Omnidawn Publishing
@omnidawn.bsky.social
Founded in 2001, we publish work that opens readers to the many ways language may bring new insight & an elevated respect for, and appreciation of, differences.
https://www.omnidawn.com/
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Mark your calendar to join 2025 Fall book launch with Evan Karp!
Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Pacific.
Event free to the public--register in advance:
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And donate to Omnidawn for 35% off all our books, including the new season, from UCP!
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Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Pacific.
Event free to the public--register in advance:
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November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Mark your calendar to join 2025 Fall book launch with Evan Karp!
Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Pacific.
Event free to the public--register in advance:
www.omnidawn.com/readings/
And donate to Omnidawn for 35% off all our books, including the new season, from UCP!
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Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Pacific.
Event free to the public--register in advance:
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And donate to Omnidawn for 35% off all our books, including the new season, from UCP!
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From our Fall 2025 season....
The work never ceases to surprise. His poetry is at once buoyant and piercing, funny and dark. Very dark. Very funny.
—PETER GIZZI
Pick up your copy of John Yau's Diary of Discontents here!
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The work never ceases to surprise. His poetry is at once buoyant and piercing, funny and dark. Very dark. Very funny.
—PETER GIZZI
Pick up your copy of John Yau's Diary of Discontents here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
From our Fall 2025 season....
The work never ceases to surprise. His poetry is at once buoyant and piercing, funny and dark. Very dark. Very funny.
—PETER GIZZI
Pick up your copy of John Yau's Diary of Discontents here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The work never ceases to surprise. His poetry is at once buoyant and piercing, funny and dark. Very dark. Very funny.
—PETER GIZZI
Pick up your copy of John Yau's Diary of Discontents here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Congratulations to Craig Chen, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Broadside Contest for "Velluvial Matrix!"
And congratulations to the finalists!
Emily Davis-Fletcher
Roanoke, VA
John Kneisley
Fort Collins, CO
Nils Michals
Santa Cruz, CA
Preeti Parikh
Cincinnati, OH
Michael Szporluk
Portland, Oregon
And congratulations to the finalists!
Emily Davis-Fletcher
Roanoke, VA
John Kneisley
Fort Collins, CO
Nils Michals
Santa Cruz, CA
Preeti Parikh
Cincinnati, OH
Michael Szporluk
Portland, Oregon
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Congratulations to Craig Chen, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Broadside Contest for "Velluvial Matrix!"
And congratulations to the finalists!
Emily Davis-Fletcher
Roanoke, VA
John Kneisley
Fort Collins, CO
Nils Michals
Santa Cruz, CA
Preeti Parikh
Cincinnati, OH
Michael Szporluk
Portland, Oregon
And congratulations to the finalists!
Emily Davis-Fletcher
Roanoke, VA
John Kneisley
Fort Collins, CO
Nils Michals
Santa Cruz, CA
Preeti Parikh
Cincinnati, OH
Michael Szporluk
Portland, Oregon
From our Fall 2025 season....
Bendall makes us unnervingly aware of how enmeshed in a surveillance society we already are: “Calculating now what’s permissible, and what / we’re barred from even considering.” -Elizabeth Robinson
Pick up your copy here!
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Bendall makes us unnervingly aware of how enmeshed in a surveillance society we already are: “Calculating now what’s permissible, and what / we’re barred from even considering.” -Elizabeth Robinson
Pick up your copy here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
From our Fall 2025 season....
Bendall makes us unnervingly aware of how enmeshed in a surveillance society we already are: “Calculating now what’s permissible, and what / we’re barred from even considering.” -Elizabeth Robinson
Pick up your copy here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Bendall makes us unnervingly aware of how enmeshed in a surveillance society we already are: “Calculating now what’s permissible, and what / we’re barred from even considering.” -Elizabeth Robinson
Pick up your copy here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
From our Fall 2025 season.....!
This is—dare I say—Jason Bayani’s most mystical book, a mighty alchemy of prayer and fury that was, for me, an invitation to feel with the honesty of water. -Brynn Saito
Pick up your copy here!
