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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · 18h

It's back--announcing the return of Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Contest! Send us your literary tales of the weird and wonderful!
Deadline: 11/16/25
Prize: $1000, publication, and 20 copies
Judge: Arria Deepwater
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

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Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social · 3d

@cassmannes.bsky.social expertly creates your press kit! Grateful to @omnidawn.bsky.social, @joy-castro.bsky.socia, Kate Gale, @saddiqdzukogi.bsky.social, & David Koehn for endorsements. Preorder: bit.ly/3IRpxei. DM for readings, reviews, classes, & book clubs!

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 9d

"Of course, you can look up everything on the Internet now. But there is something very special about a book — the feel of it in your hands and the way it looks on the table by your bed, or nestled in with others in the bookcase." -- Jane Goodall bit.ly/4mNwASZ

Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life

How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science.

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Sep 8

#booksky

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congratulations
@arriadeepwater.bsky.social

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest
Descent by Arria Deepwater

Exploring boundaries of intimacy, fluidity, & grief, Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to growing canon of writers with marginalized identities

Available for pre-order

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Bloodletting: poems by Kimberly Reyes / @omnidawn.bsky.social ;
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Bloodletting: poems by Kimberly Reyes

Had we made it past the heat, the honey, we could have thawed semi-sweet & ekphrastic, waking to rewatch our black & white film...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Many congratulations to David Leftwich, winner of the
2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest,
selected by Daniela Molnar!

Congratulations also to the finalists
Robert Black
Xinyue Huang
Annie Rovzar
Jackson Watson
JinJin Xu

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · Sep 2

newly posted: Laynie Browne : on Daily Self-Portrait Valentine / @omnidawn.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/layn...

Laynie Browne : on Daily Self-Portrait Valentine

My Daily Self-Portrait Valentine project began when I saw a show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in early February of 2024, by...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Ronk’s poems centre delicate care and human touch, the importance of physical and human connection, and the physical making of objects with care, and with one’s hands."

robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/mart...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Aug 16

i seem to have posted a quiet update on my patreon patron-only blog: www.patreon.com/robmclennan

Get more from rob mclennan on Patreon

creating poetry, fiction, criticism

www.patreon.com

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Aug 16

We're extended the 2025 Omnidawn Open Poetry Contest to August 31st, 2025!

Poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma is our judge this year. He's looking forward to reading your work!

Prize: $3000, 20 copies, and publication

Submit your best work here:
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Aug 15

reading recent interviews online at @parisreview.bsky.social : Fanny Howe, and Rosmarie Waldrop (my third time rereading); such remarkable writers, such remarkable thinking;

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Aug 15

Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur.
Steven Leyva

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-...

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · Jul 24

Coming up in just a few weeks: me and Randall Mann present "Poetry and Sex in Public Places," a tribute to Mutsuo Takahashi.

Guest readers include Josh Tvrdy, Armen Davoudian, Dodie Bellamy and Sam Sax.

This is a free event, sponsored by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social.

2pm Sunday, 10 August.

D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · May 22

Mark your calendars for "Poetry and Sex in Public Places" on Sunday, August 10, in historic Jack Kerouac Alley between Vesuvio and City Lights Books.

Me & Randall Mann will be reading from Mutsuo Takahashi's erotic "Ode." It will be 🔥

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Jul 28

“The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.”
Barbara Groth

Join our 2025 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn!

www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the...

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · Jun 19

On Poetry: June 2025. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-... @stevenleyva.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social #Booksky

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Jul 28

"trap a thought and sit with or wrestle with it until it reveals its purpose..."

An Interview with Kimberly Reyes on Bloodletting

www.letraslatinasblog2.com/post/intervi...

To find your copy of Bloodletting:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Jul 5

Announcing the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest judged by Jose-Luis Moctezuma!
Prize - $3,000, publication, and 20 copies
Dates: July 1 - August 16
Submit here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Send us your best work!

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Martha Ronk, Clay / @omnidawn.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/mart...

Martha Ronk, Clay

Introduction As a child I was certain I could put my hand through the wall, that if I kicked gently my shoe would nudge the other side of ...

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · Jun 16

Extending the 2025 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest to June 30th!

Judged by Ewa Chrusciel!

Fee: $30

Prize: $3,000, publication and 20 copies!

omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

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Arria Deepwater @arriadeepwater.bsky.social · Jun 16

Descent is at the printers!
🙏🏽 @omnidawn.bsky.social for supporting my weird vision and to Teagan Berard for the beautiful artwork.

And to @cindyashton.bsky.social @rebelgrrlraechel.bsky.social @michelleruizkeil.bsky.social
@amandaleduc.bsky.social Rebecca Burke, Lorrie Potvin, Brenda Missen 💗

cover of Descent by Arria Deepwater featuring an abstract underwater scene of stylized eggs and aquatic plants. The back cover features endorsements and lists the publisher as Omnidawn Publishing.

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Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · May 31

Join our free virtual Spring 2025 Book Launch
with Evan Karp and Quiet Lightning!

Sunday July 13, 2025 at
1:00 pm Pacific.
Event is free to the public.
Register in advance!

www.omnidawn.com/readings

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Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social · May 30

Kudos to Maw Shein Win! Well-deserved! 👏

Omnidawn Publishing @omnidawn.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulations Maw Shein Win for Lifetime Achievement Award from Berkeley Poetry Festival!

Anyone in the Bay Area--join us on Sun June 8: 3-5pm @ Berkeley Art Center !

www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com
@mawsheinwin.bsky.social

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · May 31

Craig Santos Perez’s HABITAT THRESHOLD “explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future.”

Read this @omnidawn.bsky.social poetry collection! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/habi...

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