Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection HAIL AND FAREWELL by Abby E. Murray. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Murray’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

We’re set up and ready for visitors at the Northampton Book Fair at 33 Hawley in Northampton, MA! Hours are 5-8 tonight (11/21) and 10-4 tomorrow (11/22). Hope to see you there! ♥️📚✨

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of janan alexandra and her book come from (BOA Editions, 2025).🌟 @boa-editions.bsky.social

This month we’re celebrating the work of janan alexandra in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book come from (BOA Editions, 2025), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @boa-editions.bsky.social

This month we're celebrating the work of janan alexandra in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet. @boa-editions.bsky.social

Perugia Press will be participating in the Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair on November 21st (5-8) and 22nd (10-4) at the Center for the Arts in the Northampton Community Arts Trust at 33 Hawley. This is the ninth edition of the popular fair. Hope to see you there!📚♥️📚

Board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn has two stunning poems up in Issue 23 of swamp pink. Here’s an excerpt from “Selva Oscura,” and you can read the whole poem & issue at swamp-pink.charleston.edu/issue-23/ @jenjblackburn.bsky.social

Tuesday, November 18, Holli Carrell is taking part in Sunset Salons at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center in Cincinnati with Laurent Che, Richard Hague & Mia Watka from 6-7:30. Same-day tix still available. For more info: cliftonculturalarts.org/ccac-events/... @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Our series “The Story of My Book,” chronicles Perugia Press’s collections through the words of their authors. Our latest post features Carolina Hotchandani on her book THE BOOK EATERS, the 2023 Perugia Press Prize winner. Check out the whole in our Linktree! 📚 @chotchandani.bsky.social

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open for submissions through TOMORROW. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities. $30 standard rate (incl. Perugia book) / $15 reduced-rate option / fee-free option for Black, Indigenous & women of color poets. Guidelines & info at linktree in bio.

Writers, don’t miss mid-month deadlines at indie presses and lit mags! Browse our Calls for Submissions page for submission periods closing between November 9 and November 24: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Read Kalehua Kim’s MELE this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! This debut poetry collection from @triohousepress.org “evokes modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of family and self.” triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection KETTLE BOTTOM by Diane Gilliam. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Gilliam’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

Check out our latest newsletter, with the annual contest closing soon, pictures from our local celebrations for Holli Carrell's APOSTASIES, and Perugia poet & press news! 🎉https://ymlp.com/zg8JMH @hollicarrell.bsky.social @joankwonglass.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social

Joan Kwon Glass & janan alexandra will close out the Fall 2025 Reading Series from the BDPC at Smith College in Weinstein Auditorium on 12/2 @ 7pm & be in convo after w/Rebecca Hart Olander. Hope you’ll join us to celebrate poetry in community! @joankwonglass.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social

We’re grateful to be listed in the collection of independent publishers based in New England included in the recent “Indie Lit Update” from CLMP. Check out the whole NE Regional Spotlight here: www.clmp.org/news/new-eng... 🌟📚🌟 @clmporg.bsky.social

Gratitude to MER Literary & Melissa Joplin Higley for selecting SINGING FROM THE DEEP END for MER Bookshelf, which introduces readers to recent & new book releases of note. Check out the November showcase: merliterary.com/2025/11/13/m.... 📚🙏 @merliterary.bsky.social @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Perugia Press’s annual prize is open for submissions thru 11/15 (JUST A FEW MORE DAYS) for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Info in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

ymlp.com/zUDKkN Got a manuscript? Send it to a supportive high quality press with integrity and sister-love! Send it to Perugia. And poetry always wins. @perugiapress.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection TWO MINUTES OF LIGHT by Nancy K. Pearson. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Pearson’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio).

TONIGHT! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Thank you, @awpwriter.org! 💞

There a few spots left for this rsvp-only poetry party in Pelham, MA on Fri. 11/7, feat. poets Holli Carrell & Jenifer Browne Lawrence & w/ the botanical photos of Shelley Kirkwood for sale. RSVP to [email protected] & we’ll send the address. 📸📚🎉 @jenblaw.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TOMORROW night! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Thanks for including Rebecca Pelky’s THROUGH A RED PLACE in great company in this year’s Native American Heritage Month reading list, CLMP! ♥️ @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing and listening to @hollicarrell.bsky.social next month! #poets #poetrycommunity

Perugia’s annual prize is open for subs through 11/15 (2 MORE WEEKS) for what will be our 30th collection. Open to women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, who have not published more than one full-length collection. Full guidelines & info in bio. We look forward to reading your work!

