Catamaran Literary Reader

We hope you will join us for the special Fashion Issue launch event on Tuesday, March 24th at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History!

--5:30-6:00 - Experience the museum
--6:00-6:30 - Reception in the garden
--6:30-7:30 - Readings in the atrium

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Catamaran special Fashion Issue and Launch Event Catamaran's special Fashion Issue explores from a literary perspective the meaning of things we wear. As a whole this issue teaches us how personal fashion is, how it really is a creative expression o...

Good news:
✨Catamaran's special Fashion Issue, and launch event!
✨Floodchaser, by Aaron Taylor Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize, is available for preorder!
✨We will be at the LA Festival of Books in April!

Details. mailchi.mp/catamaranlit...

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Catamaran special Fashion Issue and Launch Event Catamaran's special Fashion Issue explores from a literary perspective the meaning of things we wear. As a whole this issue teaches us how personal fashion is, how it really is a creative expression o...

Good news:
✨Catamaran's special Fashion Issue, and launch event!
✨Floodchaser, by Aaron Taylor Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize, is available for preorder!
✨We will be at the LA Festival of Books in April!

Details. mailchi.mp/catamaranlit...

#writingcommunity #literarycommunity

Aaron Tyler Hand's poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist.

🌊 Books ship on April 3rd. Pre-order link below!

Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand — Catamaran Literary Reader Floodchaser is a collection of poetry and was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets

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Aaron Tyler Hand's poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist.

🌊 Books ship on April 3rd. Pre-order link below!

Looking for a last minute gift? Give the gift of Catamaran! Your gift supports a small nonprofit press and brings #literature and #art to a loved one. 🎁
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We also want to express our deep gratitude for the generosity and kindness of our readers, contributors, donors, event hosts, and everyone who is part of the Catamaran family. ✨ Thank you! ✨

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Tis the season of gratitude & giving! There's never been a better time to support literature and art. Consider donating to our nonprofit and bring the literary arts to your home and community. In addition, consider giving the gift of a Catamaran subscription to your loved ones this holiday season! 🎁

We still have room for a few more pieces of #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry in our special fashion themed issue! Send something our way! 👀

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We still have room for a few more pieces of #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry in our special fashion themed issue! Send something our way! 👀

Details to submit here: catamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com/submit

Current Wally @jasonmazzotta.bsky.social's story "A Kiss" has been published in the Fall 2025 issue of @catamaranlit.bsky.social. catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

We had such a lovely evening at our fall issue launch event! Thank you to Radius Gallery for hosting us, to friends and family who attended, and to our wonderful readers who came from near and far. We are grateful to witness such talent and be part of such a supportive literary community!

Join us tomorrow for what will surely be a wonderful evening hearing readings from exceptional writers!

Read BAE notable essay "Personality of Probability" Fall 2024 Issue by Todd Sformo:
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Read BAE notable essay "Powder Daze" Spring 2024 Issue by Sage Marshall:
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Best American Essays 2025 has recognized two Catamaran #essays in their list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2024!
Sage Marshall, "Powder Daze" Spring 2024 Issue
Todd Sformo, "Personality of Probability" Fall 2024 Issue
Links below...

✨Join us on Wednesday, Oct 29th for readings by contributors to celebrate our 49th edition, the fall 2025 issue of Catamaran!✨

🥂We will begin with a reception at 6pm, followed by readings at 6:30 pm at the Radius Art Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz.

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@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!

Thank you for sharing your words with us! 💖

🏆Congratulations to these talented writers! 👏

Charlie Espinosa - Beneath our Cleats, cnf
James Harms - Buffalo, fiction
Kathryn Jordan - Lamentation, poetry
Don Lago - The Gravity of Life on Earth, cnf
Nancy Lord - Moose Season, cnf
@lisaallenortiz.bsky.social - The Overburden, fiction

Catamaran Literary Reader Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly literary and visual arts magazine.

Check out the new @catamaranlit.bsky.social with my Halloween-themed story, "A Kiss." 🎃

Many thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social

catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

✨Join us on Wednesday, Oct 29th for readings by contributors to celebrate our 49th edition, the fall 2025 issue of Catamaran!✨

🥂We will begin with a reception at 6pm, followed by readings at 6:30 pm at the Radius Art Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz.

#literaryevents #writingcommunity

The fall issue includes an interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author @percivaleverett.bsky.social! Read it here and grab a copy today: catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

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Catamaran invites you to meander through the world of art and literature with our new Fall 2025 edition. With works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and an interview with Percival Everett, this issue will be the perfect reintroduction to the tranquility of fall.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

A few spots left! Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩

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A Haibun for White Center, Washington - Tahoma Literary Review Smell that? Refried beans. Sorry to say, the secret ingredient is lard. Better watch your step. Human or animal, I can’t discern. Ignore the boards on

Featuring poet Vincent Antonio Rendoni in our summer issue tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/a...

Vincent is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife ( @catamaranlit.bsky.social‬, 2022) and the forthcoming poetry collection Dead Chicano Mixtape @redhenpress.bsky.social, 2027).

A few spots left! Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩

#WritingCommunity #writingclasses

Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩
#WritingCommunity #writingclasses

Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩
#WritingCommunity #writingclasses