Small Harbor Publishing

Cover reveal! Evelyn Berry’s T4T will be here early 2026!
Cover art by: Ellis Chase
Cover design by: Diana Baltag

The Other Tree by Alison Lubar — winner of the 2023 Laureate Prize — is a searing, tender testament to memory, survival, and living in spite of it all.

Get your copy today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-ot...

Winner of the Editor’s Prize, It adheres to many things by Emily Adams-Aucoin is here. Have you read these ten poems yet? A breathtaking chapbook that lingers, expands, and clings in ways only poetry can.

✨ Read it now: www.harbor-review.com/it-adheres-t...

Today, and every day. ❤️🧡🤍🩷

Happy 1st Birthday to Reiteration / Relationship by Elizabeth Catanese!

This beautiful chapbook continues to resonate a year later—exploring connection, memory, and the art of revisiting what shapes us.

Celebrate its anniversary:
smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/reiteration-relationship

Now Available!
Becca Rae Rose’s MOUTH is here — a chapbook that bites from the first word and won’t let go. Smarting, tender, and ferocious, this is a fevered delight you’ll still feel days later.

Order your copy now: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

The Laureate Prize is open!
Judge: Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas & author of Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024).
Open Oct 1–Dec 31.
We welcome submissions from marginalized writers.
🔗 smallharborpublishing.com
#LaureatePrize #PoetryCommunity

Coming Soon! Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree

A sweeping collection that spans two decades of poetry—storm and salvation, devastation and beauty, carried in lines that linger like thunder.

✨ learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...

SHP TOP 5 – September 2025 ✨📚

Here are the books our readers loved most this month:

1️⃣ Braving the Body
2️⃣ When I Was Straight
3️⃣ The Other Tree
3️⃣ Mouth
4️⃣ Ladies’ Abecedary
5️⃣ The Grand Scheme of Things

Discover your next favorite read at 👉 smallharborpublishing.com

Submissions are NOW OPEN for the Laureate Prize!
October 1 – December 31, 2025

Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-prize

(Judge announcement coming soon!)

🚨 Last day to submit! 🚨

20–40 pgs poetry or 20–50 pgs prose. Fees waived for BIPOC writers.

Submit here 👉 www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-ope...

#Chapbook #PoetryCommunity #LastDayToSubmit

Today’s the day! ✨📚
Join us for a special Book Release Reading featuring Dabin Jeong (Swallow) and Sarah Cedeño (The Grand Scheme of Things).

🗓️ Date: TODAY
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM ET
💻 Zoom Meeting ID: 876 2780 1760

Come celebrate these incredible new books and hear the authors bring their words to life!

Now Available!! MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is officially here!

This stunning prose chapbook dives into the body, voice, and all the spaces between—sharp, lyrical, and unforgettable.

Grab your copy today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

Congratulations to our top-sellers of August 2025!
1. The Grand Scheme of Things, Cedeño
2. Small Girl, Lisa Fay Coutley
3. What’s Left is Tender, Chi Wing Lau
4. Braving the Body, editors Callihan, Bao, & Franklin
5. When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton, editor Brookshire

You’re invited! Join us for a virtual Book Release Reading celebrating two incredible new works from this summer:
📖 The Grand Scheme of Things by Sarah Cedeño
📖 Swallow by Dabin Jeong

📅 September 30, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM ET
💻 RSVP & Join via Zoom: Meeting ID 876 2780 1760

Come listen!

DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Freeman — Small Harbor Publishing

Coming Soon🚨DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is nearly here!

Moving beyond critique, DISSENT embodies the true meaning of feminism—the part where we do something about it.

Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissen...

Now Available ✨
MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is officially here!

This stunning chapbook dives into the body, voice, and all the spaces between—sharp, lyrical, and unforgettable.

Grab your copy today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

Our submission period is open for Issue 16!
Send us 1–3 poems via Submittable—it’s free to submit, and we pay $10 per published poem.
🔗Full guidelines here: smallharborpublishing.submittable.com/submit

#PoetrySubmissions #LitMag #poetry

COMING SOON 👄MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose, is the next chapbook from Small Harbor Publishing!

Visceral, lyrical, and unflinching, this collection opens wide to reveal what lingers between silence and speech. Stay tuned for the official release!

Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

Happy 2nd Birthday to Refused a Second Date by Maya Williams! 🎂

This bold and unforgettable collection has been sparking conversations, resonating with readers, and even becoming a 2024 Maine Literary Award finalist.

Grab your copy here:
smallharborpublishing.com/books/refused-a-second-date

You’re invited next week! Join us for a Book Release Reading celebrating two incredible new works:
The Grand Scheme of Things by Sarah Cedeño
Swallow by Dabin Jeong
📅 September 30, 2025 6PM ET
💻 Zoom: Meeting ID 876 2780 1760
Come listen, celebrate, and support these brilliant authors—don’t miss it!

Chapbook Open Reading Period is closing soon! 🚨

Got a manuscript ready? We’re seeking chapbooks of 20–40 pages of poetry or 20–50 pages of prose.

Submission fee: $15 (waived for BIPOC identifying writers).

📅 Deadline: September 30th
📖 Submit here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-ope...

Welcome Su Cho, honored reader at the virtual launch of The Other Tree by Alison Lubar, winner of the 2023 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize)!

Thursday, September 25th at 7pm ET
Get your free tickets now:
www.eventbrite.com/e/alison-lub...

Now Live!

Winner of the Editor’s Prize, It adheres to many things by Emily Adams-Aucoin is officially here. A breathtaking chapbook that lingers, expands, and clings in ways only poetry can.

✨ Read it → www.harbor-review.com/it-adheres-t...

#Poetry #Chapbook #NowLive #HarborReview

Happy 1st Birthday to THOUGHT * FROST * VOODOO by Matthew Hittinger! ❄️✨

This powerful chapbook has been out in the world for one year, and we’re still in awe of the language, imagery, and craft it carries.

Celebrate with us and grab your copy here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/th...

Alison Lubar’s The Other Tree—winner of the 2023 Laureate Prize—is here. These luminous poems reanimate the past, recover what has been lost, and keep growing in the shade of memory and love.

Get your copy today: www.amazon.com/-/es/Alison-...

We’re thrilled to welcome Mandy Moe Pwint Tu as an honored guest of the release reading for The Other Tree by Alison Lubar!

Join us on 9/25 in celebrating Alison Lubar’s The Other Tree:
www.eventbrite.com/e/alison-lub...

🌳 Coming soon!! The Other Tree by Alison Lubar, winner of the 2023 Laureate Prize.

A fearless & tender poetry collection that reclaims history, memory, & power.

Keep your eye on: 🔗 www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-ot...

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!
We’re seeking poems for The Big Brutal Act, an urgent anthology responding to the H.R.1 – 119th Congress (2025-2026) “One Big Beautiful Act” (formerly “The Big Beautiful Bill”).

📖 Learn more & submit: smallharborpublishing.com/the-big-brutal-act

Closing September 30! But the chapbook reading period is still open at Harbor Editions!
Submit your poetry (20–40 pages) or prose (20–50 pages) now through September 30.
We especially welcome work from marginalized voices.
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-open-reading-period