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection APOSTASIES by Holli Carrell. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions, and check out Carrell’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Perugia's latest newsletter 🎃📚🎉 ymlp.com/zUDKkN @hollicarrell.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social @earthmaven.bsky.social @meganpeak.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social @boa-editions.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social @annwallace.bsky.social

Board member Jen Jabaily-Blackburn has a new poem, “Ars Poetica: Getaway Car,” up online at The Common! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: thecommononline.org/ars-poetica-... @commonmag.bsky.social

Holli Carrell will be visiting Holyoke, Pelham & Northampton, MA and Cincinnati, OH this November. Save the dates to celebrate and hear from APOSTASIES, and from a host of other 🔥 poets! 🎉📚🎤 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @jenblaw.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social

Lisbeth White was on the 1st episode of Season 2 of Talkin Story, a community podcast in WA that “features local people of the global majority who are quietly acting as flashpoints for social & cultural transformation.” Listen on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. ♥️🎤🖤 @earthmaven.bsky.social

Carolina Hotchandani has a new poem “Casting” up online in The Atlantic! Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole here: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1... @chotchandani.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

TONIGHT! @chotchandani.bsky.social

Sunday Salon Chicago happens on Zoom in 4 days on 10/26 at 6 pm CT w/ a fine lineup w/ Nancy Miller Gomez, @chotchandani.bsky.social, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, Daniel Tam-Claiborne & Donato Loia. Join us! Register at: tinyurl.com/448u4yw3 OR www.sundaysalon-chicago.com 🔥👏🌈

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GIRLDOM by Megan Peak. Find more prompts, sample poems, and discussion questions in our reading companions and check out Peak’s book and others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). 🔥 @meganpeak.bsky.social

Singing from the Deep End is surfacing SOON! This beauty is a proof that arrived in my mailbox to my astonishment & gratitude & this is a reminder that it’s on its best sale in preorder in the CKP bookshop through 11/2 (link in bio). Thanks for supporting this book! ♥️📖🪸 @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of India Lena González and her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023).🌟 @boa-editions.bsky.social

Two weeks from tonight! @adrie-rose.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

This month we’re celebrating the work of India Lena González in our “Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight.” Here’s a piece from her book fox woman get out! (BOA Editions, 2023), and you can learn more about this poet on our website (linktree in bio). @boa-editions.bsky.social

This month we're celebrating the work of India Lena González in our "Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight." Check it out to read one of her poems and learn more about this poet. @boa-editions.bsky.social

Jacqueline Balderrama is teaching a virtual generative workshop through The Poetry Society of NY on poetic self-portraiture for BIPOC creatives on Nov 4. It’s free to join!🪞🤎🖊️🖤📖 www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-bipoc...

@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!

Gratitude to Asterism Books for featuring Holli Carrell’s recent press at Brooklyn Poets & the Poetry Society of America in their book blog! Read the whole at link in bio. 🌟 @asterismbooks.bsky.social @brooklynpoets.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Megan Peak’s poem “The Crux” was featured on The Slowdown, hosted by Maggie Smith! Check it out in the link in our bio, or where you listen to podcasts. Congratulations, Megan! 🌟 @slowdownshow.org @meganpeak.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Honored to have my poem “The Crux,” first published in diode, featured on The Slowdown with Maggie Smith. Like most experiences, motherhood, for me, lives between depletion and abundance, where love and grief sit side by side. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6bNs...

“There were times when mothering felt overwhelming," shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in episode 1377 of The Slowdown. "Now, I always want more of them. It’s funny how that works, isn’t it?" Read “The Crux" by @meganpeak.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/47i2L7o

The latest The WildStory podcast includes a fruitful conversation w/ poet Holli Carrell & host Ann Wallace about Apostasies, the natural world, origin stories, reciprocity with the Earth, community gardens & more. Link in bio, & available where you listen to podcasts. 💚📖🌿 @hollicarrell.bsky.social

TONIGHT! ♥️

Brava Lisbeth White for your finalist nod for the Radar Coniston Prize! Lisbeth will read w/winner Bo Hee Moon, finalists JC Andrews, Callista Buchen & Jenna Rozelle & judge Diane Seuss on 10/20 @7pm ET. Email Radar w/ “RSVP” in subject at [email protected] to get link. @earthmaven.bsky.social