It's official—Akhim Yuseff Cabéy's debut collection is out now! Get Funky, Get Swoll is available wherever books are sold. Grab your copy now at blacklawrencepress.com

We were so thrilled to hear that Michele Battiste was recently named Lafayette, CO's Poet Laureate! Congratulations, Michele! ✨

Michele is the author of The Elsewhere Oracle (2025), published by Black Lawrence Press.

We're thrilled to officially unveil the cover of Emelie Griffin's "California Pompeii," winner of the Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition! Visit the link below to read an excerpt from the collection.

✨ Cover image design: Coral Black

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If you'll be at the New Orleans Poetry Festival, don't forget to swing by table 7 to see Black Lawrence Press! Darby Price, Isaac Pickell, and Christine Kwon will be there at 10am, 11am and 1pm, respectively. See you tomorrow!✨

We're honored to welcome Louella Bryant to our April Manuscript Consultation Program!

Louella is accepting creative nonfiction essays, chapbooks, and full length manuscripts. For submission details, the link to submit, and to read her statement of purpose, visit the link below!

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We're still accepting applications for the Black Lawrence Press Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors! ✨

The fellowship is open to immigrant authors who have published no more than one book at the time of application. For full details & for the submission link, click the link in bio!

Our official offsite event for the New Orleans Poetry Festival is this Friday (3/17) at Anna's! We'll be doing poetry readings from 6:15 - 7:15, with drinks, food, and mingling to follow. We can't wait to see you there!✨ (please note that the reading will be held in the upstairs section of the bar!)

It was lovely to connect with Jill Rosenberg to talk about her forthcoming, St. Lawrence Book Award winning short story collection! "Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself" is out with Black Lawrence Press on May 5, 2026.

Pre-order now at the link below. ✨

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Black Lawrence Press is heading to the New Orleans Poetry Festival! Next Saturday (4/18), come find us at table 7. We'll be there with BLP authors Darby Price, Isaac Pickell, and Christine Kwon to sign books and chat. See you then!

This month, we're collaborating with David Rigsbee on our Poetry Consultation Program!

David is accepting everything from individual poems to full length poetry collections. For submission details, the link to submit, and to read his statement of purpose, visit the link below!

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Isaac Pickell is back with another Generative Group Writing Session! These sessions are a fantastic chance to be in community with other writers and to carve out 2 hours to work on new material. Sign up now at the link below. ✨

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Los Angeles friends! Join Whitney Koo for Any Gesture's book launch party one week from today. If you're in the area, it will be a wonderful evening of poetry—don't miss it! ✨

📍 North Figueroa Bookshop
📅 Saturday, April 18, 2026
🕰️ 5:30 PM

We're hosting a FREE workshop this Tuesday (4/14) led by BLP author Tayyba Kanwal! Join us on Zoom at 8pm EST for a workshop on carefully structuring your short story collection. Register for the workshop at the link below!

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We're so thrilled to welcome Adrian Van Young as our April Fiction Consultant!

He is accepting everything from flash fiction to full length novels—for full details, his Adrian's statement of purpose, and for the link to submit, visit the link below.

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These two forthcoming titles are officially available for pre-order!

✨ Into the Into of Earth Itself by Amanda Hodes (out 9/15)
✨ Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture by Noelle Catharine Allen (out 9/29)

Pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com!

Happy pub day to Any Gesture, available now wherever books are sold! Join us in celebrating this beautiful addition to the Black Lawrence Press catalog. ✨

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Are you a writer whose manuscript is ready for detailed, analytical feedback? The Black Lawrence Manuscript Consultation Program might be right for you! Visit the link in our bio to learn more—we can't wait to work with you!

Happy National Poetry Month! To celebrate, we're running a sale on 50 titles. Shop some of BLP's beloved poetry collections at blacklawrencepress.com/sale ✨

And, again, should an author be interested in working with us without entering a competition, we have two annual open reading periods. Unless you'd like to continue this spirited debate, we'll wish you a good weekend and leave the conversation there.

We respectfully disagree, Julian. Juried artist salons, national and international book awards, the Oscars...competition abounds in the arts. And they offer avenues to celebrate exceptional work.

Also, the prize is an honest competition, which is judged blindly by a panel of editors and former winners of the prize.

Hello again, Julian. The entry fee, which is comparable to fees charged by many other presses, covers them prize money and the cost to produce the books. We assure you that not a single person here at the press is growing rich off of entry fees and none of us are sitting on Tetrapack fortunes.

Hi, Julian. Not sure if you saw this info on our Submittable page, but we do offer fee waivers to authors who are not able to pay the entry fee. We also host an open reading period in June. Cheers!

The Spring 2026 Black River Chapbook Competition is officially open for submissions! ✨ The contest is open to new, emerging, and established writers with an unpublished manuscript of poetry or prose between 16-36 pages in length.

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Dana Diehl recently contributed to the "If My Book" column for Monkeybicycle! Read these ingenious comparisons between The Earth Room and "weird things" at the link below—

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LAST CALL — our March manuscript consultation portal closes tomorrow night (3/31) at Midnight EST. Whether it's a single poem, a chapbook, a 2 page piece of flash fiction, or a full manuscript, we want to read your work! Head to blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit ✨

COVER REVEAL ✨ We're thrilled to unveil the cover of Greg Nicholl's forthcoming poetry collection, "Ghost in the Graveyard." Visit the link below to read an excerpt from this Hudson Prize winning collection!

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Happy Friday! Let's celebrate with a flash sale.✨ For today only, get a free copy of "Dyke (Geology)" by Sabrina Imbler with your purchase of $25 at Black Lawrence Press. Just add "Dyke (Geology)" to your cart and use the code FRIDAY to get your free copy.

So thrilled to see that Sasha Hom's "Sidework" is a finalist for the Vermont Book Award! Congratulations, Sasha! ✨ Check out all the finalists at the link below.

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Join us for our offsite event at this year's New Orleans Poetry Festival! Black Lawrence Press is collaborating with Sundress Publications, Tupelo Press, and The Mcneese Review for a poetry reading at Anna's—mark your calendars! ✨

📅 Friday, April 17th
🕰️ 6 - 8 pm
📍 Anna's (upstairs bar)