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Small Harbor Publishing is a non-profit organization that houses a press and online magazine. Our goal is to address gender parity and marginalization in publishing. We are committed to giving diverse voices a home.
There’s still plenty of time to submit! ✨
The Laureate Prize is open through December 31st — judged by Traci Brimhall. We welcome work from all writers, especially those from traditionally marginalized communities.
Submit here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-pri...
The Laureate Prize is open through December 31st — judged by Traci Brimhall. We welcome work from all writers, especially those from traditionally marginalized communities.
Submit here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-pri...
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
There’s still plenty of time to submit! ✨
The Laureate Prize is open through December 31st — judged by Traci Brimhall. We welcome work from all writers, especially those from traditionally marginalized communities.
Submit here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-pri...
The Laureate Prize is open through December 31st — judged by Traci Brimhall. We welcome work from all writers, especially those from traditionally marginalized communities.
Submit here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-pri...
Join us for a special Harbor Editions Book Release Reading!
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Facebook live! RSVP at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Facebook live! RSVP at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Join us for a special Harbor Editions Book Release Reading!
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Facebook live! RSVP at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Facebook live! RSVP at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
Coming Soon! Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of lyrical craft, devotion, and awe. A storm of Ohio clay, thunder, and grace—Demaree’s poetry charts beauty’s every corner.
Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...
Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Coming Soon! Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of lyrical craft, devotion, and awe. A storm of Ohio clay, thunder, and grace—Demaree’s poetry charts beauty’s every corner.
Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...
Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...
Join us next week for a special Harbor Editions Book Release Reading!
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Zoom — Or Facebook at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Zoom — Or Facebook at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Join us next week for a special Harbor Editions Book Release Reading!
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Zoom — Or Facebook at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
🗓 November 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM ET
📍 Online via Zoom — Or Facebook at: facebook.com/events/s/har...
Featuring readings from:
Becca Rae Rose • Darren C. Demaree • Gabrielle Brant Freeman & Kathleen Nalley
Happy 3rd Birthday to Becoming Couldn’t Sing for Anyone by Theresa Senato Edwards!
Celebrate this book today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/becomi...
Celebrate this book today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/becomi...
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Happy 3rd Birthday to Becoming Couldn’t Sing for Anyone by Theresa Senato Edwards!
Celebrate this book today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/becomi...
Celebrate this book today: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/becomi...
Happy 4th Birthday to a child walks in the dark by Darren C. Demaree! This haunting, tender collection continues to light the way through shadow—four years later, it still lingers long after the last line. Buy now: smallharborpublishing.com/books/a-child-walks-in-the-dark-by-darren-c-demaree
a child walks in the dark by Darren C. Demaree — Small Harbor Publishing
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November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy 4th Birthday to a child walks in the dark by Darren C. Demaree! This haunting, tender collection continues to light the way through shadow—four years later, it still lingers long after the last line. Buy now: smallharborpublishing.com/books/a-child-walks-in-the-dark-by-darren-c-demaree
DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is now for sale. Get this poetry collection ASAP at: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissen...
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is now for sale. Get this poetry collection ASAP at: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissen...
Now available to purchase!
DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is here—bold, urgent, and unafraid to speak truth.
Get your copy today from Small Harbor Publishing:
👉 smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is here—bold, urgent, and unafraid to speak truth.
Get your copy today from Small Harbor Publishing:
👉 smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Now available to purchase!
DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is here—bold, urgent, and unafraid to speak truth.
Get your copy today from Small Harbor Publishing:
👉 smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman is here—bold, urgent, and unafraid to speak truth.
Get your copy today from Small Harbor Publishing:
👉 smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
Coming soon! Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Coming soon! Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-fl...
Happy 1st birthday to A SLOW INDWELLING by Luke Johnson and Megan Merchant! Celebrate 1 year of this book by purchasing it now for yourself or gift it to someone: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/a-slow...
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Happy 1st birthday to A SLOW INDWELLING by Luke Johnson and Megan Merchant! Celebrate 1 year of this book by purchasing it now for yourself or gift it to someone: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/a-slow...
Join Small Harbor Publisher’s founder, Allison Blevins, on 12/13/25 for “Writing with Pain: A Generative Workshop on Illness and Disability.” Visit the attached link for registration details: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Join Small Harbor Publisher’s founder, Allison Blevins, on 12/13/25 for “Writing with Pain: A Generative Workshop on Illness and Disability.” Visit the attached link for registration details: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Happy 1st birthday to Salt Rich by Leanne Dunic!
