Crystal AC Salas, author of Grief Logic, and Nicholas Reiner, author of Levitations will be featured readers for the Mission Poetry Series. Books are available now!
Grief Logic
Grief Logic, by Crystal AC Salas, was selected by Emma Trelles as a winner of the Alta California Chapbook Prize.
Levitations
Levitations, by Nicholas Reiner, was selected by Emma Trelles as a winner of the 2022 Alta California Chapbook Prize.
Mother Lode
Selected for the first Spacks Prize “Editor’s Choice” Award
What’s Up, Gunpowder?
Final Days to Enter
The Barry Spacks Poetry Prize includes publication, $1000, and 50 copies of your book. We are thrilled to announce Danusha Lamerís as our final judge for 2022! Read more here.
Carol Decanio Abeles Emerging Poets Prize winners announced
Congratulations to winner Carol Ann Wilburn, and runners-up Susan Chiavelli, and Dairine Pearson! Read the selected poems here.
Other recent announcements:
Barry Spacks Poetry Prize
Spacks Prize increased to $1,000!
Gunpowder Press is very excited to announce that the award for the 2022 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize has been increased to $1,000, thanks to a generous gift given by an anonymous donor in recognition of Barry. We are so honored to continue his legacy of support for other poets. Barry loved playing with numbers (for […]
Starting January 1, 2022: Spacks Prize open for manuscripts
The editors of Gunpowder Press are happy to announce the final judge for the 2022 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize is Danusha Laméris! She is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), which was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the […]