Black Lawrence Press

FRIDAY 3/6 AWP SCHEDULE — come meet these fantastic BLP authors at the Baltimore Convention Center today! We'll be at the booth between 10am and 5pm. See you there! 📚

THURSDAY 3/5 AWP SCHEDULE — come meet these fantastic BLP authors at the Baltimore Convention Center today! We'll be at the booth between 10am and 5pm. See you there! 📚

"How does Whitney Koo simultaneously invest the lyric with moments of rapture, dimension, and devastation while simultaneously interrogating the act of lyric performance? Answer: Wizardry."

✨ Any Gesture is out April 7th with Black Lawrence Press. Pre-order now at the link below!

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Black Lawrence Press Open Call: AAPI Adoptee Poetry Anthology!

We’re seeking work from AAPI Adoptee Poets for a collection of poems featuring emerging + established poets across the US.

We are accepting submissions until June 1st, 2026.

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Join us one week from today for a free virtual workshop! Hosted by award-winning author Katey Schultz, you will learn the defining traits of flash form writing, study noteworthy examples, and begin writing your own.

🗓️ March 10th
🕰️ 8 - 9:30 PM EST
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Through March, we're running a sale on select e-book Chapbooks! You can grab these titles for just $1.99 across e-book platforms...happy e-reading! 📚

Praise for Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself — Out May 5th with Black Lawrence Press. Pre-order now at blacklawrencepress.com/books!

It's AWP week! We can't wait to meet you all at the book fair—check out our author signing schedule here. ✨ 📖

And don't forget to swing by our official offsite event at Red Emmas on Thursday (3/5) at 8pm!

From an absolutely beautiful piece for Writer's Digest by Lisa Slage Robinson—out now at the link below.

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Last call to work with our February consultants! Whether you've got a very early draft or a ready-to-publish manuscript, head over to our Submittable! We can't wait to read your work.

Join us at Red Emma's in Baltimore for our official AWP offsite event! We'll be there with some of our incredible BLP authors for readings from 8-10pm. We can't wait to see you there! ✨

Thrilled to see this wonderful review of Esquire Ball in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette!

Esquire Ball is out now with Black Lawrence Press—head to blacklawrencepress.com/books ✨

Habitat by Case Q. Kerns was recently featured in an incredible Harvard Magazine article about climate fiction—read the full article at the link below!

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A reminder that in honor of Black History Month, we're running a sale on these fantastic titles through the end of February! Head to blacklawrencepress.com/sale to browse these selections.

We're so proud to see Wayne Scott's "The Maps They Gave Us" nominated as a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards! ✨ Check out the full list at the link below.

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A friendly reminder that you've got one more week to shop these select nonfiction titles for just $3.99! Shop the sale across e-book platforms through February 28th. ✨

The Fall 2025 Black Lawrence Chapbook Competition has a winner! Join us in congratulating Romana Iorga on her winning manuscript, Witness Protection! We are thrilled to welcome it to the BLP catalog—coming in 2027. ✨

To read an excerpt from the collection, head to blacklawrencepress.com

Our consultation program offers the kind of rigorous feedback that's difficult to find outside of an MFA program—for over a decade, it's been an honor to partner with award-winning authors to provide consultations to writers!

Visit our Submittable to send your fiction to the incredible Jenny Irish.

We have a winner! The winning manuscript of the 2025 St. Lawrence Book Award is Diasporous by Grace H. Zhou! We are thrilled to welcome Diasporous to the Black Lawrence Press catalog—coming in 2027. ✨

Head to blacklawrencepress.com to read an excerpt from the collection!

So pleased to see more love rolling in for The Earth Room! Read the full review in Heavy Feather, out now at the link below.

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Praise for Worth Burning ✨ Read the full review out now in Publishers Weekly (link below), and pre-order Worth Burning at blacklawrencepress.com.

Mickie Kennedy's debut collection is out with Black Lawrence Press on February 24, 2026.

www.publishersweekly.com/9781625571816

Come see Black Lawrence Press at AWP 2026! We'll be at booth 650 March 4th through 7th. Come by and say hi to our editors and authors—we can't wait to meet you!✨

This month, we're thrilled to be working with Alexandra Regalado on poetry consultations! Head on over to our Submittable (link in bio) to submit your poetry manuscript. Whether it's one poem or a full manuscript you're ready to publish, we can't wait to work with you!

Still looking for the perfect gift for the book lover in your life? We've got you covered!

Choose between poetry and prose and we will send curated book bundles to your sweetheart's door.

Every delivery includes:
-1 frontlist title
-1 backlist gem
-1 chapbook
-a surprise gift

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🌨️ 📖 Join us during this final chilly month of cozy reading season!

Now through Sunday (2/15), buy any book from our website and we'll add a second, different book of equal value to your order.

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In honor of Black History Month, we're spotlighting Black writers & stories at Black Lawrence Press. These titles will be offered at a discounted price throughout the month—browse these titles at the BLP website, or at the link below.

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TONIGHT! ✨ Join us on Zoom for a generative writing workshop led by BLP poet Arielle Hebert. We'll explore poems of nature and science to discuss craft, wonder, and wildness, before writing our own poems in community. And, this workshop is completely free!

Register here: buff.ly/0AjLYw9

CALL FOR ENTRIES — The Hudson Prize is officially open! ✨ Awarded annually to a collection of poetry or prose, the prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. All submission guidelines can be found at our Submittable—link below.

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Our monthly public issue of Sapling is here! This month, Kit Frick sat down with Krista Cox and Erin Elizabeth Smith of Sundress Publications for an insightful conversation. Head on over to the link below to read the full interview!

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We're so excited to be partnering with Jenny Irish and Alexandra Regalado this month for our Manuscript Consultation Program! Head to the link below to read more about their approaches to editing, and to submit your manuscript.

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