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Join our Omnidawn authors at the AWP Conference! Find jason b. crawford on March 6th from 6-8pm at SAY PLEASE, Kinky Queer Poetry Reading @AWP, The Club Car.

Pick up a copy of crawford's YEET! here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Prosody is the study and/or application of techniques that enhance the music and power of your poetry or prose. 

Join 2026 Prosody class/workshop from 4-12, 2026 - 5-17, 2026, Sundays 10am to 2pm, PST.

Led by David Koehn w/ Rusty Morrison

Apply today!
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Announcing 2026 Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Contest!

judge: Rodrigo Toscano

dates: March 1 - April 16

prize: $1,000 and 20 framable Broadsides

Fee:
1 poem for $14.
2 poems for $17.
3 poems for $30.

One 8 1/2 x 11 page. Show us what you can do!

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Morning hair is my reality, and I'm not afraid to show it. I enjoy sharing the creative journey, which is why my bio is uniquely me. 😉

PS - I’ve just approved the final galley—stay tuned for the release from @omnidawn.bsky.social. Publication date coming soon.

See you at #AWP!

Join our wonderful Omnidawn authors for the upcoming AWP conference in Baltimore! Come to Omnidawn's Reading of Strange Poetry for Even Stranger Times at Cedar House on March 7th!

Find their incredible work here: www.omnidawn.com/awp-2026/

In his review of Liza Flum's Hover, published in The Gay & Lesbian Review, Dale Boyer writes: Flum’s best poems have an unmistakable power. In a passage from the poem “Memorial to a marriage,” Flum writes persuasively."

Pick up your copy of Flum's Hover here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

José Felipe Alvergue's en el norte / soy del sur has a starred review on Booklist!

Read Diego Báez's incredible review of en el norte / soy del sur in Booklist's upcoming issue: www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

Pick up your copy of Alvergue's book here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

We're extending the 2026 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest!

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judge: Brody Parrish Craig

deadline: EXTENDED - February 28, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific

contest fee: $30

prize: $3000, publication, and 20 copies

We look forward to reading your work!

Join @omnidawn.bsky.social & me at another #AWP offsite reading.

BYOB. Deets below.

Featuring: Maria Nazos, David Koehn, @mawsheinwin.bsky.social, @rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social, Laynie Browne, Liza Flum, Elizabeth Robinson, @alohajha.bsky.social, Molly Bendall, & Ewa Chrusciel.

#AWP2026

We are excited to share with our community exciting literary news: Split Lip Magazine and Friends is holding a benefit reading for CHARM at AWP, featuring incredible writers such as jason b. crawford.

RSVP here: charmlitmag.org

Pick up crawford's YEET! here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Poems set in a state of heavy surveillance as the speaker navigates uncertainty and shifting realities.

Read BOMB Magazine’s interview featuring Molly Bendall, author of Turncoat:
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Pick up a copy of Turncoat here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Deepwater considers the fractured reality of living in a queer disabled body and how we might find freedom, safety, and spiritual healing despite grief.

Listen to Deepwater's podcast interview:
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"Omnidawn made it easy for me to understand what I needed, answered SO MANY questions I had as a first time author, and prioritized my creative freedom throughout the publishing process! I can’t wait to read manuscripts & select the next Omnidawn author!"
-Brody Parrish Craig, judge of contest

Poetry that considers the nature of relationships in an age mediated by social media and impacted by violence.

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INVENTORYS takes as its point of departure the voyage, shipwreck, and eventual excavation of the Spanish trade vessel El Nuevo Constante.

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A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau’s writing.

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Experimental lyric and narrative poetry that brings together philosophy, theology, and humor.

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Poetic fables that consider a future Greater Americas that blends the cultures of people across the hemisphere.

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Crawford explores the lines between blood and flower, between histories, inevitabilities, and possibilities.
-Lit Hub

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Congratulations to James McCorkle! Seven Cycles is the winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest.

And congrats to the finalists!

煦 NA
Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Kuriakose
Brooklyn, NY

Susan Lewis
New York, NY

Christopher Nelson
Grinnell, IA

Anca Roncea
Cerritos, CA

Mark your calendar to join our Virtual 2025 Fall book launch with Evan Karp on Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Pacific.
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Announcing our 2026 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest!

judge: Brody Parrish Craig

deadline: January 1, 2026-February 16, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific

contest fee: $30

prize: $3000, publication, and 20 copies
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

We look forward to reading your best work!

In memoriam, Renée Nicole Macklin

Read her poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” which won a 2020 Academy of American Poets College Prize.

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Shane McCrae’s poems of disquiet dazzle with their tenderness and precision as they explore ‘life outliving life’ in a landscape of violence and erasure. Autobiography hovers at the edges of these verses...
—RICHIE HOFMANN
Pick up your copy here!
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Amid global crises between states, and cultural destabilization manifesting across mass popular culture and literature, WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. sets out to invigorate conversation about how the United States might adapt to a wider hemispheric consciousness.
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In Coda, Seidenberg brings together the language and concerns of figures including Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein, alongside elements of raucous humor drawn from the tradition of Rabelais, Beckett, Lispector, and Sterne

Pick up your copy here!

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Rodrigo Toscano, WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. my review of Rodrigo Toscano's WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. (Oakland CA: Omnidawn, 2025) is now online at periodicities: a journal of poetr...

Rodrigo Toscano, WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. / @omnidawn.bsky.social @rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social ;
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This year, we are thrilled to share with you that our wonderful Omnidawn Board of Directors is offering a Board Match for up to $2,000! This means that your donations (up to $2,000) will be doubled through 12-31.

Thank you for supporting independent literature!

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We publish the work of valiant, brilliant, culture-challenging writers. We need your donation to keep Omnidawn's doors open, and their work out in the world where it belongs! Help us meet our match from Furthur Foundation up to $3,000! #GivingTuesday

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Please get your website orders in by Friday, December 5th for guaranteed delivery by Christmas 😍
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