaho, recently read "Higo's Five and Dime" at the Wing Luke Asia Museum in Seattle. Click here to see it on YouTube! The reading was part of the opening night festivities for the exhibit "Meet Me at Higo: An Enduring Story of a Japanese American Family," which is - [Brad Ricca on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brad-ricca-on-verse-daily/) - A poem titled "Customs of Golems," from Brad Ricca's phenomenal collection American Mastodon, is up at Verse Daily. (Click here to buy a copy.) - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-7-2/) - This week, we talk chapbooks, chapbooks, chapbooks with Greying Ghost Press founder Carl Annarummo. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: The Kenyon Review! Sentence! Finishing Line Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a little more about what we do, - [Weekend Event: Helen Marie Casey in Cambridge, MA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/weekend-event-helen-marie-casey-in-cambridge-ma-2/) - Bostonians: Helen Marie Casey will be one of six authors of books published in 2011 to read at the National Writers Union (Boston Chapter) Book Party on Sunday, January 22nd, at the YMCA in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She will read from her biography, My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer. The reading will be followed - [Joe Wilkins: A Master of the "Poetry of Place"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/joe-wilkins-a-master-of-the-poetry-of-place/) - Escape Into Life's Kathleen Kirk included Joe Wilkins' collection Killing the Murnion Dogs in her year-end review, and writes "Reading Wilkins, I had an experience very like the one he reports in this excerpt from “Daybreak, Spokane, September 2001,” about reading the poet James Wright: I dream winter—wind leaning hard down the mountains, blown snow and - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-10-2/) - This week, poetry chapbook author Erin J. Mullikin shares some strategies for getting started with the Sapling community. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Omnidawn! the bad futurist! Patasola Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a little more about - [Verse Daily selects Lisa Fay Coutley's Poem as a "Favorite of 2011"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/verse-daily-selects-lisa-fay-coutleys-poem-as-a-favorite-of-2011/) - Lisa Fay Coutley's beautiful poem "Barefoot on the Pulpit" was selected by Verse Daily as one of their favorites of 2011! (Click here to buy her equally lovely chapbook, In the Carnival of Breathing.) - [Best of 2011 Poetry: SAINT MONICA and KILLING THE MURNION DOGS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/best-of-2011-poetry-saint-monica-and-killing-the-murnion-dogs/) - The Scrapper Poet lists two fabulous BLP titles to their Best of 2011 list: Mary Biddinger's Saint Monica makes the chapbook list, and Joe Wilkins' Killing the Murnion Dogs is named one of the best poetry collections of the year. See what everyone is talking about and buy - [Marc McKee's FUSE is "Fresh"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/marc-mckees-fuse-is-fresh/) - Marc McKee's poetry collection Fuse continues to garner praise: Melissa Broder at HTMLGIANT writes "What’s fresh about Fuse is how Marc McKee manages to stuff so much velocity into poems structured like strong towers. How does he blow shit up and still keep the roof on? As McKee writes, “We must / draw our maps - [Fall 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner: Nick McRae](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fall-2011-black-river-chapbook-winner-nick-mcrae/) - All of us at Black Lawrence Press are pleased to announce that Nick McRae has won the Fall 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition for his collection of poems, Mountain Redemption. Nick McRae's poems, reviews, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Linebreak, Passages North, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and - [Keith Taylor's Poems Are "Oases of Significance"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/keith-taylors-poems-are-oases-of-significance/) - Keith Taylor's magnificent poetry chapbook, Marginalia for a Natural History, gets five stars from Grady Harp, who writes "[Taylor]mixes his memories and visions and private glimpses at the world around him and somehow manages to share all of this seemingly structureless beauty by creating his own structure." Check out the entire review here, and buy - [A New Review of TODOS SANTOS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-todos-santos/) - The January 2012 issue of Gently Read Literature includes a lovely review of Deborah Clearman's novel Todos Santos. Diane Simmons writes that in this gorgeous story, set in rural Guatemala, "Clearman has found the sane voices that make the insane understandable." Click here to read the entire review, and here to buy a copy. - [Four Poems and an Interview: Daniele Pantano](https://blacklawrencepress.com/four-poems-and-an-interview-daniele-pantano/) - 3:AM Magazine recently featured four wonderful poems by Daniele Pantano, as well as an interview in which he discusses experimental writing, translinguistics, Swiss literature, and more. Pantano's new work of translation, Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser will be available next month; we can't wait. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-9-2/) - This week, we talk The Drunk Sonnets, Rad Poetry, and Mt. Shasta with Mike Young, creator and editor of Noö Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. We also address the sticky side of book contests—specifically, how to proceed if a winner is never selected and the press fails to respond to inquiries… (Gulp.) On an up - [Best Poetry of 2011: SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/best-poetry-of-2011-saint-monica/) - We're thrilled to see so many BLP titles appear on 2011 Best-Of lists! Michael Meyerhofer includes Mary Biddinger's chapbook Saint Monica on his list for N0-Tell Poetry. Buy a copy of this must-read book here. - [Brad Ricca: An "extraordinary mind and imagination"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brad-ricca-an-extraordinary-mind-and-imagination/) - Grady Harp gives Brad Ricca's poetry collection five stars, writing "American Mastodon may be Ricca's first book of poems published (a Black Lawrence Press Kudo!) but it likely will not be long before the reading public latches on to this very strange poetic range. Ricca has more surrealistic imagination than any creator of comic book novels - [Best Poetry of 2011: KILLING THE MURNION DOGS](https://blacklawrencepress.com/best-poetry-of-2011-killing-the-murnion-dogs/) - Tiffany Midge posted her Best-of list at No-Tell Poetry, and it includes a whole bunch of awesome titles, including Joe Wilkins' Killing the Murnion Dogs. Lia Purpura writes "In Killing the Murnion Dogs, the old lonelinesses, bodied forth by whisky in jam jars and rotting porches, highways, wolves, the dream of escape, are reinhabited and updated by Joe - [Helen Marie Casey Brings Florence Hosmer's Art to Life](https://blacklawrencepress.com/helen-marie-casey-brings-florence-hosmers-art-to-life/) - Helen Marie Casey's gorgeous biography of Florence Hosmer, My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer, gets a rave review in the Milford Daily News: "As if composing a poem, Helen Marie Casey has infused her biography of artist Florence Hosmer with a lyricism that evokes the Sudbury painter’s life and art for a new generation...As - [The Black River Chapbook Competition: Fall 2011 Finalists & Semi-Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-black-river-chapbook-competition-fall-2011-finalists-semi-finalists/) - We're happy to ring in 2012 by announcing the finalists and semi-finalists for the Fall 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition! It's always tough to choose among the many wonderful submissions, but here they are: Poetry Finalists Bone Letters - Peter Schwartz & Nicelle Davis Farmstead of the Burning Field - Duncan Campbell Mountain Redemption - Nick - [Mary Biddinger's SAINT MONICA Makes Kyle Minor's "Best Of 2011" List](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddingers-saint-monica-makes-kyle-minors-best-of-2011-list/) - Kyle Minor's comprehensive and entertaining "Best Of 2011" list names Mary Biddinger's Saint Monica as a top poetry title, which doesn't surprise us, because it's awesome. Buy a copy here. - [A New Poem from Tracy DeBrincat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-from-tracy-debrincat/) - A lovely new poem by Tracy DeBrincat, "There Is No Other Way to Do This," appears in Issue #9 of Anti- (and was nominated for a Pushcart!). We're also excited about Tracy's fiction: her forthcoming novel, Hollywood Buckaroo, won the 2010 Big Moose Prize and will be released in April. - [Erica Wright's INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL "Simply Dazzles"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/erica-wrights-instructions-for-killing-the-jackal-simply-dazzles/) - Grady Harp raves about Erica Wright's poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal: "Not only does Erica Wright possess a mind fertile with imagination that seems to see into interstices few of us can, but she also has a gift of language so extraordinarily descriptive and fresh that each of her poems simply dazzles. Enter - [New Poems from Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-from-joe-wilkins/) - Two new fantastic poems by Joe Wilkins, author of Killing the Murnion Dogs, are featured in the latest issue of iO. Enjoy! - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-8-2/) - This week, novelist Kristen-Paige Madonia offers us an inside look at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute in Amherst, MA. Think: a craft-focused atmosphere, a killer line-up of faculty and visiting authors, and all the perks of western Massachusetts. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Ohio State University Press! NOO Journal! Sarabande Books! - [H_NGM_N](https://blacklawrencepress.com/h_ngm_n/) - For this week’s feature, Sapling talked to Nate Pritts, creator and editor of H_NGM_N journal and press. Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: H_NGM_N publishes / has published books, chapbooks, and two journals, H_NGM_Nand, in the past, Combatives. Can you tell us a little about how H_NGM_N came to be and the changes the press has gone through since its inception? Nate Pritts: I - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-6-2/) - Sapling talks to Nate Pritts, creator and editor of H_NGM_N journal and press and author of, most recently, Sweet Nothing. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Crazyhorse! Ilk Journal! Greying Ghost Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a little - [Donald Ray Pollock picks FROM THE DARKNESS RIGHT UNDER OUR FEET as the best book of 2011](https://blacklawrencepress.com/donald-ray-pollock-picks-from-the-drakness-from-right-under-our-feet-as-the-best-book-of-2011/) - In GQ Magazine's Book of the Year Club, Donald Ray Pollock selects Patrick Michael Finn's Hudson prize-winning short story collection From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet as his top pick for 2011! This is great news, not that we're surprised; Finn's collection is stellar. Click here to buy your copy. - [New Poems from B. C. Edwards](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-from-b-c-edwards/) - Freerange Nonfiction recently featured several poems from B. C. Edwards' two forthcoming collections, To Mend Small Children (Augury Books, Fall 2011) and From the Standard Cyclopedia (Black Lawrence Press, Fall 2013). Edwards is also the winner of the 2011 Hudson Prize for his collection of short fiction, The Aversive Clause. - [New Poems from Valerie Bandura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poems-from-valerie-bandura/) - The Fall 2011 issue of Cimarron Review features two new poems, "Head" and "Ka-Boom," by Valerie Bandura, whose poetry collection will be published by BLP in 2013. Enjoy! - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-5-2/) - Black Lawrence Press author Tina Egnoski talks chapbooks—of the fiction variety—with Sapling. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Denver Quarterly! The Poetry Foundation! CSU Poetry Center! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a little more about what we do, visit - [Jellyfish Magazine](https://blacklawrencepress.com/jellyfish-magazine/) - For this week’s feature, Sapling talked to Gale Marie Thompson, creator and editor of Jellyfish Magazine. Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Jellyfish is a relatively new online literary magazine; you’ve been publishing since 2009 and have 4 issues out to date. Since you’re new on the scene, what would you like people to know about Jellyfish? Gale Marie Thompson: That we understand - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-4-2/) - We talk associations, astonishment, amazement, and process, process, process with Jellyfish Magazine editor Gale Marie Thompson. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: New Delta Review! NANO Fiction! Steel Toe Books! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a little more about - [A New Review of DUTCH TREATMENT by D. E. Fredd](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-dutch-treatment-by-d-e-fredd/) - The Short Review calls D. E. Fredd's prizewinning fiction chapbook, Dutch Treatment, "a triumph": click here to read the review, and here to buy a copy. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-3-2/) - Black Lawrence Press editors respond to subscriber questions about all things contest: submission, publication, and preparing your poetry manuscript. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Mid-American Review! Anhinga Press! The Colorado Poetry Prize! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a - ["Manna" by TJ Beitelman makes the Best Nonrequired Reading List](https://blacklawrencepress.com/manna-by-tj-beitelman-makes-the-best-nonrequired-reading-list/) - TJ Beitelman's short story, "Manna," which was published in the Bellevue Literary Review last year, made the Notables list of Best American Nonrequired Reading. Congrats, TJ! (ps: if you haven't read his poetry chapbook Pilgrims: A Love Story, check it out here.) - [On Keith Taylor’s MARGINALIA FOR A NATURAL HISTORY](https://blacklawrencepress.com/on-keith-taylors-marginalia-for-a-natural-history/) - Michigan Quarterly Review includes a lovely write-up of Keith Taylor's poetry chapbook Marginalia for a Natural History, writing that "Keith Taylor is a rare and trustworthy guide to the many humming, gorgeous, and mysterious natural worlds unfolding all around us." Check out the entire essay here, and buy a copy of this gorgeous chapbook here. - [Grady Harp gives KILLING THE MURNION DOGS five stars](https://blacklawrencepress.com/grady-harp-gives-killing-the-murnion-dogs-five-stars/) - Joe Wilkins' debut full-length poetry collection, Killing the Murnion Dogs, continues to get great reviews: Grady Harp writes "...his voice is so sure, so informed, so able to dodge the detritus of gimmickry to convey his thoughts that he feels like an old soul, a poet who has been whispering to us for years and - [New Walser Translations from Daniele Pantano](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-walser-translations-from-daniele-pantano/) - MAYDAY Magazine Issue #4 includes three new Walser translations by Daniele Pantano, whose fabulous book Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser is available here. - [A Winter Book Release and Reading: Jon Chopan, Kevin Pilkington, and David Rigsbee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-winter-book-release-and-reading-jon-chopan-kevin-pilkington-and-david-rigsbee/) - Celebrate the release of Jon Chopan's novel PULLED FROM THE RIVER at the Bowery Poetry Club! Special guests David Rigsbee (THE PILOT HOUSE) and Kevin Pilkington (THE UNEMPLOYED MAN WHO BECAME A TREE). $8 cover gets you $4 off any book. Merriment guaranteed! Sunday, December 18, 10pm Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, NY NY - [InDefinite Podcast Episode #24: Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/indefinite-podcast-episode-24-erica-wright/) - Here is a post-Thanksgiving treat for you to enjoy: Erica Wright reading from her acclaimed poetry collection, Instructions for Killing the Jackal, as part of the InDefinite podcast series. Since we know you'll want to buy a copy after this introduction to her work, here's the link. - [A New Review of THE PILOT HOUSE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-the-pilot-house/) - Connotation Press recently reviewed David Rigsbee's poetry chapbook The Pilot House, and writes that his poems are "detailed and vibrating...These poems are Rigsbee’s meandering smoke, the signals of his travel, slow moving, through the world, observing the comings and goings, all the little births and deaths." Read the entire review here, and buy your copy - [A New Review of IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-in-the-carnival-of-breathing-2/) - Neon recently reviewed Lisa Fay Coutley's poetry chapbook In the Carnival of Breathing, hailing her writing as "clean and complex." Read the entire review here, and buy a copy here; at just $9, it makes a lovely holiday gift! - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-2-2/) - Black Lawrence Press poetry chapbook author Lisa Fay Coutley talks researching and entering contests, what to expect from a small press after you get that we-want-to-publish-your-manuscript phone call, and why chapbooks are real books, too, goshdangit! Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Dzanc Books! Jellyfish magazine! Argos Books! Sapling goes out via - [Caketrain](https://blacklawrencepress.com/caketrain/) - For this week’s feature article, we interviewed Amanda Raczkowski and Joseph Reed, co-editors of Caketrain Journal and Press. Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Caketrain is a Pittsburgh-based journal and press—being from Pittsburgh myself, I have a soft spot for all things black and gold. Can you tell us a bit about how Caketrain got started, how you - [A New Poem by Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-by-joe-wilkins-2/) - Joe Wilkins, author of the poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, has a new poem up at Contrary Magazine titled "The Garage Sale Daze Meditations." It's awesome. (And so is his collection: buy it here.) - [IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING "is a fierce cruise into imagery and myth"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/in-the-carnival-of-breathing-is-a-fierce-cruise-into-imagery-and-myth/) - QME recently reviewed Lisa Fay Coutley's poetry chapbook In the Carnival of Breathing, and writes "The 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition winner, this tiny collection has a big voice and its message seems to be: Life's tough, but follow the drift and prepare to be amazed." Click here to read the entire glowing review, and - [Congratulations, Adrian Van Young!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/congratulations-adrian-van-young/) - All of us at Black Lawrence Press are thrilled to announce that Adrian Van Young has won the 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award for his collection of short stories, The Man Who Noticed Everything. Adrian Van Young teaches creative and expository writing and literature at the Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, Boston College and Grub - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-17/) - This week, co-editors Amanda Raczkowski and Joseph Reed give us an inside look at Pittsburgh’s own Caketrain Journal and Press. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Phoebe! Epiphany! Small Fires Press! Sapling goes out via email every Tuesday. To join our growing list of Sapling subscribers and to read a little more - [Lisa Fay Coutley Reading: 11/30 at Ken Sanders Rare Books](https://blacklawrencepress.com/lisa-fay-coutley-reading-1130-at-ken-sanders-rare-books/) - Lisa Fay Coutley, author of the "terrific collection" In the Carnival of Breathing, will read at Ken Sanders Rare Books on November 30. Details below; Utah locals, don's miss this chance to see Lisa perform! Wednesday, November 30, 7pm Ken Sanders Rare Books 268 South 200 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 - [A New Poem by Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-by-laura-mccullough/) - Laura McCullough, author of the acclaimed poetry collection Speech Acts, has a new poem up at the Whole Life Times blog titled "Speaking Malagasy on the Isle of Vanilla." It's delicious, provocative, and smart, per usual. Enjoy! - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-16/) - This week, poet Ashley Farmer offers us an inside look at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program in Boulder, CO. Think: supportive workshops, meditation sessions, film screenings, and a history in Buddhism and the Beats. Also, we feature the latest from the likes of: Rose Metal Press! Unstuck Books! Academy Chicago Publishers! Sapling goes out - [KILLING THE MURNION DOGS continues to get great reviews](https://blacklawrencepress.com/killing-the-murnion-dogs-continues-to-get-great-reviews/) - The Scrapper Poet loved Joe Wilkins' poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs so much, she writes, "it made [her] physically ache." Find out for yourself how awesome this collection is by buying a copy here. - [FUSE is "poetry that explodes off every page"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/fuse-is-poetry-that-explodes-off-every-page/) - Marc McKee's poetry collection Fuse gets five stars from Gary Harp, who raves "[McKee's] poems are grounded in human response to transient notions, to observed phenomena, taking time to re-visit experiences about the factors of being alive (or not), and in his glowingly brilliant mind he creates ideas that tend to fly off the page, ideas - [Print on Demand, Sales, and Marketing](https://blacklawrencepress.com/print-on-demand-sales-and-marketing/) - Subscriber Q&A In this week’s feature, an author considering signing a contract with a small press asks us a series of questions about print on demand (POD) technology, sales, marketing, distribution, and promotion, and Sapling responds. As these are questions and concerns likely shared by many authors publishing with a small press for the first (or even - [The Big Moose Novel Prize: Early Bird Special](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-big-moose-novel-prize-early-bird-special/) - You know you want to submit that novel you've been working on to the BLP Big Moose Prize...and we're offering a discount for all entries submitted in November! See here for details, and good luck! - [November Sale!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/november-sale/) - It's getting cold, which means more time indoors with a hot beverage and a good book...why not check out a Black Lawrence Press title, especially when we're offering some of our bestselling fiction and poetry at a discount? Check out our sale page, and happy reading! - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-15/) - This week, Sapling responds to a future small press author’s questions about print on demand (POD) technology, sales, marketing, distribution, and promotion—questions and concerns shared by many authors publishing with a small press for the first (or even second or third!) time. Also, we feature Hey Small Press! The New Issues Poetry Prize! Cream City - [The Official KILLING THE MURNION DOGS Playlist](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-official-killing-the-murnion-dogs-playlist/) - Joe Wilkins, author of the poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, has created a corresponding playlist as part of Largehearted Boy's Book Notes series. Joe writes "Though I'm no musician (they made me play the cymbal in junior-high band because I couldn't read music), it seems to me that poems and songs, or at least the ones - [Helen Marie Casey's MY DEAR GIRL "is a gift to the memory of Florence Hosmer"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/helen-marie-caseys-my-dear-girl-is-a-gift-to-the-memory-of-florence-hosmer/) - Grady Harp gives Helen Marie Casey's new biography My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer five stars; he writes "That Casey should proffer such generous research and gift of time to writing about an artist about whom few know even the name is a gift to not only the memory of Florence Hosmer, but - [A new Bruce Cohen Poem in AGNI](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-bruce-cohen-poem-in-agni/) - Bruce Cohen, author of the poetry collection Swerve, has a new poem titled "Never Mind" in the new issue of AGNI. This poem is in memory of the poet and teacher Steve Orlen, who is sorely missed. - [The Writing Apprentice Interviews Shelley Puhak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-writing-apprentice-interviews-shelley-puhak/) - Shelley Puhak, author of the award-winning poetry collection Stalin in Aruba, speaks with The Writing Apprentice about her writing process, influences, and Legos. Check it out here (and buy Stalin in Aruba here!) - [THE UNEMPLOYED MAN WHO BECAME A TREE: "a beautiful, imaginative book"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-unemployed-man-who-became-a-tree-a-beautiful-imaginative-book/) - NewPages raves about Kevin Pilkington's poetry collection, writing "The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree will become a permanent part of my bookshelf. I will not again risk being bereft of such transformative magic." Click here to read the entire review, and here to buy a copy of this wonderful book. - [Book Release & Reading: THE PRINCIPLE AGENT by SARAH SUZOR](https://blacklawrencepress.com/book-release-reading-the-principle-agent-by-sarah-suzor/) - Join BLP in celebration of Hudson Prize-winner Sarah Suzor's new poetry collection THE PRINCIPLE AGENT! She'll read at the Bowery Poetry Club with special guests Keith Taylor and Travis Cebula. $8 cover; 6:00pm start. Sarah's poems have been praised as "agile of intellect, resolute in courage"...don't miss your chance to see her perform! - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-14/) - Poet and Sapling subscriber Bonnie Bolling gives us the run-down on what hats we should where when as writers (what alliteration!) and gives us a peek at how her debut collection, In the Kingdom of the Sons, came into the world. (Spoiler alert: it was chosen by Tom Sleigh for the Liam Rector Poetry Prize! - [Pushcart Nomination for Jo Neace Krause](https://blacklawrencepress.com/pushcart-nomination-for-jo-neace-krause/) - Some great news: Jo Neace Krause (author of the short story collection The Last Game We Played, which won the Hudson Prize) was nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. Congrats, Jo! Her nominated short story, "Final Attempts at Relief and Cure," will be featured in Black Lantern Publishing's forthcoming Issue No. 5. - [New BLP Submissions Calendar](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-blp-submissions-calendar/) - We're excited to announce that BLP has a new submissions calendar, including a semi-annual open reading schedule, designed to help everyone stay organized. Click here or here for more details. We look forward to reading your submissions! Big Moose Prize: December 1 - January 31 The Hudson Prize: February 1 - March 31 - [The 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award - Finalists](https://blacklawrencepress.com/3128/) - All of the editors here at Black Lawrence Press are very pleased to present the finalists and semi-finalists for the 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award. We thank everyone who participated and wish the best of luck to those who made it to the finalist round. Poetry Finalists Brenda Sieczkowski - Like Oysters Observing The Sun Carolina - [A New Poem by Joe Wilkins at Slate](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-by-joe-wilkins-at-slate/) - Joe Wilkins, author of the poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, has a new poem titled "The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods" up at Slate today! (With audio accompaniment!) Check it out here. - [Shelley Puhak: Poetry in the Age of the iPhone](https://blacklawrencepress.com/shelley-puhak-poetry-in-the-age-of-the-iphone/) - Shelley Puhak (author of Stalin in Aruba) guest blogs at Her Circle E-Zine and muses on the medium of poetic composition: does it matter? - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-13/) - It’s our 100th issue! We want you to get in on the celebration, so this week’s Sapling, lucky number 100, will go out not only to our subscriber list but will also be posted on our website sometime in the coming week. (As soon as we can get it up there!) So enjoy, and consider - [New Carol Guess Fiction from Brooklyn Arts Press](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-carol-guess-fiction-from-brooklyn-arts-press/) - Some exciting news: Carol Guess's new collection of lyrical fiction, Darling Endangered, will be released by Brooklyn Arts Press this November. Congrats, Carol! (Also, keep an eye out for Doll Studies: Forensics, a poetry collection BLP will release in early 2012.) - [Pascale Petit in Guernica](https://blacklawrencepress.com/pascale-petit-in-guernica/) - Pascale Petit has a new poem in Guernica titled "My Father's City," accompanied by a lovely audio file of her reading the poem. (And don't miss her fantastic collection, What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo.) - [Hayden Saunier Named a Finalist for the 2011 Rattle Poetry Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hayden-saunier-named-a-finalist-for-the-2011-rattle-poetry-prize/) - Hayden Saunier is on fire: her poem “The One and the Other” was selected as a finalist for the 2011 Rattle Poetry Prize! The winner will be announced in December; our fingers are crossed... - [Shelley Puhak joins 2012 San Miguel Writer's Conference faculty](https://blacklawrencepress.com/shelley-puhak-joins-2012-san-miguel-writers-conference-faculty/) - Shelley Puhak, author of the award-winning poetry collection Stalin in Aruba, will be on the faculty for the 2012 San Miguel Writer's Conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in February. She'll host a workshop and an 8-hour intensive class--don't miss out! - [Augury Books to Publish B. C. Edwards](https://blacklawrencepress.com/augury-books-to-publish-b-c-edwards/) - Great news: Hudson Prize winner B. C. Edwards, whose collections of short fiction (The Aversive Clause) and poetry (From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes) are forthcoming from BLP, will also release a chapbook with Augury Books this winter/spring. Congrats, B. C.! - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-12/) - We’re excited to run the third installment in our series of writing conference and community workshop profiles. This week’s profile offers readers the inside scoop on the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center summer workshops in P-town, MA. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop - [Marc McKee Book Party](https://blacklawrencepress.com/marc-mckee-book-party/) - Marc McKee, author of the new poetry collection Fuse, is throwing a book party to celebrate its release. Join him! Saturday, October 22, 7:00pm Columbia Art League 207 S. 9th St., Columbia, Missouri. - [New Norman Waksler Flash Fiction](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-norman-waksler-flash-fiction/) - Norman Waksler, author of the short story collection Signs of Life, has new flash fiction titled "Whatever Happened to What’s-his-name?" up at Sunsets & Silencers. Enjoy! - [Pascale Petit: Upcoming Readings and Events](https://blacklawrencepress.com/pascale-petit-upcoming-readings-and-events/) - Pascale Petit, Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art and author of What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo, will be reading and teaching across England and France this fall and winter. If you have the opportunity to attend one of her workshops, readings, or panels, you're in for a - [ANATOLIA AND OTHER STORIES is a "searing social commentary"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/anatolia-and-other-stories-is-a-searing-social-commentary/) - Anis Shivani's short story collection Anatolia and Other Stories gets a rave review in the recent issue of the Canadian journal Prairie Fire: "The stories are consistently thought-provoking and often challenge the reader’s assumptions. Each one is like a rich tapestry, layered with insights into the predominant cultural mores and social pecking order of the - [Hayden Saunier wins the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hayden-saunier-wins-the-pablo-neruda-prize-in-poetry/) - We're so pleased to announce that Hayden Saunier's poem “Sideways Glances in the Rear-View Mirror” was awarded first prize in the 2011 Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry. Congrats, Hayden! If you want to check out more of her stellar work, pick up a copy of Tips for Domestic Travel, her "breathtaking and stunning debut" that BLP published - [Katharine Rauk at the Twin Cities Book Festival](https://blacklawrencepress.com/katharine-rauk-at-the-twin-cities-book-festival/) - Katharine Rauk, author of the poetry chapbook Basil, will be at the Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, October 15. Events run from 10-5, and admission is free. (Click here to buy a copy of Basil!) - [Pascale Petit's WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME is a "masterpiece"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/pascale-petits-what-the-water-gave-me-is-a-masterpiece/) - Grady Harp gives Pascale Petit's poetry collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo five stars, writing that she "ties these exquisite poems of the responses to Kahlo's paintings and life experiences together with a slow extended and unfolding poem in seven parts of incidental reactions to the painting that serves as the - [B. C. Edwards Reviews Seth Fried's THE GREAT FRUSTRATION](https://blacklawrencepress.com/b-c-edwards-reviews-seth-frieds-the-great-frustration/) - Hudson Prize winner B. C. Edwards recently reviewed Seth Fried's The Great Frustration over at BOMBlog; click here to read why it's "the kind of collection that makes you seethe just a little bit over how well it’s conceived, constructed, and written." (Also, get excited for B. C.'s two forthcoming titles from Black Lawrence press: - [Hemmingson on Bukowski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hemmingson-on-bukowski/) - Michael Hemmingson (author of the short story collection Pictures of Houses with Water Damage) gets a shout-out in James Altucher's recent article in Business Insider about Charles Bukowski and the many writers he's influenced, Michael among them; he's also the author of the book The Dirty Realism Duo: Bukowski and Carver, which is an excellent read. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-11/) - Mud Luscious Press publisher J. A. Tyler discusses wreckage, rawness, and grace; offers up some listy advice to writers interested in submitting (preview: “the best chaos of words is meticulously planned”); and lets us in on the makings of a successful Nephew. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love - [New Poem by Sandra Kolankiewicz in Red Ochre Lit](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-poem-by-sandra-kolankiewicz-in-red-ochre-lit/) - Sandra Kolankiewicz, author of the poetry chapbook Turning Inside Out, has a new poem, "The Acrobat," in the October Issue of Red Ochre Lit. It begins: Of course you are terrified, your breath gone, heart in your ears like a dull adz thumping the branch you can’t split, that pins your joy to the ground, torn - [A New Review of FROM THE DARKNESS RIGHT UNDER OUR FEET](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-from-the-darkness-right-under-our-feet/) - NewPages hails Patrick Michael Finn's short story collection, From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet, as "harrowing fiction, as polluted as the place from where it was wrought." Perfect for October reading! Click here to read the entire review, and here to buy a copy of Darkness. - [David Rigsbee Headlines the North Carolina Poetry Council's "Poetry Day"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/david-rigsbee-headlines-the-north-carolina-poetry-councils-poetry-day/) - David Rigsbee, author of The Pilot House and recipient of the Oscar Arnold Young Award, recently headlined the North Carolina Poetry Council's "Poetry Day" at Catawba College. Congrats, David! (Keep your eyes out for his forthcoming collection, School of the Americas, due out next summer. Also, read a wonderful review of his award-winning collection The - [Book Launch, and more: Erica Wright's INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL](https://blacklawrencepress.com/book-launch-and-more-erica-wrights-instructions-for-killing-the-jackal/) - In celebration of the release of her remarkable debut poetry collection, Instructions for Killing the Jackal, Erica Wright will be reading at several events around New York in the coming weeks, starting with a reading and reception at Bluestockings Bookstore tomorrow night! Details below; and buy your copy here. Friday, October 7th, 7pm, FREE Book - [Upcoming reading: Marc McKee at Get Lost Bookshop](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-marc-mckee-at-get-lost-bookshop/) - Marc McKee, whose poetry collection Fuse is out this month, will read at Get Lost Bookshop in Columbia, MO (one of our favorite college towns!) on Monday, October 10. Marc's poems have been described as "ris[ing] from their own stupendous and generous wreckage with the best that art can give us, the amazement of being - [Upcoming reading: Kevin Pilkington at Susquehanna University](https://blacklawrencepress.com/upcoming-reading-kevin-pilkington-at-susquehanna-university/) - Poet Kevin Pilkington, author of the tremendous colelction The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, will read this Thursday at Susquehanna University as part of their Visiting Writers Series. Kevin brings a vibrant energy and wit to his readings--don't miss out! Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 7:30pm Susquehanna University Isaacs Auditorium 514 University Avenue Selinsgrove, - [A New Review of Mary Biddinger's SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-mary-biddingers-saint-monica/) - Praise keeps coming in for Mary Biddinger's poetry chapbook Saint Monica: click here to read a fantastic review in The Rumpus, where Mary's closing poem, "Saint Monica Wishes on the Wrong Star,” is described as "a poem of quiet gravity whose carefully arranged sestets superimpose chance upon hope, with harrowing—because chronological-time-defying—results, among others, wherein superstition is - [Black Lawrence Press to Publish THE LOST EPISODES OF REVIE BRYSON by Bryan Furuness](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-press-to-publish-the-lost-episodes-of-revie-bryson-by-bryan-furuness/) - We’re happy to announce that we’ve awarded a contract to Bryan Furuness for his forthcoming novel, The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson, which centers around a boy whose mother tells him made-up Bible stories-- and he becomes convinced he's the second coming of Christ. Needless to say, we're excited to share this funny and provocative novel with you! - [Black Lawrence Press October Sale!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/black-lawrence-press-october-sale/) - Kick off October by picking up a bestselling BLP title at a great discount! This month, we're offering Yelizaveta Renfro's short story collection A Catalogue of Everything in the World for $11, Sandra Kolankiewicz's poetry chapbook Turning Inside Out for $6, and Louella Bryant's compelling nonfiction title While in Darkness, There is Light for $11. