Black Lawrence Press
@blacklawrence.bsky.social
New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
You've still got through Friday to shop the Black Friday sale on subscriptions! Get up to 50% off and free shipping at blacklawrencepress.com/sale through 11/28. Each subscription includes 1 box per month with 2 books, a chapbook, and merch. 📚 ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
You've still got through Friday to shop the Black Friday sale on subscriptions! Get up to 50% off and free shipping at blacklawrencepress.com/sale through 11/28. Each subscription includes 1 box per month with 2 books, a chapbook, and merch. 📚 ❤️
Lisa Slage Robinson's Esquire Ball is coming soon! Out February 10th with Black Lawrence Press wherever books are sold, and available for pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com. ✨
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Lisa Slage Robinson's Esquire Ball is coming soon! Out February 10th with Black Lawrence Press wherever books are sold, and available for pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com. ✨
You've got through Sunday (11/30) to send us your novel, novella, short story collection, poetry, chapbook, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction. Head on over to our Submittable to send in your manuscript! In the meantime, check out some previous winners here!
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You've got through Sunday (11/30) to send us your novel, novella, short story collection, poetry, chapbook, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction. Head on over to our Submittable to send in your manuscript! In the meantime, check out some previous winners here!
Daniele Pantano's translation of Nocturne is coming soon! Out January 13th with Black Lawrence Press, and available for pre-order now at the link below.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Daniele Pantano's translation of Nocturne is coming soon! Out January 13th with Black Lawrence Press, and available for pre-order now at the link below.
blacklawrencepress.com/books/noctur...
blacklawrencepress.com/books/noctur...
As we head into the final month of the year, doesn't getting cozy with a book sound extra wonderful? 📚 🕯️🌨️
Our Holiday Sale is still active, with these titles available for $20.00 or less! Shop the sale at blacklawrencepress.com/sale
Our Holiday Sale is still active, with these titles available for $20.00 or less! Shop the sale at blacklawrencepress.com/sale
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
As we head into the final month of the year, doesn't getting cozy with a book sound extra wonderful? 📚 🕯️🌨️
Our Holiday Sale is still active, with these titles available for $20.00 or less! Shop the sale at blacklawrencepress.com/sale
Our Holiday Sale is still active, with these titles available for $20.00 or less! Shop the sale at blacklawrencepress.com/sale
Join us this Sunday for a group writing session! This seminar, led by Miah Jeffra, addresses how we can best write our lives, navigating language, perception, and memory. You'll walk away with new material, a PDF of prompts, and a surprise chapbook mailed to you! Grab your spot at buff.ly/UVBsfrI.
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us this Sunday for a group writing session! This seminar, led by Miah Jeffra, addresses how we can best write our lives, navigating language, perception, and memory. You'll walk away with new material, a PDF of prompts, and a surprise chapbook mailed to you! Grab your spot at buff.ly/UVBsfrI.
Did you know BLP has a Substack? Receiving messages from our subscribers is wonderful. 💚 Sapling is a weekly newsletter for writers seeking to publish, featuring a list of publishers with open calls. Subscribe at saplingblp.substack.com!
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Did you know BLP has a Substack? Receiving messages from our subscribers is wonderful. 💚 Sapling is a weekly newsletter for writers seeking to publish, featuring a list of publishers with open calls. Subscribe at saplingblp.substack.com!
Our annual Black Friday Sale is here! Get up to 50% off subscriptions with free shipping at blacklawrencepress.com/sale until Black Friday (11/28). Each subscription includes 1 box per month with 2 books, a chapbook, and merch. It's perfect for book lovers or a treat for yourself. 📚 ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our annual Black Friday Sale is here! Get up to 50% off subscriptions with free shipping at blacklawrencepress.com/sale until Black Friday (11/28). Each subscription includes 1 box per month with 2 books, a chapbook, and merch. It's perfect for book lovers or a treat for yourself. 📚 ❤️
Tayyba Kanwal's Immigrant Writing Series winner arrives in less than two months! If you've read & enjoyed these titles, we think you'll fall in love with Talking with Boys.
Talking With Boys is forthcoming with BLP on January 6th, 2026. Pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com. 💙
Talking With Boys is forthcoming with BLP on January 6th, 2026. Pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com. 💙
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Tayyba Kanwal's Immigrant Writing Series winner arrives in less than two months! If you've read & enjoyed these titles, we think you'll fall in love with Talking with Boys.
