To celebrate, we’re sharing “January One,” a poem by our Dryden-Vreeland winner, Christopher Blackman. His prize-winning book, Three-Day Weekend, is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. This poem was first published in Rust & Moth (Spring 2021) and is reprinted with the poet’s permission:
Alta California Chapbook winners selected
Judge Alexandra Lytton Regalado and series editor Emma Trelles have chosen the winners of this year’s Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize: Amelia Rodriguez’s The First Amelia and Fred Arroyo’s Alba and Other Songs. The winning chapbooks will be available from Gunpowder Press in Spring 2024. The judges recognized, as Honorable Mention, Against Surrealism by […]
Christopher Blackman Wins Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize
Final judge Nan Cohen has selected the winner of the Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize: Christopher Blackman for his manuscript Three-Day Weekend. His book will be forthcoming from Gunpowder Press in 2024. Seven other poets were selected as finalists: Christopher Blackman is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Cleaver Magazine, Southeast Review, Booth, and Epiphany, among […]
New from the Shoreline Voices Project
Part of the Shoreline Voices series, showcasing poets from California’s Central Coast, Out of the Ground is a collection of poems inspired by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the flora of our region. Out of the Ground includes poems by more than forty poets from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Ventura counties, including […]
Alta California Chapbook Prize
Submissions are currently being accepted for the next Alta California Chapbook Prize. Two sets of 8-12 pages of poems will be selected for publication in bilingual editions. The judge for this year is Alexandra Lytton Regalado. Send poems, in either English or Spanish, by October 1, 2023. Full details on our Submittable page.
Final Days! Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize for K-12 educators
Poets working full- or part-time for any K-12 school, public or private, are encouraged to submit a full-length manuscript (48-100 pages) for the Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize. Your poems need not focus on schools or teaching, and all school employees—teachers, tutors, custodians, administrators—are eligible. Gunpowder Press editors David Starkey and Chryss Yost named this prize to […]
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