Last updated May 18, 2008
Looking to publish your first full-length collection?
Each year Black Lawrence Press will introduce one new writer to the literary world with the publication of a first full-length collection of poems or short stories.
Ben Berman, Interruptions
Catherine Carter, The Swamp Monster at Home
Aaron Crippen, China: Warring States
Paul Dickey, They Say This Is How Death Came into the World
Patrick Duggan, American Football
Rebecca Foust, Allegheny Mountain Bowl
Randal Gentry, Raskolnikov in Hell
Sandra Kolankiewicz, Turning Inside Out
Geri Lipschultz, In Whose Hands We Trust
Erik Mortenson, Other People's Lives
Michael Murray, Death to Them, They've Eaten too Much Fish
Nils Peterson, A Month of Earth
Marvin Petrucci, Pardon Me, Madam
John Pursley, Supposing, For Instance, Here in the Space-Time Continuum
Boyer Rickel, Reliquary
Danielle Sellers, Key West Elegies
Nancy Takacs, Sitting Outside the Store Inspire
Kathleen Aguero, Investigation
Trina Askin, So You Know
Tricia Barker, From Beginning to End
Ian Brand, Interplanetary Homesickness
Susan Cohen, Those Sleepless Nights that Love Me
Helen Degen Cohen, On a Good Day One Discovers...
Ellen Kirvin Dudis, XIV
Okla Elliot, Sunday Juniper
Paul Fisher, Undrawn Water
Marge Fulton, Surface Mining as Grief
Marie Gauthier, The Opposite of Deaf
Ted Gilley, Password
J.M. Green, The Novice Angler
Paula Grenside, Landscape with People and Mutilated Statues
Joseph Kerschbaum, Whispers from Closed Mouths
Laura Longsong, Windfall for a Fox
Carlos Martinez, The Raw Silk of the Dark
Elena Minor, Longer than Thought
Gwendolyn Morgan, White Clay, Red Ochre, Green Tea
Peter Murphy, The Man Who Never Was
Lisa Ortiz, Happy
Kenneth Pobo, Zig Zag
Janice Miller Potter, Witches Eating the Moon
Greg Rappleye, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds
Vincent Renstrom, Enough of All This Maniacal Behavior
Jonathan Rice, Shadowtown
Benjamin Russell, Eliminating the Gods
Lynn Veach Sadler, Flims Flams
Linda Sienkiewicz, Device
Tony Triglio, Case Closed
Homer Wiggins, Out of Balance
Deadlines: May 31 & October 31
Contemporary Literature & Non-Fiction