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This is—dare I say—Jason Bayani’s most mystical book, a mighty alchemy of prayer and fury that was, for me, an invitation to feel with the honesty of water. -Brynn Saito
Pick up your copy here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From our Fall 2025 season.....!
This is—dare I say—Jason Bayani’s most mystical book, a mighty alchemy of prayer and fury that was, for me, an invitation to feel with the honesty of water. -Brynn Saito
Pick up your copy here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
This is—dare I say—Jason Bayani’s most mystical book, a mighty alchemy of prayer and fury that was, for me, an invitation to feel with the honesty of water. -Brynn Saito
Pick up your copy here!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
It's back--announcing the return of Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Contest! Send us your literary tales of the weird and wonderful!
Deadline: 11/16/25
Prize: $1000, publication, and 20 copies
Judge: Arria Deepwater
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Deadline: 11/16/25
Prize: $1000, publication, and 20 copies
Judge: Arria Deepwater
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
October 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's back--announcing the return of Omnidawn's Fabulist Fiction Contest! Send us your literary tales of the weird and wonderful!
Deadline: 11/16/25
Prize: $1000, publication, and 20 copies
Judge: Arria Deepwater
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: 11/16/25
Prize: $1000, publication, and 20 copies
Judge: Arria Deepwater
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest
Descent by Arria Deepwater
Exploring boundaries of intimacy, fluidity, & grief, Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to growing canon of writers with marginalized identities
Available for pre-order
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Descent by Arria Deepwater
Exploring boundaries of intimacy, fluidity, & grief, Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to growing canon of writers with marginalized identities
Available for pre-order
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
September 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest
Descent by Arria Deepwater
Exploring boundaries of intimacy, fluidity, & grief, Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to growing canon of writers with marginalized identities
Available for pre-order
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Descent by Arria Deepwater
Exploring boundaries of intimacy, fluidity, & grief, Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to growing canon of writers with marginalized identities
Available for pre-order
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Many congratulations to David Leftwich, winner of the
2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest,
selected by Daniela Molnar!
Congratulations also to the finalists
Robert Black
Xinyue Huang
Annie Rovzar
Jackson Watson
JinJin Xu
2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest,
selected by Daniela Molnar!
Congratulations also to the finalists
Robert Black
Xinyue Huang
Annie Rovzar
Jackson Watson
JinJin Xu
September 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Many congratulations to David Leftwich, winner of the
2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest,
selected by Daniela Molnar!
Congratulations also to the finalists
Robert Black
Xinyue Huang
Annie Rovzar
Jackson Watson
JinJin Xu
2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest,
selected by Daniela Molnar!
Congratulations also to the finalists
Robert Black
Xinyue Huang
Annie Rovzar
Jackson Watson
JinJin Xu
"Ronk’s poems centre delicate care and human touch, the importance of physical and human connection, and the physical making of objects with care, and with one’s hands."
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August 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
"Ronk’s poems centre delicate care and human touch, the importance of physical and human connection, and the physical making of objects with care, and with one’s hands."
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/mart...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/mart...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We're extended the 2025 Omnidawn Open Poetry Contest to August 31st, 2025!
Poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma is our judge this year. He's looking forward to reading your work!
Prize: $3000, 20 copies, and publication
Submit your best work here:
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma is our judge this year. He's looking forward to reading your work!
Prize: $3000, 20 copies, and publication
Submit your best work here:
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
August 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We're extended the 2025 Omnidawn Open Poetry Contest to August 31st, 2025!
Poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma is our judge this year. He's looking forward to reading your work!
Prize: $3000, 20 copies, and publication
Submit your best work here:
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Poet Jose-Luis Moctezuma is our judge this year. He's looking forward to reading your work!
Prize: $3000, 20 copies, and publication
Submit your best work here:
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur.
Steven Leyva
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Steven Leyva
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August 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Flum manages to make the reader an intimate outsider, rather than simply a voyeur.
Steven Leyva
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Steven Leyva
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
“The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.”
Barbara Groth
Join our 2025 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn!
