Congratulations to all and thanks to our guest judge Mary Szybist!
05.08.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🥳 Our first runner-up is Crop Marks by Charles Hood. Finalists are Jed Meyers with Can't be Far, Steve McDonald with Not Eden, Kathryn Jordan with Old Words, Old Wood, Brian Culhane with Reading Lamp, and Tara Mesalik MacMahon with To the Gods of Perfect Sugar.
05.08.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🏆 We are thrilled to announce the winner for the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand from Portland, Oregon! 🏆
catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po...
#poetrycommunity #poetrycontests #poetry #poets
05.08.2025 17:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📣 Starting this Saturday! Grab a spot! National Book Award winning author Charles Johnson will be joining our 3 session virtual reading workshop facilitated by Richard King!
04.08.2025 18:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📚We are excited to announce National Book Award winning author Charles Johnson will be joining our virtual reading workshop facilitated by Richard King! 📚
Two sessions to read & discuss the novel Middle Passage, followed by a session with Charles Johnson.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/literature-o...
23.07.2025 02:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
📚Checkout our Virtual Summer Writing Workshops!📚
@gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social: The Art of Brevity
🗓️ 8/30 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific
Richard King: Literarture of the Sea
🗓️ 8/9, 8/16, 8/23 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific
🔗 Link to register: catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for...
#writing
16.07.2025 18:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Calling all #poets! Grab a seat for Dorianne Laux's virtual poetry workshop this weekend! ✍️
15.07.2025 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Thursday, July 24th at the Mechanic's Institute in San Francisco for readings from our Summer Issue!
Reception at 6PM, readings 6:30-7:30 PM, followed by a tour of Mechanics' Institute for interested guests.
www.milibrary.org/events/20597
#literaryevents #authortalks #sanfranciscoevents
13.07.2025 00:11 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
✨Check out our Virtual Summer Poetry Workshops!✨
Dorianne Laux
🗓️ Saturday, 7/19 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific
Joseph Millar
🗓️ Saturday, 8/2 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific
🔗 Link to register catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for...
#poetrycommunity #poetryworkshop #LiteraryEvent #poetryclass #poetry
06.07.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
✨Check out our Virtual Summer Poetry Workshops!✨
Dorianne Laux
🗓️ Saturday, 7/19 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific
Joseph Millar
🗓️ Saturday, 8/2 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific
🔗 Link to register catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for...
#poetrycommunity #poetryworkshop #LiteraryEvent #poetryclass #poetry
06.07.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Hey Santa Cruz friends, this should be fun!
#litmag #SantaCruz
18.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Summer Issue Launch Event: Cowell Ranch Historic Hay Barn — Catamaran Literary Reader
Join us in celebrating the launch of Catamaran’s 48th issue!
✨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2025/...
18.06.2025 17:33 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Whether on a beach somewhere or in your own back yard, we hope you are enjoying Catamaran’s Summer 2025 Issue! ☀️🏝️
catamaranliteraryreader.com/summer-2025
#summerreading #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #art #writingcommunity
16.06.2025 22:55 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are honored to include your gorgeous essay! Any day now it should arrive... 📬👀
11.06.2025 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm so happy to have my lyric essay, Salt Cures, published in this gorgeous issue of Catamaran!
Impatiently awaiting my copies as they make their way ever so slowly through the postal system.
08.06.2025 22:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Calling all West Coast #poets! The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry(60-100 pages) is open until June 15th! This year's judge is Mary Szybist. 🏆 Details here:
catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po...
#poetrycommunity #poetry
06.06.2025 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Calling all West Coast #poets! The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry(60-100 pages) is open until June 15th! This year's judge is Mary Szybist. 🏆 Details here:
catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po...
#poetrycommunity #poetry
06.06.2025 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📕 The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry is open until June 15th!
🏆 $1,000 and publication in book form will be awarded to the #poetry collection selected by judge Mary Szybist
Open to West Coast poets only.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po...
#poetrycommunity
22.05.2025 23:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
👋 Come visit us at table #61 at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, June 1st! We will be near the poetry stage on Kittredge St. 📚
www.baybookfest.org/bookworm-blo...