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-10/) - Sapling subscriber and small press author Donna Marie Merritt gives us an inside look at developing a multi-book relationship with an independent publisher. (Donna has two poetry collections out and a third scheduled for next year! Yeah!) In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop - [New Review of SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-review-of-saint-monica/) - Mary Biddinger's poetry chapbook Saint Monica continues to garner praise: Small Press Bookwatch recently reviewed it, and said it delivers a "powerful message" that "speaks of real issues and the lives that so many dismiss as statistics". Click here to read the whole review, and here to buy your copy. - [Parcel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/parcel/) - For this week's feature article, Sapling interviewed Kate Lorenz, editor of Parcel magazine. Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: Parcel is a new journal; the first issue came out this past spring, and you’re likely working on issue two now. First of all, congrats on putting together a fantastic first issue! Since you’re new on the scene, what would you like people - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-9/) - Kate Lorenz, editor of Parcel magazine, discusses print publishing in the face of doomsday forecasts, building a new journal, and why you should just submit to Parcel now! What are you waiting for? In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop on an upcoming contest. - [Larry Matsuda: Upcoming Reading in San Francisco](https://blacklawrencepress.com/larry-matsuda-upcoming-reading-in-san-francisco-2/) - Larry Matsuda, author of the poetry collection A Cold Wind From Idaho, will read at Caffe Roma in San Francisco in October. If you're in the area, don't miss it; Larry is a phenomenal performer and his poems are powerful and provocative. A Special Reading & Booksigning with Poet Lawrence Matsuda reading from "A Cold Wind From - [Five Stars for Katharine Rauk's BASIL](https://blacklawrencepress.com/five-stars-for-katharine-rauks-basil/) - Grady Harp raves about Katharine Rauk's poetry chapbook Basil, writing that "Rauk is a poet who is able to create poems that not only are rich in verbal visuals but also take the reader to places that demand a large step up in imagination to appreciate her casually dropped quantums of expression." Click here to - [IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING is a "striking and satisfying" poetry collection](https://blacklawrencepress.com/in-the-carnival-of-breathing-is-a-striking-and-satisfying-poetry-collection/) - Rattle recently reviewed Lisa Fay Coutley's chapbook In the Carnival of Breathing, and has lovely things to say: "The latest chapbook from Lisa Fay Coutley, In the Carnival of Breathing, is an emotionally complex series of poems that spends the bulk of its real estate contemplating the complicated nature of responsibility—from motherly to familial—while exploring - [Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop](https://blacklawrencepress.com/tin-house-summer-writers-workshop/) - We’re excited to bring you the next installment in our series of summer writing conference profiles. Sapling friend David Wojciechowski shares the highlights of his summer journey to Oregon’s own Tin House Workshop. By David Wojciechowski The Basics: Location: Reed College Campus, Portland, OR Dates: July 10-17, 2011 (I expect 2012’s dates to be quite similar) What’s offered: Workshops in fiction, - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-8/) - We’re excited to run the second installment in our series of writing conference and community workshop profiles. This week’s profile offers readers the inside scoop on the Tin House Writers’ Workshop in Portland, OR. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop on an upcoming - [Yelizaveta Renfro at the Fall for the Book Festival](https://blacklawrencepress.com/yelizaveta-renfro-at-fall-for-the-book-festival/) - Lisa Renfro, whose short story collection A Catalogue of Everything in the World won the St. Lawrence Book Award, will read at the Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax next Friday at noon--Virginians, don't miss it! Fall for the Book Festival MFA Fiction Alumni Reading Friday, September 23, 2011 12:00pm Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson - [Congrats, Shelley Puhak!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/shelley-puhak-in-the-urbanite/) - Two bits of great news for poet Shelley Puhak: her forthcoming chapbook, The Consolation of Fairy Tales, won the 2011 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry! It will be published this December. Also, Shelley has a new poem titled "The Debt Ceiling" in the Urbanite; click here to read it. (And of course, you if you haven't - [Jason Tandon in The Madison Review](https://blacklawrencepress.com/jason-tandon-in-the-madison-review/) - One of the poems from Jason Tandon's collection Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt is the feature poem from the Fall 2007 issue at the revamped Madison Review website. Click here to read "To Dance with the Greasy Puppeteer," and here to buy a copy of Heckler. - [Pascale Petit at the Tate Modern: Poetry From Art](https://blacklawrencepress.com/pascale-petit-at-the-tate-modern-poetry-from-art/) - Pascale Petit, whose poetry collection What the Water Gave Me is inspired by the work of Frida Kahlo, will lead the Poetry from Art pamphlet launch featuring work produced in her summer course at the Tate Modern, inspired in part by their recent Miró exhibit. Free entry, readings, great views and wine--don't miss it! (And you - [Bowery Poetry Club and Brooklyn Book Festival: This weekend!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/bowery-poetry-club-and-brooklyn-book-festival-this-weekend/) - Black Lawrence Press is celebrating Fall with a spectacular literary weekend: on Saturday night, we'll host a reading at the historic Bowery Poetry Club, featuring Erica Wright, Patrick Michael Finn, and Yelizaveta Renfro. On Sunday, BLP will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival, showing off all of our new and backlist titles! Several authors will - [Lisa Fay Coutley on Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/lisa-fay-coutley-on-verse-daily/) - Lisa Fay Coutley, author of the "terrific" poetry chapbook In the Carnival of Breathing, has a new poem in Verse Daily titled "To Sleep." Click here to read it, and here to buy a copy of Carnival. - [Winner and Finalists: Spring 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/winner-and-finalists-spring-2011-black-river-chapbook-competition/) - We're pleased to announce that Russel Swensen, author of the poetry collection Santa Ana, is the winner of the Spring 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition. Congratulations! All of our finalists were fantastic reads, and it was tough to choose one winner, but we loved Russel's engaging, strong voice and his compelling and enigmatic narrative. Fiction - [Sapling: Call for Contest Questions](https://blacklawrencepress.com/sapling-call-for-contest-questions/) - Call for Contest Questions: Sapling will soon be running a feature on book contests where we answer your burning questions on the how's and why's of the contest system. (First book contests, general book contests, chapbook contests—you get the idea.) We have a few questions collected already, but we'd like to now open up the - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-7/) - BOA Editions Ltd. Publisher Peter Conners discusses the press’s 35-year staying power, the importance of harnessing social media, Pop-Up poetry, and thinking local as well as national. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop on an upcoming contest. Call for Contest Questions: Sapling will - [Some Notes on SAINT MONICA in HTML Giant](https://blacklawrencepress.com/some-notes-on-saint-monica-in-html-giant/) - Kyle Minor reviews Mary Biddinger's poetry chapbook Saint Monica over at HTML Giant: "It is a testament to Biddinger’s skill as a manipulator of words and images that it is difficult to write summary of these poems, and not because they resist the reader’s attempt to understand them or to fall into them–Clarity is one of - [Joe Wilkins: Fall Events](https://blacklawrencepress.com/joe-wilkins-fall-events/) - Joe Wilkins, author of new poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, has several readings coming up. Joe is so much fun to watch: don't miss out! (And click here to buy a copy of his book.) October 14 High Plains BookFest Western Heritage Center Billings, Montana 3:00pm October 29 Hemingway and Idaho Festival University of Idaho - [Adam Prince: An Audio Reading](https://blacklawrencepress.com/adam-prince-an-audio-reading/) - Adam Prince, whose short story collection The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men is forthcoming from BLP, reads a story from the collection, "A. Roolette? A. Roolette?", at Narrative Magazine. (This piece also won Narrative's Winter 2010 story contest.) Click here to listen, and look for Beautiful Wishes next spring! - [New Story by Norman Waksler in Tidal Basin Review](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-story-by-norman-waksler-in-tidal-basin-review/) - Norman Waksler, whose short story collection Signs of Life was published by BLP, has a new story titled "Men At Work" in the Spring Issue of Tidal Basin Review. Click here to read it (it's on page 22). - [Shelley Puhak's STALIN IN ARUBA "Brims with dark humor"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/shelley-puhaks-stalin-in-aruba-brims-with-dark-humor/) - Chamber Four recently reviewed Shelley Puhak's award-winning Stalin in Aruba, awarding it a 10 out of 10 for language: "The poetry, lyrical, full of fresh, vivid imagery, is saturated with grim irony....Even the titles of many of these poems burst with sardonic wit: “What They Left Out of My Obituary,” “Yevgenia’s Pick-Up Line,” “Why Lenin’s Embalmer - [Midwest Book Review gives THE UNEMPLOYED MAN WHO BECAME A TREE five stars](https://blacklawrencepress.com/midwest-book-review-gives-the-unemployed-man-who-became-a-tree-five-stars/) - Midwest Book Review writes: "Unemployment makes the search for a purpose in life all the more vital. The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree is a collection of poetry from Kevin Pilkington, who muses on the world in general and the search for meaning, the efforts to find one's roots in the world and much - [Necessary Fiction raves "FROM THE DARKNESS RIGHT UNDER MY FEET is a powerful collection"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/necessary-fiction-raves-from-the-darkness-right-under-my-feet-is-a-powerful-collection/) - Necessary Fiction recently reviewed Patrick Michael Finn's short story collection From the Darkness Right Under My Feet and had nothing but fabulous things to say: "[Finn] maintains tremendous control over the movement of each story, and he has a way of stacking images that complements the emotional claustrophobia of many of his characters. Viewed from - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-6/) - Black Lawrence Press author (and DIY-marketer extraordinaire!) Mary Biddinger offers subscribers an inside look at approaching the marketing and promotion process for your small press book in a savvy and pro-active manner. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop on an upcoming contest. Proposals - [Hardy Jones: Oklahoma City Reading](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hardy-jones-oklahoma-city-reading/) - Hardy Jones, author of the "readable, intense, and compelling" novel Every Bitter Thing, will read at Full Circle Bookstore (50 Penn Place, 1900 NW Expressway) in Oklahoma City, OK, at 1:00pm on September 25. The event is free and open to the public. - [Mary Biddinger: Fall Readings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddinger-fall-readings/) - Mary Biddinger, author of the widely-praised new chapbook Saint Monica, will read in Ohio this fall: 15 October 11 Poetry Reading with John Estes & Mary Biddinger Visible Voice Books 1023 Kenilworth, Cleveland, Ohio 7:00 pm 17 September 11 Chapbook reading: Mary Biddinger & Susan Grimm Mac's Backs 1820 Coventry Rd Cleveland, OH 44118 7:00 - [Joe Wilkins wins the High Desert Journal's Obsidian Prize](https://blacklawrencepress.com/joe-wilkins-wins-the-high-desert-journals-obsidian-prize/) - Congrats to Joe Wilkins, whose short story "Enough of Me" was awarded the High Desert Journal's 2011 Obsidian Prize in fiction! Click here to read the story, and here to read an essay Joe wrote about the writing process. (If you'd like to read Joe's excellent poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, click here to - [My First Time: Hardy Jones](https://blacklawrencepress.com/my-first-time-hardy-jones/) - Every Bitter Thing author Hardy Jones talks to The Quivering Pen about his first published short story, "A Butcher's Friend," which then became the opening scene of his novel. Click here to read the entire essay, and here to buy a copy of Every Bitter Thing. - [CutBank](https://blacklawrencepress.com/cutbank/) - For this week’s feature article, we interviewed Kate Rutledge Jaffe (left) and Josh Fomon (right) of CutBank Literary Magazine. Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: CutBank has been published by the University of Montana’s Creative Writing Program for 38 years now! That’s a lot of issues. Can you tell us a little about the editorial process of working at a university-run journal, especially one - [First-Book Interview with Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/first-book-interview-with-joe-wilkins/) - iO Poetry interviews Joe Wilkins, author of the poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, in their new issue. When talking about the importance of poetry, Joe says "Poetry is necessary because it is a place where we can be rigorous with that which gives shape to our world and our very selves: language. Poetry has - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-5/) - Kate Rutledge Jaffe and Josh Fomon of CutBank Literary Magazine discuss the unique challenges and rewards of producing a long-standing graduate-student-run journal, an affinity for the strange and estranged, and what really makes a strong submission stand out. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the - [Call for proposals: Writing Conference and Community Workshop Profiles](https://blacklawrencepress.com/call-for-proposals-writing-conference-and-community-workshop-profiles/) - Sapling is currently accepting proposals for future articles to run in our new series of Writing Conference and Community Workshop Profiles. If you’ve recently attended (or are planning to attend) a summer writing conference, a community workshop in major city, or a similar type of writing program that you think the Sapling community would benefit - [A New Poem by Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-by-joe-wilkins/) - Joe Wilkins, author of the just-released collection Killing the Murnion Dogs, has a new poem titled "Colic" in volume 7.1 of Conte. Check it out here--with audio!-- and buy a copy of this fantastic collection here. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-4/) - There’s something new happening at Sapling this week: our first in a series of writing conference and community workshop profiles. Our first profile offers readers the inside scoop on the Colgate Writers’ Conference in Hamilton, NY. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop on - [BRCC Semi-Finalists Announced](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brcc-semi-finalists-announced/) - We’re very pleased to announce the semi-finalists for the Spring 2011 Black River Chapbook Competition. Thanks so much to everyone who participated and congratulations to those who made it to the semi-finalist rounds! We look forward to announcing the finalists soon. Poetry Albert Abonado- The Boondocks of Epitaphs Brian Nicolet- Ode to a Means to an End - [Red Fez Reviews THE UNEMPLOYED MAN WHO BECAME A TREE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/red-fez-reviews-the-unemployed-man-who-became-a-tree/) - Kevin Pilkington's poetry collection The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree gets some love from Red Fez: "The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree is a collection that emphasizes travel and place and is, in the end, the calm evidence of Pilkington’s confidence as a poet who freely shifts between modes and rhythm schemes." Read - [Wave Books](https://blacklawrencepress.com/wave-books/) - For this week's feature article, we interviewed Matthew Zapruder of Wave Books. Interview conducted by Kit Frick Sapling: You founded Verse Press and 2000, which transitioned to Wave Books in 2005. Can you tell us a little about how Wave Books came to be and how you’d describe its mission? Matthew Zapruder: My friend and fellow poet Brian - [Mary Biddinger in Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddinger-in-verse-daily/) - Mary Biddinger, author of the new poetry chapbook Saint Monica, was featured in Verse Daily last week! Click here to read the poem, titled "Saint Monica Wishes on the Wrong Star." And to order your copy of Saint Monica, click here. - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-3/) - Matthew Zapruder, poet and editor for Wave Books, discusses the subjective difficulty of defining a “great manuscript,” erasure poems, and what’s involved in the far-reaching job of a poetry editor. In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop on an upcoming contest. Sapling goes out - [The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree: "Full of small marvels and everyday mysteries, and the occasional bit of magic"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-unemployed-man-who-became-a-tree-full-of-small-marvels-and-everyday-mysteries-and-the-occasional-bit-of-magic/) - Kevin Pilkington's poetry collection gets some love from Neon: "However you choose to read it this book is a solid body of peaceful, measured observational poems. More than anything it's a relaxing read, full of small marvels and everyday mysteries, and the occasional bit of magic." Check out the full review here, and buy your - [Pascale Petit on BBC Radio 4](https://blacklawrencepress.com/pascale-petit-on-bbc-radio-4/) - Pascale Petit, author of the fantastic Frida Kahlo-inspired poetry collection What the Water Gave Me, read a poem and discussed poetry phobia on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour last week: click here to listen (Pascale joins in Chapter 4). Enjoy--and buy a copy of this collection here. - [Deborah Clearman: The Author in the Land of Shamans and Desperados](https://blacklawrencepress.com/deborah-clearman-the-author-in-the-land-of-shamans-and-desperados/) - Deborah Clearman, whose novel Todos Santos is set in a small Guatemalan town, recently had the chance to tour the country to promote her book; here is her account of the trip: How many copies of my novel Todos Santos could I pack in my suitcase and stay under the airline’s weight limit? And more importantly, - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling-2/) - Christopher Kennedy, director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University and author of Ennui Prophet (BOA Editions, Ltd.), digs back to discuss the daunting, multi-year process of getting his first manuscript published—he’s now the author of four collections and holds a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship. In every issue, - [BLP to Publish Frank Montesonti's Book of Erasure Poetry](https://blacklawrencepress.com/blp-to-publish-frank-montesontis-book-of-erasure-poetry/) - We're happy to announce that we've awarded a new contract to Frank Montesonti, whose forthcoming book of erasure poetry, Hope Tree, is a work based on the horticultural guide How To Prune Fruit Trees. Frank's project explores the lyricism hidden within a book by whiting out words (How To Prune Fruit Trees). We can't wait - [A QME Interview with Sandra Kolankiewicz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-qme-interview-with-sandra-kolankiewicz/) - Suzanne Sunshower over at QME interviews poet Sandra Kolankieqicz, whose chapbook Turning Inside Out won the Black River Chapbook Competition. Sandra talks about working in different genres, the value of writing programs, and how her young son's autism diagnosis changed her outlook. Read the interview here, and buy a copy of Turning Inside Out here. - [A New Review of Fred McGavran's THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-fred-mcgavrans-the-butterfly-collector/) - World Literature Today included a review of Fred McGavran's short story collection The Butterfly Collector in their May 2011 issue: "McGavran's narrator may be a lawyer (his own profession when he isn't writing stories), or a real estate agent, or a minister, but he is never exactly the same person, and the setting may be - [No, Dear](https://blacklawrencepress.com/no-dear/) - For this week's feature article, we interviewed Emily Brandt of No, Dear magazine. Sapling: No, Dear is a hand-made journal that specifically features the work of New York City poets. Tell us a little bit about how No, Dear got started, how you selected its name, and the decisions to make the journal by hand and feature local poets. Emily Brandt: No, Dear grew - [Coming up in this week’s Sapling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/coming-up-in-this-weeks-sapling/) - Emily Brandt of No, Dear magazine discusses DIY journaling, theme issues, and keeping it local; she also unveils the quirky story behind No, Dear’s enigmatic name! (It’s not what you might think.) In every issue, BLP profiles a journal and small press that we love and gives you the scoop on an upcoming contest. Sapling - [A New Review of IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-review-of-in-the-carnival-of-breathing/) - The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene recently reviewed Lisa Fay Coutley's poetry chapbook In the Carnival of Breathing. It begins, "Every now and then I read a baffling book that has the unique complexity of a droll and yet lyrical voice..." We agree that this Black River Chapbook Prize-winning collection is deliciously smart. Read the - [Patrick Michael Finn "is a master craftsman of a writer"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/patrick-michael-finn-is-a-master-craftsman-of-a-writer/) - Patrick Michael Finn gets some high praise from Grady Harp: "[Finn] is a master craftsman of a writer, a man with such facility with prose, recreating the smudgy, sepia to jaundice toned atmosphere of a town down on its luck, and he manages to demonstrate how that 'place' colors the lives of the people he details - [Brent Goodman's poetry to appear in COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality](https://blacklawrencepress.com/brent-goodmans-poetry-to-appear-in-collective-brightness-lgbtiq-poets-on-faith-religion-spirituality/) - Brent Goodman, whose poetry collection The Brother Swimming Beneath Me was a 2009 finalist for both Lammy and Thom Gunn Awards, will be featured in the forthcoming anthology titled Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, edited by Kevin Simmonds, which will be released from Sibling Rivalry Press in October. Rigoberto González writes, "The glory - [A New Poem from Sandra Kolankiewicz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/a-new-poem-from-sandra-kolankiewicz/) - The new issue of The Analectic features a beautiful poem by Sandra Kolankiewicz titled When Your Parents Are Dying. Here's a peek: The world tilts: there we are, falling off the edge of summer, holding on only because the curve of the earth hasn’t slipped far enough. Sandra's fantastic chapbook, Turning Inside Out, is available here. - [Lisa Fay Coutley "bowls us over"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/lisa-fay-coutley-bowls-us-over-2/) - Grady Harp is enthused by Lisa's new chapbook, writing "Lisa Fay Coutley bowls us over in this brief but heady collection of eighteen poems. She is like a burning coal inside an iceberg." See what he's talking about and buy a copy! - [Daniel Chacón's "22 Hiding Places" Included in 'Solace' Anthology](https://blacklawrencepress.com/daniel-chacons-22-hiding-places-included-in-solace-anthology/) - Daniel Chacón's short story "22 Hiding Places" is included in a new anthology titled Solace in So Many Words, a collection of essays, stories, and poems. "22 Hiding Places" originally appeared in Daniel's terrific Hudson Prize-winning collection Unending Rooms. Pick up your copy of Solace in So Many Words here and Unending Rooms here. - [Hudson Prize Winner and Finalists Announced](https://blacklawrencepress.com/hudson-prize-winner-and-finalists-announced-2/) - It has been a banner year for The Hudson Prize. We're a bit late in announcing the winner, but we've got a good reason. This year we saw the strongest pool of submissions to date. We had a lot of reading and deliberating to do, and the end result is that we've got two new - [Kevin Pilkington wins the 2011 New York Book Festival Award in Poetry!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/kevin-pilkington-wins-the-2011-new-york-book-festival-award-in-poetry/) - A hearty congratulations to Kevin Pilkington, whose poetry collection In the Eyes of a Dog (published by New York Quarterly Books) has been awarded the 2011 New York Book Festival Award in Poetry. We're so proud to have published his new collection, The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree. We suggest you treat yourself to copies of - [Bruce Cohen Reads in Brooklyn: August 2](https://blacklawrencepress.com/bruce-cohen-reads-in-brooklyn-august-2/) - Save the date: poet Bruce Cohen, whose collection Swerve was released last year (he also has another collection forthcoming from BLP, Placebo Junkies Conspiring With The Half-Asleep) will read at Perch Cafe in Brooklyn at 7:30pm on Tuesday, August 2. Bruce is an enigmatic and witty performer--don't miss it! Perch Cafe: 365 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY - [Dzanc Books Write a Thon!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/dzanc-books-write-a-thon/) - Yo, all ya all, Again, like last year, I am participating in the Dzanc Books Write-A-Thon which will take place July 21st through July 24th. I plan to spend twenty hours on those days, writing away with the same furious obsession that Captain Ahab had when pursuing the elusive white whale of fate. Not only - [Trailer for Brad Ricca's AMERICAN MASTODON](https://blacklawrencepress.com/trailer-for-brad-riccas-american-mastodon/) - [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOmOg4CDr0] Brad Ricca's poetry collection, American Mastodon, will be published later this summer: pre-order your copy now! - [David Rigsbee: from Prose to Poem](https://blacklawrencepress.com/david-rigsbee-from-prose-to-poem/) - Poetry Northwest, as part of their discussion on self-translation and the poetic construction of memory, features a completed poem by David Rigsbee, titled "Zum," alongside his prose recollection of the event that inspired it. PN writes, "For fun and for fascination’s sake, we present below two first-person “translations” of the same memory–the first prose, the - [Lisa Fay Coutley in Verse Daily](https://blacklawrencepress.com/lisa-fay-coutley-in-verse-daily/) - A poem from Lisa Fay Coutley's new chapbook, In the Carnival of Breathing, titled "Barefoot on the Pulpit," was featured in Verse Daily earlier this month. It's a fantastic poem, and hints at the rest of her lovely collection. Buy it here. - [THE OLDEST HANDS IN THE WORLD: "A fascinating book of poetry"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-oldest-hands-in-the-world-a-fascinating-book-of-poetry/) - Quill & Parchment reviewed Daniele Pantano's new book of poems, The Oldest Hands in the World, and raves "Daniele Pantano is a poet whose voice speaks across continents. He can speak with the soft light of a field in the Mezzogiorno as well as the glare of a city street. He does not shy away - [Yelizaveta Renfro: "My First Time"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/yelizaveta-renfro-my-first-time/) - Over at The Quivering Pen, Yelizaveta Renfro writes a charming essay about first publishing her work in Reader's Digest: "This is my first foray into mainstream America. Sure, I’ve previously found my work squirreled away in literary magazines on the mile-long Barnes & Noble magazine rack. This time, though, I’m right here between Martha Stewart’s - [Mary Biddinger "reinvented poetic communication" in SAINT MONICA](https://blacklawrencepress.com/mary-biddinger-reinvented-poetic-communication/) - According to reviewer Grady Harp, who gives Biddinger's new poetry collection Saint Monica five stars, writing "But always there is a brilliance of idea matched by a grasp of radiant language that makes us smile, remember, and re-live moments like Saint Monica experiences. Biddinger is a poet of people. You will never forget her gifts - [Yelizaveta Renfro is a "great storyteller"](https://blacklawrencepress.com/yelizaveta-renfro-is-a-great-storyteller/) - Fringe Magazine recently reviewed Yelizaveta P. Renfro's short story collection, A Catalogue of Everything in the World: Nebraska Stories, which won the St. Lawrence Book Award, and raves "[Renfro] has a gift of restrained suspense, using details that could suggest an obvious plot, but spinning them into a far more compelling, sometimes horrific ending. A - [Switchback Books](https://blacklawrencepress.com/switchback-books/) - For this week’s feature article, we interviewed Hanna Andrews (pictured left) and Becca Klaver (pictured right), Founding Editors of Switchback Books. Interview conducted by Diane Goettel Sapling: Switchback Books publishes two books each year. One of those books is the winner ofthe Gatewood Prize. Tell us a bit about your selection process. Hanna Andrews and Becca Klaver: For - [Devil's Lake loves 'In the Carnival of Breathing'](https://blacklawrencepress.com/devils-lake-loves-in-the-carnival-of-breathing/) - The latest issue of Devil's Lake reviews Lisa Fay Coutley's poetry collection In the Carnival of Breathing, and raves "Nearly all of her poems crackle with assonance and internal rhyme, and she's a crack shot at crafting lines you wish you had written. Whether it's her unexpected imagery ("My lake / learned early to rest - [New Interview with Jon Chopan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/new-interview-with-jon-chopan/) - The Ficstructor talks to Jon Chopan, whose novel, Pulled from the River, will be released this December. Before getting into the Q&A, the interviewer writes: "I begrudge Jon Chopan because he seems so much the opposite of my assumptions of writers. He writes to celebrate, not himself, but the people and places he has come to know - [Summer Reading Schedule: Lisa Fay Coutley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/summer-reading-schedule-lisa-fay-coutley/) - Lisa Fay Coutley just released her gorgeous collection of poems, In the Carnival of Breathing, and will read across Michigan and Wisconsin this summer: July 22, 2011 (7:00 p.m.) Butler Theatre 121 South Main Street Ishpeming, MI July 23, 2011 (2-4:00 p.m.) Finnish American Heritage Center Hancock, MI (with UP Book Tour) August 9, - [David Rigsbee wins Best North Carolina Poetry Book Award!](https://blacklawrencepress.com/david-rigsbee-wins-best-north-carolina-poetry-book-award/) - More exciting news for poet David Rigsbee, whose collection The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems was selected as the winner of the Poetry Council of North Carolina's Oscar Arnold Young Award for the best NC poetry book published in 2010. 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Russians It wasn’t the end when my girlfriend handed me the phone in the middle of - ["Kevin Pilkington is a Fine Wordsmith" --San Francisco Review](https://blacklawrencepress.com/kevin-pilkington-is-a-fine-wordsmith-san-francisco-review/) - The folks at San Francisco Review recently reviewed Kevin Pilkington's collection The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, writing that Kevin's poems are "vivid snapshots both familiar and foreign, captured through the lens of a sharp and immensely capable talent." Read the entire review here (soon to be in the SFR print edition) and buy a copy - [The Literary Review loves Laura McCullough's 'Speech Acts'](https://blacklawrencepress.com/the-literary-review-loves-laura-mcculloughs-speech-acts/) - In the new issue of The Literary Review, Ryan Romine investigates how Laura McCullough's poetry is a deft analysis of gender roles and sexuality. 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Women’s Studies / Gender Studies. Writing About the South. No Spare People documents the joys and perils of a tiny mother-daughter family navigating life on the margins. From poems about finding autonomy as a queer, unpartnered parent by choice in the South to those chronicling a generation’s economic instability, Hoover rejects so-called “acceptable losses” stemming from - [Soft Armor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/soft-armor/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Soft Armor was originally published by Nomadic. Soft Armor is a meditation on love in its many enactments and forms —romantic, parental, ecological, spiritual, and communal. It is an insistence on being in love with a burning, disappearing, - [Son of Byford](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/son-of-byford/) - https://youtu.be/U-im455de1Y In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Son of Byford was originally published by Nomadic. Son of Byford is a meandering mining of meaning from the memory of many middle passages. This collection refracts 1970’s shades of Black and blues that give way - [Snake Lore](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/snake-lore/) - Winner of the Fall 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition Jane Morton’s debut chapbook Snake Lore explores the intimacy and violence born of a particular place, weaving a broken narrative fraught with the tangled dynamics of individuals and their environment. This collection is steeped in dirt and framed within the politics of disgust concerning sexuality and - [Phoenix Song](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/phoenix-song/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Phoenix Song was originally published by Nomadic. PHOENIX SONG has many recurring themes—non-binary gender, queer and bi+ sexuality, and childhood and psychiatric trauma. As the traumas resonate within the speaker, we understand them as the root of mental health struggles—rather than - [REVENGE BODY](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/revenge-body/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. REVENGE BODY was originally published by Nomadic Press. REVENGE BODY traces moments in the aftermath of survival and rebuilding toward a more livable future for survivors. 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A valuable addition to memoir collections." --Library Journal, starred review - [All the Lands We Inherit](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-the-lands-we-inherit/) - Shortlisted for the 2026 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize "This moving, inventive debut is a meditation on the author's relationship with her mother...Recommended for readers interested in family dynamics, lyric essay, and generational trauma." -Library Journal "This is the type of memoir I love to read. Earnest and delicate, with supple writing to - [This Much I Can Tell You](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-much-i-can-tell-you/) - This Much I Can Tell You Sometimes it feels as if the mind will seal itself up and you can go a great distance without ever seeing those who ever spoke your name. You hear everything from cacophony to a symphony played on instruments, provenance unknown, stored out of sight C long ago. It is - [My Sister's Father](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/my-sisters-father/) - My Sister's Father is an American Gothic. In a world of plenty and waste, these poems go behind the closed doors of an affluent, suburban household to expose its foundation in unspeakable violence. My Sister's Father tries to find a language to capture the crisis as it breaks and the walls come closing in. - [[ G A T E S ]](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/g-a-t-e-s/) - Gate: threshold, corridor, barrier. Sahar Muradi engages power, war, illness, and language to evoke the physical and literary passages that accompany individual and collective loss. In [ G A T E S ], the loss of a homeland meets the loss of a dying father meets the loss of meaning amidst war, racism, and environmental degradation. Muradi's highly charged, deeply transformative - [Acadiana](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/acadiana/) - Winner of the Fall 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition In Reddy's south Louisiana, gods, saints, and sibyls walk among us. Set against the approach and aftermath of a hurricane, Acadiana's swamps and bayous are liminal spaces where the boundaries between this world and the next, between comfort and catastrophe, are porous. In this sometimes lyrical - [Flatlands](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/flatlands/) - [City of Incandescent Light](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/city-of-incandescent-light/) - [The Book of Sharks](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-book-of-sharks/) - [prey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/prey/) - This title is no longer available for purchase through Black Lawrence Press, but it is available from most online book retailers. Better yet, your local bookstore should be able to order a copy for you. 