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.

Abayomi Animashaun, The Giving of Pears (poetry)

Valerie Bandura, Freak Show (poetry)

Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Little Organ, Little Ear (poetry)

C. Durning Carroll, Unnecessary Noise Prohibited (poetry)

Phil Condon, 9-10 Again (fiction)

Carrie Conners, Bring Me Some Butter and a Knife (poetry)

Daniel DiStasio, Happiness: The Stories (fiction)

Jamey Genna, Still Slipping on the Ice (fiction)

Cynthia Huntington, Life During Wartime (poetry)

Elizabeth Kadetsky, Three Tales (fiction)

Sandra Kolankiewicz, Consequential Monologues (fiction)

Susan Kolodny, Black Carp (poetry)

Gary Leising, The Sugar Mouse (poetry)

Eleanor Lerman, The Blonde on the Train and Other Stories (fiction)

Samuel Ligon, Drift and Swerve (fiction)

Cory McClellan, Trashcan Diagnosis and Traveling Medicine Men (poetry)

Gary McDowell, Young Teeth (poetry)

Larry Matsuda, A Cold Wind from Idaho (poetry)

Edward Mullany, Buddhists in Love (fiction)

Christopher Munde, Body Farm (poetry)

Matthew Pitt, Attention, Please. NOW (fiction)

Yasuko Thanh, Hunting in Spanish (fiction)

Lana Hechtman Ayers, A New Red (poetry)

Judith Baumel, Released Time (poetry)

Michelle Brafman, Shhh...Secrets and Stories (fiction)

Judith Brice, A Truth of Renditions (poetry)

Patricia Budd, Any Old Stick Will Do (poetry)

Lara Candland, Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree (poetry)

Karen Carcia, Nearer (poetry)

Casey Charles, Writing It Out (poetry)

Jo Ann Clark, Ambush Exercises (poetry)

John Colasacco (poetry)

Robert Collins, All Things Visible (poetry)

Lisa DeCook Crizer, A Few of the Things that Could've Happened Instead (fiction)

Mary Christine Delea, Bodies in Flight (poetry)

Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow, The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor (poetry)

Shokry Eldaly, Encre Tinita (poetry)

John Ester, Sufficient Wildness (poetry)

Gil Fagiani, Shooting Dope with Trotsky (poetry)

Dion Farquhar, Wonderful Terrible (poetry)

Nicholas Fillmore (poetry)

Gary Garvin, In the Garden (fiction)

Vanessa Haley, Holding Hands with Diane Arbus (poetry)

Melanie Jennings, My Ass Is Taking Over the World and Other Love Stories (fiction)

Gary Garvin, In the Garden (fiction)

Stefan Kaminski, Nine Years and Other Poems (poetry)

Sahar Mustafah Kayyal, An Unruly Life (fiction)

Sandra Kolankiewicz, Stories Without a Home (fiction)

Susan Kolodny (poetry)

Nick Korifiotis, Petty Blasphemies Trinket Sacrileges (poetry)

Stacie Leatherman, Stranger Air (poetry)

Lisa Lewis, Travel Plans for Social Outcasts (poetry)

Tamara Linse, The Body Animal and Other Stories (fiction)

David McGrath, The Territory (fiction)

Marc McKee, Fuse (poetry)

Corey Mesler, Notes Toward the Story and Other Stories (fiction)

Letitia Lehua Moffit, That's Nothing (fiction)

Natasha Kochicheril Moni, Flowers (demented) Dreams (poetry)

W.T. Pfefferle, My Coolest Shirt (poetry)

Vincent Renstrom, High in the Strike Zone (poetry)

Nick Ripatrazone, Mustard (fiction)

Lynn Veach Sadler, For Ambidextra, the Tenth Muse (poetry)

Patty Seyburn, Perfecta (poetry)

Victoria Tester, Blame the Whipporwill (fiction)

Dina Wolff, Ego Burning and Other Stories (fiction)

Deadline March 31

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