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San Francisco friends! July Westhale will be at Litquake Festival two weeks from today. Click the link below to grab tickets for this amazing night of poetry!

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From draft to published book: that’s the journey Katherine Giuffre began with our manuscript consultation program two years ago. Now, her novel, Armadillo Massacre Number Three, is forthcoming from Regal House Press in fall 2027. We’re so proud to cheer her on!

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Follow the link below to read this wonderful conversation between William Archila—author of "S is For" (2025)—and Esteban Rodríguez for Ecotheo Collective.

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Strange Vigil arrives tomorrow! This is a special chapbook. Filled with essays, prose pieces, and poems, Strange Vigil navigates grief, sorrow, presence, and wonder. We can't wait for you all to read it.

You can still pre-order now, or purchase tomorrow. Click the link below.

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2 spots left! Sign up now!

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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black - Black Lawrence Press | Black Lawrence Press Winner of the 2024 Big Moose Prize Stylish, smart, and big-hearted, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everythi...

Happy pub day and cheers to MFA alum Kevin Fenton, whose novel Cyan Magenta Yellow Black won the Big Moose Prize from @blacklawrence.bsky.social
"Stylish, smart, and big-hearted...lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everything"

Atlas of an Ancient World - Black Lawrence Press In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Atlas of an Ancient World was originally selected by Nomadic. Atlas of an…

Embodying “the threshold between Mesoamerican and Chicanx mythologies,” Violeta Orozco’s poetry “traces the futurist cartographies of an ancestral world.”

ATLAS OF AN ANCIENT WORLD (@blacklawrence.bsky.social) is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list! blacklawrencepress.com/books/atlas-...

Last call for our September manuscript consultation program! Use this weekend to dig up that manuscript that could use a second set of eyes, and send it our way! Read more about our consultants, their approaches, and what you can expect from the process on our Submittable.

A lovely review of Wayne Scott's "The Maps They Gave Us" is out now in Midwest Book Review! Read the full review at the link below.

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We treat our chapbooks just like our full-length titles—the same commitment to cover design, production, editorial care, and publicity. Whether you're a new, emerging, or established writer, send us your chapbook! We can't wait to read your work.

Honored to have Adam Prince as our Fiction Consultant this month! You can visit the link below to read Adam's statement of purpose—the link will also get you to our Submittable so that you can send your manuscript his way!

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If you've got a hybrid project you'd like some feedback on, the wonderful EJ Colen is here for you this month! To read about EJ's approach & experience, and to submit your work to her, visit the link below.

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Now through October 15, we're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a sale on these featured titles. Shop the sale at www.blacklawrencepress.com/sale

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Come see BLP at Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend! A handful of our wonderful authors will be signing books from 10am to 5pm on Sunday, September 21st. If you're in or around NYC, come say hi! We can't wait to see you!

For full details & directions, visit brooklynbookfestival.org

Please join us in celebrating the Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition winner, Emelie Griffin! She won this year's prize with her chapbook, California Pompeii. Read a selection from the collection and learn more about Emelie at the link below.

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We're beyond grateful to have the incredible Raina J. León working as our Poetry Consultant this month! Read about Raina's approach to revision at the link below.

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There are 7 spots remaining in our fall workshop series with Megan Merchant! This workshop series is all about revision. You'll learn how to think critically about your work, and expand your understanding of how to make clarifying revisions. The link below takes you to sign-up!

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An incredible review of @thatjanemorton.bsky.social's Shedding Season! Check it out!

We are thrilled to announce Anastasios Mihalopoulos as the first recipient of The Black Lawrence Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors. Read about his forthcoming poetry collection and his poem "Letters to the Museum Docent from One Hundred Years After" at the link below!

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We are incredibly excited and proud to share that Susana Praver-Pérez's "Return Against the Flow" is a finalist for the 2025 International Latino Book Awards! All finalists will earn a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Award at the ILBA Awards Ceremony in October. Congratulations, Susana!

The Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition is now open for unpublished chapbooks of poems or prose, 16-36 pages long! Open to writers at all stages—the winner receives publication, $500, and ten book copies.

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A wonderful review of moon moon by Dana Belott for Fifth Wheel Press! Read the full piece at the link below.

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Our September manuscript consultants are here! Visit the link below to learn about the incredible writers who will be working with you this month. You've got the whole month to submit your manuscript for thoughtful, analytic feedback, and until the 22nd to apply for a scholarship.

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We're so excited to be tabling at the 2nd Annual Small Press Small Fest in Brooklyn this Sunday, 9/13! The event begins at 10:30 AM, and BLP will be tabling starting at 2pm. Swing by for readings by July Westhale, David Rigsbee, Joshua Garcia, and James Cagney. We can't wait!

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UPDATE: This 9/9 workshop is being postponed. Thank you for your flexibility and understanding!

So thrilled to see this gorgeous review of Habitat!

Holy hell, it's HERE!!!!!!!!! It's been almost six years since I wrote the first poem/card of The Elsewhere Oracle, and I am in awe of the beautiful job that @blacklawrence.bsky.social did in bringing this project to life! If you pre-ordered the book, you should receive your boxed set in 2-3 weeks!

Woohoo! We can't wait for everyone to get their hands on this beautiful deck!

Our monthly public issue of Sapling is here! This month, editor Kit Frick sits down with Abby E. Murray to discuss publishing, editing, submitting to literary journals, and the unique position of working within seemingly opposite worlds. Check it out at the link below!

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Join us on Tuesday, September 9, for our free workshop on writing biographical poems. You will explore how poets create such poems and start crafting your own. Think about who you'd like to write about and be ready to write!

Register here: buff.ly/WXxdkrr