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Barbara Groth
Join our 2025 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn!
www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the...
July 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.”
Barbara Groth
Join our 2025 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn!
www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the...
Barbara Groth
Join our 2025 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn!
www.omnidawn.com/breaking-the...
"trap a thought and sit with or wrestle with it until it reveals its purpose..."
An Interview with Kimberly Reyes on Bloodletting
www.letraslatinasblog2.com/post/intervi...
To find your copy of Bloodletting:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
An Interview with Kimberly Reyes on Bloodletting
www.letraslatinasblog2.com/post/intervi...
To find your copy of Bloodletting:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
July 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"trap a thought and sit with or wrestle with it until it reveals its purpose..."
An Interview with Kimberly Reyes on Bloodletting
www.letraslatinasblog2.com/post/intervi...
To find your copy of Bloodletting:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
An Interview with Kimberly Reyes on Bloodletting
www.letraslatinasblog2.com/post/intervi...
To find your copy of Bloodletting:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Announcing the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest judged by Jose-Luis Moctezuma!
Prize - $3,000, publication, and 20 copies
Dates: July 1 - August 16
Submit here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Send us your best work!
Prize - $3,000, publication, and 20 copies
Dates: July 1 - August 16
Submit here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Send us your best work!
July 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Announcing the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest judged by Jose-Luis Moctezuma!
Prize - $3,000, publication, and 20 copies
Dates: July 1 - August 16
Submit here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Send us your best work!
Prize - $3,000, publication, and 20 copies
Dates: July 1 - August 16
Submit here: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Send us your best work!
Extending the 2025 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest to June 30th!
Judged by Ewa Chrusciel!
Fee: $30
Prize: $3,000, publication and 20 copies!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Judged by Ewa Chrusciel!
Fee: $30
Prize: $3,000, publication and 20 copies!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Extending the 2025 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest to June 30th!
Judged by Ewa Chrusciel!
Fee: $30
Prize: $3,000, publication and 20 copies!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Judged by Ewa Chrusciel!
Fee: $30
Prize: $3,000, publication and 20 copies!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Join our free virtual Spring 2025 Book Launch
with Evan Karp and Quiet Lightning!
Sunday July 13, 2025 at
1:00 pm Pacific.
Event is free to the public.
Register in advance!
www.omnidawn.com/readings
with Evan Karp and Quiet Lightning!
Sunday July 13, 2025 at
1:00 pm Pacific.
Event is free to the public.
Register in advance!
www.omnidawn.com/readings
May 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Join our free virtual Spring 2025 Book Launch
with Evan Karp and Quiet Lightning!
Sunday July 13, 2025 at
1:00 pm Pacific.
Event is free to the public.
Register in advance!
www.omnidawn.com/readings
with Evan Karp and Quiet Lightning!
Sunday July 13, 2025 at
1:00 pm Pacific.
Event is free to the public.
Register in advance!
www.omnidawn.com/readings
Congratulations Maw Shein Win for Lifetime Achievement Award from Berkeley Poetry Festival!
Anyone in the Bay Area--join us on Sun June 8: 3-5pm @ Berkeley Art Center !
www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com
@mawsheinwin.bsky.social
Anyone in the Bay Area--join us on Sun June 8: 3-5pm @ Berkeley Art Center !
www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com
@mawsheinwin.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Congratulations Maw Shein Win for Lifetime Achievement Award from Berkeley Poetry Festival!
Anyone in the Bay Area--join us on Sun June 8: 3-5pm @ Berkeley Art Center !
www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com
@mawsheinwin.bsky.social
Anyone in the Bay Area--join us on Sun June 8: 3-5pm @ Berkeley Art Center !
www.berkeleypoetryfestival.com
@mawsheinwin.bsky.social
Announcing the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Ewa Chrusciel!
Dates: May 1 - June 16
Prize: $1000, publication & 20 copies
Submission fee: $30
Send your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Dates: May 1 - June 16
Prize: $1000, publication & 20 copies
Submission fee: $30
Send your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
May 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Announcing the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Ewa Chrusciel!