Talking With Boys is forthcoming with BLP on January 6th, 2026. Pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com. 💙
Talking With Boys is forthcoming with BLP on January 6th, 2026. Pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com. 💙
Our fiction consultation program provides rigorous, analytical feedback, akin to an MFA program, in partnership with award-winning authors. We're honored to support your manuscript's journey from inception to publication. ❤️
Visit our Submittable to submit your fiction to Robert Long Foreman!
Visit our Submittable to submit your fiction to Robert Long Foreman!
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our fiction consultation program provides rigorous, analytical feedback, akin to an MFA program, in partnership with award-winning authors. We're honored to support your manuscript's journey from inception to publication. ❤️
Visit our Submittable to submit your fiction to Robert Long Foreman!
Visit our Submittable to submit your fiction to Robert Long Foreman!
Love Exit Zero, White Cat, Black Dog, or Awayland?
You’ll love The Earth Room by Dana Diehl, a spellbinding collection arriving January 20th from Black Lawrence Press.
🔗 Preorder & learn more: blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
You’ll love The Earth Room by Dana Diehl, a spellbinding collection arriving January 20th from Black Lawrence Press.
🔗 Preorder & learn more: blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Love Exit Zero, White Cat, Black Dog, or Awayland?
You’ll love The Earth Room by Dana Diehl, a spellbinding collection arriving January 20th from Black Lawrence Press.
🔗 Preorder & learn more: blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
You’ll love The Earth Room by Dana Diehl, a spellbinding collection arriving January 20th from Black Lawrence Press.
🔗 Preorder & learn more: blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-ea...
This month, we're thrilled to be working with TJ Beitelman and Kristina May Darling on poetry consultations! Head on over to our Submittable (link in bio) to submit your poetry manuscript. Whether it's one poem or a full manuscript you're ready to publish, we can't wait to work with you!
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This month, we're thrilled to be working with TJ Beitelman and Kristina May Darling on poetry consultations! Head on over to our Submittable (link in bio) to submit your poetry manuscript. Whether it's one poem or a full manuscript you're ready to publish, we can't wait to work with you!
For all the readers on your holiday gift list...🎁
All of these titles are currently on sale for under $20.00 through the end of November. We've also got discounts on our poetry & prose subscriptions! Head on over to blacklawrencepress.com to shop the sale.
All of these titles are currently on sale for under $20.00 through the end of November. We've also got discounts on our poetry & prose subscriptions! Head on over to blacklawrencepress.com to shop the sale.
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
For all the readers on your holiday gift list...🎁
All of these titles are currently on sale for under $20.00 through the end of November. We've also got discounts on our poetry & prose subscriptions! Head on over to blacklawrencepress.com to shop the sale.
All of these titles are currently on sale for under $20.00 through the end of November. We've also got discounts on our poetry & prose subscriptions! Head on over to blacklawrencepress.com to shop the sale.
Our second open reading period of the year is open! 📚
Send us your novels, novellas, short story collections, poetry, biography & cultural studies, or creative nonfiction!
Find all the details and submission guidelines here ➡️ buff.ly/juJ6GBF
Send us your novels, novellas, short story collections, poetry, biography & cultural studies, or creative nonfiction!
Find all the details and submission guidelines here ➡️ buff.ly/juJ6GBF
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Our second open reading period of the year is open! 📚
Send us your novels, novellas, short story collections, poetry, biography & cultural studies, or creative nonfiction!
Find all the details and submission guidelines here ➡️ buff.ly/juJ6GBF
Send us your novels, novellas, short story collections, poetry, biography & cultural studies, or creative nonfiction!
Find all the details and submission guidelines here ➡️ buff.ly/juJ6GBF
We're so pleased to share that Consultation Program alum William Considine has published his play, The Mysteries, with Spuyten Duyvil Press! Congratulations, William!
William worked with Kristina Marie Darling in August 2023, who is currently a November manuscript consultant!
William worked with Kristina Marie Darling in August 2023, who is currently a November manuscript consultant!
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We're so pleased to share that Consultation Program alum William Considine has published his play, The Mysteries, with Spuyten Duyvil Press! Congratulations, William!
William worked with Kristina Marie Darling in August 2023, who is currently a November manuscript consultant!
William worked with Kristina Marie Darling in August 2023, who is currently a November manuscript consultant!
