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Independent literary publisher of books and chapbooks of poetry, based in Portland, Oregon. Since 2004. ➡️ www.burnsidereview.org

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Guidelines for the Burnside Review Press Book Contest Submit 50-100 pages of poetry, including a list of acknowledgments.

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13.01.2026 22:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2 DAYS LEFT!!! ⏲️ Send us your unpublished manuscripts 📋 The deadline for the Burnside Review Press Book Contest is this Thursday, January 15th. Rick Barot is judging 📚

🔗 Complete guidelines in first comment

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13.01.2026 22:39 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
three books: Mister Goodbye Easter Island by Jon Woodward, Togetherness by Wo Chan, I Know Where I'm Going by Fran Carlen

three books: Mister Goodbye Easter Island by Jon Woodward, Togetherness by Wo Chan, I Know Where I'm Going by Fran Carlen

when Kyle Marbut recommends books, I listen

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13.01.2026 02:46 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We Look Better Alive by Ali Black | Burnside Review Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and If It Heals at All (Jacar Press, 2020), which was selected by Jaki Shelton Green...

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12.01.2026 22:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 WE LOOK BETTER ALIVE (Burnside Review Press, 2025) by Ali Black is a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry.

CONGRATS ALI 🎉🎉!!!

#poetry #naacpimageawards #book #writer #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

12.01.2026 22:43 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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08.01.2026 22:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 John McCarthy’s manuscript The Wyeth Ekphrastics is the winner of the 2025 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest 🎉 Congrats John!!😊 Thanks to all who entered the contest

#poetry #chapbook #contest #writingcommunity

08.01.2026 22:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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"Make things with your hands" // An Interview with Poet Kyle Marbut — [neonpajamas] Speaking with the author of Black Swan Theory .

| Literary Feature |

"Make things with your hands" // An Interview with Poet Kyle Marbut

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05.01.2026 17:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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There’s still time ⏰ We are extending the deadline to January 15th!! Send us your poetry manuscript 📝

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#poetry #writingcommunity #book #callforsubmissions #write #contest #poet

31.12.2025 01:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Announcing the shortlist for the Poetry in Translation Prize | Fitzcarraldo Editions Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are pleased to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Poetry in Translation Prize, selected from 259 submissions in more than 55 languages. The Po...

📣ANNOUNCING THE 2025 POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE SHORTLIST📣
Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions are pleased to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Poetry in Translation Prize.
Read more about the shortlist here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/12/anno...

11.12.2025 14:31 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Publications, featuring the covers of Sacrificial Animals, Remains Issue 3, Pastorale, and Uncanny Magazine

Publications, featuring the covers of Sacrificial Animals, Remains Issue 3, Pastorale, and Uncanny Magazine

Cool stuff: 3X award finalist, 4 states toured, 1 super cool reader tattoo, an embarrassing amount of times you quietly yee haw'ed while typing a sceen in your Western

Cool stuff: 3X award finalist, 4 states toured, 1 super cool reader tattoo, an embarrassing amount of times you quietly yee haw'ed while typing a sceen in your Western

Your upcoming release - The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen. Cover features an Asian woman's face inside a piano silhouette.

Your upcoming release - The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen. Cover features an Asian woman's face inside a piano silhouette.

You appeared on 8 podcasts and spoke at 1 writing conference and 1 former high school (still smells the same!)

You appeared on 8 podcasts and spoke at 1 writing conference and 1 former high school (still smells the same!)

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11.12.2025 17:56 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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50 Cleveland Book Releases We Loved in 2025 Find new releases in fiction, nonfiction, art, poetry and more from authors affiliated with Northeast Ohio's literary scene.

Books from faculty Hilary Plum ("State Champ," @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) AND alum Ali Black ("We Look Better Alive," @burnsidereview.bsky.social) featured in this list of favs from @clevelandmag.bsky.social 💫💫💫

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10.12.2025 22:08 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Guidelines for the Burnside Review Press Book Contest Submit 50-100 pages of poetry, including a list of acknowledgments.

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12.11.2025 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Send us your poetry manuscript!! 🔗 in bio.

This year’s contest will be judged by Rick Barot.

Rick Barot's most recent book of poems is Moving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. His previous collection, The Galleons, was longlisted for the National Book Award.

#poetry #writing

12.11.2025 23:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Guidelines for the Burnside Review Press Book Contest Submit 50-100 pages of poetry, including a list of acknowledgments.

burnsidereview.org/book-guideli...

01.11.2025 15:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BURNSIDE REVIEW PRESS
BOOK CONTEST
JUDGE: RICK BAROT
SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2025.

01.11.2025 15:33 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Re-openings for November 01, 2025 Over 110 publications re-opened today, including @burnsidereview.bsky.social @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social @hobocampreview.bsky.social @pulpasylum.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @rhppress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social https://duotrope.com/news/publishing/

Over 110 publications re-opened today, including @burnsidereview.bsky.social @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social @hobocampreview.bsky.social @pulpasylum.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @rhppress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...

01.11.2025 14:05 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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A new fund will route millions to the literary arts A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years.
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becoming sam by Samodh Porawagamage Winner of the 2022 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Jaswinder Bolina.

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29.10.2025 16:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sundress Reads: Review of Becoming Sam - The Sundress Blog The Sri Lankan Civil War, beginning in 1983 and ending in 2009, was fought between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), a Tamil group that rose up in an attempt to...

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29.10.2025 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 review of samodh Porawagamage’s becoming sam
Thanks @sundresspub.bsky.social

#poetry #writingcommunity #book #read #poem #poet #poetrycommunity

29.10.2025 16:25 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
We Look Better Alive by Ali Black | Burnside Review Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and If It Heals at All (Jacar Press, 2020), which was selected by Jaki Shelton Green...

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18.10.2025 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2025 Cleveland Arts Prize recipients on art, creating and community Ali Black, Mark E. Howard and Jason Vieaux discuss their crafts, in their own words.

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18.10.2025 15:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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"When My Mother Died", a poem by Ali Black
https://poems.com/poem/when-my-mother-died/
via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @burnsidereview.bsky.social

11.08.2025 04:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We Look Better Alive by Ali Black | Burnside Review Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and If It Heals at All (Jacar Press, 2020), which was selected by Jaki Shelton Green...

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03.08.2025 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today’s Featured Poem:

“When My Mother Died” by Ali Black from We Look Better Alive published by @burnsidereview.bsky.social

Read here: poems.com/poem/when-my...

03.08.2025 15:03 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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becoming sam by Samodh Porawagamage Winner of the 2022 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Jaswinder Bolina.

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18.07.2025 16:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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18.07.2025 14:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anticipation of the Inevitable Bloody doesn't capture their blood. Bloody, here, was an end, though their blood hasn't stopped

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Anticipation of the Inevitable” by samodH Porawagamage from becoming sam published by @burnsidereview.bsky.social

Read here:
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18.07.2025 13:53 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
samodH Porawagamage – ANMLY

"Then flashed the random memory
of a road trip. Motorcycles. Che Guevara.
Bob Marley and reggae and how nobody
gives a fuck about reggae
in West Texas. Jehan was about to ping
an Uber home. Maybe he did."

—samodH Porawagamage

16.05.2025 11:50 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0