A luminous collection of prose poems that linger like salt on the tongue—tender, harrowing, unforgettable. 💛
Celebrate with us: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/salt-rich-by-leanne-dunic
A luminous collection of prose poems that linger like salt on the tongue—tender, harrowing, unforgettable. 💛
Celebrate with us: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/salt-rich-by-leanne-dunic
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Happy 1st birthday to Salt Rich by Leanne Dunic!
A luminous collection of prose poems that linger like salt on the tongue—tender, harrowing, unforgettable. 💛
Celebrate with us: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/salt-rich-by-leanne-dunic
A luminous collection of prose poems that linger like salt on the tongue—tender, harrowing, unforgettable. 💛
Celebrate with us: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/salt-rich-by-leanne-dunic
COVER REVEAL! We’re so excited to share the cover of Monica Prince’s “Force: A Choreopoem”. Coming January, 2026.
Photography by: Steve Gibson
Cover design by: Hercules Platts
Photography by: Steve Gibson
Cover design by: Hercules Platts
October 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
COVER REVEAL! We’re so excited to share the cover of Monica Prince’s “Force: A Choreopoem”. Coming January, 2026.
Photography by: Steve Gibson
Cover design by: Hercules Platts
Photography by: Steve Gibson
Cover design by: Hercules Platts
COMING SOON 🔥DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman unearths the roots of systemic patriarchy and blooms into a call for feminine revolution. Restless, raw, and unflinching.
Stay tuned: smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
Stay tuned: smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
October 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
COMING SOON 🔥DISSENT by Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman unearths the roots of systemic patriarchy and blooms into a call for feminine revolution. Restless, raw, and unflinching.
Stay tuned: smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
Stay tuned: smallharborpublishing.com/books/dissent-by-kathleen-nalley-and-gabrielle-freeman
Happy 3rd Birthday to Not Something We Discuss Often by Sarah Cedeño! Celebrate with us by grabbing your copy here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/no...
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Happy 3rd Birthday to Not Something We Discuss Often by Sarah Cedeño! Celebrate with us by grabbing your copy here: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/no...
Submissions for Harbor Review’s Winter Issue #16 are closing soon. We’re looking for original, unpublished poetry and visual art, pieces that spark dialogue between text and image.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our next issue!
Submit here: www.harbor-review.com/submit
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our next issue!
Submit here: www.harbor-review.com/submit
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Submissions for Harbor Review’s Winter Issue #16 are closing soon. We’re looking for original, unpublished poetry and visual art, pieces that spark dialogue between text and image.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our next issue!
Submit here: www.harbor-review.com/submit
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our next issue!
Submit here: www.harbor-review.com/submit
The Laureate Prize is now open for submissions!
We welcome work from all writers with special encouragement for people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities.
Submit between October 1 – December 31
🪶 Judged by Traci Brimhall
smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-prize
We welcome work from all writers with special encouragement for people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities.
Submit between October 1 – December 31
🪶 Judged by Traci Brimhall
smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-prize
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Laureate Prize is now open for submissions!
We welcome work from all writers with special encouragement for people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities.
Submit between October 1 – December 31
🪶 Judged by Traci Brimhall
smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-prize
We welcome work from all writers with special encouragement for people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities.
Submit between October 1 – December 31
🪶 Judged by Traci Brimhall
smallharborpublishing.com/laureate-prize
Coming soon — T4T by Evelyn Berry.
From the award-winning trans, Southern author of Grief Slut and Buggery, T4T is a bold and tender new collection exploring love, survival, and becoming.
💗 Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4t-by-evelyn-berry
From the award-winning trans, Southern author of Grief Slut and Buggery, T4T is a bold and tender new collection exploring love, survival, and becoming.
💗 Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4t-by-evelyn-berry
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Coming soon — T4T by Evelyn Berry.
From the award-winning trans, Southern author of Grief Slut and Buggery, T4T is a bold and tender new collection exploring love, survival, and becoming.
💗 Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4t-by-evelyn-berry
From the award-winning trans, Southern author of Grief Slut and Buggery, T4T is a bold and tender new collection exploring love, survival, and becoming.