#bayareabookfest
26.05.2025 19:05 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
☀️Announcing Catamaran's Summer, 2025, Issue 48!☀️
We invite you to step into stories taking you from ocean shores to the mountains of Arizona and Italy. With works of #poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction, and more, this issue takes you on a summer reading adventure!
catamaranliteraryreader.com/summer-2025
26.05.2025 19:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
👋 Come visit us at table #61 at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, June 1st! We will be near the poetry stage on Kittredge St. 📚
www.baybookfest.org/bookworm-blo...
#bayareabookfest
26.05.2025 19:05 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
📕 The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry is open until June 15th!
🏆 $1,000 and publication in book form will be awarded to the #poetry collection selected by judge Mary Szybist
Open to West Coast poets only.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po...
#poetrycommunity
22.05.2025 23:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to our readers & contributors who attended our Garden Issue Launch at Hakone Gardens. It was a celebration of beauty & collaboration, abundance & delicacy. The readings in a Zen garden enveloped us like an arbor enveloped by wisteria. The combination of nature & words captivated & uplifted!
15.05.2025 19:03 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
We hope you can join us Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30-7:30, for a special reading by contributors to our Garden Issue at the 🌸 Hakone Gardens 🌺
21000 Big Basin Way in Saratoga, CA.
www.eventbrite.com/e/catamaran-...
#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #literaryevents
03.05.2025 20:45 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30-7:30, Catamaran will host readings by contributors to our Garden Issue at the 🌸 Hakone Gardens 🌸 21000 Big Basin Way in Saratoga, CA.
www.eventbrite.com/e/catamaran-...
#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #literaryevents
22.04.2025 22:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
I'll be reading my essay "When We Lived Outside" from @catamaranlit.bsky.social's Garden issue along with other wonderful contributors at the gorgeous Hakone Gardens in Saratoga on May 7th. Come on by if you are anywhere in the Bay Area! 🌺
23.04.2025 18:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Readers: Caitlin Callaghan, Christie Cochrell, Margaret Chula, Hilary King @hilary299.bsky.social, @amethystwrites.bsky.social, Lisa Allen Ortiz, Jiang Pu, Rebekah Wolman, & Joann Zhang.
5:30-6:00 - Stroll in the gardens
6:00-6:30 - Reception the Madrone Mound
6:30-7:30 - Readings the Lower House
22.04.2025 22:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30-7:30, Catamaran will host readings by contributors to our Garden Issue at the 🌸 Hakone Gardens 🌸 21000 Big Basin Way in Saratoga, CA.
www.eventbrite.com/e/catamaran-...
#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #literaryevents
22.04.2025 22:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
Celebrating 100 years of publishing great books. Here are some posts about them.
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Indie press publishing books on California culture, nature, Indigenous perspectives, and social justice | Publisher of News from Native California
Writer. Author of the prize winning, "Ivan and Misha" and "Sorrow's Drive". Moderator of the 18th St Writing Group. Former clinical psychologist. Disabled with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Vote Blue. Support Ukraine.
Writer. The New Yorker, New York Times, Harvard Review, Los Angeles Times, The Common, and elsewhere. New Yorker, Californian, and Yooper (Ask me what that is!) DavidRompf.com
Writer, co-editor-in-chief of Frozen Sea, Bay Area 🌁
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Founded in 1997, Perugia is a nonprofit feminist press celebrating & supporting women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, in print & beyond.
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The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.
agoldenhour.com
Writing about nature, science, history, & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief. TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems) last year. LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir) next year. EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press. Here for lit community & Caturday.
oakland writer/teacher/mother/reader
trans poet, lover of birds, cats, and my friends
Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. #authorsguild #AWP25 https://lawrencecoates.com/
Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Assistant Editor: @literaryruby.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.socia
I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
TERRESTRIAL (Malarkey Books 2026) + BEING SEEN (Ethel) COMMUTING (Ghost City Press). Fiction editor Variant Lit & jmww
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Writer ~ Editor ~ Advocate
Wildlife, Banshees, Climate, Language, Grief, Music, Gaeilge
Ciarraí Abú!
Words in Catamaran, Forum, Writers Rebel
2025 Evangeline Atwood Fellow at Storyknife
Honored to live in Alaska on Jilkáat Aani
shannonkellydonahue.com
Just a farmer (fiber artist, reader / writer, beekeeper, &c.) trying to build community through food and stories. Kitsap County, WA