Our November consultants are here and ready to work with you! This month, we're offering consultation services in poetry, fiction, and hybrid from some formidable writers. To learn about our consultants, their styles, and how to work with them, visit the link below.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Our November consultants are here and ready to work with you! This month, we're offering consultation services in poetry, fiction, and hybrid from some formidable writers. To learn about our consultants, their styles, and how to work with them, visit the link below.
buff.ly/ps5lVSt
buff.ly/ps5lVSt
Join us this Tuesday, 11/11, for a free writing workshop! The wonderful Jennifer Met will lead us via Zoom on an exploration of imagery. You'll walk away with generative new techniques and writing exercises! ✨
Click the link below to sign up and get the Zoom link.
buff.ly/pQdVjJK
Click the link below to sign up and get the Zoom link.
buff.ly/pQdVjJK
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Join us this Tuesday, 11/11, for a free writing workshop! The wonderful Jennifer Met will lead us via Zoom on an exploration of imagery. You'll walk away with generative new techniques and writing exercises! ✨
Click the link below to sign up and get the Zoom link.
buff.ly/pQdVjJK
Click the link below to sign up and get the Zoom link.
buff.ly/pQdVjJK
Head on over to the link below to read an incredible interview with Lisa Fay Coutley, where she talks with COMP Journal about her poetry anthology, "In The Tempered Dark." They discuss grief, craft, and the writers who've influenced her—it's a truly lovely read. 🖤
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buff.ly/idCFfuX
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Head on over to the link below to read an incredible interview with Lisa Fay Coutley, where she talks with COMP Journal about her poetry anthology, "In The Tempered Dark." They discuss grief, craft, and the writers who've influenced her—it's a truly lovely read. 🖤
buff.ly/idCFfuX
buff.ly/idCFfuX
If you're looking for a poet who writes America's interior with a mythic, otherworldly voice like these greats do, you're going to be a fan of Sébastien Luc Butler. Pre-order his forthcoming collection now at blacklawrencepress.com 🖤
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If you're looking for a poet who writes America's interior with a mythic, otherworldly voice like these greats do, you're going to be a fan of Sébastien Luc Butler. Pre-order his forthcoming collection now at blacklawrencepress.com 🖤
The free monthly issue of Sapling is out now! Head over to saplingblp.substack.com to read Kit Frick's interview with Galileo Press's Barrett Warner, where they talk all things indie publishing!
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The free monthly issue of Sapling is out now! Head over to saplingblp.substack.com to read Kit Frick's interview with Galileo Press's Barrett Warner, where they talk all things indie publishing!
The annual BLP Holiday Sale is here! 🎁 📚 We've got a selection of titles for under $20, and great discounts on our poetry & prose subscriptions. Whether you're looking for a gift for a loved one or treating yourself to a little literary joy, head over to blacklawrencepress.com/sale.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The annual BLP Holiday Sale is here! 🎁 📚 We've got a selection of titles for under $20, and great discounts on our poetry & prose subscriptions. Whether you're looking for a gift for a loved one or treating yourself to a little literary joy, head over to blacklawrencepress.com/sale.
For gamers who read, and readers who game: this one’s for you.
Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
buff.ly/DgHXRLa
Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
buff.ly/DgHXRLa
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
For gamers who read, and readers who game: this one’s for you.
Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
buff.ly/DgHXRLa
Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
buff.ly/DgHXRLa
We're incredibly excited to announce the finalists from the June 2025 Open Reading Period! Congratulations to all of these incredible finalists. Our judges will be selecting the winner soon—stay tuned. 📖
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're incredibly excited to announce the finalists from the June 2025 Open Reading Period! Congratulations to all of these incredible finalists. Our judges will be selecting the winner soon—stay tuned. 📖
The 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner is now available for pre-order! We can't wait for Sky Tongued Back with Light, coming March 3rd. ✨
To pre-order & learn more, click the link below!
blacklawrencepress.com/books/sky-to...
To pre-order & learn more, click the link below!
blacklawrencepress.com/books/sky-to...
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition Winner is now available for pre-order! We can't wait for Sky Tongued Back with Light, coming March 3rd. ✨
To pre-order & learn more, click the link below!
blacklawrencepress.com/books/sky-to...
To pre-order & learn more, click the link below!
blacklawrencepress.com/books/sky-to...
The Black River Chapbook Competition closes at midnight tonight! Send us your work!
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October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Black River Chapbook Competition closes at midnight tonight! Send us your work!
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