Barrow Street Press

Submissions are open for the Barrow Street poetry journal! Submit here: barrowstreet.org/press/submit/

Come hear Barrow Street authors at our off-site reading on Friday, at V-No, Fella Point, with Autumn House Press (@AutumnHousePrs), Four Way Books (@FourWayBooks), and Carnegie Mellon (@CMUPress)!

Looking forward to AWP in Baltimore! Book signing at our booth on Friday!

Hello all, Charles Kell here. Just sending out a big big congratulations to Barrow Street Press's senior associate editor, Rachel Rothenberg (@RRrothenberg), for winning Persea Books 2026 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry for her collection, Debris Field!

Big big congrats to Barrow Street's Pushcart nominees! Dorsey Craft @DorseyCraft Mónica Gomery Jason Labbe Stephen Massimilla Carrie Shipers Stella Wong @stellayywong

Big big congrats to Barrow Street's (@BarrowStreetInc) Pushcart nominees! Dorsey Craft @DorseyCraft Mónica Gomery Jason Labbe Stephen Massimilla Carrie Shipers Stella Wong @stellayywong

Big congrats to Jasmine Khaliq (@jasminekhaliq_), winner of a Barrow Street 2025 Editors’ Prize. SOMEWHERE HORSES was chosen by the editorial board out of nearly 700 submissions! Please join us in congratulating Jasmine, SOMEWHERE HORSES will be launching in early 2027!

Big congratulations to Genevieve Payne, winner of a 2025 Barrow Street Editors’ Prize! HURT MUSIC was chosen by the editorial board out of nearly 700 submissions. Please join us in congratulating Genevieve, HURT MUSIC will be launching in early 2027!

Big big congrats to Philip Schaefer, 2025 winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize! Philip’s manuscript PAGAN ERA has been chosen by contest judge John Murillo, and will be published in Fall 2026.

Check out this wonderful review of Aleksander Zywicki's ZOUNDS! in Bear Review! bearreview.com/br/review-alek…

Check out this wonderful review and interview with Aleksander Zywicki on ZOUNDS! featured in LIT litmagazine.org/zounds-a-revie…

Find your next read in our roundup of new books out from indie presses! Featuring @trouserpress, @BarrowStreetInc, @floodeditions, @FrayedEdgePress, @rescuepress, @LookoutBooks, @arrowsmithpress, @AyinPress, @SlantBooks, @eastoverpress & more: clmp.org/news/books-lau…

Thrilled to be included on this stellar list of incredible publications!

Full-length poetry collections wanted for the 2025 Barrow Street Poetry Prize @barrowstreetinc. This year's judge is John Murillo. Winner receives $1.5k & book publication. Enter by June 30. newpages.com/guide-submissi… #poets #poetrycontest

Big shout out to Wendy Lesser and Threepenny Review for running this pantoum

An additional manuscript will also be chosen for publication as our Editors Prize winner. Deadline is June 30.We can’t wait to read your work! Submit here: barrowstreet.org/press/submit/

The 2025 Barrow Street Poetry Contest is now open for submissions, and we are absolutely thrilled to share that this year’s judge is John Murillo! Our winner will receive $1500 and publication with Barrow Street Press.

The first of my hurricane stories is live today in The Lindenwood Review! It's beyond exciting to find my fiction in their pages. Eternal thanks to the incomparable Beth Mead and the editorial staff for their kindness and care. Link in the comments to read!

Be sure to bookmark our #WomensHistoryMonth list for year-round reading material from @BarrowStreetInc, @Birdsllc, @PassagerBooks, @arrowsmithpress, @futurepoem, @uglyducklingprs, @SoutheastReview, @ANMLY_LIT & more! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

A reminder that our Spring 2025 Contest ends in just a little over a week, on the 15th of March. The submission fee is $7, and winners receive $500!!! If you need a fee waiver or have any questions, feel free to send us an email.