💗 Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4t-by-evelyn-berry
Do you have your award-winning collection yet? The Other Tree by Alison Lubar (2023 Laureate Prize) is a lush, fearless exploration of ancestry, memory, and transformation.
Buy at: smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-other-tree-by-alison-lubar
Buy at: smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-other-tree-by-alison-lubar
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Do you have your award-winning collection yet? The Other Tree by Alison Lubar (2023 Laureate Prize) is a lush, fearless exploration of ancestry, memory, and transformation.
Buy at: smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-other-tree-by-alison-lubar
Buy at: smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-other-tree-by-alison-lubar
Coming soon! Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of powerful, tender, and deeply human poems.
Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-flourish-northern-cardinal-by-darren-c-demaree
Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-flourish-northern-cardinal-by-darren-c-demaree
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Coming soon! Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of powerful, tender, and deeply human poems.
Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-flourish-northern-cardinal-by-darren-c-demaree
Learn more: smallharborpublishing.com/books/now-flourish-northern-cardinal-by-darren-c-demaree
We’re seeking visual art to feature in Harbor Review. Send us 1–3 high-resolution images (minimum 2000 pixels on the longest side) along with a short bio, artist statement, and image list.
🗓️ Submissions open August 1 – October 31, 2025
👉 Visit www.harbor-review.com/submit for full guidelines.
🗓️ Submissions open August 1 – October 31, 2025
👉 Visit www.harbor-review.com/submit for full guidelines.
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We’re seeking visual art to feature in Harbor Review. Send us 1–3 high-resolution images (minimum 2000 pixels on the longest side) along with a short bio, artist statement, and image list.
🗓️ Submissions open August 1 – October 31, 2025
👉 Visit www.harbor-review.com/submit for full guidelines.
🗓️ Submissions open August 1 – October 31, 2025
👉 Visit www.harbor-review.com/submit for full guidelines.
Congratulations to Caleb Nichols, winner of the 2024 Laureate Prize, judged by Kai Coggin, for Lithic: A Hyperballad!
We’re also thrilled to celebrate runner-up Darla Himeles for I Carry You.
Thank you Kai Coggin again for judging the 2024 competition!
We’re also thrilled to celebrate runner-up Darla Himeles for I Carry You.
Thank you Kai Coggin again for judging the 2024 competition!
October 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Congratulations to Caleb Nichols, winner of the 2024 Laureate Prize, judged by Kai Coggin, for Lithic: A Hyperballad!
We’re also thrilled to celebrate runner-up Darla Himeles for I Carry You.
Thank you Kai Coggin again for judging the 2024 competition!
We’re also thrilled to celebrate runner-up Darla Himeles for I Carry You.
Thank you Kai Coggin again for judging the 2024 competition!
Thank you to NewPages for this thoughtful review of Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery! We’re so grateful for the care and attention given to this powerful collection.
Read the full review here: www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...
Read the full review here: www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...
Book Review :: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Montgomery’s essays expose how patriarchal conditioning diminishes girls while celebrating female resilience, friendship, and reclamation.
www.newpages.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thank you to NewPages for this thoughtful review of Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery! We’re so grateful for the care and attention given to this powerful collection.
Read the full review here: www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...
Read the full review here: www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...
Now available!
MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is here—bold, intimate, and unflinching. “Our teeth outlive us,” she writes, a truth that lingers long after reading. Don’t miss this wise, unsettling collection.
Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is here—bold, intimate, and unflinching. “Our teeth outlive us,” she writes, a truth that lingers long after reading. Don’t miss this wise, unsettling collection.
Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
October 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Now available!
MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is here—bold, intimate, and unflinching. “Our teeth outlive us,” she writes, a truth that lingers long after reading. Don’t miss this wise, unsettling collection.
Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
MOUTH by Becca Rae Rose is here—bold, intimate, and unflinching. “Our teeth outlive us,” she writes, a truth that lingers long after reading. Don’t miss this wise, unsettling collection.
Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
Announcing the 2024 Laureate Prize Longlist — judged by Kai Coggin!
Congratulations to these incredible poets and their powerful manuscripts.
Congratulations to these incredible poets and their powerful manuscripts.
October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Announcing the 2024 Laureate Prize Longlist — judged by Kai Coggin!
Congratulations to these incredible poets and their powerful manuscripts.
Congratulations to these incredible poets and their powerful manuscripts.