Welcome! In 2005, Black Lawrence Press issued our first publication, a collection of poetry titled I Can Only Go As Fast As The Guy In Front of Me by Frank Matagrano. Like most fledgling presses, we started small. Matagrano’s collection was our only title that year. But, with the assistance of wonderful editors and a dynamic group of writers, we started to grow, publishing a few more titles each year. Now we publish two dozen titles annually.
As we’ve added new titles and authors to our list, we’ve also tried to offer more resources to the literary community. In 2009, we founded Sapling, a weekly e-newsletter that offers a digest of current opportunities for writers. A few years after that, we started offering manuscript consultations, for which scholarships are available.
During the pandemic, we launched a free monthly workshop series and it’s still going strong.
On this page, we offer links to all of these resources and, soon, will start providing articles about craft, publishing, and the writing life. If there’s a topic you’d like us to cover, please email [email protected] with your suggestions.
We hope that you find these resources to be helpful and edifying.
Yours,
Black Lawrence Press
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