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Our mission 
is to develop, publish, and promote writers typically underrepresented in the literary field. 

 

Thank you for your ongoing support!

  
Aquarius Press/Willow Books
  

Calendar

 

 
11/22 - 11/23

Cedric Tillman

NC Writers Network  Fall Conference 
555 S McDowell St, Charlotte, NC 28204


11/22 - 11/23

Cedric Tillman

MAD Open Mic 
Mad Studios, 307 11th St, Augusta, GA


April 2015
Willow Books National Poetry Month Celebration
Details TBA

April 8-11,2015

Associated Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair

Hilton Minneapolis

Minnepolis, MN

Details TBA

 

 

COMING UP NEXT!


April Gibson
Emerging Author
Chapbook debut @ AWP


Rachelle Linda Escamilla
Imaginary Animal


David Garvin
White Sun: Stories from Hispanoam�rica 


 

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  Our 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominees!

"Best of the Small Presses published this year"

 

Derrick Harriell, ROPES ebook Edition

  

 Angie Chuang,
The Four Words for Home

Curtis L. Crisler, WONDERKIND
Elmaz Abinader, This House, My Bones
Cedric Tillman, Lilies in the Valley ebook Edition
T.J. Anderson, III, Cairo Workbook

 

 2015 WILLOW BOOKS 
LITERATURE AWARDS

DEADLINE DEC. 1!

 

 

WILLOW BOOKS LITERATURE AWARDS

Prose Grand Prize: 

$1,000, book contract, and sponsored reading

Poetry Grand Prize: 

$1,000, book contract, and sponsored reading

 

The Willow Books Literature Awards recognize literary excellence in prose and poetry by writers from culturally diverse backgrounds. The 2014 Grand Prize winners are David Garvin and Rachelle Linda Escamilla.

 

The submission deadline for entries is Monday, December 1, 2014. Four Finalists will be announced on February 6, 2015. The Grand Prize winners will be announced April 3, 2015.

 

 SUBMIT HERE:

  

https://aquariuspress.submittable.com/submit

 

 

  ANNOUNCING

 


 

T.J. Anderson, III 

 

 

T.J. Anderson, III 
has an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Binghamton University. A former Fulbright Scholar at Cairo University, he is the author of Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry (University of Arkansas Press), River to Cross (Backwaters Press), the Spoken-Word CD, Blood Octave (Flat Five Recordings), and the chapbook At Last Round Up (lift books). He teaches courses in jazz literature, poetry and performance, and creative writing at Hollins University. Anderson is also the co-founder of the improvisational music duo Trancepoetica. 

 

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  Highlights from the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference

November 13-16, 2014

 

Angela Narciso Torres, Curtis L. Crisler, and Reginald Flood, "The Living City: Perspectives on Writing Persona & Narrative Poetry"

 

Curtis, Qiana Towns, and Reggie, "Life in the City: Politics, Pedagogy & Multicultural Literature in the College Classroom"

  

 
"As a kid visiting from Los Angeles, the South meant summer, cousins, family . . . I spent time on big farms, then later lived in kitchenettes in Kansas City and Chicago. When writing COFFLE, I was asking how can I make sense of all that."--Reginald Flood

 

 

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About Us

 

H. Buchanan, Owner & Publisher

Randall Horton, Poetry Editor

Qiana Towns, Reverie Journal Editor

Adrienne Christian, Contributing Editor

Curtis L. Crisler, Contributing Editor

Jen Welzel, Editorial Assistant