Publish with Sixteen Rivers Press

Call for Submissions Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2023 and February 1, 2024. We look forward to reading your work.  

Sixteen Rivers 2023 Book Launch

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce our two publications for 2023: Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, by Jospeh Zaccardi and All Tomorrow’s Train Rides, by Matthew M. Monte. Join us for the book launch. We’ll be at Book Passage in Corte Madera on April 2 at 4 PM. We can’t wait to see you!

Annual Call for Submissions: November 1, 2023 – February 1, 2024

  Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2023 and February 1, 2024. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s will be announced on the press’s website during Summer 2024. Selected manuscripts will be scheduled for publication in…Read More

The Art of Translation, Nov 6, 2022 at Dominican University

Join us for an afternoon of readings and conversation about poetry and translation with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Matthew Zapruder, Terry Ehret, Marjorie Agosin, Celeste Kostopoulos-Cooperman, and Nancy Morales. Go to our Events page and sign up on Eventbrite.

2022 Publications

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce our two publications for 2022, both of which happen to be bilingual collections: Ulalume González de León’s Plagios/Plagiarisms Vol. 2, translated by Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales; and Marjorie Agosín’s Beyond the Time of Words/Más allá del tiempo de las palabras, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman….Read More

America, We Call Your Name Youth Poetry Reading

Join us to hear new poems of resistance and resilience by the six winners of the Sixteen Rivers Press Youth Poetry Contest! Six grand-prize winners of our national contest for teen poets will read their poems, plus the poems from our anthology, America, We Call Your Name, that inspired their work. Please register to receive…Read More