We're pleased to announce our 2025 Nonfiction and Poetry awardees, shortlist, and longlist for the C&R Press 2025 awards in Nonfiction and Poetry! Please click here for the full Shortlist and Longlist: /cr-press-2025-awards/
NONFICTION SELECTION
Khalisa Rae w/ Knee Length
POETRY SELECTION
Ocean St. Amant w/ In all my dreams my angels give me wounds give me miracles
C&R congratulates everyone on the the 2025 shortlist and longlist (compelling & serious writing all around), and everyone who submitted as well. As always, the selection process had many manuscripts worthy of publication and serious consideration across all genres. We wish we could publish more work and wish everyone well!
Update: We are nearing an announcement for Fiction. Thank you for your patience in letting us read as fully as we'd like and need to make our determination.
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We're pleased to announce Matt Torralba Andrews "How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean: Stories" is the recipient of our Summer Tide Pool 2024 Chapbook Award!
Please read more about the awardee, and the shortlist, and longlist here.
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Our Summer Tide Pool 2025 Chapbook Prize opens June 20th!
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I love all of my blurbs & blurbers but this one hit me in the...where exactly? The frontal lobe? The heart? The gonads? Dark Complicity is my new drag name. Dan has brought so many complex (and KINKY) queer characters to culture and is busy with a little something called @onswifthorsesfilm ATM. AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY pre-orders shipping now, release date is 5/16, available in-store at @bgsqd and @fabulosa_books 🫀
We're pleased to announce our 2024 Nonfiction and Poetry awardees, shortlist, and longlist for the C&R Press 2024 awards in Nonfiction and Poetry! Please click here for the full Shortlist and Longlist /24a/
POETRY AWARD
Stacy Boe Miller, Ready to Answer With Hunger
NONFICTION AWARD
Nathan Long, As Is: Essays on a Queer Life, Writing, and the Unpredictable Nature of Things
C&R congratulates everyone on the the 2024 shortlist and longlist (such stellar writing!), and everyone who submitted as well. The selection process had many manuscripts worthy of publication and serious consideration across all genres. We wish we could publish more work and wish everyone well!
Our fiction awardee will be announced soon!
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We're pleased to announce Ellen Samuels' "Your Body Should Be A Part of The World" is the recipient of our Winter Soup Bowl 2024 Chapbook Award! Please read more about the awardee, and the shortlist, and longlist here.
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Our Winter Soup Bowl 2025 Chapbook Prize opens December 21st!.
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Part of being an author at a small press is making the rounds and humbly asking for writers & other culture makers to advance read your *little* book (AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY) and if they are so moved write some nice things about it. When I reached out to the fabulous and adorable @otroedgargomez what he has to say had me gay gasping 🙀 and happy crying 😹. Coming from a queer voice I adore! His first memoir HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL is one of the books that gave me the courage to let my own out. I can't wait to read his next book ALLIGATOR TEARS. Pre-order AoaKB here: https://bit.ly/AfterKept
Coming soon! We're excited that our 2023 Non-fiction Prize selection from Dale Corvino, "Afterlife of a Kept Boy" is available for pre-order. This voicey memoir plunges into themes of personal agency and longing, reckoning with legacy (both aesthetic and traumatic), generational identity, taboos, and much more.
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Corvino casts a queer lens on the Gen X condition as analog children thrust into a digital context. We hope you'll pick up a copy from the C&R website or anywhere else you like!
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We're pleased to announce our 2023 Fiction awardee, shortlist, and longlist for the C&R Press 2023 awards in Fiction! Please click here for the full Shortlist and Longlist /cr-press-2023-awards/
FICTION AWARD
Mary Grimm "Transubstantiation"
C&R congratulates everyone on the the 2023 shortlist and longlist (such stellar writing!), and everyone who submitted as well. The selection process had many manuscripts worthy of publication and serious consideration across all genres. We wish we could publish more work and wish everyone well!
LONG LIVE BOOKS!
We're pleased to announce Alice Campbell Romano's "The Consolation of Geometry" is the recipient of our Summer Tide Pool 2023 Chapbook Award! Please read more about the awardee, and the shortlist, and longlist here.
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Our Winter Soup Bowl 2024 Chapbook Prize is now open!.
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It's official! We're hosting a two session reading and cash bar mixer for #AWP24 on February 8th, and will exhibit at Table 917!
We're looking forward to hosting many of our wonderful C&R Press, and imprint Steel Toe Books authors on February 8, 2024.
We ask attendees to register below as we have limited seating for each reading.
Reading Session 1
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Reading Session 2
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We're looking forward to seeing you, and continue to appreciate your support of our author's work!
We're pleased to announce our 2023 Nonfiction and Poetry awardees, shortlist, and longlist! /cr-press-2023-awards/
POETRY AWARD
Cindy King
“Five for Nothing”
NONFICTION AWARD
@dalecorvino “Kept Boy in the Afterlife”
LONG LIVE BOOKS!
We're pleased to anounce Allison A. deFreese's translations of @lucianajazmincoronado 's poetry, Dinner at Las Heras is the recipient of our Winter Soup Bowl 2023 Chapbook Award! Please read more about the awardee, and the shortlist, and longlist here.
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Our Winter Soup Bowl 2024 Chapbook Prize will open in a few days. LONG LIVE BOOKS!
