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/.