Pine Row Press
Literary press dedicated to publishing full-length books of excellence
Published in February 2023:
Pine Row Press is pleased to announce the publication of The Map of Unseen Things by Brett Warren. Warren, a long-time editor, holds a BA in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her poetry has appeared in Canary, Cape Cod Poetry Review, The Comstock Review, Eunoia Review, Green Fuse, Halfway Down the Stairs, Hole in the Head Review, One Sentence Poems, Pine Row Journal, Right Hand Pointing, Rise Up Review, and many other publications.
Published in November 2022:
Pine Row Press is pleased to announce the publication of Cutting It Loose by David Starkey. Starkey served as Santa Barbara's 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. He is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College, Co-editor of The California Review of Books, and the Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Over the past thirty-five years, he has published ten full-length collections of poetry with small presses before this publication.
Published in November 2022:
Pine Row Press is pleased to announce the publication of Tour of a Lifetime: Glenamaddy to Gomorrah by Thomas Rabbitt. Rabbitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Iowa. He is a winner of the Pitt Prize. Now retired, he is the former director of the creative writing program at the University of Alabama. He lives and works on a farm near Lewisburg, Tennessee.
Published in Spring 2022:
Pine Row Press is pleased to announce the publication of Leave No Wake by Marie Gauthier. Marie Gauthier is the author of Hunger All Inside (FLP, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Sugar House Review, Cave Wall, and elsewhere. Formerly with Tupelo Press, she works for Pioneer Valley Books, a publisher of literacy resources.
Published in Spring 2022:
Pine Row Press is pleased to announce the publication of Building Chevys by Elise Hempel. Hempel grew up in suburban Chicago and has worked as an editor, proofreader, copywriter, columnist, and university English instructor. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals as well as in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry. She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and her full-length collection of poems, Second Rain, was published by Able Muse Press in 2016. She lives in central Illinois.
Published in Spring 2022:
Pine Row Press is pleased to announce the publication of Figure 1 by Beth McDermott. Beth's poetry has appeared in many journals including Tupelo Quarterly and Southern Humanities Review. Reviews and criticism about art and ecology appear in American Book Review, After the Art, Kenyon Review Online, and The Trumpeter. She’s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award, an Illinois Speaks Micro-Grant, and first place in the Regional Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest. She is editor-in-chief at Cider Press Review and lives with her family in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.
Published in 2021:
Pine Row Press is pleased to announce the publication of Busing to Byzantium by Bruce Guernsey. A native New Englander, he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University where he taught for twenty-five years. He was awarded seven faculty excellence-in-teaching awards, and was selected as the State of Illinois Board of Governors’ “Professor of the Year."
Manuscripts recently accepted for publication:
Candice Kelsey - The Poet Dreams of Driving a Ding-a-Ling Ice Cream Truck & Other Means of Escape (March/April 2023)
Tresha Haefner - When the Moon Had Antlers (April/May 2023)
Kathryne Lim - Constellation of Wings (September/October 2023)
Mark Simpson - The Quieting (June/July 2023)
Kathryn Weld - Afterimage (September/October 2023)
Kevin Burris - Inside the Clock (September/October 2023)
Pine Row Press -- publishing full-length poetry books of exceptional merit.
Pine Row publishes an online literary journal, and separately, runs a literary press to publish full-length books of excellence. Pine Row publishes both new and established, award-winning poets. We are not a vanity press.
We require a $25 submission fee. We will read every manuscript submission but we do not promise comments on the manuscripts that are not accepted. Sometimes it is just not a fit, a matter of taste.
How we operate as a literary press:
Pine Row Press is a small independent press that publishes selected high quality works
Upon selection, Pine Row will contract with the accepted poet for terms of publication and market
Pine Row Press pays the published poet a small advance on royalties and furnishes several author copies of the book
The marketplace offers different publishing options to writers. Pine Row Press stands apart in this way:
Pine Row is not a vanity press or a self-publish press
Pine Row makes no requirement of the poet to buy anything. The Press will furnish initial copies of the finished book to the poet as readers' copies
Pine Row will reach out to its growing network to promote the book
Pine Row will partner with the poet to submit the book to review sites, and where appropriate, to award / recognition opportunities (submission fees paid by poet)
Pine Row will make the book available on Amazon and the contract will offer fair market royalty terms with the poet
Independent booksellers, and the poet, can order directly from the Press at deeply discounted wholesale rates. We support Independents!
The Pine Row Press editorial review process is highly selective. The Press does not seek to produce volume but rather quality.
We look forward to reviewing your submission.
Submit your full-length poetry manuscript to Pine Row. (Pine Row reading period now open through April 2023)
Pine Row Press is interested in poetry with a voice. Pine Row publishes an online literary journal, and separately, runs a literary press to publish full-length books of excellence. Pine Row has published first time poets and established, award-winning writers. Pine Row is not a vanity press - it is selective, you pay nothing to publish, and you will receive a modest advance and author copies if selected. Poetry manuscript submissions (full length book) should consist of at least 50 pages, and not more than 120 pages including a table of contents and brief poet bio. Simultaneous okay, but please let the press know if the work is accepted elsewhere. Poet/author retains full copyright of the work.
This is not a contest entry, but rather an open review of all submitted work with a reading fee. There is no minimum or maximum number of manuscripts that will be offered publication, it is strictly a decision based on the quality of the work and the opinion of the press. At any time, a manuscript of exceptional merit may be offered a $500 advance and the Press Prize at the discretion of the press.