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Quiet Chang's speakers - [This Bright Darkness](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-bright-darkness/) - Demeter, Watching Persephone at Her Mirror She slips out of her dress, turns this way and that, cursing her breasts, her stomach, her thick thighs. Her eyes are crushed geraniums, her mouth a study in sorrow. Hollow girl, full of echoes. She pushes her food around her plate, only pretends to put the spoon to - [Meta Meta Make-Belief](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/meta-meta-make-belief/) - [Three Hands None](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/three-hands-none/) - photos of men was it this one that I tell them I hadn't seen his face, the flashlight melted my eyes . mug shots again was it this one that I hadn't seen hadn't seen . did I smell his breath his underarm stench his filtered or filterless, did he smell me . he watched - [The Death Metal Pastorals](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-death-metal-pastorals/) - The Death Metal Pastorals turns over the rolling green hills of the idyllic American landscape, excavates their violences, and attenuates the powers that live atop them. In Ryan Patrick Smith's pastoral, "nothing works here but blood & radio$$ and from page one, we know we're entering a landscape at once more ominous and more vigilant - [The Bride Aflame](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-bride-aflame/) - Blackberrying After Ballet Another wife suicides at the ballet. Her aubade waves a foreign scarf snagged under a wheel. Husbands audition violins, offer to take her home. A kitchen is not a kitchen but another wife. A daughter no girl, but a shepherd cocooned in pink tulle. A blackberry bush fruits, aflame with grief and - [The Truth Is](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-truth-is/) - [Waiting for Achilles](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/waiting-for-achilles/) - Listen to Jo Sarzotti read for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series // Watch the captioned video on the BLP YouTube Channel - [Partial Genius](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/partial-genius/) - What happens when you finally realize that you are really good, but only at unremarkable things? What value does memory hold when weighed against heavier commodities such as money and time and conventional beauty? The prose poems of Partial Genius build upon the form in a collective narrative, working in unison to craft a larger - [This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-is-not-a-frank-ocean-cover-album/) - Winner of the Spring 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition In his debut short collection, poet Alan Chazaro takes us from the moonlit Bay Bridge to dark Oakland bars to tire shops to backyards to the fireworks and dirt paths of Mexico City. Chazaro's speakers battle to find internal truths in a world defined by external - [Look Look Look](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-look-look/) - Listen to Callista Buchen read from LOOK LOOK LOOK // Watch the captioned video on the BLP YouTube Channel - [tether](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/tether/) - Listen to Lisa Fay Coutley read poems from tether // Watch the captioned video on the BLP YouTube Channel - [sex & violence](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sex-violence/) - [Inside Ball Lightning](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/inside-ball-lightning/) - Inside Ball Lightning follows the growing distance between two siblings over the course of several years around the time of their grandmother’s death. It traces a childhood full of competitive chess, Gameboys, ghosts, ESP, and ball lightning. Here, parents’ childhoods merge with the poet’s in a book that looks back across generations, and looks forward - [Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/far-villages-welcome-essays-for-new-and-beginner-poets/) - Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets builds on the body of work in this tradition by bringing several established and emerging poets together. - [This Is How the Bone Sings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-is-how-the-bone-sings/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8w-bfHFrHQ - [Dominant Genes](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/dominant-genes/) - Winner of the Fall 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition https://youtu.be/1Z_KCD7NipQ Dominant Genes, the new hybrid collection from Stonewall Honor author and Lambda Literary Award finalist SJ Sindu, is equal parts power and astonishing beauty, tenderness and shimmering anger, poetry and lyric essays interwoven in a gorgeous exploration of family, heritage, and the construction of nonbinary - [Hood Vacations](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/hood-vacations/) - 2024 Lambda Literary Award Winner - Transgender Poetry Michal “MJ” Jones’ debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling – an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: "We were mighty beautiful once, in golden dust." - [Dead Dad Club](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/dead-dad-club/) - In 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Dead Dad Club was originally published by Nomadic. With a close eye on the past and an outstretched hand to the future, Dead Dad Club traces the death of a father and ties it to the rebirth of a - [The First Church of What's Happening](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-first-church-of-whats-happening/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The First Church of What's Happening was originally published by Nomadic. Miah Jeffra examines our new and rapidly changing public life by questioning a few fundamentals—perception, memory, identity, violence, love—in all their complexity, and in their relationship to - [Low Rent Prophet](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/low-rent-prophet/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Low Rent Prophet was originally published by Nomadic. Low Rent Prophet is poetry for anyone who has ever wanted to burn it all down. This book is about what’s left to be saved and the possibility of change - [Infodemic](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/infodemic/) - [A Cold Wind from Idaho](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-cold-wind-from-idaho/) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, resulting in a cataclysmic series of events affecting all persons of Japanese ancestry then residing on the West Coast of the United States. So calamitous were these actions that a noted scholar asserted that this action constitutes "the defining event in the history of Japanese Americans." What does this - [O Holy Insurgency](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/o-holy-insurgency/) - Mary Biddinger's second full-length poetry collection, O Holy Insurgency, wrenches the love poem out of the terrain of hearts and flowers, and transplants it into a gritty Midwestern paradise where broken glass becomes a shimmering beacon, and no river is too polluted to dazzle a pair of lovers on its banks. The emotional landscape of - [This is not a sky](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-is-not-a-sky/) - This title is no longer available for purchase through Black Lawrence Press, but it is available from most online book retailers. Better yet, your local bookstore should be able to order a copy for you. Wholesale customers, please purchase this title through Ingram. -------------- Jessica Piazza's This is not a sky begins with the seed of ekphrastic - [The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-new-sorrow-is-less-than-the-old-sorrow/) - A young Au Pair living in Germany reads Goethe's famous tragedy, The Sorrows of Young Werther, for the first time. Years later, she crafts an answer as she considers the storm of early love in her own life, the drudgery of work, and even Goethe's later response to his own text. In this exquisite cycle - [Oh My Darling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/oh-my-darling/) - "At the last dusty town in a line of dusty towns Clementine's story begins. In Oh My Darling, Cate O'Toole has constructed a winding narrative with many pathways, each road following the fifteen year-old miner's daughter, immortalized in the American folk canon by her namesake ballad, through a journey laced with triumph and ruin at - [Americana](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/americana/) - [Decency](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/decency/) - [Four Cities](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/four-cities/) - Dinner Like lions we circle. A sundew plant dangles. Green neck with long curling filaments unfurling like steam in a chemist's test tube. I want the slow awakening, that life of marveling, to follow a man down a dark hallway, watch him dip his face, his neck, into the water, flicking it over his wrists. - [sad boy / detective](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sad-boy-detective/) - Winner of the Spring 2014 Black River Chapbook Competition From his first appearance on the page, "we knew he was bound for something unsolvable." But a little thing like futility can't stop our hero from holding up a magnifying glass to a world "so bright it's impossible to understand." In this searching, provocative collection of - [Jersey Mercy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/jersey-mercy/) - Moon Croon in Eatontown Mercy and Fred stand spitting seeds outside the porta potty between the construction site and convenience store; Rick is inside puking. He's got too much something and not enough something else-food; restraint; who knows? Mercy's social is tattooed across her neck. In case they find my body, she told her mother. - [Notes on the End of the World](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/notes-on-the-end-of-the-world/) - Winner of the Spring 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition Notes on the End of the World is a quiet apocalypse. You won't find huge explosions or sudden extinctions in Meghan Privitello's poems. Here, the days are marked instead by quiet disappearances, abandoned objects, details that might be otherwise overlooked. Objects double as warning signs: "The asbestos - [Wasp Queen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/wasp-queen/) - https://youtu.be/TcLS9kXIGfQ - [Retribution Binary](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/retribution-binary/) - Winner of the Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition A long poem in two parts, Retribution Binary is an unearthing of trauma and its many fractures. Baumann explores the psychological and spiritual mayhem of the loss of body ownership, how one both takes that back and can never take it back: "Hands laid on the body - [ORAKL](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/orakl/) - Pantano, a renowned poet and translator, has brought both of these talents to bear on his project. His process was to loosely translate all of the poems of Georg Trakl, then order the lines in alphabetical order by their first words. One further aspect of the organization is that while these lines share this overt - [Matria](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/matria/) - [Human-Ghost Hybrid Project](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/human-ghost-hybrid-project/) - Ghost Human is the author of multiple mistakes and six past-date boxes of kaleidoscope perfume. Although technically deceased, Ghost Human has two thousand Facebook friends, only three of whom operate real world machines. Ghost Human was born when twin thigh gaps morphed into a pop up alphabet shop. 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In her update - [Code](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/code/) - Code features at its center a narrative sequence with three characters: a young father; a young mother who is dying from an inherited disease; and the mother’s own DNA. Considering exciting new developments in genetics such as CRISPR, which would allow us to eradicate certain diseases, this book approaches ethical questions from a poetic and - [The Death Spiral](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-death-spiral/) - Watch a captioned video of The Death Spiral's virtual launch, hosted by McNally Jackson! Sarah Giragosian reads from The Death Spiral and Virginia Konchan reads from Any God Will Do. Plus a Q&A with both authors! Sarah Giragosian reads for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series - [Lost Letters and Other Animals](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/lost-letters-and-other-animals/) - Carrie Bennett reads from LOST LETTERS AND OTHER ANIMALS for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiqASFSaL2U - [Savage Flower](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/savage-flower/) - In Savage Flower, winner of the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award, Anna B. Sutton explores female oppression and agency in the Bible Belt South. The intertwined landscapes of Tennessee and North Carolina are the backdrop for Sutton's beautiful, warring marriage of religion, family, the body, sex and reproductive rights, and the inevitable cycle of destruction - [summonings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/summonings/) - Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali’s summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch (“daayan”) hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications & shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author’s Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- & - [Twice Shy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/twice-shy/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Twice Shy was originally published by Nomadic Press. Twice Shy by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett reflects the many faces of violence—in our experiences, our relationships, and our society—but it then asks us to turn toward the light, to heal - [music for mussolini](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/music-for-mussolini/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. music for mussolini was originally published by Nomadic. nick johnson's debut collection is dream like, playful in its use of language, and yet deeply rooted and serious. These soulful poems sing with operatic breath of loss and the tender - [Purepero Stories](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/purepero-stories/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Purepero Stories was originally published by Nomadic Press. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. A collaborative project told in words and images, Purepero Stories captures the life of a young Mexican girl growing up in Mexico and California with her sisters, tia Rosa, - [Shedding Season](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/shedding-season/) - "A confident debut from a poet unafraid to use language like a sharpened blade, Shedding Season explores change, hunger, and the natural world."--Shelf Awareness A kitchen hums with flies. Grackles fill the branches of a tree. A bruise blooms over skin. In Shedding Season, nature threatens to overwhelm those who would keep it in check. Instead, Morton - [Atlas of the Body](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/atlas-of-the-body/) - ♦Winner of the 2018 CHAUTAUQUA JANUS PRIZE, celebrating an emerging writer's single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder literary conventions, historical narratives and readers' imaginations. Growing up in poverty in the American south, Maya yearns to escape and find something better than anything she's known. - [Girl Paper Stone](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/girl-paper-stone/) - From The Road to Mora . To the sky she speaks, I've been so unhappy. Water lifts her. On its woven current, walls collapse. The sky replies: Tell another story about bad decisions. Hair streaming, she sings of slippery places. I am raining she thinks. Thunder closes the bridge. . * . There's nothing but - [Because We Were Christian Girls](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/because-we-were-christian-girls/) - Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalist Cupboard Pamphlet’s 2020 Annual Contest Finalist 2021 Newfound Prose Prize Finalist 2022 Central New York Book Award Winner https://youtu.be/TSvyYqJaHDU Inspired by Virgie Townsend’s own experiences growing up in an independent fundamental Baptist church, the seven stories in Because We Were Christian Girls examine religious and gender oppression through - [But Now Am Found](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/but-now-am-found/) - What happens when one’s illusions unravel? This is the question that animates Patricia Horvath’s debut story collection, But Now Am Found. A young man experiences heartbreak for the first time when his girlfriend rejects him on religious grounds. One woman fixates on a crossword puzzle to avoid thinking about her missing daughter while another, in - [Home Remedy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/home-remedy/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Home Remedy was originally published by Nomadic. Norma Smith's poems come out of a long life filled with its share of grief and healing, thwarted and unthwarted love, sex, and words. Home Remedy reflects the tension and ease of finding the - [Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/writing-as-a-way-of-life-a-book-about-art-craft-and-devotion/) - Named a Best Book for Writers by Poets & Writers "Morton's advice and relaxed, reassuring style are certain to aid many writers in improving their craft and, more importantly, sticking with it."--Sara Shreve, Library Journal "This is not a self-help book on how to write. This is about the devotion to writing as a way - [Into the Into of Earth Itself](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/into-the-into-of-earth-itself/) - Selected by judge Diana Khoi Nguyen, Into the Into of Earth Itself is the debut collection by Amanda Hodes. - [School for Runaways](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/school-for-runaways/) - Named a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press 2024 Chapbook Prize, the Frontier Poetry 2024 Debut Chapbook Prize, and the Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition. - [Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/now-im-photogenic-and-other-stories-i-tell-myself/) - "Surreal images and emotional realities collide in this...brief but potent collection that rarely goes where a reader might predict. Stories that find the right balance between veracity and strangeness." -- Kirkus Winner of the 2024 St. Lawrence Book Award Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself is a collection of ten playfully strange - [Rough Beast](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/rough-beast/) - Percy LeBlanc, the stormy, Bryonic lead singer and guitarist of New Orleans black metal band, Bethlehem, has been murdered--but his Tumblr account's still going strong. To gain some insight into Percy's unique and twisted world, not to mention some clues as to why he was murdered, you can't shrink away from the darkness. Click here: tumblr.com/blog/lordbyronisdead. - [Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/heart-eater-a-memoir-of-immigration-belonging-and-how-we-find-ourselves-in-language/) - Inaugural Selection of the Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing Series Comprised of short essays, or field notes, Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language traces 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin’s journey from her childhood as a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to an award-winning - [The Smallest Mistake We Call Human](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-smallest-mistake-we-call-human/) - Pickell’s collection is relevant, moving, and at times startling, as it tackles complicated themes and works through and prepares for worst-case scenarios. Readers will find it easy to connect with the themes in this collection. --Library Journal Isaac Pickell writes from the middle of things: the tensions between Blackness and Jewishness, between loss and inheritance, - [FishWife](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/fishwife/) - Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry Linguistically acrobatic, FishWife interrogates dictionary definitions and the messy function of memory, reclaiming and redefining language to discover the self. This collection explores where and how embodiments of wifehood and identity overlap and entwine, alchemizing intuition into language and offering poetry as a mode of illumination. Traveling - [A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-buyers-guide-to-the-afterlife/) - Public pools shuttered for storms. Game shows for endangered species. The teeth of a fine snail. A Buyer's Guide to the Afterlife began for poet Erica Wright as a response to archival images from the American Museum of Natural History. Imagine discovering so many new species in the 16th century, then losing so many in - [Seagulls](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/seagulls/) - “Gorgeous and thoughtful … a stellar debut weaving a tale of survival through the interconnected stories of those affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” –Jennifer Jordan, Syosset Public Library, Turn the Page podcast Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series Selection A teenage Olympic champion in Krakow, a stripper in New York, an American professor at - [Love, Lyric, and Liberation](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/love-lyric-and-liberation/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Love, Lyric, and Liberation was originally published by Nomadic. Love, Lyric, and Liberation is a collection of reflections, epiphanies, and warnings for those who find themselves existing in the intersection of blackness, femininity, art, and resistance. These - [The Hanged Man](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-hanged-man/) - Esquire Ball is a Midwestern gothic collection of thirteen linked stories in which a young female attorney discovers what it takes to succeed. - [everything saved will be last](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/everything-saved-will-be-last/) - everything saved will be last, the debut poetry chapbook from Isaac Pickell, considers the body and the environments that hold it while navigating the personal, generational, and societal consequences of passing as white. Pickell’s work pursues small moments of self, embodied memory, and politics that bleed away from the skin, toward whatever can be accessed as - [Sky Tongued Back with Light](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sky-tongued-back-with-light/) - In Sébastien Luc Butler’s elegant chapbook Sky Tongued Back with Light, art and nature symbolize conflicted feelings about queerness, religion, and grief… From the first poem to the last, the alliterative free verses…depict the complete trajectory of a day—or a life—with realism and panache. --Foreword Reviews Winner of the Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition - [Bottom Feeders](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/bottom-feeders/) - A vibrant and gritty debut from poet Arielle Hebert, Bottom Feeders is a queer coming-of-age collection set in late 2000s Florida, during the height of the opioid epidemic. Here, overdoses, red tide blooms, and hurricanes are as much a part of growing up as fleeting teenage desires, beach parties, and prom. This is a landscape - [Watchman in the Knife Factory: New and Selected Poems](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/watchman-in-the-knife-factory-new-and-selected-poems/) - The cumulative effect of this massive collection is a lived sense of why one might care so much about this world, as flawed and wonderful as it is. - Bill Tremblay, Rain Taxi Known for their lyrical intensity and thematic range, David Rigsbee’s poems have appeared prominently in literary magazines for five decades, as well - [Dear Animal](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/dear-animal/) - In June 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalog. MK Chavez's Dear Animal was originally published by Nomadic. - [Opheliac](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/opheliac/) - When a local teen drowns and comes back as more river than girl, it dawns on residents that there is something very wrong in Steubenville. Emma Sloan’s debut chapbook, Opheliac, intertwines modern mythology and one of literature’s most enduring figures, Shakespeare’s Ophelia–using both as a vessel to explore betrayal and grief. It is a collection - [Poetry Subscriptions](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/poetrysubscription/) - Get wonderful literature delivered to your doorstep every month! Sign up for a 3, 6, 9, or 12 month subscription to receive hand-picked titles and bonus gifts. - [Prose Subscriptions](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/prosesubscription/) - Get wonderful literature delivered to your doorstep every month! Sign up for a 3, 6, 9, or 12 month subscription to receive hand-picked titles and bonus gifts. - [Hell/a Mexican](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/hell-a-mexican/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Hell/a Mexican was originally published by Nomadic. Hell/a Mexican is an appreciation of the tragicomedy that is existing on American soil with foreign roots. These stories shed light on the boundless experience of living and learning through your identity. - [Always a Relic Never a Reliquary](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/always-a-relic-never-a-reliquary/) - This title is no longer available for purchase through Black Lawrence Press, but it is available from most online book retailers. Better yet, your local bookstore should be able to order a copy for you. Wholesale customers, please purchase this title through Independent Publishers Group or Ingram. -------------------------------- WINNER OF THE 2020 ST. LAWRENCE BOOK - [The Body: Oracle of Memory](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-body-oracle-of-memory/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The Body: Oracle of Memory was originally selected by Nomadic. The Body: Oracle of Memory is an unapologetic analog of remembrances, immune systems, and visions that unwittingly holds us accountable as we engage its re-run fast-forward bio-magnetic sense reactor that tests - [You Are Loved](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/you-are-loved/) - As a young man living in New Orleans just after the turn of the century, Dixon Still is trying to find himself. Thirty years later, as an older man living in San Francisco, Dixon has arrived at a clearer sense of self, but he still finds something missing in his otherwise happy life. You Are - [A Meditation On Fire](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-meditation-on-fire/) - A Meditation On Fire invites the reader far behind the curtain of the poet's personal experience, into the shadows of alcoholism, familial addiction and mental illness, into insomnia nights and perpetual worry for loved ones, into the body during long days of hard labor, into a vivid kaleidoscope of memories that all boil down to - [Women in the Waiting Room](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/women-in-the-waiting-room/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpEc5Lrz7mQ - [Black Bear Creek: Stories](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/black-bear-creek-stories/) - Tucked away in a remote hollow of West Virginia’s Coal River Valley, lies the town of Black Bear Creek, well past its glory days, and ravaged by the mining industry on which its people depend. The characters in Joshua Cross’s debut story collection struggle to survive against rampant poverty while their drinking water is poisoned - [The Driftless Land: Spirit of Place in the Upper Mississippi Valley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-driftless-land-spirit-of-place-in-the-upper-mississippi-valley/) - The Driftless Land is a search for the spirit of place among the bluffs, woodlands, and prairies of the upper Mississippi River valley. Bypassed by the glaciers, the Driftless’ hilly and scenic topography is a Midwest treasure. The Midwest is commonly known for its flatlands, for oceans of corn pressing toward the horizon beneath a big - [Mouth Full of Seeds](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/mouth-full-of-seeds/) - Listen to Marcela Sulak read from MOUTH FULL OF SEEDS // Watch captioned video on the BLP YouTube Channel - [Unbend the River](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/unbend-the-river/) - The linked stories in Unbend the River are set along a forested stretch of land between Lake Erie and the upper Allegheny River in Western New York, places dense with rivers, hills, and forest. The characters, all of whom are tied to a modern knife manufacturing plant, illustrate all the ways love and longing shapeshift over the course of a long life. A - [Everyone at This Party Has Two Names](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/everyone-at-this-party-has-two-names/) - Everyone at This Party Has Two Names was originally published by Southeast Missouri State University Press. - [this is my body](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-is-my-body/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. THIS IS MY BODY was originally published by Nomadic Press. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Interest. Women's Studies. THIS IS MY BODY is an anthology of written works by women of color - [Low Village](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/low-village/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Low Village was originally published by Nomadic. Low Village explores the symbiotic relationship between dominant and submissive personalities: fathers and sons, hustlers and hoes, hunters and their human prey—characters consumed by ambition and wracked with guilt. - [Nueva Cuenta](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/nueva-cuenta/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Nueva Cuenta was originally published by Nomadic. Gutierrez's poems illuminate parallels between a personal sense of indigenized identity and the legacy of colonialism via the California Mission system and its impact on the local ecology. - [Animal Disorders](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/animal-disorders/) - Animal disorders—those erratic, contradictory, irrational relationships that humans have with their nonhuman compatriots—abound in contemporary U.S. culture. In a series of personal essays, Deborah Thompson relates her own complicity in some of these disordered approaches to nonhuman animals, including such practices as pet-keeping, animal hoarding, animal sacrifice (both religious and scientific), magical thinking, and grieving. - [Sun River](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sun-river/) - [World's Largest Ball of Paint](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/worlds-largest-ball-of-paint/) - 2022 St. Lawrence Book Award Winner Charlie Peck's debut collection World’s Largest Ball of Paint began with a world record. Through a series of fragmented narrative poems, World’s Largest Ball of Paint navigates place and self, memory and remembering. Peck uses a cast of characters and poetic form to reckon with the past and the present, layer by layer. - [Lupine](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/lupine/) - At the heart of all violence is fear: Lupine is a gathering of feminist prose poetry engaging themes of ecology, animality, and the human unknown. A series of interconnected dramatic monologues, the poems inhabit the personae of figures traditionally deemed Monstrous, giving them voice to confront and reclaim the violent mythologies that have so often - [Boomtown Girl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/boomtown-girl/) - Winner of the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award https://youtu.be/Y0yWNDmw3DQ "...(Sunder's) expressive style depicts lives cocooned in uncertainty and loneliness, novelty and longing."- Kirkus Set entirely in the Bangalore region of South India, Boomtown Girl explores the ambitions, delusions, and struggles of people navigating a rapidly developing city. A rebellious teenager and her workaholic father confront their mutual - [Get Funky, Get Swoll](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/get-funky-get-swoll/) - If Amiri Baraka wrote with Paul Beatty’s mic and Yusef Komunyakaa’s telescope, the result might sound like this. Get Funky, Get Swoll cuts and cajoles. These are wonderful poems. --Terrance Hayes Get Funky, Get Swoll explores, demonstrates, and indicts the multifaceted and multifarious ways white supremacy, white culture, and, in very specific instances white people, - [Nocturne: 111 Poems by Georg Trakl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/nocturne-111-poems-by-georg-trakl/) - Georg Trakl is recognized as one of the leading figures of the Austro-German expressionist movement during the early twentieth century. Marked by nightmarish visions of disintegration, death, and murder, as well as of natural decay, his poetry has influenced poets, painters, musicians, and playwrights for more than a century. Translated and edited by Daniele Pantano, - [Worth Burning](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/worth-burning/) - "The collection is at its most piercing when it operates as a dreamlike scatterplot of childhood omens…Images jut out at the reader, hyper-saturated with the intensity of childhood memory...A stark, startlingly beautiful collection." --Kirkus Reviews "The smoldering debut from Kennedy traces his coming of age as a gay man in the 1990s against the backdrop - [Any Gesture](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/any-gesture/) - Whitney Koo’s debut collection, Any Gesture, takes on loss, anticipatory grief, and the little deaths experienced in the space between mourning and survival. - [Walking on October](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/walking-on-october/) - The poems in Kevin Pilkington’s Walking on October explore life in urban environments. Each poem is lucid, filled with the music and grit of urban city streets. Collectively, the poems are personal confrontations with the world and what it means to be human. The jazzy rhythms of traffic, crowded city streets, and rattling subways create - [Strange Vigil](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/strange-vigil/) - Taking its title from Whitman’s vigil, kept through the night in a field beside a dying soldier, Scott Frey’s Strange Vigil spans the three years of his daughter’s life, shortened by a brain injury received during her birth and complicated by intensive medical needs. With short prose pieces, lyric essays, and praise poems for G-tubes, - [Basements and Other Museums](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/basements-and-other-museums/) - Winner of the 2016 St. Lawrence Book Award Excerpt from "Translated from the Bosnian" I met your mother in Makarska, though neither of us was staying there. A friend and I had rented a room north of Makarska, in a smaller and cheaper resort; your mother and her friends farther south along the coast. I - [Talking with Boys](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/talking-with-boys/) - Talking with Boys by Tayyba Kanwal is a collection of linked stories filled with irony, humor, and magic. Immigrant Writing Series Selection - [Caulbearer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/caulbearer/) - Caulbearer by Luisa A. Igloria is the third selection for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. In many cultures, a caul is considered talismanic; and a child born with it, possessing luck or protection. Luisa A. Igloria invokes this metaphor to weave poems exploring the veiled intervals of transition experienced by those in the diaspora—or by anyone - [The Book of Redacted Paintings](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-book-of-redacted-paintings/) - Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection In The Book of Redacted Paintings, the narrative arc follows a boy in search of his father's painting, but it is unclear whether the painting exists or not. The book, a poetry collection, is also populated by a series of paintings. Some are real, incomplete, and/or missing, while most are - [The Bones Beneath](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-bones-beneath/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The Bones Beneath is one of the forthcoming Nomadic Press titles that we acquired. ------- The Bones Beneath captures what it means to be American, Southern, diasporan, what it means to belong and not to belong, and finding - [Twister](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/twister/) - By turns terrifying and humorous, clear-eyed and deep-hearted, Twister brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern town mourns the death of a young soldier. Rose, the soldier's fiercely independent mother, may or may not be losing her grip on reality, and we seek answers along with the constellation of family, - [25 Trumbulls Road](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/25-trumbulls-road/) - Winner of the Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition This house has seen things it won't let you forget. When a new family moves in to the house at 25 Trumbulls Road, the narrator's vivid dreams of a teary-eyed, raw-smelling woman who lives beneath the floor turn chillingly real. Five years later, the house's new - [Small Enterprise](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/small-enterprise/) - The time: creeping toward the millennium, yet before Y2K panic inspires everyone to stockpile bottled water and cheap wine. The place: a Midwestern metropolis with echoes of Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, a city trying to preserve the past as a future arrives with gut rehabs and shuttered churches. The dramatis personae: corner bar denizens, bad girls with big - [I Am Faithful](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/i-am-faithful/) - [With Animal](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/with-animal/) - [Ways to Beg](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/ways-to-beg/) - The poems in Ways to Beg are in constant conversation. They speak to and of each other, to ancestors, gods, pets, strangers on planes, and, most often, directly to the reader. Their aim is mutual inquiry. They want to swap stories and jokes and secrets, to stay up all night, refilling your beverage of choice, diligently pursuing - [supreme night](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/supreme-night/) - In supreme night, the troubles of double consciousness and anti-Black violence recede into the temporary haven that night engenders. - [Horsemouth and Aquariumhead](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/horsemouth-and-aquariumhead/) - Winner of the Spring 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition Tales of longing and desire for escape, Horsemouth and Aquariumhead features imaginative and sometimes unsettling characters. Whether the characters yearn for a different, unknown life, or they wish themselves out of something else, Turner's surreal yet relatable collection offers glimpses to the depths beneath, above, or - [What Follows](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/what-follows/) - https://youtu.be/C46eRXfMY54 In What Follows, the poet writes: “It’s the end of the world and we can’t stop saying the word tender.” Tenderness runs through the book, even as Webster demonstrates brutality and strength in the face of life’s experiences. These poems explore the vastness of the human experience, from sexual powerplays and the crimes commited - [Patrice Lumumba: An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/patrice-lumumba-an-anthology-of-writers-on-black-liberation/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Patrica Lumumba was originally published by Nomadic Press. Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. Curated by Tureeda Mikell. Cover art by John Sims. The PATRICE LUMUMBA anthology collects the liberatory words of 24 authors, many of whom call Oakland, - [Patient.](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/patient/) - [In Life There Are Many Things](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/in-life-there-are-many-things/) - In Life There Are Many Things is a portrait of adolescent mental illness after the end of history: “I have / this body— / residue—and I don’t know what / left it.” This chapbook's unmoored speakers seek, alternately, to root themselves more firmly in the world and to exit it entirely. Autobiography and allegory merge - [Excisions](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/excisions/) - Excisions investigates the feeling—the problem and the syntax—of being on a threshold. If you don’t know what will happen next, you can’t yet say what has happened. These poems arise from states of precise unknowing, desperate imagination, inchoate emotion, encounters with mortality and power when they’re closing in but haven’t caught you yet. What is choice, - [The Elsewhere Oracle](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-elsewhere-oracle/) - Finalist for the 2026 High Plains International Book Award in Poetry Longlist finalist for the 2025 Julie Suk Award https://youtu.be/X-zPbQWrXTU "Battiste’s The Elsewhere Oracle bridges lyric, artifact, and instrument. It stands among the most original poetry projects of the year: an invitation to listen differently, to draw a card, to begin again." -- RHINO The town - [A Brief History of the Midwest](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-brief-history-of-the-midwest/) - The poems in A Brief History of the Midwest trace the trajectory of the middle of America from its colonization to the present day. Hardships that range from loneliness to the opioid crisis to the largest earthquake in U.S. history reverberate through this collection’s fields, Northern waters and derelict barns. The losses here are both historical and - [Blue Hallelujahs](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/blue-hallelujahs/) - [Many Small Fires](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/many-small-fires/) - [In The Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/tempereddark/) - Named a Best Book for Writers by Poets & Writers Historically poets have explored no two themes more than love and grief because they are opposite sides of the same emotional coin that we will all experience in unique and often unexplainable ways. While other anthologies validate the necessity of the elegy, none examine the relationship - [Birth Center in Corporate Woods](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/birth-center-in-corporate-woods/) - Birth Center in Corporate Woods is a book of the blues, which is to say it’s ragged, loving, melancholy and deeply American. - [Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great Black Swamp](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/esquireball/) - Esquire Ball is a Midwestern gothic collection of thirteen linked stories in which a young female attorney discovers what it takes to succeed. - [An Object in Motion](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/an-object-in-motion/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. An Object in Motion was originally published by Nomadic. An Object in Motion is the reckoning of firearms from the fictional through the physical, an exploration of these most vicious tools in regard to the bodies they impact - [Without Saints](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/without-saints/) - "In his visionary memoir-in-essays Without Saints, Christopher Locke freezes the past, covering enforced religiosity, self-destructive habits, his marriage and fatherhood, and teaching." --Foreword Reviews "...[an] affecting memoir...a deeply humanist story of community and the salvation found in it."--Publishers Weekly --------------------------------- https://youtu.be/akPeLtKJsDw Without Saints is a breathtaking journey to rediscover hope between the ruins: Poet Christopher - [The Postcards I Never Sent](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-postcards-i-never-sent/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The postcards I Never Sent was originally selected for publication by Nomadic. - [Families Among Us](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/families-among-us/) - Winner of the Spring 2013 Black River Chapbook Competition Fantastical and disquieting, yet utterly familiar and human in their strangeness, the six short tales in Blake Kimzey's Families Among Us introduce us to the work of a wildly imaginative and masterfully nuanced new writer. In the tradition of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, but also of - [Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/ghetto-koans-a-personal-archive/) - Ghetto Koans is a genre-busting collection of voices and observances of a poet learning his craft in the neighborhood and city where he grew up. - [The Clearing](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-clearing/) - Arriving to the pastoral happens repeatedly and full of worry in The Clearing. For the pastoral stands for the fields of the Holocaust, of the imagination, of the Midwest, of the body, and even the empty field of the blank page. In the absence of knowing how to properly bury our inheritances of the 20th - [Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/mmj/) - https://youtu.be/XddC4XZycAY https://youtu.be/LpOXR0PNeok https://youtu.be/Ab9kv5LO4kw https://youtu.be/fcugeVbwmEc Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women revisits notions of Black womanhood to include the ways in which Black women’s perceived strength can function as a dangerous denial of Black women’s humanity. This collection addresses the stigma of this extraordinary endurance in professional and - [The Soul Hunters](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-soul-hunters/) - [Down Here We Come Up](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/down-here-we-come-up/) - https://youtu.be/YPf7mytjaPI Winner of the 2022 Big Moose Prize Down Here We Come Up is about three women who have lost connection with their children, through alienation, adoption, and across a militarized border. Their lives intersect in a "safe house" for migrant workers outside of Wilmington, North Carolina in 2006. From her deathbed, con-artist Jackie Jessup lures - [Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/where-we-go-when-all-we-were-is-gone/) - "You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. "The Return to Monsterland" opens - [The Apricot Tree](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-apricot-tree/) - Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series Selection The Apricot Tree welcomes us into a world of linked stories surrounding a group of immigrants from different countries who find themselves in the same Arab neighborhood of Bay Ridge. At the center is Busyana, who arrives from Egypt at an older age and settles into a new - [Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/others-will-enter-the-gates-immigrant-poets-on-poetry-influences-and-writing-in-america/) - Named a Best Book for Writers by Poets & Writers No two immigrant poets are the same. Even those from the same country don't necessarily answer to the same poetics or, for that matter, speak to the same concerns. How, then, do immigrant poets in America define themselves? How do they see and position themselves within - [Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/where-you-want-to-be-new-and-selected-poems/) - Where You Want to Be You wake early again get out of bed, walk over to the window and look down at the street to see if anything has changed and, of course, it never does. At first you think the blanket in the vacant lot near the corner is new until a gust of - [Wine Dark](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/wine-dark/) - [The Actual World](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-actual-world/) - [Thornwork](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/thornwork/) - [The Shape of the Keyhole](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-shape-of-the-keyhole/) - In 1650, in Massachusetts, a woman was falsely accused of killing her friend’s child. She was immediately tried and soon hanged. The Shape of the Keyhole examines a community’s fear-driven silence and envisions the innocent woman’s days as she awaits her execution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh04_yPE-iQ - [Waveland](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/waveland/) - ÖSEL JESSICA PLANTE READS FROM WAVELAND FOR THE BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS VIRTUAL READING SERIES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4CGODG1aA - [Women and Other Hostages](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/women-and-other-hostages/) - Laura McCullough reads from WOMEN & OTHER HOSTAGES for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDIR0Fkt31Q - [The Move](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-move/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The Move was originally published by Nomadic Press. Keith Donnell Jr. taps a cultural archive of voices, forms, and intergenerational absence. His poems, so connected by difference, speak across time, place, and persona, always reaching toward song - [A Sunny Place with Adequate Water](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-sunny-place-with-adequate-water/) - In her third full-length collection, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, Mary Biddinger untangles past from present, through poems preoccupied with gentrification, imaginary coin-operated machinery, and an uncanny doubling of good and wicked selves. As "Some Dead Magic" testifies, "Even streetlamps couldn't help themselves. // Where could they possibly lead us? There wasn't / any - [Sailing for Ithaca](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sailing-for-ithaca/) - Sailing for Ithaca is a travelogue of an inner country that's full of ports and welcoming entry points. Passports mean nothing here. There are no border agents. There are no uniformed guards. "Enter where you can. / Leave in delight." Dancing to the Wrong Music It's the same as tying fish Around your waist And running - [Common Ancestor](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/common-ancestor/) - Red Wreck Watches PBS Red Wreck is a wreck. She has been for many years, unnoticed since early girlhood when she was a little throb and pulse no bigger than a Chihuahua's bulbous eye. Alone, she watches daytime talk shows featuring bad kids who are brought out on stage to be put in their place - [Saint X](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/saint-x/) - Why is the world green? I had something else in mind. I planned a cat with pink fur. A rainbow of pastel smoke. Shoot anything from the back of a plane and it will be part spectacle part threat. Plants I let die last year: the bromeliad, the succulents. Plants still holding on: Sade, the - [Piñata Theory](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/pinata-theory/) - [Fingerspell](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/fingerspell/) - I began learning sign language at the suggestion of my daughter’s doctors. From a genetic screening, I learned early in the pregnancy that she had Trisomy 21, more commonly known as Down syndrome, a condition that also put her at higher risk for related medical complications. When she was born she needed surgery to repair - [Seahorses](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/seahorses/) - Watch Abayomi Animashaun read from Seahorses for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series - [(CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/creature-sounds-fade/) - Watch a poem-film from (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) - [No Small Comfort](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/no-small-comfort/) - Brian Simoneau reads for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPi9C3C4DwU - [New Life](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/new-life/) - https://youtu.be/H6wDGz4_oZ0 A subversive glimpse into the dark wildness of preparing for motherhood. New Life is a meditation on the changing/changeling body, wrought in lyric decadence. Novak leads a seductive tour through plashy islands, Great Lakes hideouts, cursed apartments, and castaway nightmares, sighting the baroque and the barren, and celebrating the romance of isolation amidst - [Hospice Plastics](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/hospice-plastics/) - Hospice Plastics — each of the title’s words denotes a key thematic thread woven through the book. This somewhat autobiographical collection of poetry focuses on the illnesses and deaths of the poet’s parents during her teen years, focusing on palliative care and literal plastics: medical tools and supplies — artificial, grotesquely present, weirdly funny, sublimely - [Rotura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/rotura/) - Selected out of the open reading period, the shifting speakers and landscapes of Rotura allow the poet to explore the themes of the Latinx experience and life itself; truth, family, longing are searched through language both direct and lyrical. It’s a long journey, but Araguz’s poems travel borders and boundaries creating an essential collection. - [Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/black-steel-magnolias-in-the-hour-of-chaos-theory/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory was originally published by Nomadic. The poems in Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory interrogate identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity. Using dreams, blues, - [Divine, Divine, Divine](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/divine-divine-divine/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Divine, Divine, Divine was originally published by Nomadic. Divine, Divine, Divine is an exploration of the divine and the deviant. A consideration of the Black tongue as a home. Life and death through the lense of language. This - [Ordinary Villains](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/ordinary-villains/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The Move was originally published by Nomadic Press. The world is full of good people who do bad things—drunk drivers, dumpster divers, absent lovers, astronauts, waitstaff, aunts and uncles, and people who have cell phones. Is that you? If you've ever - [Plans](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/plans/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Plans was originally published by Nomadic. Big business intends to make the earth theirs. In the early 21st Century, corporations have more power over the landscape and its inhabitants than governments do. This power translates into pollution, turning - [Cyan Magenta Yellow Black](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/cyan-magenta-yellow-black/) - Winner of the 2024 Big Moose Prize Stylish, smart, and big-hearted, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everything. It’s a place where friendships form in group therapy sessions and blossom in coffee shops—and where a handful of people contemplate kerning, color palettes, and headlines - [The Ways We Get By](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ways-we-get-by/) - Excerpt from "The Reluctant Son of a Fake Hero" At noon I climb out of the mouth of the Hollywood/Highland metro station just in time to see the 212 bus thunder past, and Frank’s cape billow in its wake. He’s striking the classic pose--chest out, hands fisted on his hips--and as much as I hate - [Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/avery-colt-is-a-snake-a-thief-a-liar/) - Austin’s semi-autobiographical, linked story collection follows the misadventures of Avery Colt as he struggles to survive in North St. Louis alongside his family. Learning the best way to slaughter a goat, rebuilding his family’s corner market, and reckoning the weight of a revolver are a few of the challenges Avery faces. As he matures through - [City of Skypapers](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/city-of-skypapers/) - City of Skypapers, a 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in poetry, records the con­ti­nu­ity between the per­son­al and the nation­al, the present and the his­toric. Ground­ed in the Jew­ish cal­en­dar and land­scapes of Tel Aviv, and leav­ened with self-dep­re­cat­ing humor, these poems exam­ine what it took “to get here today”—and these todays add up into this - [Vuelta](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/vuelta/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The Move was originally published by Nomadic Press. Vuelta is a long poem on a quest to recover the body through myth & memory, a reckoning with colonization & the return to our Pachamama. Vuelta to revolt, to return, to revoltijo, to - [What We Did To Her Made The Water Rise](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/what-we-did-to-her-made-the-water-rise/) - Winner of the Fall 2023 Black River Chapbook Competition Meghann Plunkett’s debut chapbook, What We Did To Her Made The Water Rise, explores the cross section between shoreline and the female form. This collection is set in the decay of the New England gothic aesthetic where the slow disintegration of an ocean-side community illuminates the - [I've Titled This Poem with Your Name](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/ive-titled-this-poem-with-your-name/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The Move was originally published by Nomadic Press. I've Titled This Poem with Your Name is a collection of love notes and lovely funerals. It explores queer love and all of its politics, joy, and grief. It is a real and - [The Earth Room](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-earth-room/) - "Frosty and blistering, The Earth Room’s short stories feature mothers, daughters, and lovers unearthing their pasts and thawing their presents." --Foreword Reviews "A surreal, deeply immersive dive into a world unlike our own." --MudRoom "The Earth Room is a collection that’s comfortable in its own skin and likely to be enjoyed by all seeking to immerse - [To Leave for Our Own Country](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/to-leave-for-our-own-country/) - The poems in To Leave for Our Own Country offer a new approach to place-based writing and thought in an often uprooted age. Ranging from the shores of Lake Michigan to the small towns of Iowa and Indiana, and finally landing in the heart of New York City, they follow the course of the American small-town diaspora - [Blood Box](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/blood-box/) - Blood Box, the deliciously haunting debut short collection from poet Zefyr Lisowski, takes us inside the infamous 1892 axe murders of Abby and Andrew Borden through twenty-six wide-ranging, stylistically experimental persona poems. Lisowski re-introduces us to mythologized spinster Lizzie Borden as we've never seen her before: a girl wielding an axe, yes, but also a - [Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/fire-water-stories-from-the-anthropocene/) - https://youtu.be/WGmEwgSBZZY A Sámi woman studying Alaska fish populations sees our past and future through their present signs of stress and her ancestral knowledge. A teenager faces a permanent drought in Australia and her own sexual desire. An unemployed man in Wisconsin marvels as a motley parade of animals makes his trailer their portal to a - [From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/from-the-darkness-right-under-our-feet/) - Brutality, defeat, loneliness, and mournful longing haunt and ignite Finn's collection with an assembly of unforgettable characters confronted by life-changing crises that force them to make impossible choices. Two brothers try to survive their father's unexpected death by protecting their widowed mother from a drunken sexual vulture at a cousin's wedding reception; the last orphan - [Dressing the Saints](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/dressing-the-saints/) - Gold Medal Winner - 2024 Florida Book Awards Dressing the Saints, the second selection for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series, vividly explores the lives of Cuban Americans. Set in the lushness of Cuba and Florida, and spanning decades, the stories chronicle lives left behind and new ones forged with struggle, melancholy, and hope. Old loves are - [The Girl with the Black Lipstick](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/) - Against the backdrop of a boozy, restless late-90s Chicago, creative writing graduate student Mary Van Pelt and her eccentric roommate navigate the collision between party life, domestic harmony, and academic ambition - [Department of Elegy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/department-of-elegy/) - Part post-punk ghost story, part Gen-X pastoral, Mary Biddinger’s poetry collection Department of Elegy conjures dim nightclubs, churning lakes, and vacant Midwestern lots, meditating on moments of lost connection. With the afterlife looming like fringe around the edges of this book, Biddinger constructs a view of heaven as strange as the world left behind. These - [I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/im-trying-to-tell-you-im-sorry-an-intimacy-triptych/) - Listen to Nina Boutsikaris read from I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU I'M SORRY: AN INTIMACY TRIPTYCH // Watch the captioned video on the BLP YouTube Channel I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry is a hybrid memoir that explores identity, gender, intimacy, and the complexities of telling one’s own story. Blending personal narrative, lyrical - [Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/woman-wolf-carbon-capture/) - Winner of the Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition It’s a beautiful September day in Seattle, but Tiny isn’t happy. Lung damage recently ended her dream career as a wildlands firefighter, and she’s grieving the person she loved most, her grandmother. Add to that Tiny’s festering anger over climate change, and the pushy neighbor who’s - [Score and Bone](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/score-and-bone/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Score and Bone was originally published by Nomadic. Via two alternating voices—interior (observed) and narrative (observer)—that speak to one another, the striking, image–rich poems in Score and Bone's two sections delve into the subjects of film and perception, - [Sidework](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sidework/) - Intricately woven, lyric, and atmospherically layered, Sidework makes the mystic and mythic the mundane. - [The Missing Girl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-missing-girl/) - Winner of the Spring 2016 Black River Chapbook Competition A driver lures a young girl into his car. A woman recalls a not-so-innocent childhood game. A man reveals much more than he'll ever tell the police. After a high school girl is murdered, everyone has an opinion. A girl wakes beside a dumpster to find - [The Liars' Asylum](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-liars-asylum/) - [Home for Difficult Children](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/home-for-difficult-children/) - Home for Difficult Children: A Memoir in Verse is a book based on personal and familial experiences and memories of exile, trauma, migration, immigration, refugeeism, translingualism, transitoriness, social justice, and writing one’s way home. Daniele Pantano writes with remarkable empathy and uncommon beauty. It is a book in defiance of solipsism. It is a book - [A Love Letter](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-love-letter/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. A Love Letter was originally published by Nomadic Press. A Love Letter has the power to speak through time as did my beloved aunt who left a paper trail to show she kept me in her thoughts. She drafted an Advance - [Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/synchronicity-the-oracle-of-sun-medicine/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine was originally published by Nomadic. Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine by Tureeda Mikell is a poetic-prose journey into the revelation of sun medicine that shows up like a rhyme in time - [SorrowLand Oracle, 2nd Edition](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sorrowland-oracle-2nd-edition/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The Move was originally published by Nomadic Press. SorrowLand Oracle by Ayodele Nzinga is a compendium of spells, incantations, prayers, and their translations into the event of being Black in modernity while standing at the crossroads of revolutionary transformation and the - [Analog Poet Blues](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/analog-poet-blues/) - Analog Poet Blues captures the journey of a poet searching for romance and seeking justice in a world transformed from the analog to the digital age. - [Scouting for the Reaper](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/scouting-for-the-reaper/) - Each of the characters in Scouting for the Reaper faces an unanticipated challenge: transporting a truck load of penguins across the country, arranging a proper Jewish burial for the remains of Gregor Samsa, selling tombstones dressed as a Girl Scout. These stories explore the domestic and professional adventures of people in over their heads, while - [The New Low](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-new-low/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. The New Low was originally published by Nomadic. Like a hanging mobile, the stories in The New Low move around each other, creating ever-changing insights between its characters. Each of whom struggle with identity, addictions, judgments, and life’s - [Academy Gothic](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/academy-gothic/) - Hardboiled noir meets academic satire in Academy Gothic. Tate Cowlishaw is late for another faculty meeting when he discovers the body of Scoot Simkins, dean of Parshall College. Cowlishaw might be legally blind but sees that a man with three bullets in his head didn't put them there himself. The police disagree. When Cowlishaw investigates, - [Habitat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/habitat/) - Named one of Literary Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 Habitat invites us to witness a near-future dystopia filled with cloned animals, a sponsorship-based education system, and a subculture obsessed with body transplants as performance art—concluding 100 years in the future with a girl's post-apocalyptic quest to find her father. In this novel told through - [FEATHER ROUSING](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/feather-rousing/) - In this “hybridiary” of historical fiction and personal memoir, we peer inside baby incubators at Coney Island, waiting for childhood to take wing. We overhear the dying dreams of the Imperial Romanov family, and we fret the simple act of watching a child walk to class. Hope is a bright and constant thread: a tornado - [Primitivity](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/primitivity/) - Winner of the Spring 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition The landscape of Amy Sayre Baptista's Primitivity is mapped by cracked asphalt and dark woods, by broken bridges spanning greedy rivers, sunbaked dirt and ghost roads, séances held in gun repair shops, and retribution exacted in long grasses and hog pits and Segway tracks. These nine - [at first & then](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/at-first-then/) - Winner of the Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition at first & then is radical, beautiful, propulsive. An Orphic tale of a body descending then rising again, the debut chapbook from poet Danielle Rose charts woven stories of addiction, grief, trauma, and, ultimately, gender—the essential pieces of personhood. Through struggle and loss, the poems in - [Breaking Points](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/breaking-points/) - https://youtu.be/oTiUmAoDenA In thirteen slick, innovative, and gut-wrenching flashes, the young women and girls in Breaking Points, the debut chapbook from Chelsea Stickle, hit the walls around them—walls constructed by family, friends, significant others, and insidious cultural perils. “Stranger danger doesn’t disappear when you start wearing a push-up bra,” notes one of Stickle’s pre-teen - [mourning my inner[blackgirl]child](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/mourning-my-innerblackgirlchild/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. mourning my inner[blackgirl]child was originally published by Nomadic. mourning my inner[blackgirl]child is an unabashed exposure of girlhood fragility, ancestral grieving, and embodied remembering. In her excavation of multiple pasts and multiple selves, reelaviolette botts-ward journeys through intimate encounters - [Nonfiction](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/nonfiction/) - Winner of the Spring 2012 Black River Chapbook Competition Positioned at a nexus of poetry (regarding which our ideas about form condition our expectations for content) and nonfiction (regarding which our ideas about content condition our expectations for form), the poems in Nonfiction are singing essays on race in America and the racialized American self, - [Atlas of an Ancient World](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/atlas-of-an-ancient-world/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Atlas of an Ancient World was originally selected by Nomadic. Atlas of an Ancient World traces the futurist cartographies of an ancestral world. A poetry collection that embodies the threshold between Mesoamerican and Chicanx mythologies, the book rewrites - [The Way of the Saints](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-way-of-the-saints/) - The Way of the Saints is a multi-generational novel based on Elizabeth’s family and her personal experiences as the daughter of a Santeria priestess. The stories tell of three generations of Puerto Rican women: Paula, Isabel, and Esther as they navigate Puerto Rico’s Independence movement of the 1930’s and the opulence of 1980’s Westchester, New - [Killing It](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/killing-it/) - Winner of the Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition Poet Gaia Rajan’s second short collection is a razor-sharp interrogation of queer Asian American identity, intergenerational trauma, and the detritus of American achievement. Here, lineage is at once redemptive and violent: “Sometimes / when people say I’m killing it I remember everything / exemplary I know - [Mother/land](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/mother-land/) - SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CHIRBy AWARDS Mother/land, winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker’s relationship to place, others and self. It investigates the mutual and compounding complications of these two shifts in identity while examining legacy, history, ancestry, land, home, and - [A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/a-ribbon-the-most-perfect-blue/) - These poems luxuriate on elegance in a way that feels entirely necessary, the way Garbo's eyes lit up the Great Depression or Julie London's voice puts you in the moods to open your flower. Kwon's casually gorgeous lines are the best thing since melted butter. —D.A. POWELL, author of Useless Landscape, Or a Guide for - [Salve](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/salve/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Salve was originally published by Nomadic. Frazier's stories, in seamless prose, examine the myriad ways in which we soothe ourselves in an attempt to treat what ails us—for better or for worse - [Here in the Night](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/here-in-the-night/) - https://youtu.be/jAy-CvGsQM4 "These are...ghost stories about the power of ghost stories, the way they reflect and transmute shared fears...By juxtaposing horror tropes with all-too-real violence, Turkewitz reveals the everyday darkness we live with..." -New York Times "On the simplest level, the collection reads as a stunning mix of creepy tales; on a deeper - [Las Piedrecitas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/las-piedrecitas/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Las Piedrecitas was originally selected for publication by Nomadic. - [Down the Foggy Streets of My Mind](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/down-the-foggy-streets-of-my-mind/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Down the Foggy Streets of My Mind was originally published by Nomadic. Down the Foggy Streets of My Mind is an ode to those of us who live with Dissociative Disorders such as PTSD and DID. It - [S is For](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/s-is-for/) - William Archila’s S is For is an investigation of all things dark and invisible where the speaker addresses the dear republic of Central America and his beloved north as two major icons of the imagination. - [Return Against the Flow](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/return-against-the-flow/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Return Against the Flow was originally selected for publication by Nomadic. Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award bronze medal (International Latino Book Awards). Return Against the Flow by Susana Praver-Pérez is a memoir-in-verse that travels back and - [Parse](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/parse/) - [Shifters](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/shifters/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Shifters was originally published by Nomadic. Part memorial, part snapshot, part fancy, Shifters is a testament to the self and the act of seeing. A meditation on Blackness and queerness under duress, Shifters reacts to the power of - [moon moon](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/moon-moon/) - In the style of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, and poetic epics that have come before it, moon moon by July Westhale applies a formal approach to what is truly unfathomable to consider: speculation of the world’s end, and the spectrum of possible conquests to follow. A moon’s moon is a questionably authentic astronomical term for a moon that orbits another moon. - [Profeta Without Refuge](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/profeta-without-refuge/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Profeta Without Refuge was originally published by Nomadic. Profeta Without Refuge engages in poetic experimentation through the writing of an Afrocentric and womanist creation myth in resistance to state-sanctioned violence against Black and brown peoples. The book includes - [Nova Nights](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/nova-nights/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Nova Nights was originally published by Nomadic. Nova Nights is a lyrical book of voices and discoveries about life, love, and loss; hope, light, and color, whose fluid lines suggest genre may be a mere calculation. In Guy - [Rules for Lying](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/rules-for-lying/) - After school, custodian Oliver Nix investigates a strange sound coming from the boys’ locker room. What he finds rocks this suburban Atlanta community. Langley, a sophomore, claims she was forced, but Kevin, the accused, insists on his innocence while plotting his path out of town. His mother, Grace, defends her son despite making a similar - [Weird Pig](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/weird-pig/) - Weird Pig is about Weird Pig, a pig who wants to do right. But doing right isn’t always easy. He drinks. He eats pork chops. He rides a skateboard. He gets his fellow farm animals murdered, and fathers an illegitimate son who has a messiah complex. When Weird Pig leaves the farm he calls home, - [The Man with Wolves for Hands](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-man-with-wolves-for-hands/) - With panting, slobbering wolves where his hands should be, The Man with Wolves for Hands builds shelves, attends an HR meeting, gets drunk in a kiddie pool with his friend The Cowboy, and stumbles into a bacchanalian wake, held in a forest clearing, for a deceased soldier. In The Man with Wolves for Hands, metaphor - [Amazing Things Are Happening Here](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/amazing-things-are-happening-here/) - In Amazing Things Are Happening Here, Jacob M. Appel’s seventh collection of short stories, the shadows of ordinary lives hide unsettling truths: a judge recalls his teenage entanglement in a classmate’s murder, a niece is drawn into her aunt’s obsessive pursuit of a foliage painter, and siblings’ lives unravel when a mercurial houseguest arrives on the - [Nominal Cases](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/nominal-cases/) - [Tornado Season](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/tornado-season/) - [Hurricanes, Love Affairs, & Other Disasters](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/hurricanes-love-affairs-other-disasters/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Hurricanes, Love Affairs, & Other Disasters was originally published by Nomadic. 2022 PEN Oakland Josefine Miles Literary Award Winner Hurricanes, Love Affairs, & Other Disasters by Susana Praver-Pérez is a time capsule of the five-year period from - [Things I Want Back From You](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/things-i-want-back-from-you/) - Hopelessly flawed characters flail against their own insecurities, seeking one true moment of connection, and if they’re lucky, winning that rarest of gifts – a second chance. - [Live Caught](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/live-caught/) - Live Caught is the story of Lenny, who finds himself out of options. He’s lost his arm to his abusive older brothers and lost his bearing within his family. Desperate to escape and determined not to lose hope, Lenny steals a skiff and attempts to ride the Carolina rivers from his family’s farm deep in - [The Stone Sister](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-stone-sister/) - https://youtu.be/gFfsFe9e74A Winner of the 2020 Big Moose Prize and the 2022 High Plains Book Award Spanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, The Stone Sister is told from three points of view — a father’s, a nurse’s, and a sister’s. Together they tell the unforgettable story of a - [Earthwhere](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/earthwhere/) - Earthwhere was written under the sign of disaster–a house fire, a global pandemic, the health crisis of a spouse, the stillbirth of my niece. In many of the poems, I address a “you,” a regular feature of lyric poetry, partly because it powerfully conjures a singular other, the “to whom” of address, our most precious loved - [Something Like the End](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/something-like-the-end/) - Winner of the Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition Laced with foreboding and propulsive menace, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier's new collection of short fiction reverberates with the clang of alarm bells. Confronted by inescapable dark in the face of a certain end or its apocalyptic aftermath, the characters in these six stories must come to terms - [In Between Places](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/in-between-places/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. In Between Places was originally published by Nomadic. In Between Places lyrically explores family mythology and the fallibility of memory. The poems act as mile markers in a Black woman’s literal and figurative journey across decades and across - [Evaporating Rage](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/evaporating-rage/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Evaporating Rage is one of the forthcoming Nomadic Press titles that we acquired. - [Apricity](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/apricity/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Apricity was originally published by Nomadic. Apricity follows the journey of a teenage transracial adoptee as she navigates addressing years of sexual abuse from her adoptive father, her family's recovery, and falling in love for the first time. - [Us from Nothing](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/us-from-nothing/) - Fifteen billion years ago, there was nothing, not even light. Now, we live in a universe that plays host to trillions of galaxies with uncountable stars, worlds, and maybe even other life. How did we get from there to here? Us From Nothing is a historical epic prose poem about the most important milestones in world history, - [San Franshitshow](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/san-franshitshow/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. San Franshitshow was originally published by Nomadic. San Franshitshow is an emotional reckoning with self, love, and the world that unfolds amidst a turbulent gender transition upon arrival into a new city. It chronicles the pain of loss - [Space Junk from the Heavenly Palace](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/space-junk-from-the-heavenly-palace/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Space Junk from the Heavenly Palace was originally published by Nomadic. As a chunk of the Chinese Space Station, Tiāngōng or 天宫一号 or Heavenly Palace, hurls itself into the Monterey Bay, the main character finds themselves enmeshed in - [BLP Mug](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/blp-mug/) - 15 oz campfire ceramic mug - [And It Begins Like This](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/and-it-begins-like-this/) - [Scream Queen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/scream-queen/) - Spanning the varied regions of the American South, Scream Queen offers glimpses into the tumultuous lives of characters facing imminent disaster. The mother of a felon looks to a group of Tibetan monks for peace of mind. A priest whose faith has been shaken after a tragic loss is sent to investigate an alleged miracle in a - [Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/highwire-act-other-tales-of-survival/) - "The varied tales in Highwire Act are clear-eyed in their outlooks on current and future calamities. Whether they’re earthbound or science fiction, there’s no escaping the severity of these tales—or the realism of their visions..." -Foreword 2022 Hudson Prize Winner A young couple raises crickets for food, a woman in a caged complex is witness - [Moon Trees and Other Orphans](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/moon-trees-and-other-orphans/) - "An astonishing--often suspenseful, always compassionate--depiction of humanity and the ties that bind us." ─Kirkus Reviews (STARRED REVIEW) "Rourks' bracing debut collection, a St. Lawrence Book Award winner, traces the lives of conflicted characters in moments of crises ... 