Good news: ✨Catamaran's special Fashion Issue, and launch event! ✨Floodchaser, by Aaron Taylor Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize, is available for preorder! ✨We will be at the LA Festival of Books in April! Details. mailchi.mp/catamaranlit... #writingcommunity #literarycommunity

Good news: ✨Catamaran's special Fashion Issue, and launch event! ✨Floodchaser, by Aaron Taylor Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize, is available for preorder! ✨We will be at the LA Festival of Books in April! Details. mailchi.mp/catamaranlit... #writingcommunity #literarycommunity

Aaron Tyler Hand's poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist. 🌊 Books ship on April 3rd. Pre-order link below!

Aaron Tyler Hand's poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist. 🌊 Books ship on April 3rd. Pre-order link below!

Looking for a last minute gift? Give the gift of Catamaran! Your gift supports a small nonprofit press and brings #literature and #art to a loved one. 🎁 Subscriptions: catamaranliteraryreader.com/subscribe-do...

Tis the season of gratitude & giving! There's never been a better time to support literature and art. Consider donating to our nonprofit and bring the literary arts to your home and community. In addition, consider giving the gift of a Catamaran subscription to your loved ones this holiday season! 🎁

We still have room for a few more pieces of #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry in our special fashion themed issue! Send something our way! 👀 Details to submit here: catamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com/submit

We still have room for a few more pieces of #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry in our special fashion themed issue! Send something our way! 👀 Details to submit here: catamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com/submit

Current Wally @jasonmazzotta.bsky.social's story "A Kiss" has been published in the Fall 2025 issue of @catamaranlit.bsky.social. catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

We had such a lovely evening at our fall issue launch event! Thank you to Radius Gallery for hosting us, to friends and family who attended, and to our wonderful readers who came from near and far. We are grateful to witness such talent and be part of such a supportive literary community!

Join us tomorrow for what will surely be a wonderful evening hearing readings from exceptional writers!

Best American Essays 2025 has recognized two Catamaran #essays in their list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2024! Sage Marshall, "Powder Daze" Spring 2024 Issue Todd Sformo, "Personality of Probability" Fall 2024 Issue Links below...

✨Join us on Wednesday, Oct 29th for readings by contributors to celebrate our 49th edition, the fall 2025 issue of Catamaran!✨ 🥂We will begin with a reception at 6pm, followed by readings at 6:30 pm at the Radius Art Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. #literaryevents #writingcommunity

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

🏆Congratulations to these talented writers! 👏 Charlie Espinosa - Beneath our Cleats, cnf James Harms - Buffalo, fiction Kathryn Jordan - Lamentation, poetry Don Lago - The Gravity of Life on Earth, cnf Nancy Lord - Moose Season, cnf @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social - The Overburden, fiction

Check out the new @catamaranlit.bsky.social with my Halloween-themed story, "A Kiss." 🎃 Many thanks to @loubeard.bsky.social & @elizabethmck.bsky.social catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

✨Join us on Wednesday, Oct 29th for readings by contributors to celebrate our 49th edition, the fall 2025 issue of Catamaran!✨ 🥂We will begin with a reception at 6pm, followed by readings at 6:30 pm at the Radius Art Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. #literaryevents #writingcommunity

The fall issue includes an interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author @percivaleverett.bsky.social! Read it here and grab a copy today: catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025 #Literature #literaryfiction #creativenonfiction #WritingCommunity

Catamaran invites you to meander through the world of art and literature with our new Fall 2025 edition. With works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and an interview with Percival Everett, this issue will be the perfect reintroduction to the tranquility of fall. catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

A few spots left! Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩 #WritingCommunity #writingclasses

Featuring poet Vincent Antonio Rendoni in our summer issue tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/a... Vincent is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife ( @catamaranlit.bsky.social‬, 2022) and the forthcoming poetry collection Dead Chicano Mixtape @redhenpress.bsky.social, 2027).

A few spots left! Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩 #WritingCommunity #writingclasses

Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩 #WritingCommunity #writingclasses

Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩 #WritingCommunity #writingclasses

✍️ Grab a spot in The Art of Brevity Workshop with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social! 🗓️ August 30th on Zoom at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific Register: catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for... #fiction #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcommunity #writingclasses #theartofbrevity

🏆 We are thrilled to announce the winner for the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand from Portland, Oregon! 🏆 catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po... #poetrycommunity #poetrycontests #poetry #poets

📣 Starting this Saturday! Grab a spot! National Book Award winning author Charles Johnson will be joining our 3 session virtual reading workshop facilitated by Richard King!

📚We are excited to announce National Book Award winning author Charles Johnson will be joining our virtual reading workshop facilitated by Richard King! 📚 Two sessions to read & discuss the novel Middle Passage, followed by a session with Charles Johnson. catamaranliteraryreader.com/literature-o...

📚Checkout our Virtual Summer Writing Workshops!📚 @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social: The Art of Brevity 🗓️ 8/30 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific Richard King: Literarture of the Sea 🗓️ 8/9, 8/16, 8/23 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific 🔗 Link to register: catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for... #writing

Calling all #poets! Grab a seat for Dorianne Laux's virtual poetry workshop this weekend! ✍️

Join us on Thursday, July 24th at the Mechanic's Institute in San Francisco for readings from our Summer Issue! Reception at 6PM, readings 6:30-7:30 PM, followed by a tour of Mechanics' Institute for interested guests. www.milibrary.org/events/20597 #literaryevents #authortalks #sanfranciscoevents

✨Check out our Virtual Summer Poetry Workshops!✨ Dorianne Laux 🗓️ Saturday, 7/19 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific Joseph Millar 🗓️ Saturday, 8/2 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific 🔗 Link to register catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for... #poetrycommunity #poetryworkshop #LiteraryEvent #poetryclass #poetry

✨Check out our Virtual Summer Poetry Workshops!✨ Dorianne Laux 🗓️ Saturday, 7/19 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific Joseph Millar 🗓️ Saturday, 8/2 at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific 🔗 Link to register catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for... #poetrycommunity #poetryworkshop #LiteraryEvent #poetryclass #poetry

Hey Santa Cruz friends, this should be fun! #litmag #SantaCruz

✨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue! 🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione. catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2025/...

Whether on a beach somewhere or in your own back yard, we hope you are enjoying Catamaran’s Summer 2025 Issue! ☀️🏝️ catamaranliteraryreader.com/summer-2025 #summerreading #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #art #writingcommunity

I'm so happy to have my lyric essay, Salt Cures, published in this gorgeous issue of Catamaran! Impatiently awaiting my copies as they make their way ever so slowly through the postal system.

Calling all West Coast #poets! The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry(60-100 pages) is open until June 15th! This year's judge is Mary Szybist. 🏆 Details here: catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po... #poetrycommunity #poetry

Calling all West Coast #poets! The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry(60-100 pages) is open until June 15th! This year's judge is Mary Szybist. 🏆 Details here: catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po... #poetrycommunity #poetry

📕 The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry is open until June 15th! 🏆 $1,000 and publication in book form will be awarded to the #poetry collection selected by judge Mary Szybist Open to West Coast poets only. catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po... #poetrycommunity

We enjoyed talking with all the readers and writers at the 2025 Bay Area Book Festival! #BayAreaBookFest

👋 Come visit us at table #61 at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, June 1st! We will be near the poetry stage on Kittredge St. 📚 www.baybookfest.org/bookworm-blo... #bayareabookfest

☀️Announcing Catamaran's Summer, 2025, Issue 48!☀️ We invite you to step into stories taking you from ocean shores to the mountains of Arizona and Italy. With works of #poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction, and more, this issue takes you on a summer reading adventure! catamaranliteraryreader.com/summer-2025

👋 Come visit us at table #61 at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, June 1st! We will be near the poetry stage on Kittredge St. 📚 www.baybookfest.org/bookworm-blo... #bayareabookfest

📕 The Catamaran Poetry Prize for a book length collection of poetry is open until June 15th! 🏆 $1,000 and publication in book form will be awarded to the #poetry collection selected by judge Mary Szybist Open to West Coast poets only. catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-po... #poetrycommunity

Thanks to our readers & contributors who attended our Garden Issue Launch at Hakone Gardens. It was a celebration of beauty & collaboration, abundance & delicacy. The readings in a Zen garden enveloped us like an arbor enveloped by wisteria. The combination of nature & words captivated & uplifted!

We hope you can join us Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30-7:30, for a special reading by contributors to our Garden Issue at the 🌸 Hakone Gardens 🌺 21000 Big Basin Way in Saratoga, CA. www.eventbrite.com/e/catamaran-... #poetry #nonfiction #fiction #literaryevents

Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30-7:30, Catamaran will host readings by contributors to our Garden Issue at the 🌸 Hakone Gardens 🌸 21000 Big Basin Way in Saratoga, CA. www.eventbrite.com/e/catamaran-... #poetry #nonfiction #fiction #literaryevents

I'll be reading my essay "When We Lived Outside" from @catamaranlit.bsky.social's Garden issue along with other wonderful contributors at the gorgeous Hakone Gardens in Saratoga on May 7th. Come on by if you are anywhere in the Bay Area! 🌺