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 […]
Alta California Winners Available Now
Florencia Milito’s SOR JUANA and Gabriel Ibarra’s ON DISPLAY are here!
Gary Soto to judge 2023 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize
Submissions are open now for the 2023 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. The editors are thrilled that Gary Soto will be our final judge this year. The Spacks Prize is awarded to a full-length manuscripts and includes publication, $1000, and 50 copies of the winning book. Read more here.
Anacapa Review now accepting submissions
The editors of Gunpowder Press are happy to announce a new online poetry journal, Anacapa Review. Anacapa Review will be published monthly, with the first issue appearing March 2023. We welcome submissions of poems, as well as proposals for reviews or poetry-related prose. Visit the Anacapa Review site for more.
Cheers to Madeline Miller, Santa Barbara’s First Youth Poet Laureate
Gunpowder Press welcomes Santa Barbara’s first Youth Poet Laureate, Madeline Miller! We are honored to present her poem below. america in june america, i love youwith no stars in my eyeslove like each cell of my own bodydying out of duty, letting me live. love like a mothercleaning the feces off her infant childboth of […]