15 tightly drawn, gritty short stories illuminate isolation, uncertainty, and nearly stifled moments of hope." ─Booklist Listen - [American Scapegoat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/american-scapegoat/) - American Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America’s neglectful relationship with its own history. At the core of this reluctance to frame the past in its proper context is the fraudulent and fraught mythology that Black people are what America needs to be protected from. This extremely damaging narrative has been - [MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/my-boyfriend-apocalypse/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. My Boyfriend Apocalypse was originally published by Nomadic. With a disco ball as a north star, My Boyfriend Apocalypse responds to the myriad, simultaneous apocalypses we are and are not surviving, from the everyday crises of being a - [Midnight Self](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/midnight-self/) - https://youtu.be/f4hj7EdbdEs Adrian Van Young beckons readers further into the shifting borderlands of the Gothic and uncanny in his second collection, Midnight Self. Space colonists menaced by a grotesque alien creature adapt a grim charter to ensure their survival. An exhausted new mother makes an uneasy discovery when her baby monitor’s signal gets crossed with another. An heiress - [No Relation](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/no-relation/) - When Paula first met James, she was 26, in graduate school, and not ready to be any kind of mother to his two young sons. But, years later, after caring for them and watching them grow, she finds herself unsure of what to do when her relationship with their father ends. In a collection of - [Winter Honeymoon](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/winter-honeymoon/) - [Do Not Go On](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/do-not-go-on/) - Witness protection supposedly offers a fresh start, but for Ana Easterday, it's a personal apocalypse. Stranded in Indiana, she's lost her future as well as her past. When a hitman offers her a way home, she has to decide: stay or go? Do Not Go On is about secrets, second chances, and stories that can save - [North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/north-country-a-pedagogical-almanac/) - North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac is a memoir-in-essays about teaching and family life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The book follows the cycle of seasons in this remote and beautiful place by the waters of Lake Superior during the years in which the author finds a place there. It's also a look at higher education on the - [Communion](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/communion/) - [Mongolian Horse](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/mongolian-horse/) - Mongolian Horse is a collection of stories about Asian American experience, about Maryland, about youth and music. Each story delves into the place where love meets estrangement. These are the narratives each character worries over, and in that anxiety, their person is defined. - [When My Body Was A Clinched Fist](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/when-my-body-was-a-clinched-fist/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4MKELmKw-4 - [The World of Rae English](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-world-of-rae-english/) - Rae English, a smart and witty young woman, is drawn to secretive men. It is the still straitlaced early sixties, the era of Mad Men where women are expected to be married and pretty. After a divorce from a disgraced politician, Rae relocates to Iowa City, hoping to find or conceal herself as a writer and to - [Lustre: A Novella](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/lustre-a-novella/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Lustre was originally published by Nomadic. Taking place in the other California, the desert city of San Suerte, Lustre is about the luckless Lustre Little, a boy haunted by the violence of his hometown; ex-convict Sharone Bonilla, who - [Hex & Howl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/hex-howl/) - “You and I were told to swallow / our hexed howling, refuse the reptilian // and the mammalian, unless it’s tame, / you know, cow-eyed, with a roundness eager / for petting.” A powerful evocation of the feminist voice, Hex & Howl both applies and upends textuality and tradition, parsing and refuting prior masculinist treatments of women’s bodies. The poems in this - [All Women Are Born Wailing](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-women-are-born-wailing/) - https://youtu.be/hhdKRm1bNlQ In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. All Women Are Born Wailing was originally published by Nomadic. Nen G Ramirez’s All Women Are Born Wailing confronts myriad forms of violence against Latinas. Drawing on personal and family experiences with mental illness, the poet challenges the “crazy Latina” - [Multiverse: An Anthology of Latinx Writers](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/multiverse-an-anthology-of-latinx-writers/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Multiverse was originally published by Nomadic Press. Poetry. California Interest. Latinx Studies. Young Adult. We are a melting pot of stories and experiences just as much as our people are. MULTIVERSE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF YOUNG LATINX WRITERS is a collection of - [The Man Who Noticed Everything](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-man-who-noticed-everything/) - Dark, cerebral stories of the American grotesque that light up hidden corners of the individual and national consciousness. - [Loss and the Other Rivers that Devour](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/loss-and-the-other-rivers-that-devour/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Loss and the Other Rivers that Devour was originally published by Nomadic. Loss and the Other Rivers that Devour charts the evolution of one son’s grief as he reconciles his identity with the expectations of his late father. - [The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-conquered-sits-at-the-bus-stop-waiting/) - Winner of the Spring 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition In this new collection of flash fiction, Veronica Montes conducts an intimate exploration of the interior lives of eight women searching for voice and agency. Sometimes bewildered by their circumstances, sometimes determined to change them, Montes’ characters are driven by desire and despair and a thirst - [Coulrophobia & Fata Morgana](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/coulrophobia-fata-morgana/) - [sick](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sick/) - Watch Jody Chan read for the Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series - [School of the Americas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/school-of-the-americas/) - As the title suggests, School of the Americas is a collection that takes us to school, in fact many schools that comprise our common experience, from the birth of "enhanced interrogation" (title poem), to the political and classroom rutting of the Culture Wars ("Sodomites" "At the Grave of Jesse Helms"), to the surprising lessons of - [Cryptopedia](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/cryptopedia/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. 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In Ituzaingó: Exiles and Reveries / exilios y ensueños, Florencia Milito intimately explores the legacy of state terror associated with the U.S.-supported 1976 military dictatorship in Argentina. Taking its - [The Forest for the Trees](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-forest-for-the-trees/) - Winner of the 2023 Big Moose Prize. A dark comedy about a clash of cultures, a biracial coming-of-age story, and a psychological thriller about inherited trauma - [Black Pearl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/black-pearl/) - Love is alive in White's Black Pearl, eight poems and poetic drama that call on the feminine presence, through ancestral memory and legacy, to heal a broken heart. - [So Far Afield](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/so-far-afield/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. So Far Afield was originally published by Nomadic. So Far Afield is a poetic study into the queer nature of love among men—a gay love that's been called contra naturam—tracing their wild desires, spiritual connections, and unspoken encounters, from - [Occasionally Accurate Science](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/occasionally-accurate-science/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Occasionally Accurate Science was originally published by Nomadic. The poems and illustrations in Occasionally Accurate Science investigate, play with, and push the envelope of collective nouns in fantastical and ordinary ways. With off-the-wall forms and the occasional scientific - [Entre Cenizas y Palmas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/entre-cenizas-y-palmas/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Entre Cenizas y Palmas was originally published by Nomadic. Entre Cenizas y Palmas is a uterine odyssey, an experimentation in feminist poetics, a journey that dances through the subconscious to the incarnate reality. The female space is imagined as - [Prayer Under Eyelids](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/prayer-under-eyelids/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Prayer Under Eyelids was originally published by Nomadic. Prayer Under Eyelids begins and ends with a child. In between, the poems, prayers, and notes in the collection explore migration, loss, and coming-of-age in a landscape where home is just - [All the Comfort Sin Can Provide](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-the-comfort-sin-can-provide/) - With raw, lyrical ferocity, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promise—tracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. 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In the interconnected stories comprising - [Tectonic Tongues/Lenguas Tetonicas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/tectonic-tongues-lenguas-tetonicas/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Tectonic Tongues/Lenguas Tetonicas was originally selected for publication by Nomadic. - [Wallflower](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/wallflower/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Wallflower was originally published by Nomadic. These are stories of desire, identity, folly, tenderness, and maybe even hope. Hapless males with heart, but not exactly gumption, walk into situations with strong women with ideas on what to do - [Quiéreme](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/quiereme/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. 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XV by Zach Goldberg probes concepts of masculinity, - [Shadow Burn](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/shadow-burn/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Shadow Burn was originally published by Nomadic. Shadow Burn is a journey through small, big lived moments of transformation. This collection of stories and city scenes is an exploration of now, then, and the spaces in between light - [the body has memories](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-body-has-memories/) - In her debut poetry chapbook, the body has memories, Adrienne Danyelle Oliver gives voice to being and becoming the whole self. - [Hot Thicket](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/hot-thicket/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Hot Thicket was originally published by Nomadic. Hot Thicket is a poetic journey through interpersonal and societal wildfires. With the turn of each page, the heat slowly rises as small children cry out against the patriarchy, modern-day colonizers - [All of Us Are Cleaved](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-of-us-are-cleaved/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. All of Us Are Cleaved was originally published by Nomadic. Karen Llagas’s All of Us Are Cleaved explores how we are shaped by the connections we form and are thrusted upon us. From the intimate spaces of marriage - [Far Enough: A Western in Fragments](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/far-enough-a-western-in-fragments/) - ♦2016 Winner of the High Plains Book Award for Short Stories Though Joe Wilkins's new collection of short fiction set under the big Montana sky may have all the trappings of a traditional Western-long shots of sage flats and blue mountains, late nights at the dingy local watering hole, and a hard-working cowboy making time - [The Muddy Season](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-muddy-season/) - In a text that doubles back on itself, revising and reinventing its own trajectory several times over, The Muddy Season is an excavation into narrative form and political oppression. Set in the steaming jungle of a colonial dystopia somewhere in the developing world, The Muddy Season depicts the struggle of an indigenous village to maintain - [The Art of Perpetuation](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-art-of-perpetuation/) - Vivid explorations of cryogenics, lion baiting, iDollators, dodo birds, SpaceX, and more populate The Art of Perpetuation, a poignant new collection of lyric essays from Alison Powell that troubles the boundaries between human and animal, living and dead, man and woman, adult and child. These nine whip-smart essays juxtapose personal narrative—memories of the author’s childhood - [Todos Santos](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/todos-santos/) - Elliot's been doing more than teaching his students, and Isaac nearly flunks out of 8th grade; Catherine finds herself at a crossroads. And so begins author Todos Santos. - [The Summer She Was Under Water](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-summer-she-was-under-water/) - [Winter Work](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/winter-work/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Winter Work was originally published by Nomadic. Stephen Meadows’ Winter Work is a collection that resounds with intense observations of place. Each poem is a clean and reverent gesture of understanding–natural elements, the damage we inflict upon the - [What Weaponry](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/what-weaponry/) - WE ARE ONLY ANIMALS FURRED AND UNDONE In this land time stops, white bird hovering in the pre-dawn. Unseen fawns high step the wet grass. And we, feet and shins bathed in shallow seas of scrub marvel at the complete dark. "There's nothing$$ you whisper, and then say nothing more. I know you mean the - [The Tide King](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-tide-king/) - Stanley Polensky and Calvin Johnson serve in Germany during World War II. Calvin, near death after being shelled, is given a bewitched herb by Stanley but then left for dead. Each soldier returns from the war and years pass. Calvin, discovering that he cannot age and cannot die, searches for Stanley to get answers. Michalski's - [Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/miracles-and-conundrums-of-the-secondary-planets/) - Excerpt From the Title Story Zigfrīds Imants Lenc did not have a name on his home planet, because names were superfluous, but in Lummings, Alabama, where he operated the Latvian restaurant opposite the abortion clinic, his regulars called him Red Ziggy. The "Red" did not refer to the young man's politics. Customers at Café Riga - [This Smile is Starting to Hurt](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-smile-is-starting-to-hurt/) - This Smile is Starting to Hurt is a fun collection of poems that relies heavily on imagination to explore interpersonal communication, the power of art, and some of the joys and perils of contemporary US society. The poems’ speakers are often loud and fast and funny and sloppy and cynical and inaccurate and pop punk and - [Before the Dark Comes](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/before-the-dark-comes/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Before the Dark Comes was originally published by Nomadic. Arturo Mantecón, translator and bibliophile, chances upon a strange leather-bound book found in a vast private library. Chaotic poetry. Grotesque images. But who, exactly, is the author? Is it - [Cradles](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/cradles/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Cradles was originally published by Nomadic. Obsessed with hunger and the mythology of safety, the poems in Cradles interrogate violence, desire, and nativity along lines of both the angelic and the everyday. - [Daylight Has Already Come](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/daylight-has-already-come/) - https://youtu.be/VHfY_Wxog_4 Daylight Has Already Arrived spans six years and countless styles. Motifs and images reappear, but the formal choices are wide-ranging. The poet utilizes prose, analysis of Shakespeare, erasure, and even footnotes to create neither memoir nor mediation, but a deeply intimate perspective on a vast landscape of ideas. Darling creates a sense - [Bone Moon Palace](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/bone-moon-palace/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Bone Moon Palace was originally published by Nomadic. Bone Moon Palace is a contemplation on what it means to remake one's home while also remaking one's community in a time of plague and political turmoil. Which is to - [Partisans: Essays](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/partisans-essays/) - Excerpt from "The Mercy Kill" I was fifteen and staring hard down the long barrel of summer. My dad had just left my mom for another woman, and this hit me like a bag of bricks. It was proof positive that I didn't know, couldn't know, anyone. Not really. Not on the inside. Every night - [My Dim Aviary](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/my-dim-aviary/) - Argent I awoke to rain. 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Lee constructed a series of dollhouse dioramas titled "The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death." Each diorama depicts a crime scene, littered with clues that may be used to solve the crime. Lee eventually began giving seminars in forensic medicine, and is sometimes referred to as - [They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/they-said-a-multi-genre-anthology-of-contemporary-collaborative-writing/) - They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as hybridized forms that push the boundaries of concepts like "genre" and "author." Contributors to this anthology include: Kelli Russell Agodon, Anne-Marie Akin, Maureen Alsop, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Nin Andrews, James Ardis, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Amy Ash, Jennifer Atkinson, - [Midwinter Constellation](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/midwinter-constellation/) - The Authors Midwinter Constellation was written by Stephanie Anderson, Hanna Andrews, Julia Bloch, Susan Briante, Lee Ann Brown, Laynie Browne, Shanna Compton, Mel Coyle, Marisa Crawford, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb, Arielle Greenberg, Jenny Gropp, Stefania Heim, MC Hyland, erica kaufman, Becca Klaver, Caolan Madden, Pattie McCarthy, Monica McClure, Jenn Marie Nunes, Danielle Pafunda, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, Khadijah - [Hollywood Buckaroo](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/hollywood-buckaroo/) - A man. No plan. A hamburger commercial. A wild west town. A mess. Black Lawrence Press is proud to present the winner of the inaugural Big Moose Prize. Tracy DeBrincat's Hollywood Buckaroo takes place in the fictionalized world of Buckaroo, based on the real-­life movie set location of Pioneertown, California. A story about a guy - [Field Notes for the Earthbound](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/field-notes-for-the-earthbound/) - This title is no longer available for purchase through Black Lawrence Press, but it is available from most online book retailers. Better yet, your local bookstore should be able to order a copy for you. Wholesale customers, please purchase this title through Ingram. ________________________________ Cursed by tenderhearted witches, saved by Nazarene healers, and haunted by - [Cliffdiving](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/cliffdiving/) - This title is no longer available for purchase through Black Lawrence Press, but it is available from most online book retailers. Better yet, your local bookstore should be able to order a copy for you. Wholesale customers, please purchase this title through Ingram. In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press - [Human Interest](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/human-interest/) - Rodeo Good Stuff I'm following a truck with a gun rack and the bumper sticker reads, Take the migrant out of immigrant, and I think I'm an immigrant. I think of the time José forgot Shangxin's name and called him foreigner, and I said, I'm a foreigner then laughed on the inside, but José laughed - [The History Worker](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-history-worker/) - Jenny Drai's The History Worker examines the author's experience as the descendent of Romanian and German immigrants and leads the reader on a journey that begins with (and coalesces around) a visit to Hearst Castle, built on what was once native Chumash land. This journey also takes turns through Drai's childhood as she comes to - [Collapse](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/collapse/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Collapse was originally published by Nomadic. Collapse is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire—with the world burning around - [Home Everywhere](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/home-everywhere/) - Home Everywhere is a suitcase full of souvenirs scavenged from lives liberated, briefly, from the cares of the world. A random collection of tourists embarks on a ten-day budget trip to parts unknown. The parts are destined to stay that way, while the tourists fixate on the actions and trappings of being alive. In the tradition - [We Will Tell You Otherwise](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/we-will-tell-you-otherwise/) - [Claire, Wading Into the Danube By Night](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/claire-wading-into-the-danube-by-night/) - Author of the award-winning Prague Summer returns with a new story collection that explores American lives both at home and abroad in the age of anxiety—a world gone sour with regret, where only the small intimacies that sometimes blossom between people offer any kind of hope or possibility for redemption. In the title story, a seemingly idyllic - [Behind Our Names: An Anthology of SWANA- & Muslim-Identified Teens](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/behind-our-names-an-anthology-of-swana-muslim-identified-teens/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Behind Our Names was originally published by Nomadic Press. Poetry. California Interest. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by Michaela Mullin. BEHIND OUR NAMES is a collection of poetry that deep dives into self discovery by asking difficult questions about family, community, - [The Book of Lost Light](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-book-of-lost-light/) - Joseph Kylander’s childhood in early 20th century San Francisco has been shaped by his widowed father’s obsessive photographic project and by his headstrong cousin Karelia’s fanciful storytelling and impulsive acts. The 1906 earthquake upends their eccentric routines, and they take refuge with a capricious patron and a group of artists looking to find meaning after the - [Translated from the Original: One-inch Punch Fiction](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/translated-from-the-original-one-inch-punch/) - In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Translated from the Original: One-inch Punch was originally published by Nomadic. Influenced by Sonny Rollins and Thelonius Monk, powered by chi, inspired by Bruce Lee, Translated from the Original: One-inch Punch weaves through lines of love, loss, pain, - [This Far North](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/this-far-north/) - [Jason] Tandon ... does much with few words, with delicacy, precision, and occasional humor. ... [This Far North] reminds us there's meaning to be found in the act of attention itself. —The Boston Globe The poems in Jason Tandon’s [This Far North] are timeless and prodigious with a thundering, spiritual stirring of heart and mind. - [The Under Hum](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-under-hum/) - ... a gorgeous panoply of golden shovels, centos, and tangy tercets to make you love poetry again as a celebration of the thrills and surprises of language. - [Black Lawrence Press Pencil](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/pencil/) - #2 pencil for scantrons and your next great work - [I Love Small Presses](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/smallpresses/) - Glitter sticker 3" x 2" - [I Love Small Presses - Magnet](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/smallpressmagnet/) - Magnet 3" x 1.5" - [Black Lawrence Gift Card](https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/black-lawrence-gift-card/) - Not sure what to get? 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Her - [Tracy DeBrincat](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/tracy-debrincat/) - Tracy DeBrincat’s short stories and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals from Another Chicago Magazine to Zyzzyva. Most recently, the short story The Real Samaritan Jones was published by Roi Fainéant Literary Press in June 2025. Her first work of non-fiction, Letters to Myself the Younger, appeared in Vol. VIII of The New Guard and received a Pushcart nomination. DeBrincat’s novel, Hollywood Buckaroo, received the 2011 - [Lucy Wainger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lucy-wainger/) - Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger is a poet from New York City. She is author of the chapbooks How to Write an Essay (Red Mare, 2026) and In Life There Are Many Things (Black Lawrence, 2023), which won the Black River Chapbook Competition. She currently lives in Chicago and teaches middle school English. - [Jeanann Verlee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jeanann-verlee/) - Jeanann Verlee is the author of three books of poetry: prey, Said the Manic to the Muse, and award-winning Racing Hummingbirds. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, the Third Coast Poetry Prize, and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize. Her poems and essays are featured in a number of journals, - [Erin Hoover](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/erin-hoover/) - Erin Hoover is the author of three poetry collections: Barnburner (Elixir, 2018), No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023), and Consent (Black Lawrence, forthcoming May 2027). Erin Hoover’s poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and Best New Poets, and in Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and The Sun, among other publications. Originally from Pennsylvania, she lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, and teaches creative writing as an associate professor at Tennessee Tech - [Jessica Roeder](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jessica-roeder/) - Jessica Roeder was born in Chicago and lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in magazines including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, American Poetry Review, and AGNI. She is the author of the prose chapbook Staircases Will Outnumber Us (Red Bird), a forthcoming poetry chapbook, Trees Full of Walking (dancing girl), and two erasures of Moby-Dick. The recipient of two McKnight - [Greg Nicholl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/greg-nicholl/) - Greg Nicholl is a freelance editor whose poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2023, Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, North American Review, River Styx, Smartish Pace, West Branch, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2021 River Styx International Poetry Contest and was a finalist for the 2022 Pablo Neruda Prize for - [Kevin Pilkington](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kevin-pilkington/) - Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of ten poetry collections and two novels. His debut collection Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner; Getting By won The Ledge Chapbook Award; In the Eyes of a Dog received the New - [H.R. Webster](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/h-r-webster/) - H.R. Webster is the author of What Follows (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). Her poems can be found in POETRY, The Iowa Review, The Offing, Ecotone, AGNI, Poem-a-Day, and Guernica. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Monson Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center. She lives and works in the Hudson Valley. - [Sunni Wilkinson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sunni-wilkinson/) - Sunni Brown Wilkinson is a poet and essayist. Her newest poetry collection, Rodeo, was selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was published in 2025 by Autumn House Press. Other books are The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press) and The Ache & The Wing (winner of the Sundress - [Dana Diehl](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dana-diehl/) - Dana Diehl is the author of The Earth Room (Black Lawrence Press, 2026), Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and the collaborative collection, The Classroom (Gold Wake Press, 2019). Her chapbook,TV Girls, won the 2017-2018 New Delta Review Chapbook Contest judged by Chen Chen. Diehl earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University. Her work has appeared - [Veronica Montes](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/veronica-montes/) - Veronica Montes was born in San Francisco and raised in the Filipino American enclave of Daly City, California. Her short stories have appeared in print journals such as Bamboo Ridge and Prism International, as well as in many anthologies including Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, Growing Up Filipino, and Going Home to a Landscape: - [Megan McNamer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/megan-mcnamer/) - Megan McNamer’s essays have appeared in Salon, Sports Illustrated, The Sun, Tropic Magazine (of The Miami Herald) and Islands Magazine, and she has won finalist, semi-finalist, and honorable mention awards for essays and fiction from New Millennium, Glimmer Train, Writers@Work, the University of New Orleans Writing Contest for Study Abroad, the Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing Solas Awards for 2016, Carve Magazine‘s - [Rainie Oet](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rainie-oet/) - Rainie Oet is the Lambda Literary Award winning author of Glitch Girl! She is also the author of a picture book, Robin's Worlds, and three poetry collections: Glorious Veils of Diane, Inside Ball Lightning, and Porcupine in Freefall. She received her MFA from Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. - [Jacqueline Doyle](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jacqueline-doyle/) - Jacqueline Doyle’s hybrid essay collection The Lunatics’ Ball is forthcoming from Mad Creek Books, the trade imprint of Ohio State University Press. Her flash has appeared in Wigleaf, matchbook, Post Road, The Pinch, and numerous anthologies. Her creative nonfiction has been published in The Gettysburg Review, Passages North, EPOCH, and Fourth Genre, and has earned nine Notable Essay citations in Best American Essays. A professor emerita - [Sidney M. Cass](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sidney-m-cass/) - Sidney M. Cass is a trans fiction writer, teacher, and sewist who lives in St. Louis, MO. Their collection Griefover: Stories and Invitations is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press (January 2028). Recent stories have appeared in Smoke and Mold, Ecotone, ANMLY, Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, Honey Literary, manywor(l)ds, Mississippi Review, and Passages North. Their first book, ActivAmerica (2017) was chosen by Claire Vaye Watkins - [Iris Gomez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/iris-gomez/) - Iris Gomez is the author of the novel Try to Remember (Grand Central 2010), which won an International Latino Book Award and accolades from O, the Oprah Magazine and was selected as a Recommended Latino Book by the Association of American Publishers and a Top Ten Summer Read by Latina magazine, in addition to becoming a - [Kevin Fenton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kevin-fenton/) - Kevin Fenton is the author of Merit Badges, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel and the Friends of the American Writers Award, and Leaving Rollingstone, which Patricia Hampl called "the most important memoir to come out of the Midwest (or anywhere) in years." He works as an advertising writer and creative director; in - [R. Cathey Daniels](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/r-cathey-daniels/) - R. Cathey Daniels grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a master’s degree in education. She taught high school mathematics in East Tennessee prior to becoming an award-winning newspaper reporter for The Oak Ridger, covering education as well as science coming out - [Jenny Drai](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jenny-drai/) - Jenny Drai is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: [ the door ] (Trembling Pillow Press), and Wine Dark and The History Worker (both from Black Lawrence Press). Her prose chapbook, The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow, is also available from Black Lawrence. BEWILDERED PHYSICAL SPACES, a collection of her - [Cate O'Toole](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/cate-otoole/) - Cate O’Toole was awarded a Rachel Carson Fellowship and earned her MFA in fiction from Chatham University. She is the author of the chapbook Big Women, Big Girls (Stamped Books, 2011) and her stories have appeared in Six Sentences and the 6S Vol. 1 anthology, Wanderlust Review, the Linnet’s Wings, shady side review and elsewhere. Cate lives and writes in central New York. - [Clarissa West-White](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/clarissa-west-white/) - Dr. Clarissa West-White is the University Archivist, Assistant Professor at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. A native of Quincy, Florida, she has degrees in Creative Writing, Curriculum & Instruction English Education and Information from Florida State University. She wrote and successfully defended her unpublished dissertation, “”The Writing Assignment: The Impact Teachers’ Assignments and Instruction Have - [Daniele Pantano](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/daniele-pantano-2/) - Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet, essayist, literary translator, and artist. He has published over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, translations, and conceptual literature, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages and featured in various international journals and magazines. He is Associate Professor (Reader) of Creative Writing as well as Programme Leader for the MA Creative Writing and - [Blake Kimzey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/blake-kimzey/) - Blake Kimzey is the Founder and Executive Director of WritingWorkshops.com. His collection Families Among Us (Black Lawrence Press) received advance praise from Roxane Gay, Ramona Ausubel, and Matt Bell. His work has been adapted for NPR and published in Tin House, McSweeney’s, Longform, VICE, and over 70 other literary journals. Blake is a graduate of the MFA program at UC - [Matthew McBride](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/matthew-mcbride/) - Matt McBride is the author of two full-length collections, City of Incandescent Light (Black Lawrence, 2018) and At the Mercy of the Flies (Half Mystic, 2026) as well as four chapbooks. His most recent, Prerecorded Weather, co-written with Noah Falck, is available from Survision Books. He is the winner of the James Tate Prize, the - [Lee Peterson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lee-peterson/) - Lee Peterson is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia selected by Jean Valentine for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press) and In the Hall of North American Mammals (Cider Press Review) and two chapbooks, "R" is for Rising/Soon After - [Isaac Pickell](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/isaac-pickell/) - Isaac Pickell is a Black and Jewish poet, PhD candidate, and adjunct instructor working in Detroit, Michigan. A Cave Canem Fellow, he is the author of The Smallest Mistake We Call Human (Black Lawrence Press, 2026), It's not over once you figure it out (Black Ocean, 2023), and chapbooks from Black Lawrence Press and Dead Mall - [Dee Allen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dee-allen/) - African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 10 books--Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Elohi Unitsi, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate, Plans, Crimson Stain, Discovery and The Mansion--and 83 anthology appearances. Plans is his 7th book and only book with Nomadic Press. - [Ruth Williams](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ruth-williams/) - Ruth Williams is the author of a poetry collection, Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press), and two chapbooks, Nursewifery (Jacar Press) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press). In addition to publishing poetry and creative nonfiction in a variety of journals, Ruth is also a scholar of poetics and women’s literature. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. - [Sarah Giragosian](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sarah-giragosian/) - Sarah Giragosian is the author of Queer Fish, winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and The Death Spiral (Black Lawrence Press) . In 2023, the University of Akron Press released the craft anthology, Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems, which she co-edited. She also wrote Mother Octopus, a co-winner of the Halcyon Prize. Her - [Adrian Van Young](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/adrian-van-young/) - Adrian Van Young is the author of five books of fiction--most recently, Family Thing, a story collection coming from Black Lawrence Press in October 2027. His fiction, non-fiction & criticism have been published or are forthcoming in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Conjunctions, Guernica, BOMB, Granta, McSweeney's and The New Yorker online, among others. He teaches - [Alan Chazaro](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/alan-chazaro/) - Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge (Ghost City Press, 2021), and These Spaceships Weren't Built For Us (Tia Chucha Press, 2026). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s - [Keenan Norris](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/keenan-norris/) - Keenan Norris is a novelist, essayist and scholar. He has been the recipient of the 2022 Northern California Book Award in Fiction, the 2021-22 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in Music, Theater and Performing Arts, the 2021 Folio: Eddie Award for Best Overall Article and the 2012 James D. Houston Award. His novels include The Confession of Copeland Cane and Brother - [Wayne Scott](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/wayne-scott/) - Wayne Scott’s writing has appeared in The Sun, Poets and Writers, Huffington Post, The Millions, Salon, and The University of Chicago Magazine, among others. He writes regularly for The Psychotherapy Networker. His New York Times essay, “Two Open Marriages in One Small Room” (January 2020) was adapted for the Modern Love podcast (summer 2021). He writes a monthly blog, Heart's Imagination, on psychotherapy, healing, and - [Raena Shirali](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/raena-shirali/) - Raena Shirali is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book, GILT, was released by YesYes Books in 2017 and won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022, her second book, summonings, won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Julie Suk Award. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Shirali - [Alysse Kathleen McCanna](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/alysse-kathleen-mccanna/) - Alysse Kathleen McCanna is the author of FishWife (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), winner of the 2025 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in North American Review, The Rumpus, Poet Lore, TriQuarterly, and other journals. Alysse’s chapbook Pentimento won the 2017 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her work has been supported by the - [Sabrina Imbler](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sabrina-imbler-2/) - Sabrina Imbler is a staff writer at Defector, a worker-owned site, where they cover creatures and the natural world. Their first full-length book, How Far the Light Reaches, won a Los Angeles Times book prize in science and technology. Their chapbook Dyke (geology), was published by Black Lawrence Press, and was selected for the National - [John Linstrom](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/john-linstrom/) - John Linstrom grew up in the Rust Belt tourist town of South Haven, Michigan, and is the author of the poetry collection To Leave for Our Own Country (Black Lawrence Press, 2024). His poems have recently appeared in Northwest Review, The Christian Century, North American Review, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College - [Jennifer Lewis](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jennifer-lewis/) - Jennifer Lewis is a writer, editor, and publisher of Red Light Lit. Her debut short story collection, The New Low (Black Lawrence Press), was an SPD bestseller. She won the Nomadic Press Bindle Award and is a two-time winner of The Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in CRAFT, The Rumpus, The Creative Independent, - [Sheila Smith McKoy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sheila-smith-mckoy/) - Sheila Smith McKoy (BA - North Carolina State University; MA - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PhD - Duke University) is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, filmmaker and mediator. She was awarded the 2020 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Prize in poetry and the 2025 Teaching Literature Book Award for her co-edited Teaching Literature and Writing - [Andrew Grace](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/andrew-grace/) - Andrew Grace is the the author of three books of poems, A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing), Shadeland (Ohio State University Press) and SANCTA (Ahsahta/Foundlings). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, New Criterion and Adroit Journal amongst others. He is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford and is a Senior Editor at the Kenyon Review. He teaches at Kenyon College. His fourth - [Marc McKee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/marc-mckee/) - Marc McKee is the author of five collections of poetry, including What Apocalypse?, winner of the 2008 New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest. His other books are Fuse (2011), Bewilderness (2014), Consolationeer (2017), and Meta Meta Make-Belief (2019), all from Black Lawrence Press. His poetry appears in online and print journals such as American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Conduit, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Forklift, Ohio, The Journal, - [Nina Chayka](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/nina-chayka/) - Nina Chayka is a Russian-American writer who holds a BA from Harvard, where she is currently pursuing a PhD. - [Erik(a) Jonah](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/erika-jonah/) - Erik(a) Jonah has work published or forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Foglifter, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. A non-binary teacher, they were a finalist for the 2018 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers. They were recently awarded a residency at The Mineral School in Washington, as well as being nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the journal Cave Wall. - [Jia-Rui Cook](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jia-rui-cook/) - Jia-Rui Cook is a Chinese American writer, editor, and producer. She grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and now lives in Los Angeles. Jia-Rui is the 2025 winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, awarded by Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program. Black Lawrence Press will publish her debut poetry book, Soft Beasts, in 2027. Jia-Rui is - [Amanda Hodes](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/amanda-hodes/) - Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, her book Into the Into of Earth Itself is forthcoming in 2026 from Black Lawrence Press. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, [PANK], Pleiades, AMBIT, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Interim Poetics, DIAGRAM, Academy of American Poets (online), Quarterly West, and elsewhere. As an artist, she is interested - [William Archila](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/william-archila/) - William Archila is the winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for his collection S is For. He is the author of The Art of Exile which was awarded the International Latino Book Award, and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology which received the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. He was also awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship. He has been published in Poetry - [John Mauk](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/john-mauk/) - John Mauk began professional life as a rhetorical theorist, then later acknowledged his literary reflexes. His fiction has appeared in journals such as Salamander, Arts and Letters, The Forge, New Millennium Writings, Main Street Rag; his nonfiction in Rumpus, Beatrice.com, and Writer’s Digest. He has two full-length story collections, Field Notes for the Earthbound and Where All Things Flatten. He was elected professor of the year at - [Marcela Sulak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/marcela-sulak/) - Marcela Sulak is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her five titles with Black Lawrence Press include the novella-in-verse, The Fault (2024); the 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist for poetry, City of Skypapers; the lyric memoir, Mouth Full of Seeds (2020); and poetry collections Decency (2015) and Immigrant (2010). Her translations from the Hebrew include the forthcoming I and Not an - [Grace H. Zhou](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/grace-h-zhou/) - Grace H. Zhou is a poet, anthropologist, and educator. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Narrative Magazine, The Margins, Ninth Letter, The Stinging Fly, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Soil Called a Country, was selected for Newfound’s 2023 Emerging Poets Series. Winner of the - [Romana Iorga](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/romana-iorga/) - Romana Iorga is the author of the poetry collection Temporary Skin (Glass Lyre Press, 2024) and a chapbook entitled a woman made entirely of air (dancing girl press, 2025). She is also the author of two books of poetry in her native Romanian, Auz simplu / Simple Hearing (Semne Press, 2000) and Poemul sosirii / Poem of Arrival (Glasul Press, 1996). Her work has appeared - [Katherine Conner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/katherine-conner/) - Katherine Conner’s fiction has appeared in West Branch, Pembroke Magazine, Willow Springs, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Fugue, The Chattahoochee Review, The Portland Review, Raleigh Review, and elsewhere. She was named a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, and the Iron Horse - [Michal ‘MJ’ Jones](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/michal-mj-jones/) - Michal ‘MJ’ Jones (they/he) is an award-winning poet, parent, and editor living in Oakland, CA. Their poetry has appeared in the American Academy of Poets, Obsidian, Split This Rock, Muzzle Magazine, TriQuarterly Review, ANMLY, & elsewhere. Their debut collection of poetry, HOOD VACATIONS, won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. They are also - [Vi Khi Nao](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/vi-khi-nao/) - Vi Khi Nao is a multidisciplinary writer working across poetry, fiction, theater, film, and collaborative art. She won the 2016 Nightboat Poetry Prize for The Old Philosopher and the 2017 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize for A Brief Alphabet of Torture. Her latest novel, The Italy Letters, was published by Melville House. A former Black - [TJ Beitelman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/tj-beitelman/) - TJ Beitelman is a writer, teacher, and manuscript consultant living in Birmingham, Alabama. He’s published a novel, John the Revelator, and a collection of short fiction, Communion, as well as three collections of poetry: In Order to Form a More Perfect Union, Americana, and This Is the Story of His Life, all from Black Lawrence Press. His stories and - [Enzo Silon Surin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/enzo-silon-surin/) - Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, author, educator, publisher, and social advocate. He is the author of American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) and When My Body Was a Clinched Fist (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Award. He has also authored two chapbooks and co-edited Where We - [Mary Biddinger](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/mary-biddinger/) - Mary Biddinger, author of numerous Black Lawrence Press titles teaches literature & creative writing at the University of Akron & in the NEOMFA program. - [Arielle Hebert](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/arielle-hebert/) - Arielle Hebert is a queer poet based in North Carolina with roots in Florida and Louisiana. She holds an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. She won the 2024 Lit/South Award for Poetry selected by Jericho Brown and was included in Best New Poets 2024 guest edited by Anders Carlson-Wee. Her work has - [Tayyba Kanwal](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/tayyba-kanwal/) - Tayyba Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer from Houston, TX. Her award-winning work has appeared in journals such as Witness, Gulf Coast and Meridian. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, and an MS from the University of Oregon. With extensive experience in technology consulting, - [Robert Long Foreman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/robert-long-foreman/) - Robert has published three books since 2017: Weird Pig (a novel), Among Other Things (a collection of essays), and I Am Here to Make Friends (a collection of short fiction). His work has appeared in The Missouri Review, AGNI, The Utne Reader, Kenyon Review Online, hex, X-RAY, Beloit Fiction Journal, the 2014 Pushcart Prize anthology, - [Kristina Marie Darling](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kristina-marie-darling/) - Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over thirty books, which include recent releases from Bloomsbury, Dzanc, Persea, and Penguin Canada. A twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling was granted a five-year tenure as an expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission and now serves on the jury for Fulbright awards. Her work has also been - [Erica Wright](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/erica-wright/) - Erica Wright is the author of nine books, including the essay collection Snake and the poetry collection All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned. For more than a decade, she was the Poetry Editor at Guernica Magazine and currently teaches at Bellevue University. She holds degrees from New York University and Columbia University. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her - [Joshua Garcia](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/joshua-garcia/) - Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press 2024), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell - [Jill Rosenberg](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jill-rosenberg/) - Jill Rosenberg is a graduate of Vassar College and the MFA Program at the University of Montana. Her fiction has been published by the Kenyon Review, Swamp Pink, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. She currently writes and teaches in Montclair, New Jersey, where she also works with rescued cats and practices practicing Buddhism. - [Whitney Koo](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/whitney-koo/) - Whitney Koo is the author of Any Gesture (Black Lawrence Press, 2026). Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Georgia Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, and others. She holds a PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and an MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. Whitney is the Executive - [Akhim Yuseff Cabey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/akhim-yuseff-cabey/) - AKHIM YUSEFF CABÉY was born in the Bronx, NY. A Pushcart Prize-winning poet and essayist, he is also the winner of the 2024 Palette Poetry Rising Poet Prize and a 2025 Djanikian Scholar. He is both a six-time recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and a Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Project - [Emelie Griffin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/emelie-griffin/) - Emelie Griffin's work has received support from the Ucross Foundation, Inprint, the Academy of American Poets, and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference; and has been published by journals including Denver Quarterly, New England Review, and American Chordata. She teaches at Florida State University. CONNECT WITH EMELIE: emeliemariegriffin [at] gmail dot com - [Barbara Jane Reyes](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/barbara-jane-reyes/) - Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (TinFish Press, 2005), Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishing, 2017), Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020), and Wanna - [Megan Merchant](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/megan-merchant/) - Megan Merchant (she/her) is the owner of the editing, manuscript consultation, and mentoring business Shiversong and holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV. She is a visual artist and the author of three full-length poetry collections with Glass Lyre Press: Gravel Ghosts (2016), The Dark’s Humming (2015 Lyrebird Award), Grief Flowers (2018), four - [Angela Leroux-Lindsey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/angela-leroux-lindsey/) - Angela Leroux-Lindsey (she/her/hers) has degrees from Ithaca College and NYU. Her writing has been featured by publications and institutions including Wired, the World Science Festival, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Kirkus Reviews, Columbia Magazine, NY Metro, NYU Langone Health, Kessler Foundation, and others. She was editor-in-chief of The Adirondack Review for ten years and is currently a - [Emily Mitchell](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/emily-mitchell/) - Emily Mitchell grew up in London, England and moved to the United States as a teenager. She is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton, 2007), a novel, which was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award, and two collections of short fiction: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015) and - [Louella Bryant](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/louella-bryant/) - Louella Bryant is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Sheltering Angel, Based on a True Story of the Titanic and her most recent novel, Willie Rum Running Queen, a fictionalized story of true-life bootlegger Willie Carter Sharpe. Her nonfiction book While In Darkness There Is Light, a biography of Charlie Dean, brother to former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, won - [Pauline Kaldas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/pauline-kaldas/) - Pauline Kaldas immigrated from Egypt with her family at the age of eight. She returned to Egypt several times and lived there for three years while teaching at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of The Measure of Distance (novel), Looking Both Ways (essays), The Time Between Places (stories), Letters from Cairo - [Alexandra Lytton Regalado](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/alexandra-lytton-regalado/) - Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a Salvadoran-American author, editor, and translator. She is the author of Relinquenda, winner of the National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2022); the chapbook Piedra (La Chifurnia, 2022); and the poetry collection, Matria, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Alexandra holds fellowships at CantoMundo and Letras Latinas; she is winner of - [Lisa Fay Coutley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lisa-fay-coutley/) - Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of HOST (Wisconsin Poetry Series, forthcoming 2024), tether (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Errata (Southern Illinois University, 2015), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, In the Carnival of Breathing (BLP, 2011), winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, and Small Girl: Micromemoirs (Harbor Editions, forthcoming 2024). - [신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/신-선-영-sun-yung-shin/) - 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin is an award-winning poet and essayist who was born in Korea, grew up in the Chicago area, and is currently based in Minneapolis. Her work has been published widely in places such as POETRY, BOMB magazine, and the 2021 Gwangju Biennale; she speaks and presents frequently. Her fifth book of - [Emily Jon Tobias](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/emily-jon-tobias/) - Emily Jon Tobias is an American author and poet. She is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with other honorable mentions, and has been featured in various literary journals and magazines. Her debut collection MONARCH: STORIES (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) won the American Book Fest International Book Award and an - [David Rigsbee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/david-rigsbee/) - David Rigsbee is the author of 23 books and chapbooks, including twelve previous full-length collections of poems. In addition, he has also published critical works on Carolyn Kizer and Joseph Brodsky, whom he also translated. He has co-edited two anthologies, including Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry, a “notable book” selection of - [Noelle Catharine Allen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/noelle-catharine-allen/) - Noelle Catharine Allen has worked as a freelance journalist in Buenos Aires and Mexico City, and now lives in Seattle, where she primarily writes fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Otis Nebula, Phoebe, and Hunger Mountain. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Hunger Mountain, and won the Editor’s - [antmen pimentel mendoza](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/antmen-pimentel-mendoza/) - antmen pimentel mendoza (he, she) is the author of the chapbook MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE (Nomadic Press, 2023; reprinted by Black Lawrence Press). antmen is a student at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Oakland. antmen is online at antmenpm.com - [Brian Simoneau](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/brian-simoneau/) - Brian Simoneau is the author of the poetry collection River Bound (C&R Press, 2014), which was chosen by Arthur Smith for the 2013 De Novo Prize. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Four Way Review, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, Salamander, Third Coast, Waxwing, and other journals. Originally from - [Shanna Compton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/shanna-compton/) - Shanna Compton is the author of Deep Whoosh (Black Square Editions, forthcoming 2025), Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence, 2020), Brink (Bloof, 2013), For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof, 2008), Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005), and is currently at work on a book-length speculative poem, The Hazard Cycle. New poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Nation, the American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, - [Anna B Sutton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/anna-b-sutton/) - Anna B. Sutton is a poet and mental health counselor from Nashville, TN. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review, Third Coast, Copper Nickel, Booth, Los Angeles Review, and other journals. She received her MFA from University of North Carolina Wilmington and a James Merrill fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. She is a co-founder of the Porch - [Ani Jones](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ani-jones/) - Ani Jones is a poet, editor, and workshop host in the Midwest. They hold a BA from the University of Cincinnati, and their first chapbook, Iris, debuted in October, 2023. They are a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee, and their poems can be seen in Tiny Spoon Magazine and Auskleiden Magazine, among others. - [Nina Smilow](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/nina-smilow/) - Nina Smilow received an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BFA in Theatre from NYU Tisch. She is a writer of all genres and her fiction, poetry, and non-fiction can be seen in Literary Mama, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Porridge, and Pacifica Literary Review. She splits her time between New York and Portland, OR. - [Ruth Baumann](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ruth-baumann/) - Ruth Baumann is the author of two poetry collections: Thornwork (Black Lawrence Press) & Parse (Black Lawrence Press). She is also the author of five chapbooks, including These Tornadoes (dancing girl press), A Thousand Ars Poeticas (Sixth Finch), & I’ll Love You Forever & Other Temporary Valentines (Salt Hill). She holds a PhD from Florida State University & an MFA from the University - [Zefyr Lisowski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/zefyr-lisowski/) - Zefyr Lisowski is the author of Uncanny Valley Girls, an essay collection about horror movies, exes, and intimacy (Harper Perennial 2025). A 2023 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Nonfiction and 2023 Queer|Art Fellow, she’s also the author of two poetry collections, Girl Work (Noemi Press 2024) and Blood Box (Black Lawrence 2019). Raised in the Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina, Zefyr lives in - [Elwin Cotman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/elwin-cotman/) - Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of four collections of speculative short stories, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, Dance on Saturday, and Weird Black Girls, as well as the poetry collection, The Wizard's Homecoming. Cotman has toured across North America doing readings. His work has appeared - [Jessica Piazza](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jessica-piazza/) - Jessica Piazza teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She is the author of three poetry collections and a children’s book and has co-founded Bat City Review in Austin, TX, Gold Line Press in Los Angeles, CA and Speakeasy Poetry Series in New York City. - [Tureeda Mikell](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/tureeda-mikell/) - Tureeda Mikell, Story Medicine Woman, author of The Body Oracle of Memory (2024 Black Lawrence Press) and Synchronicity: Oracle of Sun Medicine ( 2020 Nomadic Press), nominated for the California Book Award poet, is an educator and activist for holism, Black Panther Alum named Woman of Truths. Published in numerous anthologies, most recently, Black Fire - [Cynthia Manick](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/cynthia-manick/) - Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), which received 5 stars from Roxane Gay, was named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine, and was selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023. She is the author of Brown Girl Polaris (a Belladonna - [Ron Nyren](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ron-nyren/) - Ron Nyren’s novel The Book of Lost Light won Black Lawrence Press’s 2019 Big Moose Prize and was the finalist for both the 2018 AWP Award Series for the Novel and the 2020 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction. Ron’s short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, - [Carmen Estela Kennedy Saleh](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/carmen-estela-kennedy-saleh/) - Carmen is a writer and a perennial learner, so you can find her rooted in discussions with bright students as easily as you can find her planted behind a book…and while writing one, she has sown seeds of her work in the Themis and Acacia journals, respectively; proudly reaped a James D. Phelan Literary Award; - [Virgie Townsend](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/virgie-townsend/) - Virgie Townsend (she/they) is the author of the short story chapbook Because We Were Christian Girls, which was shortlisted for the Newfound Prose Prize, the Cupboard Pamphlet’s Annual Contest, and Black Lawrence Press’ Fall Black River Chapbook Competition, and won the Central New York Book Award for Fiction. Their writing has been featured in The - [Nina Boutsikaris](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/nina-boutsikaris/) - I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych was the winner of the 2021 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Nina Boutsikaris' essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Third Coast, Hobart, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere, and were listed among - [Charlie Peck](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/charlie-peck/) - Charlie Peck grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and received his MFA from Purdue University. His poetry has appeared previously in Cincinnati Review, Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review, and Best New Poets 2019, among others. His first collection, World’s Largest Ball of Paint, is the winner of the 2022 St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. - [Michele Battiste](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/michele-battiste/) - Michele Battiste's third book of poems, Waiting for the Wreck to Burn (2019), won the Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry from Trio House Press. Her next book, The Elsewhere Oracle, doubles as an oracle deck and will be released in 2025 by Black Lawrence Press. She is also the author of several chapbooks, and her poems, - [Kim Sousa](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kim-sousa/) - Kim Sousa (they/she) is a Brazilian American immigrant, poet, editor and abolitionist. Their latest manuscript, Walking Back into Night, was named a Manuscript of Extraordinary Merit by Tupelo Press. They are the author of Always a Relic Never a Reliquary (Black Lawrence Press, 2022) and co-editor of both Até Mais: Latinx Futurisms (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2024) - [Zach Goldberg](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/zach-goldberg/) - Zach Goldberg is a writer, educator, and arts organizer from Durham, NC. He is the author of I’d Rather Be Destroyed (Button Poetry, 2024) and the chapbook XV (Nomadic Press/Black Lawrence, 2020). His work can be found in AGNI, Pleiades, RHINO, and elsewhere. Zach is a proud co-founder of BuckSlam MN, a volunteer at Boneshaker Books, and a staff member at The - [Lisa Dordal](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lisa-dordal/) - Lisa Dordal (M.Div., M.F.A.) is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University and is the author of Mosaic of the Dark, which was a finalist for the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry; Water Lessons, a Lambda Literary most-anticipated-book for 2022; and Next Time You Come Home, a Lambda Literary most-anticipated book for 2023. Lisa is - [Leslie Li](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/leslie-li/) - Leslie Li is the author of the novel Bittersweet (Tuttle Publishing), the culinary memoir Daughter of Heaven (Arcade Publishing), and Just Us Girls (Four Seasons Press), the official companion book to her forthcoming feature-length documentary, The Kim Loo Sisters, currently in post-production. Her awards include the 2023 Big Moose Prize, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction, and grants from the Freeman - [Becca Klaver](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/becca-klaver/) - Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collections LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010), Empire Wasted (Bloof Books, 2016), and Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), as well as several chapbooks. Her most recent publications are the collaborative book Midwinter Constellation (Black Lawrence, 2022) and the chapbook of postcard poems Greetings from Bowling - [Bryan Furuness](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/bryan-furuness/) - Bryan Furuness is the author of a couple of novels, The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson and Do Not Go On, and the co-author (with Sarah Layden) of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing. He is the editor of several anthologies, including My Name was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed. His stories have appeared in New Stories from the Midwest and Best American Nonrequired - [Jan Boulware](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jan-boulware/) - Dr. Jan Boulware is a tenured Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University, located in Daytona Beach, Florida. Dr. Boulware has built her career in education on myriad levels—from primary school to the tertiary level. She holds a B.S. in Early Childhood Education from Georgia Southern University, - [Genanne Walsh](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/genanne-walsh/) - Genanne Walsh’s debut novel, Twister, was awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel and published by Black Lawrence Press. Twister was a finalist for the Brighthorse Prize, the Housatonic Book Award in Fiction, and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Eggs in Purgatory, her creative nonfiction chapbook, was selected as a finalist in the WTAW Alcove Series Open and - [Luisa A. Igloria](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/luisa-a-igloria/) - Luisa A. Igloria is the recipient of the Immigrant Writing Series Prize from Black Lawrence Press for Caulbearer (2024) and was one of 2 Co-Winners of the 2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Prize for Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Southern Illinois University Press, fall 2020). In 2021, the Writers Union of the Philippines (UMPIL) conferred on her the Gawad Pambansang Alagad - [Joe Oestreich](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/joe-oestreich/) - Joe Oestreich is the author of Partisans: Essays (Black Lawrence, 2017). His other books include Waiting to Derail (co-written with Thomas O’Keefe, 2018), Lines of Scrimmage (co-written with Scott Pleasant, 2015), and Hitless Wonder (2012). His work has appeared in Esquire, Salon, Sports Illustrated, Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Ninth Letter, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, and many other magazines and journals. Four of his - [Maw Shein Win](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/maw-shein-win/) - Maw Shein Win's latest full-length poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn, 2024). Her previous full-length collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for the Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. Her work - [Joe Wilkins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/joe-wilkins/) - Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University. He is the author of two novels, The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die, both of which - [Laurie Filipelli](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/laurie-filipelli/) - Laurie Filipelli is the author of Elseplace (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), 2019 Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Prize winner Girl Paper Stone (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and My Heart is a Museum (Broken Sleeping Press, forthcoming 2026). Her essays and poems have appeared at Nixes Mate Review, The Rumpus, Salamander, Superstition Review, Whale Road Review, - [BJ Soloy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/bj-soloy/) - BJ Soloy is the author of Birth Center in Corporate Woods (2025, Black Lawrence Press), Our Pornography & other disaster songs (winner of the Slope Editions Book Prize, 2019) and Selected Letters (New Michigan Press, 2016). He lives with his family and too many pets in Des Moines, Iowa, home of the whatever. - [Dean Rader](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dean-rader/) - Dean Rader has authored or co-authored twelve books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. He has published two books with Black Lawrence. Suture is a - [Jeremy Griffin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jeremy-griffin/) - Jeremy Griffin grew up in Louisiana and received his MFA in creative writing from Virginia Tech University. He is the author of the short story collections A Last Resort for Desperate People: Stories and a Novella, from SFAU Press; Oceanography, winner of the Orison Books 2018 Fiction Prize; and Scream Queen, winner of the 2023 BLP Hudson Prize. - [Case Q. Kerns](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/case-q-kerns/) - Case Q. Kerns is the author of Habitat (Black Lawrence Press, 2025), a novel of interconnected narratives beginning in a near future New England and ending a century later. Originally from Buffalo, NY, he received a BS in Cinema & Photography from Ithaca College and an MFA from Emerson College where he served as fiction - [July Westhale](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/july-westhale/) - Poet and translator July Westhale was born in the American Southwest. Their books include moon moon, Trailer Trash, Unmade Hearts, and Via Negativa, which Publishers Weekly called "stunning" in a starred review. Ocean Vuong chose Westhale as the 2018 University of Arizona Poetry Center Fellow. Their translation of the Chilean poet Rolando Cardenas' collected works was selected for the - [Elizabeth Horner Turner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/elizabeth-horner-turner/) - Elizabeth Horner Turner’s debut poetry chapbook, The Tales of Flaxie Char, was published through dancing girl press in 2017. Her work has been published widely in journals such as Cutbank, Fairy Tale Review, Gulf Coast, Lost Balloon, and trampset, and it has also been selected for inclusion in Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50 - [Claudia Cortese](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/claudia-cortese/) - Claudia Cortese is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her debut full-length, Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press), won Southern Illinois University’s Devil’s Kitchen Award for Emerging Poetry. Her work has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast Online, and The Offing, among others, and she writes reviews for Muzzle Magazine. Cortese received - [Beth Alvarado](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/beth-alvarado/) - Beth Alvarado, who has written extensively about her experiences as a Euro-American woman marrying into a Mexican-American family, has spent most of her life in Arizona. Her most recent book, Anxious Attachments, was a finalist for the 2020 Oregon Book Awards and was long-listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Art of the Essay Award. She’s also the - [MK Chavez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/mk-chavez/) - MK Chavez is an art monster, writer, and educator. Chavez’s writing explores mixed-race identity, social justice, environmental resilience, horror cinema, magic, ritual, and the creative process. Chavez’s work has been recognized with the Pen Josephine Miles Award, the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award, and the Ruth Weiss Maverick Award. Chavez’s literary offerings include Dear - [dr. reelaviolette botts-ward](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dr-reelaviolette-botts-ward/) - dr. reelaviolette botts-ward, PhD, is a homegirl, an artist, and a nontraditional community curator from Philadelphia, PA. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the REPAIR Project at UCSF, ree brings radical Black feminist healing arts to healthcare and medical science spaces. As founder of blackwomxnhealing, she curates healing circles, exhibitions, courses, and research for and by - [Carol Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/carol-guess/) - Carol Guess is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose including Black Lawrence Press titles Infodemic, Doll Studies: Forensics, and With Animal (in collaboration with Kelly Magee). A frequent collaborator, she writes across genres and illuminates historically marginalized material. In 2014 she was awarded the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement by Columbia University. She - [Susana Praver-Pérez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/susana-praver-perez/) - Susana Praver-Pérez is a poet, visual artist, and editor. A former Physician Assistant and Associate Medical Director at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland, California, Susana left medicine in 2021 after four decades of community service, to pursue her passion for poetry and art on a full-time basis. She currently serves as an Associate - [Grant Faulkner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/grant-faulkner/) - Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of 100 Word Story, the co-host the Write-minded podcast, and an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author. He has published three books on writing: The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story; Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo; and Brave the - [Hilary Plum](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/hilary-plum/) - Hilary Plum is the author of the novels Strawberry Fields and They Dragged Them Through the Streets and the work of nonfiction Watchfires, which received the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award. She has worked for a number of years as an editor of international literature, history, and politics. She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program - [Arisa White](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/arisa-white/) - Arisa White is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College. Most recently, she is the author of Who’s Your Daddy, co-editor of Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart, and co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the second book in the Fighting for Justice Series for young readers. Her poetry is widely published and her collections - [Valerie Bandura](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/valerie-bandura/) - Born in the former Soviet Union, Valerie Bandura's first book, Freak Show, was a 2014 Patterson Poetry Prize Finalist. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, ZYZZYVA, Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Mid-Atlantic Review, Third Coast, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Beloit Poetry Review, Best New Poets, and many others. She was - [Chelsea Stickle](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/chelsea-stickle/) - Chelsea Stickle is the author of the flash fiction chapbooks Everything’s Changing (Thirty West Publishing, 2023) and Breaking Points (Black Lawrence Press, 2021). Her stories appear in Passages North, The Citron Review, Peatsmoke Journal, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and others. Her micros have been selected for Best Microfiction 2021, the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2022 and - [Max McDonough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/max-mcdonough/) - Max McDonough's work has appeared in The New York Times, the Best New Poets anthology, AGNI, Northwest Review, The Adroit Journal, Ecotone, T Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Vanderbilt MFA program, and now lives and teaches in Philadelphia. Python with a Dog Inside It is his debut collection. - [EJ Colen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ejcolen/) - EJ Colen is a PNW-based educator, writer, and editor interested in long-form poetry, the lyric essay, literary and visual collage, and research-based approaches to storytelling and memoir. She is the author of What Weaponry, a novel in prose poems, poetry collections Money for Sunsets (Lambda Literary Award and Audre Lorde Award finalist in 2011) and Waiting Up for the - [David E. Yee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/david-e-yee/) - David E. Yee is an Asian American writer whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, AGNI Online, Seneca Review, Gulf Coast Online, and elsewhere. In 2017, he won the New Ohio Review Fiction Contest, judged by Colm Tóibín, as well as the Press 53 Flash Contest judged by Jeffrey Condran. He’s a bartender in Columbus, Ohio. - [Julian Shendelman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/julian-shendelman/) - Julian Shendelman lives with his husband and dogs near Philadelphia. His poetry chapbook, Dead Dad Club, was published in 2017 and his prose has appeared in Bat City Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Cleaver Magazine. His co-authored novel, Spark Bird, was released by Thirty West earlier this year. He is currently working on a solo novel - [Adrian Arias](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/32923/) - Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. This ancestral knowledge is used to connect artists and communities in collaborations - [Jen Michalski](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jen-michalski/) - Jen Michalski is the author of three novels, three short story collections, and a couplet of novellas. Her latest novel, All This Can Be True, is forthcoming in 2025 from Keylight Books (Turner Publishing). Her last novel, You'll Be Fine, was a 2021 Buzzfeed "Best Small Press Book," a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - [Natasha Dennerstein](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/natasha-dennerstein/) - Natasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals internationally, including The North American Review and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her collections Anatomize (2015), Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was - [Daniel B. Summerhill](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/daniel-b-summerhill/) - Daniel B. Summerhill is author of Divine, Divine, Divine (Black Lawrence Press 2021), and Mausoleum of Flowers (CavanKerry 2022). His work appears in Columbia Journal, Ploughshares, The Indiana Review, Obsidian, Callaloo, Academy of American Poets, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He’s earned fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts, Esperimento sul Respiro and The Watering - [Scott Frey](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/scott-frey/) - Scott Frey is a poet and educator who grew up in Western Pennsylvania and teaches English at Pine Meadow Academy in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. He and his wife, Meryl, run a non-profit charity, The Charlotte Frey Foundation, whose mission is to help children with multiple handicaps and life-threatening illnesses and their families improve their quality - [Adam McOmber](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/adam-mcomber/) - Adam McOmber is the author of three novels The White Forest (Touchstone) Jesus and John (Lethe) and The Ghost Finders (JournalStone) as well as two collections of short fiction This New & Poisonous Air and My House Gathers Desires (BOA Editions). His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Diagram and numerous other magazines and journals. He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont - [Christine Kwon](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/christine-kwon/) - Christine Kwon is a Korean American poet and fiction writer. Her debut poetry collection, A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue, won the Cowles Poetry Book Prize (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in The Poetry Project, Joyland Magazine, Copper Nickel, and The Harvard Advocate, among other places. She lives in New - [Norma Smith](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/norma-smith/) - Norma Smith has led lives as a journalist, as a translator/interpreter, as a social researcher, educator, editor, and writing coach. She spent many years working in hospitals, including some years as a union steward and as a member of the medical center’s ethics committee. Norma has been a community activist and organizer since she was - [Patricia Horvath](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/patricia-horvath/) - Patricia Horvath is the author of the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her stories and essays have been published widely in literary journals including Shenandoah, Confrontation, New Ohio Review, and The Massachusetts Review. She is the recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and literary nonfiction, the Goldenberg Fiction - [Noelia Cerna](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/noelia-cerna/) - Noelia Cerna is a Latina poet based in Springdale, AR. She was born in Costa Rica and immigrated to the United States at the age of 7 where she received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Westminster College in Missouri. Her poems have been published in audio form in Terse. Journal and in print in - [Raina J. León](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/raina-j-leon/) - Raina J. León, PhD is Black, Afro-Boricua, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). She is a mother, daughter, sister, madrina, comadre, partner, poet, writer, and teacher educator. She believes in collective action and community work, the profound power of holding space for the telling of our stories, and the liberatory practice of humanizing education. - [LD Green](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ld-green/) - LD Green (they/them) is a queer and non-binary writer and tenured community college professor living in Richmond, California on Ohlone Land. They have been published on Salon, The Body is Not an Apology, Foglifter, and elsewhere. They have featured at dozens of reading series, slams, showcases, and workshops in schools, colleges, and open mics locally and - [Jacob M. Appel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jacob-m-appel/) - Jacob M. Appel is a physician, attorney and bioethicist based in New York City. He is the author of more than two hundred published short stories, ten short story collections, eight novels, a volume of essays, a poetry collection and compendium of ethical dilemmas. He is a past winner of the Boston Review Short Fiction - [Lindsay Illich](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lindsay-illich/) - Lindsay Illich is the author of Fingerspell (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Rile & Heave (Texas Review Press, 2017), and the chapbook Heteroglossia (Anchor & Plume, 2016). Rile & Heave won the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize in Poetry. She also co-authored Teach Living Poets (National Council of Teachers of English, 2021). She teaches at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. - [JoeAnn Hart](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/joeann-hart/) - JoeAnn Hart is the author of Arroyo Circle, a novel of reclamation in a time of loss, from Green Writers Press. Other books include the prize-winning environmental fiction collection Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, published by Black Lawrence Press, the crime memoir Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism - [Miah Jeffra](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/miah-jeffra/) - Miah Jeffra is author of four books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley, Robert C Jones and St. Lawrence Book Prizes) and American Gospel, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize and winner of the Clark-Gross Award. Work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The - [Keith Donnell Jr.](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/keith-donnell-jr/) - Keith Donnell Jr. is a California-based experimental poet and book editor. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA Program at San Francisco State University and the author of The Move (Nomadic Press, 2021). He is a previous Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review and his work has appeared in journals and anthologies, - [Sébastien Luc Butler](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sebastienlucbutler/) - Sébastien Luc Butler was born and raised in Michigan. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow in poetry, and served as poetry editor for Meridian. The recipient of the Patricia Cleary Award for Poetry and the Hopwood Award for Poetry, Sébastien has been a finalist for the - [Ashanti Anderson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ashanti-anderson/) - Ashanti Anderson (they/them) is a Black Queer Disabled poet, screenwriter, and playwright. Their debut short poetry collection, Black Under, is the winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition at Black Lawrence Press. Their poems have appeared in World Literature Today, POETRY magazine, and elsewhere in print and on the web. Learn more about Ashanti’s - [Adam Prince](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/adam-prince/) - Recipient of the 2021 William Peden Prize in fiction, Adam Prince earned his B.A. from Vassar College, his M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and Sewanee Review among others. Bret Anthony Johnston described his short story collection, The Beautiful Wishes of - [Jeffrey Condran](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jeffrey-condran/) - Jeffrey Condran is the author of the story collection, A Fingerprint Repeated (Press 53). His debut novel, Prague Summer (Counterpoint), received a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award’s Silver Medal. His fiction has appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and Epoch, and has been awarded the The Missouri Review’s 2010 William - [Ron A. Austin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ron-a-austin/) - Ron A. Austin’s short stories have been placed in Pleiades, Story Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, his first collection of linked stories, has received several honors including: The 2017 Nilsen Prize, a 2019 Foreword INDIES GOLD Award, a 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize - [Abayomi Animashaun](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/abayomi-animashaun/) - Abayomi Animashaun is an immigrant from Nigeria. He has an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a PhD from the University of Kansas. His poems have appeared in such print and online journals as Poetry Ireland Review, Diode, TriQuarterly, The Cortland Review, African American Review, The Adirondack Review, Ruminate Magazine, and Versedaily. A winner of the Hudson Prize and a - [Brad Aaron Modlin](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/brad-aaron-modlin/) - Brad Aaron Modlin’s internationally viral work has been experienced two million times in social media, podcasts, spiritual reflections, and elsewhere. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction appear in Poetry Unbound, The Slowdown, The Pushcart Prize, Brevity, Indiana Review, orchestral scores, and The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has received support from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Banff Centre for - [Gaia Rajan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/gaia-rajan/) - Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press, 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). Their work is published or forthcoming in the 2022 Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, THRUSH, Split Lip Magazine, diode, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. Gaia is an intern at Poets House, journal editor for Half Mystic, and web manager for Honey Literary. You can find them - [Kevin J Koch](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kevin-j-koch/) - Kevin J. Koch is Professor Emeritus of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He is author of Skiing at Midnight: A Nature Journal from Dubuque County, Iowa (Loras College Press); The Driftless Land: Spirit of Place in the Upper Mississippi Valley (Southeast Missouri State University Press); The Thin Places: A Celtic Landscape from Ireland to the Driftless (Wipf & Stock); - [Lisa Slage Robinson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lisa-slage-robinson/) - Lisa Slage Robinson writes to explore invisible landscapes and magical feminism. She is the author of Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great Black Swamp (Black Lawrence Press, February 2026). Named a finalist for Midwest Review’s Great Midwest Fiction Contest, her work appears in or is forthcoming from Iron Horse Literary Review, Atticus Review, Smokelong Quarterly, - [Mickie Kennedy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/mickie-kennedy/) - Mickie Kennedy is a gay writer who resides in Baltimore County, Maryland. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist for the 2023 Pablo Neruda Prize, he earned an MFA from George - [Geoff Bouvier](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/geoff-bouvier/) - Geoff Bouvier has previously published two books of prose poetry, including the APR/Honickman Prize-winning Living Room. He served as the Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley and he has written long-form magazine journalism, publishing over 50 cover stories. His prose poems have appeared in numerous journals including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and New American - [Kit Frick](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kit-frick/) - Kit Frick is a MacDowell fellow and ITW Thriller Award finalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University. She is the author of the suspense novel The Split and the young adult thrillers Before We Were Sorry (originally published as See All the Stars), All Eyes on Us, I Killed Zoe Spanos, Very - [James Tate Hill](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/james-tate-hill/) - James Tate Hill is the author of the memoir Blind Man’s Bluff (W. W. Norton), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021. His fiction debut, Academy Gothic, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His stories and essays have been published in Lit Hub, - [Dylan Loring](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dylan-loring/) - Dylan Loring is a poet from Des Moines, Iowa and an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire – Barron County. His poems have appeared in New Ohio Review, jubilat, Ninth Letter, The Laurel Review, and Forklift, Ohio. Along with his friends Kate MacLam and Jordan Deveraux, he edits Lost Pilots. This - [Jason Allen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jason-allen/) - Jason Allen’s debut novel, The East End, was published with HarperCollins/Park Row Books, for which Bonnie Jo Campbell provided the cover blurb: “Every page is filled with wise insights about social class and the human heart.” Jason has since been nominated for an Edgar Award and the Georgia Author of the Year Award. His poetry - [Anne Corbitt](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/anne-corbitt/) - Anne Corbitt received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Mississippi on the John and Renée Grisham Fellowship. Her work has appeared in One Story, The Greensboro Review, Fifth Wednesday, Fourth River, and others. Her first novel, Rules for Lying, was released by Southeast Missouri State University Press in 2016, as the winner of - [Rachel Hinton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rachel-hinton/) - Originally from Vermont, Rachel Hinton holds an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA from Kenyon College. Her poems have appeared in The Boiler, Cimarron Review, the Denver Quarterly, Salamander, and other journals. - [Andrew Malan Milward](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/andrew-malan-milward/) - A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Andrew Malan Milward is the author of the story collections The Agriculture Hall of Fame and I Was a Revolutionary, a book of novellas called You Are Loved, as well as a work of narrative nonfiction, Jayhawker: On History, Home, and Basketball. He has served as the McCreight - [Juan Eugenio Ramirez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/juan-eugenio-ramirez/) - Though born in Washington state, Juan Eugenio Ramirez spent most of his formative years in Florida. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. His work has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Armchair/Shotgun, and Madcap Review. Juan lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he teaches English at the Francis Parker School of Louisville. - [Elizabeth Engelman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/elizabeth-engelman/) - Elizabeth Engelman was awarded the 2019 Nilsen Literary Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press and the 2017 Emerging Writer Award from the Key West Literary Seminar. Her essays have been published in The New York Times and Endeavor Magazine, a publication of the American Society for Deaf Children. She received her MFA from the - [Joshua Cross](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/joshua-cross/) - Joshua Cross is the author of Black Bear Creek: Stories (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Independent Press Award for Short Story Collections. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Big Muddy, Failbetter, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. A native West Virginian, - [Darby Price](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/darby-price/) - Darby Price was born and raised in Southeast Louisiana, a place that influences much of her work. She earned her BA at Florida State University and her MFA at George Mason University, where she was a Heritage Fellow and the Poetry Editor for Phoebe. Her poetry has appeared in No Contact, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Redivider, and Zócalo Public Square, among others, and - [Jenny Irish](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jenny-irish/) - Jenny Irish is the author of the hybrid poetry collections Common Ancestor (Black Lawrence, 2017) and Tooth Box (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021), the short story collection I Am Faithful (Black Lawrence, 2019), the chapbook Lupine (Black Lawrence, 2023) and most recently Hatch (Northwestern University Press, 2024). She teaches creative writing at Arizona State University and facilitates free community workshops every summer. - [Christopher Locke](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/christopher-locke/) - Christopher Locke is the author of 12 books and chapbooks. His latest collection of poetry Music for Ghosts (New York Quarterly Books) and memoir Without Saints (Black Lawrence Press) were both released in 2022. He received the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, and grants in writing from Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the - [Sasha Hom](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sasha-hom/) - Sasha Hom lives off-grid in small canvas and wooden structures on a 600-acre land co-op amid 5,800 acres of conserved land situated within Vermont, an odd-shaped state (but aren’t they all?) upon a very large continent amid oceans. She has four children, many goats, fowl, and a dog. In addition to homeschooling her children and - [Brian Morton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/brian-morton/) - Brian Morton's previous books include the novels Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon and the memoir Tasha. A member of the faculty in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, he has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction, - [Elizabeth Stix](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/elizabeth-stix/) - Bay Area native Elizabeth Stix writes and edits in Northern California. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, Boulevard, The Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, and elsewhere. Her work has been performed live at Selected Shorts in New York and the New Short Fiction Series in LA, and her story “Alice” was optioned by Sneaky Little - [Jane Morton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jane-morton/) - Jane Morton’s poetry collection Shedding Season will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2025. Her chapbook Snake Lore won Black Lawrence's Black River Chapbook Award. Her poems and short stories have also been published in journals including Gulf Coast, West Branch, Boulevard, Passages North, Ninth Letter, Joyland, and Cream City Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, - [Meghann Plunkett](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/meghann-plunkett/) - Meghann Plunkett writes television (Station 19, Rebel) and various development projects including adapting the novel "First Lie Wins" for the screen. She also served as a Poetry Reader for The New Yorker from 2018-2020. She is the recipient of the 2017 Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize as well as the 2017 Third Coast Poetry Prize. She - [Gwendolyn Paradice](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/gwendolyn-paradice/) - Gwendolyn Paradice is the author of the short story collection More Enduring for Having Been Broken (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 The Hudson Prize, & the co-authored chapbook Carnival Bound (or, please unwrap me) (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2020). Their work has appeared in Booth, Zone 3, ANMLY, Tin House Online, The Journal of American Folklore, & others. Gwendolyn is a queer, disabled, enrolled citizen - [Emma Sloan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/emma-sloan/) - Emma Sloan is a poet, short fiction author, and journalist with works published across 300+ international digital and print publications—including, but not limited to, The Writer Magazine, The Vancouver Island Poetry Collective, Her Umbrella Magazine, Alopecia UK, and LandLocked Literary Journal. She is the author of "Foxglove" (Chapter House, 2022). As a Writing and Publishing graduate of the University - [Lourdes Figueroa](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lourdes-figueroa/) - Lourdes Figueroa is an oral poet. Her poems are a dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón in Yolo County. The words el azadón are used by the ones who work in the fields - the work of tilling the soil under the blistering sun. She is the author of - [Ayodele Nzinga](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ayodele-nzinga/) - Ayodele Nzinga is a multi-hyphenated artist; a brilliant actress, producing director, playwright, poet, dramaturg, performance consultant, educator, and community advocate. She is the director of the Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc., Oakland's oldest North American African Theater Company and founder of Lower Bottom Playaz Summer Theater Day Camp. She is co-founder of Janga’s House a Black - [Carmen Cortez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/carmen-cortez/) - Rebekah Eppley and Carmen Cortez are a married couple living in Oakland. Rebekah is a librarian at Oakland Public Library. Carmen is a Permaculturalist and a student of herbal medicine at Ohlone Herbal College. - [Rebekah Eppley](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rebekah-eppley/) - Rebekah Eppley and Carmen Cortez are a married couple living in Oakland. Rebekah is a librarian at Oakland Public Library. Carmen is a Permaculturalist and a student of herbal medicine at Ohlone Herbal College. - [E.K. Keith](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/e-k-keith/) - E.K. Keith is a poet and librarian. E.K. has published poetry in journals and anthologies from coast to coast to coast, an places beyond. Nomadic Press published her first book of poetry — Ordinary Villains — in September of 2018. Ordinary Villains was warmly received with nominations for the California Book Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and Pushcart - [Anna Allen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/anna-allen/) - My full name is Brianna Allen but the alliteration of Anna Allen has always pleased me. My work is frequently about consumption, loss, race, and queer love as a radical act. I'm in love with vinyl, new eyeglasses, and a full closet. My medium is a blank notebook and Sharpie pen. I collect porcelain dolls - [Carolyn Dekker](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/carolyn-dekker/) - Carolyn Dekker is the author of North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac (Black Lawrence Press, 2023). She holds a BA in Biology and English from Williams College and a PhD in literature from the University of Michigan. She lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Since the demise of Finlandia University, she has been teaching at Michigan Technological University and - [Rondrea Mathis](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rondrea-mathis/) - Dr. Rondrea Danielle Mathis has a career focused on the intersection of Black women and God. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Bethune-Cookman University where she teaches English Composition, Black Women Writers, and a seminar course on Toni Morrison. Dr. Mathis is a two-time graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida where - [Anna Christine Rodas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/anna-christine-rodas/) - Anna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a Master’s Degree in Community Development and worked in this field both here in the Bay Area and internationally. She also holds a PhD in Spanish and her academic research in Central American Literary Studies explores the social - [Caleb Luna](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/caleb-luna/) - Caleb Luna is an artist, public scholar and theorist of the body. They hold a Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Publishing, performing and curating across genre and medium, Caleb's cultural work examines race, size, sexuality and disability in media and culture. - [Ryan Nakano](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ryan-nakano/) - Ryan Nakano is an Okinawan/Japanese American poet and journalist living in Huchiun, on the unceded lands of the Lisjan Ohlone (Oakland, CA) with his wonderful partner and cat. His poems have been published in Riksha Magazine as well as Voicemail Poems. His debut chapbook I Am Minor came out in February 2023 by Nomadic Press and will continue on through Black - [Kideste Mariam Yusef](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kideste-mariam-yusef/) - Dr. Kideste Mariam Yusef is a tenured Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and the Department Chair of the undergraduate Criminal Justice and Master’s in Criminal Justice Administration programs at Bethune-Cookman University. She also serves as the Director of the B-CU Center for Law and Social Justice. Dr. Yusef has twenty years of collegiate teaching experience - [John Gosslee](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/john-gosslee/) - John Gosslee’s poetry is published in Oxford American, Poetry Ireland, Yale Review, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Southampton Review, Gulf Coast, Grain, Arc Poetry Magazine, Rattle, Carousel, Popshot Magazine, and other publications. He published three chapbooks of poetry, a hybrid genre book, and a book of iconoclastic art. His latest chapbook of poetry is Fish Boy (Nomadic Press, 2018) and reissued by Black - [Patrick Newson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/patrick-newson/) - Patrick Newson is a farmer, cidermaker, and food justice organizer living in so-called Oregon. He holds an MFA in writing from the California College of Arts and also attended the University of Oregon, receiving a degree in English. Sometimes he teaches at St. Mary's College of California, and other times he teaches at Lane Community - [Paul Corman-Roberts](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/paul-corman-roberts/) - Paul Corman-Roberts is the author Bone Moon Palace from Black Lawrence Press (2021) a CLMP Firecracker nominated full length poetry collection. He is also author of the graphic chapbook The Sincere (with illustrator Ray Swaney) from Libran Apocalypse Books (2022.) He is a founder and current organizer of the Beast Crawl Lit Festival in Oakland CA. He currently teaches workshops for - [Bob Ostertag](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/bob-ostertag/) - Bob Ostertag’s work cannot easily be summarized or pigeonholed. He has published more than twenty albums of music, seven books, two podcasts, and a feature film. His writings on contemporary politics have been published on every continent and in many languages, beginning with his work as a journalist covering the civil war in El Salvador - [Daniel Riddle Rodriguez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/daniel-riddle-rodriguez/) - Daniel Riddle Rodriguez's real name is Daniel Riddle Rodriguez. He is the author of Low Village (Cutbank), Low Village: Rules of the Game (Nomadic Press), and How to Spot a Monster: A Field Guide for Girls (Defunkt Press). Previous publications include The Southhampton Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, The Penn Review, and others. He is from San Lorenzo, California where he lives with his son. He is - [Frederick Speers](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/frederick-speers/) - Frederick Speers (he/him) is the author of So Far Afield, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His chapbook, In the Year of Our Making and Unmaking was selected by Carl Phillips for the Frontier Poetry chapbook award in 2020. Fred’s poems have appeared in AGNI (Online); Crab Creek Review, winner of the 2020 poetry contest, selected by Keetje Kuiper; Diode Poetry Journal; Forklift, Ohio; Impossible - [Karen Llagas](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/karen-llagas/) - Karen Llagas’s new chapbook, All of Us Are Cleaved, was published by Nomadic Press in 2023. Her first collection of poetry, Archipelago Dust, was published by Meritage Press in 2010. A recipient of a RHINO Founder's Prize, Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize & a Hedgebrook residency, her poems have also appeared in various journals and anthologies. Born - [Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/cassandra-rockwood-ghanem/) - Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem holds a BA from California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. Her award-winning poems and creative nonfiction have been published locally and internationally. She is currently in the final stages of editing a book-length lyric essay about generational trauma. Also the illustrator - [Vernon (Trey) Keeve III](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/vernon-trey-keeve-iii-2/) - Vernon (Trey) Keeve III is an inquiry-based educator who taught in a school for expelled youth in Oakland, CA for seven years. They are currently pursuing a doctorate in the Teaching of English at Teachers College, Columbia University. Their research is anchored in interventions and alternatives for suspension and expulsion, strategies that combat the adultification of - [Emily Pinkerton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/emily-pinkerton/) - Emily Pinkerton lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, and her writing has previously appeared in Pome, ZYZZYVA, Juked, BlazeVOX, Foglifter, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. Emily is the author of two previous chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), and Bloom (Alley Cat Press, 2018). Her full-length collection, All Hazards, was recently selected - [Asantewaa Boykin. R.N, M.I.C.N](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/asantewaa-boykin-r-n-m-i-c-n/) - Asantewaa Boykin. R.N, M.I.C.N is the Daughter of Valerie Boykin, Granddaughter of Bertha Brandy and Gladys Boykin and the Great-Granddaughter of Nonnie Boykin and Drucella Bluford. She is a proud San Diego, CA native who found her voice in Oakland, CA Berthas’ home and Drucellas’ frontier. Her poetry combines her love of words, storytelling, and - [Stephen Meadows](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/stephen-meadows/) - Stephen Meadows is a Californian poet with roots in both the Ohlone and the pioneer soil of his home state. He was born and raised on the Monterey Bay of Central California and received his secondary education at U.C. Santa Barbara, U.C. Santa Cruz where he earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree and went on - [Lyn Patterson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lyn-patterson-2/) - Lyn Patterson is a storyteller and book art MFA student who lives in Oakland, CA. She is a deeply invigorated poet, specifically inspired to write about Black diaspora and those who have been systematically marginalized in society as a means of empowering future generations with their stories. For Patterson, storytelling is a sacred ancestral endeavor - [Kevin Madrigal Galindo](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kevin-madrigal-galindo/) - Kevin Madrigal Galindo is a first generation hijo de su chingada madre from South San Francisco by way of Zapopan, Jalisco. He is currently reimagining the world with abuelita wisdom, and trying to channel rage into change. You can find Kevin’s work in The Boiler, Bozalta, KQED, and also inscribed on tree stumps and bridge - [Julián Delgado Lopera](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/julian-delgado-lopera/) - Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute - [Karthik Sethuraman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/karthik-sethuraman/) - Karthik Sethuraman is an Indian-American living in California. His works have appeared in The Rumpus, AAWW, Fugue, Nimrod, and Fairy Tale Review. One work, Saramakavi, was performed at the Asian Art Museum where he was a KSW writing fellow. - [Nen G Ramirez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/nen-g-ramirez/) - Nen G Ramirez is a Chicanx writer from Adrian, Michigan. They received their MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota. You can find their work in Acentos Review, Split Lip Magazine, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. - [Fisayo Adeyeye](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/fisayo-adeyeye/) - Fisayo Adeyeye has works published in Nailed Magazine, The Collapsar, and The Birds We Piled Loosely. He lives and writes in Southern California. - [Guy Biederman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/guy-biederman/) - Guy Biederman is the author of six collections of short work, including Translated From The Original, one-inch punch fiction and Nova Nights, poetry. His award winning work has been published in over 300 journals in the U.S. and abroad and he is the host of The Floating Word, floating groove jams. A former peace corps - [Apollo Papafrangou](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/apollo-papafrangou/) - Hailing from Oakland, CA, Apollo Papafrangou is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Wings of Wax (Olive Leaf Editions, 2016). He has also written for HBO Films, which optioned the film rights to his story The Fence (2000-2004). His fiction and poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA magazine, Oakland Review, The Bookends