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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 4h

Today, and every day. ❤️🧡🤍🩷

Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 13h

Happy 1st Birthday to Reiteration / Relationship by Elizabeth Catanese!

This beautiful chapbook continues to resonate a year later—exploring connection, memory, and the art of revisiting what shapes us.

Celebrate its anniversary:
smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/reiteration-relationship

Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 2d

Now Available!
Becca Rae Rose’s MOUTH is here — a chapbook that bites from the first word and won’t let go. Smarting, tender, and ferocious, this is a fevered delight you’ll still feel days later.

Order your copy now: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 3d

The Laureate Prize is open!
Judge: Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas & author of Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024).
Open Oct 1–Dec 31.
We welcome submissions from marginalized writers.
🔗 smallharborpublishing.com
#LaureatePrize #PoetryCommunity

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 4d

Coming Soon! Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree

A sweeping collection that spans two decades of poetry—storm and salvation, devastation and beauty, carried in lines that linger like thunder.

✨ learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 5d

SHP TOP 5 – September 2025 ✨📚

Here are the books our readers loved most this month:

1️⃣ Braving the Body
2️⃣ When I Was Straight
3️⃣ The Other Tree
3️⃣ Mouth
4️⃣ Ladies’ Abecedary
5️⃣ The Grand Scheme of Things

Discover your next favorite read at 👉 smallharborpublishing.com

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 7d

Submissions are NOW OPEN for the Laureate Prize!
October 1 – December 31, 2025

Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-prize

(Judge announcement coming soon!)

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Last day to submit! 🚨

20–40 pgs poetry or 20–50 pgs prose. Fees waived for BIPOC writers.

Submit here 👉 www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-ope...

#Chapbook #PoetryCommunity #LastDayToSubmit

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s the day! ✨📚
Join us for a special Book Release Reading featuring Dabin Jeong (Swallow) and Sarah Cedeño (The Grand Scheme of Things).

🗓️ Date: TODAY
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM ET
💻 Zoom Meeting ID: 876 2780 1760

Come celebrate these incredible new books and hear the authors bring their words to life!

Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 9d

Now Available!! MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is officially here!

This stunning prose chapbook dives into the body, voice, and all the spaces between—sharp, lyrical, and unforgettable.

Grab your copy today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to our top-sellers of August 2025!
1. The Grand Scheme of Things, Cedeño
2. Small Girl, Lisa Fay Coutley
3. What’s Left is Tender, Chi Wing Lau
4. Braving the Body, editors Callihan, Bao, & Franklin
5. When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton, editor Brookshire

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 11d

You’re invited! Join us for a virtual Book Release Reading celebrating two incredible new works from this summer:
📖 The Grand Scheme of Things by Sarah Cedeño
📖 Swallow by Dabin Jeong

📅 September 30, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM ET
💻 RSVP & Join via Zoom: Meeting ID 876 2780 1760

Come listen!

Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 12d

Coming Soon🚨DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is nearly here!

Moving beyond critique, DISSENT embodies the true meaning of feminism—the part where we do something about it.

Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissen...

DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Freeman — Small Harbor Publishing

www.smallharborpublishing.com

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 13d

Now Available ✨
MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is officially here!

This stunning chapbook dives into the body, voice, and all the spaces between—sharp, lyrical, and unforgettable.

Grab your copy today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 14d

Our submission period is open for Issue 16!
Send us 1–3 poems via Submittable—it’s free to submit, and we pay $10 per published poem.
🔗Full guidelines here: smallharborpublishing.submittable.com/submit

#PoetrySubmissions #LitMag #poetry

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 14d

COMING SOON 👄MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose, is the next chapbook from Small Harbor Publishing!

Visceral, lyrical, and unflinching, this collection opens wide to reveal what lingers between silence and speech. Stay tuned for the official release!

Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...

Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 15d

Happy 2nd Birthday to Refused a Second Date by Maya Williams! 🎂

This bold and unforgettable collection has been sparking conversations, resonating with readers, and even becoming a 2024 Maine Literary Award finalist.

Grab your copy here:
smallharborpublishing.com/books/refused-a-second-date

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 16d

You’re invited next week! Join us for a Book Release Reading celebrating two incredible new works:
The Grand Scheme of Things by Sarah Cedeño
Swallow by Dabin Jeong
📅 September 30, 2025 6PM ET
💻 Zoom: Meeting ID 876 2780 1760
Come listen, celebrate, and support these brilliant authors—don’t miss it!

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 16d

Chapbook Open Reading Period is closing soon! 🚨

Got a manuscript ready? We’re seeking chapbooks of 20–40 pages of poetry or 20–50 pages of prose.

Submission fee: $15 (waived for BIPOC identifying writers).

📅 Deadline: September 30th
📖 Submit here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-ope...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 17d

Welcome Su Cho, honored reader at the virtual launch of The Other Tree by Alison Lubar, winner of the 2023 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize)!

Thursday, September 25th at 7pm ET
Get your free tickets now:
www.eventbrite.com/e/alison-lub...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 17d

Now Live!

Winner of the Editor’s Prize, It adheres to many things by Emily Adams-Aucoin is officially here. A breathtaking chapbook that lingers, expands, and clings in ways only poetry can.

✨ Read it → www.harbor-review.com/it-adheres-t...

#Poetry #Chapbook #NowLive #HarborReview

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 19d

Happy 1st Birthday to THOUGHT * FROST * VOODOO by Matthew Hittinger! ❄️✨

This powerful chapbook has been out in the world for one year, and we’re still in awe of the language, imagery, and craft it carries.

Celebrate with us and grab your copy here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/th...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 20d

Alison Lubar’s The Other Tree—winner of the 2023 Laureate Prize—is here. These luminous poems reanimate the past, recover what has been lost, and keep growing in the shade of memory and love.

Get your copy today: www.amazon.com/-/es/Alison-...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 21d

We’re thrilled to welcome Mandy Moe Pwint Tu as an honored guest of the release reading for The Other Tree by Alison Lubar!

Join us on 9/25 in celebrating Alison Lubar’s The Other Tree:
www.eventbrite.com/e/alison-lub...

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Small Harbor Publishing @smallharborpub.bsky.social · 22d

🌳 Coming soon!! The Other Tree by Alison Lubar, winner of the 2023 Laureate Prize.

A fearless & tender poetry collection that reclaims history, memory, & power.

Keep your eye on: 🔗 www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-ot...