Happy Holidays!

Sixteen Rivers Press wishes you a happy and poetry-filled holiday season. Please remember that if you are submitting a manuscript for our 2010 manuscript submission period, the final date manuscripts can be submitted is February 1, 2010. We hope you are considering sending your work or that you already have, and we look forward to reading all the entries. Please see our submission guidelines at http://www.sixteenrivers.org/submissions.asp for more information and have a fantastic 2010!

Another Prize!

Congratulations to Lynne Knight (Again, 2009) for being awarded 2nd Prize in the 2009 New England Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Contest. The sonnet will be published in early summer of 2010 in the Raintree Review, as well as read and recorded by a Shakespearan actor. We will post a link when that goes up on the New England Shakespeare Festival website.

Change in Submission Deadline

Please note! Sixteen Rivers Press has changed the deadline for manuscripts submitted for consideration in 2009-2010. Manuscripts can now be submitted no later than February 1, 2010. Please see our submission guidelines for more information. http://www.sixteenrivers.org/submissions.asp

Our Newest Prize Winners

Lynne Knight (Again, 2009) has won the Rattle Poetry Prize for 2009. Her winning poem, "To the Young Man Who Cried Out 'What Were You Thinking' When I Backed into His Car" will appear in Rattle #32, available in December. For more information, please see
http://rattle.com/blog/2009/09/2009-rattle-poetry-prize-winners/

Jeanne Wagner, whose book will be published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2011, has won Second Prize in the 2009 Connecticut River Review Contest for her poem, "Nome." The poem was published in the most recent issue of the Connecticut River Review.

IPPY Award

Dan Bellm's book Practice has won a Bronze Medal in Poetry as part of the 2009 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards. Sixteen Rivers Press congratulates Dan on this recognition.

A Great Summer

This has been a great summer for Sixteen Rivers authors.

Carolyn Miller had two poems selected for the Writer's Almanac on Public Radio International, one read on July 5 and one on July 6. Both poems are from her new book, Light, Moving, published earlier this year.

Margaret Kaufman's poem "Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949" was chosen by Ted Kooser to appear the week of July 13 on American Life in Poetry. It will also appear in her collection, Inheritance, to be published by Sixteen Rivers in 2010.

We are also pleased to announce that Margaret Kaufman (Snake at the Wrist, 2002) has won second prize in the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction from the 2009 Nimrod Literary Awards for her short story, “Life Saving Lessons.”

California Book Award Winner

Sixteen Rivers is proud to announce that Dan Bellm's book Practice has won the 2009 Silver Medal in Poetry as part of the California Book Awards given by the Commonwealth Club of California. An award ceremony will take place on Thursday, June 4 at 6:00pm at the Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, San Francisco. Further information is available at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/features/caBookAwards/.

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. Create a better day by reading a poem! There are plenty of poems all over the online universe, but Sixteen Rivers is a great place to narrow your search. Check out out all of our books at http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books.asp. There are lots of poems on the site to sample and enjoy. Be our guest.

Poetry in the Wider World

One of Dan Bellm's poems from Practice ("Elegy/in advance/do not hasten") appears in the new anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, edited by Holly J. Hughes, with a forward by Tess Gallagher, just out from Kent State University Press. More info at http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/.

Another Nomination

Terry Ehret's Lucky Break has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. The awards ceremony will be held Sunday, April 19 at the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin at Grove, at 1:00pm. Immediately after the ceremony, a reception and book signing will be held in the Latino/Hispanic Room. The ceremony and reception are free to the public, and Sixteen Rivers would be pleased and honored to have our readers and supporters attend.

Award Nominations

Congratulations to Terry Ehret (Lucky Break, 2008) and Dan Bellm (Practice, 2008) for their recent nominations for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Awards.

New Books for 2009

Two great new books are coming out from Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009. Light, Moving by Carolyn Miller and Again by Lynne Knight. Both books will be officially released on April 1, but you can preview the poems on our website at http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books_authors/again.asp and http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books_authors/lightmoving.asp

Deserved Recognition

Congratulations to Sixteen Rivers member Helen Wickes (In Search of Landscape, 2007). Her poem "The World as You Left It" has been chosen for inclusion in the 2009 Best of the Web anthology published by Dzanc Books. The poem was originally published in AGNI Online and was nominated by Sven Birkets, AGNI editor.

Poetry Class

Sixteen Rivers member Margaret Kaufman (Snake at the Wrist, 2002) will teach a poetry class with the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning through the University of San Francisco. An Open House will be held on Wednesday, April 8 with the class beginning Thursday, April 16. For more information, please see the Fromm Institue webiste at http://www.usfca.edu/fromm or call 415/422-6895.

One of 2008's Top Ten

End of the year best-of lists don't usually focus on poetry, but there are a few and Sixteen Rivers is proud to announce that Dan Bellm's newest book, Practice, is listed on the Virginia Quarterly Review's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2008 list. We here at Sixteen Rivers know this is a fantastic book, and it is great to see others recognizing this as well. Check out the list at this link:
http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2008/12/31/top-10-poetry-books-of-2008/.
Dan has also had one of his poems entitled "The Crossing" from his Practice (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008) selected for Best Gay Poetry of 2008 edited by Lawrence Schimmel and published by Midsummer Night's Press. Congratulations, Dan, on this well-deserved recognition.

Sixteen Rivers Wins NEA Grant.

2008 has ended with great news for Sixteen Rivers Press. Not only was the press awarded an NEA grant, but Lynne Knight (Again, 2009) was awarded an individual NEA grant. We are very excited about the press's award and thrilled for Lynne as well.