Review, Sparkle & - [Gustavo Barahona-López](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/gustavo-barahona-lopez/) - Gustavo Barahona-López is a writer and educator from Richmond, California. In his writing, Barahona-López draws from his experience growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants. He was a finalist for the 2021 Quarterly West poetry prize and his chapbook Loss and Other Rivers That Devour was published by Nomadic Press in 2022. Barahona-López's full-length - [Dr. Adrienne Danyelle Oliver](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dr-adrienne-danyelle-oliver/) - Dr. Adrienne Danyelle Oliver is a poet-educator, hip-hop scholar from Little Rock, AR currently living in the SF Bay Area. She enjoys reflecting on and writing about intergenerational healing. Her published chapbooks, collective madness (Finishing Line Press) and the body has memories (Black Lawrence Press), include these reflections. Part poetry, part memoir, part dream, these - [Soma Mei Sheng Frazier](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/soma-mei-sheng-frazier/) - Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's writing has earned nods from numerous authors and entities, including HBO, Nikki Giovanni, Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket), Antonya Nelson, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Molly Giles, Michelle Tea and others. Her debut novel, Off the Books, is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co. in 2024. Before turning to novels, Soma authored three - [Cal Calamia](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/cal-calamia/) - Cal Calamia (they/he) is a transmasculine poet, marathoner, health educator, and inclusivity activist. A graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of San Francisco, Cal is committed to increasing trans and non-binary visibility and elevating queer joy. - [Dazié Grego-Sykes](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dazie-grego-sykes/) - Dazié Grego-Sykes is an Oakland based performance artist and activist. He is a graduate of The Experimental Performance Institute at New College of California and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from The California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently he writes produces solo plays while working as Associate Artistic Director for San Francisco - [Dani Jeremiah Gabriel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/dani-jeremiah-gabriel/) - Dani Jeremiah Gabriel is the author of four books of poetry and three children’s books. They are living the unexpected reality of queer/trans middle age, and they write about surviving the everyday apocalypses and the very dangerous possibilities of hope. Dani is a Bay Area poet; born in San Francisco, they graduated from UC Berkeley, - [Arturo Mantecón](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/arturo-mantecon/) - Arturo Mantecón is a poet and literary translator whose poems have appeared in various reviews and anthologies. His books of translation include three volumes of the collected works of Leopoldo María Panero and selected works by Francisco Ferrer Lerín (for which he won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles award in 2017) and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro. - [Freddy Gutierrez](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/freddy-gutierrez/) - Freddy Gutierrez, California poet and teaching artist. Freddy has facilitated writing and performance art spaces with people in incarceration from the Bay to the UK for over 10 years. He specializes in using metaphor alongside personal narrative in order to shape social commentary as catalysts for storytelling. His poetry seeks to foster agency of voice - [Tahtahme](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/tahtahme/) - Tahtahme is a writer, story quilter, twin mama, wife, postpartum doula, political commentator, Sacred Woman, and trained Hoodoo. Every day she creates, dreams, prays and works her roots fighting as an advocate for Mama Earth, the working class, the Black Diaspora and by extension those reclaiming African Traditional Religions. Her desire to create a better - [Jordan Boyd](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jordan-boyd/) - Jordan Boyd is a writer, musician and educator originally from Columbus, Ohio. Jordan enjoys soft jazz in the morning and hard jazz in the evening. He has a bachelor's degree in Environmental Education and Music Theory from The Ohio State University. Jordan has spent most of his career teaching high school in subjects such as - [Jarvis Subia](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jarvis-subia/) - Born and raised in the San José’s 7 trees neighborhood, Jarvis Subia's work delves into his relationship with his communities, sexuality, masculinity, national/global politics, lineage, race, gardening, mental health, personal growth, love, love, and love. Jarvis is a 2019 Poetry Foundation and Crescendo Literary's Incubator Fellow for community-engaged poets, the 2019 Silicon Valley Creates / - [Stephanie Sherman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/stephanie-sherman/) - Stephanie Sherman is a Jewish, queer, bilingual, bicultural, interdisciplinary feminist poet, choreographer, dancer, artist and activist who has lived between the Bay Area, Mexico City, Quito, and New York. She has published her poems in various San Francisco anthologies, including The Best of Mission at Tenth: 2009-2019, Mission at Tenth Vol. 7, and Poetry in - [James Cagney](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/james-cagney/) - Oakland native James Cagney is a poet and Cave Canem Fellow. He has appeared as a featured artist at Museum of The African Diaspora (MOAD SF), The DeYoung Museum and the Oakland Museum, as well as the Winter Warmer Poetry Festival in Cork, Ireland, Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea: Midnight In Mumbai (2012), Celebration of the - [Rachelle Escamilla](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rachelle-escamilla/) - Rachelle Escamilla is a Chicana poet from the Central Coast of California. She is the author of three books of poetry: Imaginary Animal (Willow Books, 2015, 2022) and Me Drawing a Picture of Me[n] (Willow Books, 2019) and Space Junk from the Heavenly Palace (Nomadic Press 2023). Rachelle is the founder of a number of - [Cassandra Dallett](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/cassandra-dallett/) - Cassandra Dallett has been published in many online and print magazines, was named a writer to watch in 7x7 magazine. Cassandra hosts the monthly writing workshop OnTwoSix, and co-hosts the quarterly reading series Moon Drop Productions. Her first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless (Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015, she authored - [Florencia Milito](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/florencia-milito/) - Florencia Milito is a bilingual poet whose work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Indiana Review, Catamaran, Diálogo, 92nd Street Y, Quiet Lightning, Ninth Letter, Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, Zócalo Public Square, GUEST, and This Wandering State: Poems from Alta, among others. A Hedgebrook and Community of Writers alumna and San Francisco Writers - [Norm Mattox](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/norm-mattox/) - Norm Mattox is a poet. He served as a bilingual educator in the public school system of San Francisco Unified School District for over 30 years. Though retired, Norm is a teacher ('maestro' in Spanish) for life. His poetry is a journey through the voices that tell a story of love in a time of - [Violeta Orozco](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/violeta-orozco/) - An internationally renowned Latina author from Mexico City, Violeta Orozco is a bilingual poet, performer and fiction writer who has earned numerous accolades for her two poetry collections in English: The Broken Woman Diaries, published in Washington State by Andante Books 2022, winner of the Rising Stars Award at the International Latino Book Award; and Stillness in the Land - [Andrew Demčák](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/andrew-demcak/) - Andrew Demčák is a third generation Czechoslovakian-American, poet, and novelist, the author of six poetry collections and eight Young Adult novels. His books have been featured by The American Library Association, Verse Daily, The Lambda Literary Foundation, The Best American Poetry, Kirkus Reviews, and Poets & Writers. He was recently selected to be the keynote speaker - [Amber Allen-Peirson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/amber-allen-peirson/) - Amber Allen-Peirson, aka Clarity is a powerful, empathic poet, activist, educator, orator, and consultant focused on being a catalyst for self-development and healing. She weaves her lived experiences, emotions and stories into literal metaphors, provoking reflection and visceral sensations in listeners. The process of writing is profoundly spiritual, like prayer for Amber. What she produces - [Peter Thomas Bullen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/peter-thomas-bullen/) - Peter Thomas Bullen is a haircutter by day and a writer at other times. He is caught between the short story and the prose poem, and is waiting for someone to rescue him from that and several other confusing sets of circumstances. His first book Wallflower came out from Nomadic Press in 2016. Joshua Mohr - [The Fierce Vulnerability Network](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/the-fierce-vulnerability-network/) - Deeply aware of the humbling enormity of the crises humanity is facing and our own imperfections, we are nonetheless determined to act. As we move forward, we pledge to listen, learn, experiment, and grow; to make our mistakes, adapt, and try, try again. We are one element in an expansive movement ecosystem, a “movement of - [Lauren L. Wheeler](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lauren-l-wheeler/) - Lauren L. Wheeler writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and what happens when they rub up against each other. A recovering slam poet, she twice competed at the National Poetry Slam and has featured at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature, as well as in Los Angeles, Miami, Austin, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. - [Juba Kalamka](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/32539/) - Juba Kalamka is most recognized for his work with performance troupes Sins Invalid and Mangos With Chili and as co-founder and producer of the queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective (D/DC). His writing appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Anthology of Rap (Yale University Press, 2010), Queer and Trans Artists of Color: The Stories of Some of Our Lives (2014), - [Rebecca Meacham](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rebecca-meacham/) - Rebecca Meacham’s short story collection, Let’s Do, won UNT Press’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and her flash fiction collection, Morbid Curiosities, won the New Delta Review chapbook prize. Her work has appeared most recently in Best Microfiction 2021, Wigleaf, Had, and Gigantic Sequins, and her prose has been set to music, translated into Polish, and carved into woodblocks and - [Nick Johnson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/nick-johnson/) - Nick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. Johnson received his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on the radio shows such as KPFA's Rude Awakening, and has - [Brandon Logans](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/brandon-logans/) - Brandon Logans is a poet from Oakland, California with an M.F.A in Poetry from Mills College. His work has been published in the Patrice Lumumba Anthology, Foglifter, Variety Pack's Special Issue Black Voices of Pride, and Action, Spectacle. He might describe himself as a rectangular sheet of honey 30” x 62”, 6” above any surface. - [Roberto F. Santiago](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/roberto-f-santiago/) - Roberto F. Santiago received an MSW from UC Berkeley and MFA from Rutgers University. His debut collection, Angel Park, appeared on the LA Times list of 23 Essential New Books by Latino Poets and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His second collection, LIKE SUGAR is a torrent of culture, camp, theatricality, and sass. Roberto lives in San Francisco, - [Yeva Johnson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/yeva-johnson/) - Yeva Johnson is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, writer, and musician whose work appears or is forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Obsidian, sin cesar, Sinister Wisdom, Yemassee, and elsewhere. Johnson explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence in our biosphere. She co-edited Joan Nestle’s book A Sturdy Yes of a People, a Sinister Wisdom Sapphic Classic. Yeva is a past Show Us Your Spines - [Simone Muench](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/simone-muench/) - Simone Muench is the author of several books including Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry and NYT Editor’s Choice; Sarabande, 2005), Orange Crush (2010 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry; Sarabande, 2010), and Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014). Her chapbook Trace won the Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence, 2014), and her collection, Suture, is a book of sonnets written with Dean Rader (Black Lawrence, 2017). She also co-edited the - [Arthur Kayzakian](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/arthur-kayzakian/) - Arthur Kayzakian is the winner of the 2021 Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series award for his collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, which was also selected as a finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is also the winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition for his chapbook, My Burning City. He has - [Randy Markel James](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/randy-markel-james/) - Randy Markel James is an educator, editor, teacher and performer from Los Angeles, California. Some of his work has been published in Red Cedar Review, Palette, The Rumpus, Hooligan Mag, Denver Quarterly, &Change, and Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color. - [Kelliane Parker](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kelliane-parker/) - Kelliane Parker' s debut chapbook is, "Down the Foggy Streets of my Mind." A queer, Latinx, performance artist and poet living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), her work explores a lived experience of navigating the world through multiple lenses. She is a frequent feature at poetry readings and has been published in numerous anthologies such - [Jessica Morey-Collins](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jessica-morey-collins/) - Jessica Morey-Collins is a poet and land use planner who works as a plans examiner in the Pacific Northwest. Her chapbook, We Were More than Kindling, is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press in 2023. Jessica’s poems can be found in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Cotton Xenomorph, Maudlin House, Hobart, Tinderbox, and have been nominated - [Sara Johnson Allen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sara-johnson-allen/) - Sara Johnson Allen was raised (mostly) in North Carolina. Her fiction has appeared in PANK Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Reckon Review. She was recently awarded runner-up in the 2022 Third Coast fiction contest. In 2018, she was awarded the Marianne Russo Award for Emerging Writers by the Key West Literary Seminar for her novel-in-progress. In - [Aracelis González Asendorf](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/aracelis-gonzalez-asendorf/) - Aracelis González Asendorf was born in Cuba. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Brevity Magazine, Kweli Journal, Aster(ix) Journal, The Adirondack Review, Puerto del Sol, The Acentos Review, Litro, The South Atlantic Review, Saw Palm, Black Fox Literary Magazine, The Hong Kong Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review and elsewhere. Her stories have been anthologized in All About Skin: Short Fiction by - [Nancy Welch](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/nancy-welch/) - Nancy Welch’s short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and elsewhere with citations in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, O. Henry, and Pushcart. Her debut collection, The Road from Prosperity, was published by Southern Methodist University Press. Her political essays on caretaking labor and higher education have appeared in Spectre, Tempest, International Socialist Review, - [Jason Tandon](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jason-tandon/) - Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of five books of poetry, including This Far North, The Actual World, Quality of Life, and Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry - [Anneli Matheson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/anneli-matheson/) - Anneli Matheson holds an MFA in Creative Writing from City University in Hong Kong. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Barely South Review, The Other Journal, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Ilanot Review, Sweet Literary, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, among others. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Connect with her via Twitter: - [José Angel Araguz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jose-angel-araguz/) - José Angel Araguz, Ph.D. is the author of Rotura (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). His poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, The Acentos Review, and Oxidant | Engine among other places. He is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander and is also a faculty member of - [Sylvia Jones](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sylvia-jones/) - Sylvia Jones is a writer, editor, and prison abolitionist. At the moment, she works as an associate editor for WEST BRANCH and is a 2021-22 literary editing fellow at The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University. Sylvia's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Shenandoah, Windfall Room, New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community - [Callista Buchen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/callista-buchen/) - Callista Buchen is the author of the full-length collection Look Look Look (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), and the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, 2016). Her work has appeared in Jet Fuel Review, Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, and many other journals. She is the winner of DIAGRAM's essay contest, an Indy Arts Council Creative Renewal - [Rebecca Turkewitz](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rebecca-turkewitz/) - Rebecca Turkewitz is a writer and high school English teacher living in Portland, Maine. Her short stories, essays, and humor writing have appeared in The Normal School, The Masters Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Sonora Review, Catapult, Electric Literature, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from - [Devin Murphy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/devin-murphy/) - Devin Murphy is a national bestselling author of the novels The Boat Runner and Tiny Americans published by Harper Perennial. These books have been selected as Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers, Illinois Reads, and book of the year by the Chicago Writer’s Association, and Society of Midland Authors. His short story collection, Unbend the River, is forthcoming from - [Diane Goettel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/diane-goettel/) - Diane Goettel has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from Brooklyn College. She co-edited the anthologies Feast: Poetry & Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner and Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U. She lives in Mount Vernon, New York with her husband and daughter. - [Shubha Sunder](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/shubha-sunder/) - Shubha Sunder’s stories and essays have appeared in New Letters, The Common, Narrative Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Catapult, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and the City of Boston Artist Fellowship. Her fiction has received honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories anthology and been shortlisted for - [Jill Stukenberg](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jill-stukenberg/) - Jill Stukenberg’s short stories have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, The Collagist (now The Rupture), Wisconsin People and Ideas magazine, and other literary magazines. She is a graduate of the MFA program at New Mexico State University and has received writing grants from the University of Wisconsin Colleges and has been awarded writing residencies at Shake - [Alison Powell](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/alison-powell/) - Alison Powell's lyric essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Black Warrior Review, Broad Street, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sonora Review, and Proximity Magazine; recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, jubilat, New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, and more. Her book of poems, On the Desire to Levitate, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize - [SJ Sindu](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sj-sindu/) - SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels, two hybrid chapbooks, and a forthcoming graphic novel. Her first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Sindu’s second novel, Blue-Skinned Gods, was published in November 2021 - [Shena McAuliffe](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/shena-mcauliffe/) - Shena McAuliffe’s novel, The Good Echo (2018), won the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize and the 2019 Balcones Fiction Prize. Her essay collection, Glass, Light, Electricity, was chosen by essayist Elena Passarello as the winner of the Permafrost Prize in Nonfiction and was published by University of Alaska Press in February 2020. Essays included in her collection have won - [Caroline Patterson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/caroline-patterson/) - Caroline Patterson is the author of Ballet at the Moose Lodge and two children's books on the natural world. She edited the literary anthology Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart. Her short fiction and essays have been published in journals including Epoch, Outside, Southwest Review, and Seventeen, and have been included in anthologies - [Ananda Lima](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ananda-lima/) - Ananda Lima’s work has appeared or is upcoming in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Jubilat, The Common, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbooks Translation (Paper Nautilus, 2019, winner of the 2018 Vella Chapbook Prize), Tropicália (Newfound, forthcoming, winner of the 2020 Newfound Prose Prize) and - [JoAnna Novak](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/joanna-novak/) - JoAnna Novak's debut memoir Contradiction Days will be published by Catapult in 2023. Her short story collection, Meaningful Work, won the 2020 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and will be published by FC2 in 2021. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and two books of poetry: Noirmania and Abeyance, North America. Her - [Ewa Chrusciel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ewa-chrusciel/) - Ewa Chrusciel is a poet, translator, and educator. She has three books of poems in English: Of Annunciations (Omnidawn 2017), Contraband of Hoopoe (Omnidawn 2014), Strata (Emergency Press 2009, reprinted by Omnidawn, April 2018), as well as three books in Polish: Tobołek (2016) Sopiłki (2009), and Furkot (2003). Her book Contraband of Hoopoe was translated - [Rigoberto González](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rigoberto-gonzalez/) - Rigoberto González is the author of eighteen books of poetry and prose including the memoir What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His awards include Lannan, Guggenheim, NEA, NYFA, and USA Rolón fellowships, the PEN/Voelcker Award, the American Book Award from the Before Columbus - [Lisa Hiton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/lisa-hiton/) - Lisa Hiton's first book of poems, Afterfeast, has been selected by Mary Jo Bang to win the Dorset Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press (October 2021). She holds an MFA in Poetry from Boston University and an MEd in Arts in Education from Harvard University. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The - [Jackie K. White](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jackie-k-white/) - Jackie K. White has has been an editor with RHINO, faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review, and professor of English at Lewis University. She has published three previous chapbooks--Bestiary Charming (Anabiosis), Petal Tearing & Variations (Finishing Line), and Come clearing (Dancing Girl)--along with numerous single-authored poems and translations in such journals as ACM, Bayou, Fifth Wednesday, Folio, Quarter after Eight, Spoon River, Third Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, and online at prosepoem.com, seven - [Ösel Jessica Plante](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/osel-jessica-plante/) - Ösel Jessica Plante’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Best New Poets 2017 & 2019, Best Small Fictions 2016, Narrative Magazine, and Passages North, among others. She is winner of the 2018 Meridian Editors Prize in poetry, Honorable Mention in the 2018 Gulf Coast Prize, and Finalist in the 2019 Nimrod International Literary Awards. She is a former fellow - [Ben Nickol](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/ben-nickol/) - Ben Nickol was raised in Idaho and attended the University of Arkansas and the University of Notre Dame, where he played basketball for the Fighting Irish. His prose has been recognized by the Arkansas Arts Council, Best American Sports Writing, and the University of Arkansas, among other organizations, and he's the author, most recently, of Sun - [Mary Fifield](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/mary-fifield/) - Mary Fifield’s writing has appeared in Midway Journal, Cargo Literary Magazine, The Write Launch, and others. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her short story collection, Last of the Species and Other Stories, was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize. Mary lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner, - [Kristin Thiel](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kristin-thiel/) - Kristin Thiel started writing before she knew how to spell, dictating stories to her mom. She now makes her living writing and editing. Her short stories and essays have appeared in other anthologies (Dzanc Books, Seal Press), for which she received the honor of reading at Powell’s Books. - [Laura McCullough](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/laura-mccullough/) - Laura McCullough’s newest book of poems is Women & Other Hostages (Black Lawrence Press, 2021). Her previous books from Black Lawrence Press are Jersey Mercy, Rigger Death & Hoist Another, and Speech Acts. Her other books include The Wild Night Dress, selected by Billy Collins for the Miller Williams Poetry Series (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), Panic (winner of the Kinereth Kensler Award, - [Deborah Thompson](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/deborah-thompson/) - Debby Thompson is a Professor of English at Colorado State University, where teaches literature and creative nonfiction. She has published creative and critical essays, and has won the Missouri Review and Iowa Review awards in creative nonfiction, as well as a Pushcart prize. She is the author of Pretzel, Houdini, and Olive: Essays on the - [Danielle Rose](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/danielle-rose/) - Danielle Rose is the author of at first & then. Her work can be found in Palette Poetry, Pithead Chapel, Hobart Pulp, and The Shallow Ends. - [Rob Carney](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/rob-carney/) - Rob Carney is the author of seven books of poems, including Facts and Figures (Hoot ‘n’ Waddle 2020), The Last Tiger Is Somewhere (Unsolicited Press 2020), co-authored with Scott Poole, and The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press 2018), which won the 15 Bytes Utah Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Accidental Gardens, a - [Denise Bergman](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/denise-bergman/) - Denise Bergman is the author of four other books of poetry. Three Hands None (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) delves into the night forty years ago when the author was attacked in her bed by a stranger. A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea centers on the making and endurance of “symbol” in the Statue of Liberty. The Telling is a book-length - [W. Todd Kaneko](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/w-todd-kaneko/) - Todd Kaneko is the author of the poetry books This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies (New Michigan Press, 2020), and is co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). His poems and prose can be seen in The Normal School, - [TJ Sandella](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/tj-sandella/) - T.J. Sandella is the author of Ways to Beg (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), which was a finalist or semi-finalist for several awards, including the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, the Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes, and the Crab Orchard First Book Award. Selected by Dorianne Laux for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology, he is - [Paula Carter](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/paula-carter/) - Paula Carter is the author of the flash memoir No Relation. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Based in Chicago, she is a part of the live lit community and is a company member with the storytelling group 2nd Story. She - [Carrie Bennett](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/carrie-bennett/) - Carrie Bennett is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow and author of biography of water (The Word Works, 2005), The Land Is a Painted Thing (The Word Works, 2016), and several chapbooks from dancing girl press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Boston Review, Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, and jubilat. She holds an MFA - [Joe Dornich](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/joe-dornich/) - Joe Dornich is a graduate of Texas Tech's creative writing program where he was the managing editor of Iron Horse Literary Review. His stories have won contests and fellowships from The Master's Review, Carve Magazine, South Central MLA, Key West Literary Seminars, and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Joe lives in Knoxville and teaches at the University of Tennessee. - [Jo Sarzotti](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jo-sarzotti/) - Jo Sarzotti is the author of two books of poems, Mother Desert (Bakeless Prize winner, Graywolf Press 2012) and Waiting for Achilles (Black Lawrence Press). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Radar, Tupelo Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, North American Review, Perihelion, Borderlands, and in the anthologies The Traveler’s Vade Mecum (Red Hen Press 2016) and Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion (Abrams 2015). 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A Kentucky native, he has lived in Lexington, Kentucky and St. Louis, Missouri; right now, he - [Colin Hamilton](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/colin-hamilton/) - During his twenties, Colin Hamilton published poetry and essays in various journals, as well as a chapbook with the Kent State University Press. He then set that life aside for a while to build a career in public affairs, helping to develop the Minneapolis Central Library, the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, - [Kirun Kapur](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kirun-kapur/) - Kirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry and the Antivenom Poetry Award for her first book, Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist (Elixir Press, 2015). Her second book, Women in the Waiting Room, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. Her work - [Jody Chan](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jody-chan/) - Jody Chan is a writer, organizer, Taiko drummer, and therapist-in-training based in Toronto. They are the poetry editor for Hematopoeisis, a 2017 VONA alum, a member of the Winter Tangerine Workshops Team, and the 2018 winner of the Third Coast Poetry Contest. Their first chapbook is published with Damaged Goods Press. Their work has been - [Vedran Husić](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/vedran-husic/) - Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Witness, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment - [Avery Moselle Guess](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/avery-moselle-guess/) - Avery M. Guess (@averymguess) is a recipient of 2015 NEA Fellowship for Poetry, grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and residencies from the Albee Foundation, New York Mills Arts Retreat, Ragdale Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts at Firefly Farms. She is - [Courtney Craggett](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/courtney-craggett/) - Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University of North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, and Monkeybicycle, among - [Sarah McKinstry-Brown](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sarah-mckinstry-brown/) - Sarah McKinstry-Brown is the author of Cradling Monsoons (Blue Light Press, 2010) and This Bright Darkness (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). Born and raised in Albuquerque, Sarah is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, two Nebraska Book Awards, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems appear in RATTLE, Ruminate, Smartish Pace, Sugar House Review, West - [Jaclyn Dwyer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/jaclyn-dwyer/) - Jaclyn Dwyer has published fiction and poetry in a number of literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Sugar House Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, and Witness. She earned an MFA from the University of Notre Dame where she received a Sparks Fellowship and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State - [LaTanya McQueen](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/latanya-mcqueen/) - LaTanya McQueen's work has been published in TriQuarterly, West Branch, Pleaides, The Arkansas International, The Florida Review, Bennington Review, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, Fourteen Hills, The North American Review, Ninth Letter, New Orleans Review, Indiana Review, and other journals. She received her MFA from Emerson College, her PhD from the University of Missouri, and - [Kristin Chang](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/kristin-chang/) - Kristin Chang’s work has been published in Teen Vogue, The Rumpus, The Margins (Asian American Writers Workshop), the Shade Journal, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets and Best of the Net, and she has been anthologized in Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3 and Ink Knows No Borders (Seven Stories Press). She - [Amy Sayre Baptista](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/amy-sayre-baptista/) - Amy Sayre Baptista’s writing has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017), Corium, SmokeLong Quarterly, Ninth Letter, The Butter, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. She was a SAFTA fellow (2015), a CantoMundo Poetry fellow (2013), and a scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon, Portugal (2011). She performs with Kale Soup for the Soul, a Portuguese-American artist’s - [Beth Mayer](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/beth-mayer/) - Beth Mayer’s fiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Sun Magazine, and The Midway Review. Her stories have been anthologized in New Stories from the Midwest (Ohio University/Swallow Press) and American Fiction (New Rivers Press), and have been recognized by Best American Mystery Stories among “Other Distinguished Stories.” Beth’s collection was a finalist for the 2016 Orison Book Prize and the 2015 Many Voices Project. The Missouri - [Gayle Brandeis](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/gayle-brandeis/) - Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne), and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social Engagement, Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt), which received a Silver Nautilus Book Award - [Christine Gardiner](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/christine-gardiner/) - Christine Gardiner holds a BA and MFA from Brown University and a PhD from the University of Denver. She lives in Brooklyn and is Assistant Professor of the Liberal Arts at the College of New Rochelle, School of New Resources, where she is edified by her students and their stories. - [Caroline Cabrera](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/caroline-cabrera/) - Caroline Cabrera is the author of two previous full length collections of poetry, The Bicycle Year (H-NGM-N Books, 2015) and Flood Bloom (H-NGM-N Books 2013), as well as a chapbook, Dear Sensitive Beard (dancing girl press, 2012). She is chapbook editor of Bloom Books, an imprint of Jellyfish Magazine. She lives in South Florida. - [Sahar Muradi](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sahar-muradi/) - Sahar Muradi is a writer, performer, and educator born in Afghanistan and raised in the U.S. / is co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature / is co-founder of the Afghan American Artists and Writers Association / has published most recently in Bone Bouquet and Dusie / is a - [Nancy Reddy](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/nancy-reddy/) - Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), a 2014 winner of the National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Walter E. 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Her collection HIJRA was selected as a winner of the - [Sam Sax](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/sam-sax/) - sam sax is a 2015 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and Poetry Fellow at The Michener Center for Writers where he serves as the Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He's the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion & author of the chapbooks A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters (Button 2014), sad boy / detective (Black Lawrence 2015), All The Rage (Sibling Rivalry - [Robert Walser](https://blacklawrencepress.com/authors/robert-walser/) - Robert Walser (1878-1956) left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence while producing poems, stories, essays, and three novels: The Tanners(1906), The Assistant (1908), and Jakob Von Gunten (1909). 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