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

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BURNSIDE REVIEW PRESS
BOOK CONTEST
JUDGE: RICK BAROT
SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2025.
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📣 review of samodh Porawagamage’s becoming sam
Thanks @sundresspub.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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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...
poems.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
poems.com/poem/anticip...
Anticipation of the Inevitable
Bloody doesn't capture their blood. Bloody, here, was an end, though their blood hasn't stopped
poems.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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"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
samodH Porawagamage – ANMLY
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May 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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We are back with another staff book recommendation! Thank you to Poetry Reader @nicolebyrnepoet.bsky.social for this great pick!
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Happy Pride Month!!!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Celebrate with us in supporting LGBTQ+ writers, artists and community - - check out our catalog (🔗 in bio)

Kyle Marbut
@kaileepedersen.bsky.social
@angelosmao.bsky.social

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June 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
📣 BURNSIDE REVIEW CHAPBOOK CONTEST - - Submissions will be open until June 30th!!!

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June 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We are pleased to announce that @anandalima.bsky.social has selected Jake Bauer’s manuscript The Universe Thinks about Anger Management as the winner of the 2024 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Look for it in 2026!

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May 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Kyle Marbut, good lord

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May 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
becoming sam by Samodh Porawagamage (Burnside Review Press, 2024)

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May 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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this debut collection from Kyle Marbut has me in a chokehold

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May 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🎉🎉 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY Kyle Marbut and Black Swan Theory 🦢!! 🎉🎉

📣📖Winner of the 2023 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Arda Collins.

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May 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎉🎉 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY Ali Black and We Look Better Alive!!🎉🎉

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).

➡️ Grab a copy! 📖🔗 in bio

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April 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM