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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 22h

Only one week left to shop our Hispanic Heritage Month sale! Celebrate Mother/land by Ananda Lima, an award-winning poetry collection on language, migration, and motherhood. Winner of the Hudson Prize and featured on Buzzfeed, it's a must-have. ✨ Enjoy 25% off—link in bio to learn more and shop.

Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 5d

San Francisco friends! July Westhale will be at Litquake Festival two weeks from today. Click the link below to grab tickets for this amazing night of poetry!

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 6d

From draft to published book: that’s the journey Katherine Giuffre began with our manuscript consultation program two years ago. Now, her novel, Armadillo Massacre Number Three, is forthcoming from Regal House Press in fall 2027. We’re so proud to cheer her on!

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 7d

Follow the link below to read this wonderful conversation between William Archila—author of "S is For" (2025)—and Esteban Rodríguez for Ecotheo Collective.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 9d

Strange Vigil arrives tomorrow! This is a special chapbook. Filled with essays, prose pieces, and poems, Strange Vigil navigates grief, sorrow, presence, and wonder. We can't wait for you all to read it.

You can still pre-order now, or purchase tomorrow. Click the link below.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 9d

2 spots left! Sign up now!

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 23d

There are 7 spots remaining in our fall workshop series with Megan Merchant! This workshop series is all about revision. You'll learn how to think critically about your work, and expand your understanding of how to make clarifying revisions. The link below takes you to sign-up!

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UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social · 15d

Happy pub day and cheers to MFA alum Kevin Fenton, whose novel Cyan Magenta Yellow Black won the Big Moose Prize from @blacklawrence.bsky.social
"Stylish, smart, and big-hearted...lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everything"

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black - Black Lawrence Press | Black Lawrence Press

Winner of the 2024 Big Moose Prize Stylish, smart, and big-hearted, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everythi...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 10d

Embodying “the threshold between Mesoamerican and Chicanx mythologies,” Violeta Orozco’s poetry “traces the futurist cartographies of an ancestral world.”

ATLAS OF AN ANCIENT WORLD (@blacklawrence.bsky.social) is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list! blacklawrencepress.com/books/atlas-...

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In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Atlas of an Ancient World was originally selected by Nomadic. Atlas of an…

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 12d

Last call for our September manuscript consultation program! Use this weekend to dig up that manuscript that could use a second set of eyes, and send it our way! Read more about our consultants, their approaches, and what you can expect from the process on our Submittable.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 13d

A lovely review of Wayne Scott's "The Maps They Gave Us" is out now in Midwest Book Review! Read the full review at the link below.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 14d

We treat our chapbooks just like our full-length titles—the same commitment to cover design, production, editorial care, and publicity. Whether you're a new, emerging, or established writer, send us your chapbook! We can't wait to read your work.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 15d

Honored to have Adam Prince as our Fiction Consultant this month! You can visit the link below to read Adam's statement of purpose—the link will also get you to our Submittable so that you can send your manuscript his way!

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 18d

If you've got a hybrid project you'd like some feedback on, the wonderful EJ Colen is here for you this month! To read about EJ's approach & experience, and to submit your work to her, visit the link below.

blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit

Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 19d

Now through October 15, we're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a sale on these featured titles. Shop the sale at www.blacklawrencepress.com/sale

Learn about Hispanic Heritage Month and check out some Latino art exhibitions here: latino.si.edu/learn/teachi...

Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 20d

Come see BLP at Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend! A handful of our wonderful authors will be signing books from 10am to 5pm on Sunday, September 21st. If you're in or around NYC, come say hi! We can't wait to see you!

For full details & directions, visit brooklynbookfestival.org

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 20d

Please join us in celebrating the Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition winner, Emelie Griffin! She won this year's prize with her chapbook, California Pompeii. Read a selection from the collection and learn more about Emelie at the link below.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 21d

We're beyond grateful to have the incredible Raina J. León working as our Poetry Consultant this month! Read about Raina's approach to revision at the link below.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 23d

There are 7 spots remaining in our fall workshop series with Megan Merchant! This workshop series is all about revision. You'll learn how to think critically about your work, and expand your understanding of how to make clarifying revisions. The link below takes you to sign-up!

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 24d

An incredible review of @thatjanemorton.bsky.social's Shedding Season! Check it out!

Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social · 29d

"A feat of embodied poetry, which is to say, folklore, emotions, and trauma take on corporeal form."

@sara-eastler.bsky.social reviews SHEDDING SEASON by Jane Morton. @blacklawrence.bsky.social

“Shedding Season” Casts a Spell

In their poems, Jane Morton finds incredible strength and beauty in being cracked open, shedding what no longer serves in order to become something new.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 24d

We are thrilled to announce Anastasios Mihalopoulos as the first recipient of The Black Lawrence Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors. Read about his forthcoming poetry collection and his poem "Letters to the Museum Docent from One Hundred Years After" at the link below!

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 26d

We are incredibly excited and proud to share that Susana Praver-Pérez's "Return Against the Flow" is a finalist for the 2025 International Latino Book Awards! All finalists will earn a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Award at the ILBA Awards Ceremony in October. Congratulations, Susana!

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 27d

The Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition is now open for unpublished chapbooks of poems or prose, 16-36 pages long! Open to writers at all stages—the winner receives publication, $500, and ten book copies.

For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 28d

A wonderful review of moon moon by Dana Belott for Fifth Wheel Press! Read the full piece at the link below.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 29d

Our September manuscript consultants are here! Visit the link below to learn about the incredible writers who will be working with you this month. You've got the whole month to submit your manuscript for thoughtful, analytic feedback, and until the 22nd to apply for a scholarship.

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're so excited to be tabling at the 2nd Annual Small Press Small Fest in Brooklyn this Sunday, 9/13! The event begins at 10:30 AM, and BLP will be tabling starting at 2pm. Swing by for readings by July Westhale, David Rigsbee, Joshua Garcia, and James Cagney. We can't wait!

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