Gunpowder Press is accepting poems from Santa Barbara County residents of any age, for a forthcoming anthology celebrating local food, drinks, restaurants, and agriculture. The collection will be edited by Santa Barbara Poet Laureate George Yatchisin. Blessed by a year-round temperate climate, geography nestling it between the Pacific and the Santa Ynez Mountains, an unusual […]
Call for Submissions
Gunpowder Press is accepting poems (including brief prose poems or micro-essays) from women living in California, aged 60 and older, for a forthcoming anthology on women in the Golden State. Our experiences are as unique as our state’s landscapes. California is a state filled with muses, native or newcomer, named after a mythical queen. In an environment […]
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 […]
Call for Poems
Final days to submit poems for the forthcoming Shoreline Voices anthology! Poets from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Ventura counties are invited to send up to 3 poems for consideration. Read more here.
Central California poets invited to send poems
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Gunpowder Press are joining together for the next Shoreline Voices Anthology. Poets living in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, or Ventura counties are invited to submit 1-3 poems which feature the native flora of California, with a focus on the Central Coast. We are especially interested in poems aligned […]
Call for Poems: Edson Smith Collection
Gunpowder Press invites poets from Santa Barbara or adjacent counties to submit 1-3 poems inspired by photographs in the historic Edson Smith Photograph collection for a Shoreline Voices Anthology. As described on the collection’s webpage: The Edson Smith Photograph collection contains nearly 1,500 early images of Santa Barbara County dating from the 1870s-1940s, many of […]