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From our Fall 2025 season.....!

This is—dare I say—Jason Bayani’s most mystical book, a mighty alchemy of prayer and fury that was, for me, an invitation to feel with the honesty of water. -Brynn Saito

Pick up your copy here!
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It's back--announcing the return of Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Contest! Send us your literary tales of the weird and wonderful!
Deadline: 11/16/25
Prize: $1000, publication, and 20 copies
Judge: Arria Deepwater
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@cassmannes.bsky.social expertly creates your press kit! Grateful to @omnidawn.bsky.social, @joy-castro.bsky.socia, Kate Gale, @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social, & David Koehn for endorsements. Preorder: bit.ly/3IRpxei. DM for readings, reviews, classes, & book clubs!

Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science.

"Of course, you can look up everything on the Internet now. But there is something very special about a book — the feel of it in your hands and the way it looks on the table by your bed, or nestled in with others in the bookcase." -- Jane Goodall bit.ly/4mNwASZ

#booksky

Congratulations
@arriadeepwater.bsky.social

Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest
Descent by Arria Deepwater

Exploring boundaries of intimacy, fluidity, & grief, Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to growing canon of writers with marginalized identities

Available for pre-order

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Bloodletting: poems by Kimberly Reyes Had we made it past the heat,   the honey, we could have thawed semi-sweet  & ekphrastic, waking to rewatch our black & white film...

Bloodletting: poems by Kimberly Reyes / @omnidawn.bsky.social ;
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Many congratulations to David Leftwich, winner of the
2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest,
selected by Daniela Molnar!

Congratulations also to the finalists
Robert Black
Xinyue Huang
Annie Rovzar
Jackson Watson
JinJin Xu

Laynie Browne : on Daily Self-Portrait Valentine My Daily Self-Portrait Valentine project began when I saw a show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in early February of 2024, by...

newly posted: Laynie Browne : on Daily Self-Portrait Valentine / @omnidawn.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
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"Ronk’s poems centre delicate care and human touch, the importance of physical and human connection, and the physical making of objects with care, and with one’s hands."

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Get more from rob mclennan on Patreon creating poetry, fiction, criticism

i seem to have posted a quiet update on my patreon patron-only blog: www.patreon.com/robmclennan

We're extended the 2025 Omnidawn Open Poetry Contest to August 31st, 2025!

Poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma is our judge this year. He's looking forward to reading your work!

Prize: $3000, 20 copies, and publication

Submit your best work here:
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

reading recent interviews online at @parisreview.bsky.social : Fanny Howe, and Rosmarie Waldrop (my third time rereading); such remarkable writers, such remarkable thinking;

Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur.
Steven Leyva

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Coming up in just a few weeks: me and Randall Mann present "Poetry and Sex in Public Places," a tribute to Mutsuo Takahashi.

Guest readers include Josh Tvrdy, Armen Davoudian, Dodie Bellamy and Sam Sax.

This is a free event, sponsored by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social.

2pm Sunday, 10 August.

“The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.”
Barbara Groth

Join our 2025 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn!

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On Poetry: June 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @stevenleyva.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social #Booksky

"trap a thought and sit with or wrestle with it until it reveals its purpose..." 

An Interview with Kimberly Reyes on Bloodletting

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To find your copy of Bloodletting:
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Announcing the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest judged by Jose-Luis Moctezuma!
Prize - $3,000, publication, and 20 copies
Dates: July 1 - August 16
Submit here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Send us your best work!

Martha Ronk, Clay Introduction As a child I was certain I could put my hand through the wall, that if I kicked gently my shoe would nudge the other side of ...

Martha Ronk, Clay / @omnidawn.bsky.social ;
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Extending the 2025 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest to June 30th!

Judged by Ewa Chrusciel!

Fee: $30 

Prize: $3,000, publication and 20 copies!

omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

cover of Descent by Arria Deepwater featuring an abstract underwater scene of stylized eggs and aquatic plants. The back cover features endorsements and lists the publisher as Omnidawn Publishing.

Descent is at the printers!
🙏🏽 @omnidawn.bsky.social for supporting my weird vision and to Teagan Berard for the beautiful artwork.

And to @cindyashton.bsky.social @rebelgrrlraechel.bsky.social @michelleruizkeil.bsky.social
@amandaleduc.bsky.social Rebecca Burke, Lorrie Potvin, Brenda Missen 💗

Join our free virtual Spring 2025 Book Launch 
with Evan Karp and Quiet Lightning!

Sunday July 13, 2025 at 
1:00 pm Pacific.
Event is free to the public.
Register in advance!

www.omnidawn.com/readings

Kudos to Maw Shein Win! Well-deserved! 👏

Craig Santos Perez’s HABITAT THRESHOLD “explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future.”

Read this @omnidawn.bsky.social poetry collection! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/habi...

Congratulations Maw Shein Win for Lifetime Achievement Award from Berkeley Poetry Festival!

Anyone in the Bay Area--join us on Sun June 8: 3-5pm @ Berkeley Art Center !

www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com
@mawsheinwin.bsky.social

Announcing the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Ewa Chrusciel!
Dates: May 1 - June 16
Prize: $1000, publication & 20 copies
Submission fee: $30
Send your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

Join Canto Mundo tomorrow for a virtual release party for Kimberly Reyes's Bloodletting!
Sunday May 4, 2025 12 noon PST, 2 pm CST, 3 pm EST
Link: lnkd.in/ehXnE-4X
Join us there!

C Pirloul-Broshi : Percussing The Thinking Jar, by Maw Shein Win Percussing The Thinking Jar , Maw Shein Win Omnidawn Publishing, 2025         It’s said there are instruments–gongs, drums–whose v...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : C Pirloul-Broshi : The Thinking Jar, by Maw Shein Win / @omnidawn.bsky.social @mawsheinwin.bsky.social ;
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