Dates: May 1 - June 16
Prize: $1000, publication & 20 copies
Submission fee: $30
Send your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Dates: May 1 - June 16
Prize: $1000, publication & 20 copies
Submission fee: $30
Send your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Join Canto Mundo tomorrow for a virtual release party for Kimberly Reyes's Bloodletting!
Sunday May 4, 2025 12 noon PST, 2 pm CST, 3 pm EST
Link: lnkd.in/ehXnE-4X
Join us there!
Sunday May 4, 2025 12 noon PST, 2 pm CST, 3 pm EST
Link: lnkd.in/ehXnE-4X
Join us there!
May 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Join Canto Mundo tomorrow for a virtual release party for Kimberly Reyes's Bloodletting!
Sunday May 4, 2025 12 noon PST, 2 pm CST, 3 pm EST
Link: lnkd.in/ehXnE-4X
Join us there!
Sunday May 4, 2025 12 noon PST, 2 pm CST, 3 pm EST
Link: lnkd.in/ehXnE-4X
Join us there!
Bloodletting by Kimberly Reyes--Poetry that considers the nature of relationships in an age mediated by social media and impacted by violence. Click here to get your own copy: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
May 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Bloodletting by Kimberly Reyes--Poetry that considers the nature of relationships in an age mediated by social media and impacted by violence. Click here to get your own copy: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Liza Flum's Hover focuses on queer polyamorous families, considering the ways people in radical family structures are both highly visible and erased. Click here to bring a copy home: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
April 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Liza Flum's Hover focuses on queer polyamorous families, considering the ways people in radical family structures are both highly visible and erased. Click here to bring a copy home: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Alibi Lullaby by Norma Cole--A collection of poems that embrace musicality and locate the patterns of ancient songs in the body, nature, and world events. Click here to bring a copy home: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
April 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Alibi Lullaby by Norma Cole--A collection of poems that embrace musicality and locate the patterns of ancient songs in the body, nature, and world events. Click here to bring a copy home: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
In this vibrant encomium to fragility and what endures, Martha Ronk engages the practice of pottery, an “ancient material language, each letter felt by hand.” Click here to get a copy of Martha Ronk's book Clay: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
April 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
In this vibrant encomium to fragility and what endures, Martha Ronk engages the practice of pottery, an “ancient material language, each letter felt by hand.” Click here to get a copy of Martha Ronk's book Clay: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Two weeks left for the Broadside Contest!
We're extending the deadline to the 2025 Broadside Poetry Contest to April 30th at midnight.
The prize is $1,000 and 20 framable broadsides.
Judged by Jennifer Hasegawa.
We look forward to reading your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
We're extending the deadline to the 2025 Broadside Poetry Contest to April 30th at midnight.
The prize is $1,000 and 20 framable broadsides.
Judged by Jennifer Hasegawa.
We look forward to reading your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
April 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Two weeks left for the Broadside Contest!
We're extending the deadline to the 2025 Broadside Poetry Contest to April 30th at midnight.
The prize is $1,000 and 20 framable broadsides.
Judged by Jennifer Hasegawa.
We look forward to reading your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
We're extending the deadline to the 2025 Broadside Poetry Contest to April 30th at midnight.
The prize is $1,000 and 20 framable broadsides.
Judged by Jennifer Hasegawa.
We look forward to reading your best work!
omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
NAOMIE ANOMIE
A Biography of Infinite Desire--A surreal story in verse that follows a woman facing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside ecological crisis and crumbling social norms. Click here to get a copy of the book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
A Biography of Infinite Desire--A surreal story in verse that follows a woman facing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside ecological crisis and crumbling social norms. Click here to get a copy of the book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
April 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
NAOMIE ANOMIE
A Biography of Infinite Desire--A surreal story in verse that follows a woman facing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside ecological crisis and crumbling social norms. Click here to get a copy of the book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
A Biography of Infinite Desire--A surreal story in verse that follows a woman facing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside ecological crisis and crumbling social norms. Click here to get a copy of the book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...