Head on over to the link below to read an incredible interview with Lisa Fay Coutley, where she talks with COMP Journal about her poetry anthology, "In The Tempered Dark." They discuss grief, craft, and the writers who've influenced her—it's a truly lovely read. 🖤 buff.ly/idCFfuX

If you're looking for a poet who writes America's interior with a mythic, otherworldly voice like these greats do, you're going to be a fan of Sébastien Luc Butler. Pre-order his forthcoming collection now at blacklawrencepress.com 🖤

The free monthly issue of Sapling is out now! Head over to saplingblp.substack.com to read Kit Frick's interview with Galileo Press's Barrett Warner, where they talk all things indie publishing!

The annual BLP Holiday Sale is here! 🎁 📚 We've got a selection of titles for under $20, and great discounts on our poetry & prose subscriptions. Whether you're looking for a gift for a loved one or treating yourself to a little literary joy, head over to blacklawrencepress.com/sale.

For gamers who read, and readers who game: this one’s for you. Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!). Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below. buff.ly/DgHXRLa

We're incredibly excited to announce the finalists from the June 2025 Open Reading Period! Congratulations to all of these incredible finalists. Our judges will be selecting the winner soon—stay tuned. 📖

The 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner is now available for pre-order! We can't wait for Sky Tongued Back with Light, coming March 3rd. ✨ To pre-order & learn more, click the link below! blacklawrencepress.com/books/sky-to...

The Black River Chapbook Competition closes at midnight tonight! Send us your work! (Link in comments.)

We are so excited for Mickie Kennedy's debut, Worth Burning. This image-rich poetry collection is out February 24th, and available for pre-order now! And we're very proud to share that this is an open reading period selection! To pre-order, click the link below. 🤎 buff.ly/tz5xcuL

BLP author Adrian Van Young's annual Halloween horror tale is out now in The Baffler! Read "The President" at the link below. 🕯️ 👻 thebaffler.com/fiction/the-... Art credit: Matt Williams

February 10th can't come soon enough! Part fairytale, part myth, part Midwestern Gothic, this magical collection of short fiction is one you'll absolutely want to add to your home library. 📚 Pre-order here: buff.ly/iCKX2rf

Dana Diehl's Hudson Prize-winning short story collection is available for pre-order! To order what Diane Cook called "wonderful, fantastical, warm and searching," click the link below. The Earth Room enters the world on January 20th. ✨ blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...

Less than one week left to submit to this month’s Manuscript Consultation Program! We’re honored to be part of your manuscript’s journey. Submissions close soon—don’t miss it! Questions? Comment, DM, or email us.

Talking With Boys is coming in the new year! You can pre-order this BLP Immigrant Writing Series selection now—out January 6. Pre-order and learn more about the collection at the link below. ✨ blacklawrencepress.com/books/talkin...

Today only WRITING AS A WAY OF LIFE is on sale on the BLP site! "Filled with practical, actionable tips for developing and sustaining a habit of writing that will last a lifetime" Paperback: $25.95 Flash Sale: $15.95 E-book: $14.99 Flash Sale: $5.99 blacklawrencepress.com/books/writin...

This masterful collection of short fiction is featured in our Spooky & Speculative Sale! It's the perfect read for October...just the right amount of unnerving. 👻 Until the end of the month, you can grab the e-book for $4.95 and the physical copy for $9.95. Shop the sale: buff.ly/Y09Fz4Z

Have a fiction manuscript lying around that could use a professional review? Submit it to our Fiction Consultation Program! This month, the incredible John Mauk is here to provide the comprehensive feedback and analysis that's hard to find outside of an MFA program. buff.ly/3bwe8KA

Got a manuscript ready for the next level? Our Consultation Program connects writers with award-winning authors who offer the kind of deep, thoughtful feedback you usually only get in MFA programs. Choose your consultant, submit your work, and get a full critique. We can't wait to work with you!

It's not too late to sign up for Sunday's group writing workshop! Hop on Zoom with BLP poet Isaac Pickell and a group of other writers to generate new work and write in community. You'll also be sent a PDF of writing prompts & a free chapbook! Grap your spot at the link below! buff.ly/T4yWKSY

So nice to see antmen pimentel mendoza's "My Boyfriend Apocalypse" on CLMP's reading list for Filipino American History Month! Check out the full list at the link below, and find "My Boyfriend Apocalypse" at blacklawrencepress.com, or wherever books are sold. ❤️📚 www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

BLP will be at Connecticut Literary Festival this Saturday, October 18th! Stop by our booth and say hello to some of our lovely writers. We can't wait to see you there!

For the last half of October, we're promoting spooky & speculative titles! We can't help but think it's a great time to stock up for the Gothic Lit season we all know and love. 🖤 These titles are on sale for $10 or less, with e-book versions for $5 or less. Shop the sale at buff.ly/QWF7eht.

Calling all poets & writers! We're accepting proposals for the Black Lawrence Press Workshop Series! For more info & to submit your proposal, click the link below. buff.ly/EQgzRY0

Submit your poetry manuscript to our Poetry Consultation Program for a professional review by Raena Shirali this month! Visit the link below to learn more: buff.ly/3bwe8KA

Join us next Sunday for a generative group writing workshop! BLP poet Isaac Pickell will lead the group with writing exercises, and send you home with new material, writing prompts for the future, and a surprise chapbook! Click the link below to sign up now! buff.ly/T4yWKSY

Our October manuscript consultants are here! We're honored to have John Mauk for fiction and Raena Shirali for poetry. Click the link below to learn more about them and the submission process. We're excited to work with you! ✨ buff.ly/3bwe8KA

We are so thrilled that Joshua Garcia's poetry collection, Pentimento, was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Lammy Award for Gay Poetry! A hearty congratulations to the winners of this year's awards! Visit the link below to read the complete list of finalists and winners. buff.ly/8Qxqgja

Our free monthly workshop is right around the corner! Join us this coming Tuesday, October 14th, for "Even for Youngers: The Personal is Political" with Laura Jean Baker. Learn more, register, & get the zoom link below! buff.ly/pnK8rgq

Only one week left to shop our Hispanic Heritage Month sale! Celebrate Mother/land by Ananda Lima, an award-winning poetry collection on language, migration, and motherhood. Winner of the Hudson Prize and featured on Buzzfeed, it's a must-have. ✨ Enjoy 25% off—link in bio to learn more and shop.

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! litquake2025.sched.com/event/28UKT/...

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! buff.ly/iLReLr8

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

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. buff.ly/ybYuBzG

2 spots left! Sign up now! blacklawrencepress.com/books/revisi...

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"

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. www.midwestbookreview.com/calbw/sep_25...

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! blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit

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. blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit

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 Learn about Hispanic Heritage Month and check out some Latino art exhibitions here: latino.si.edu/learn/teachi...

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. blacklawrencepress.com/spring-2025-...

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. blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit

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! buff.ly/tvyFl9g

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! buff.ly/XKXDDa2

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. For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH