Press 53

09/17/2024

Thank you, Bill Griffin!

https://griffinpoetry.com/2024/09/13/noticing/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0fUsv9XGERPPmNkiZFhOJKQmzCUFQHaIYNSz8WDksrAv8hU-yehPGiJkw_aem_z-3RlAXcYpg2GzaX2HdllA

. [with 3 poems by Adrian Rice] . Yard Work . The neighbour and I. We joke across the avenue aisle about the onset of porch time. While praising the advent of all that it means, we comradely …

09/15/2024

Online, generative workshop coming up this week with Press 53. All genres encouraged. Whether you are a beginning writer or advanced, you will get your pen moving here.
https://www.press53.com/online-seminars-and-workshops/prompt-writing-like-speed-dating-sept-19

08/21/2024

A book club for writers? Now that's a great idea! https://www.writeability.org/

Their first six months lineup will not disappoint: Pete Fromm, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Tara Lynn Masih, Sejal Shah, Steve Almond, and Michael Parker.

08/15/2024

Today on Verse Daily, a prose poem by Mark Cox, "Wonder Bread," from his new collection, KNOWING.

Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

08/04/2024

Thank you Electric Literature and Wendy Fox for including The Ill-Fitting Skin by Shannon Robinson!

Novels, memoirs, and story collections from small publishers you won't want to miss

07/20/2024

The 2025 Press 53 Award for Poetry is accepting unpublished poetry collections between 50 to 120 pages. Learn more at NewPages.

07/20/2024

Book Details: Author: Mark Cox Release Date: April 11, 2024Series:Genre: Poetry, Non-FictionFormat: E-book Pages: 98 pagesPublisher: Press 53Blurb:Mark Cox pulls no punches in these poems about lov…

07/20/2024

Welcome to TRB Lounge. Today, I’d like to welcome the author of Knowing – Mark Cox, for an author interview with The Reading Bud. About The Author Mark Cox has authored six other vol…

07/04/2024

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Thank you, George Bilgere, for sharing on Poetry Town one of our favorite poems by one of our favorite poets. This poem is also available in Cathy's Like Shining from Shook Foil: Selected Poems and in The Collected Poems of Cathy Smith Bowers, both from Press 53.

Welcome to poet George Bilgere’s online newsletter. Every day George selects a poem by a writer he’s crazy about and he says a few words about why he picked it.

06/18/2024

Saturday Review: "Appalachian Journeys" a review by George Hovis in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Robert Morgans's collection In the Snowbird Mountain and Other Stories (2023) and Rebecca Godwin's monograph Community Across Time: Robert Morgan's Words for Home (2023)

Longtime readers of NCLR know we have published many pieces by and about 2010 NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee Robert Morgan. Our inaugural Spring issue adds to the collection of Morgan material. Editorial Board member George Hovis places two new works--one by and one about Morgan--into the context of a body of work.

Read More: https://nclr.ecu.edu/2024/06/08/hovis-reviews-morgan/

06/03/2024

Congratulations, Michael Hettich! Judge Eric Pankey had this to say about his selection: “What impresses me most about Michael Hettich’s The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems 1990-2022 (Press 53) are the poems’ radiance and clarity, their keen and patient attention, and the plain old gorgeousness of their music. Lovers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, and Theodore Roethke will find a kinship here. As well, I find a lively and quick mind here at work, not unlike contemporary Swiss poet, Philippe Jaccottet, who records fleeting moments that open onto a glimpse of the subtle and the sublime. This is an impressive and generous collection of poetry deserving much attention.”

01/06/2024

We are sad to hear of Fred Chappell’s death. He was an outstanding poet, novelist, essayist and teacher. Our very best to his wife and partner Susan and the eir family.

"Anyone who knows anything about Southern writing knows that Fred Chappell is our resident genius, our shining light, the one truly great writer we have among us," said novelist Lee

01/04/2024

Thank you, Southern Literary Review, for an excellent review of THE HALO OF BEES: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1990-2022 by Michael Hettich. Thank you, Claire Matturro for writing this insightful review.

Award-winning poet Michael Hettich, a former Florida resident and professor who now lives in North Carolina, has an avid appreciation for nature, domestic life, language, trust in the simple things, and in the often-elusive connections between entities. With intelligence, insight, and occasional wit...

12/20/2023

The 2024 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction is open to entries of unpublished short story collections. Learn more at NewPages.

12/16/2023

What's better than one December cover reveal? ... Two!

Check out Garrett Ashley's forthcoming story collection, PERIPHYLLA, AND OTHER DEEP OCEAN ATTRACTIONS, now available for pre-order at https://www.press53.com/garrett-ashley 📚🪼

12/14/2023

Cover reveal for our 2023 winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, coming May 3. Deadline for 2024 competition is Dec 31.
www.press53.com/award-for-short-fiction

12/14/2023

Have you heard the news? It's cover reveal day for Shannon Robinson's award-winning story collection THE ILL-FITTING SKIN! 👀 👀 Shannon's stories have been called "clever, harrowing, bitingly funny, imaginative, absurd, anatomical, and wise" . . . and they're available for pre-order now at https://www.press53.com/shannon-robinson!

12/03/2023

David Jauss discusses his collection of craft essays Alone with All That Could Happen, as well as how the book fits into our current climate of creativity battling AI art. Interviewed by Benjamin Woodard