Are you hunkered down getting your manuscript ready to submit for the Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Awards?

We're eager to read full-length mss of *literary* fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. One submission fee ($30USD) -- up to four prize winners published.

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Our annual contest opens today for literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry manuscripts. Up to 4 books published with Wandering Aengus Press and our imprint, Trail to Table Press.

Would love to see some short fiction &/or #flash fiction collections this year!

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Our Pushcart Noms!

Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful
L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor
@majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand
@jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory
Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas

The last reading of our 2025 series will come to you from the Portland Book Festival #portlandbookfestival with poets Christopher Martin & Portland's own Amanda Hawkins.

Please join us on Zoom, Thursday, November 6, 4-5 pm Pacific, 7-8 pm Eastern

Pre-register here:
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Super excited for this online reading with master-of-the-essay, @marciaaldrich.bsky.social, and eco-poet extraordinaire, Benjamin Cutler.

Thursday, Sept 11, 4-5p Pacific, 7-8p Eastern

Click here for details and the link to pre-register:
wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html

Hey lit lovers! Have you registered for this amazing reading and Q&A with L. Annette Binder and Jed Myers?

Thursday, July 10, 7-8 pm Eastern, 4-6 pm Pacific.

We hope you'll join all of the 2025 Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Press readings!

Register here:
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Join us for a Zoom reading with @majda.bsky.social & Barret Baumgart reading from their new books:
In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls
YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree.

Thurs, 6/12, 4p Pacific, 7p Eastern

email publisher jill @ jillmccabejohnson .com for the link

Check out our 2025 reading series lineup!

5/4 Daniel Meltz, @tms2072.bsky.social
6/12 Barret Baumgart, @majda.bsky.social
7/10 L. Annette Binder, Jed Myers
8/21 Martha Gies, Steven Harvey
9/11 Marcia Aldrich, Benjamin Cutler
10/9 Peter Ludwin, Jan Shoemaker
11/6 Amanda Hawkins, Christopher Martin

Protect the Desert Night at the Brewery!

#AWP25 offsite Wednesday, March 26, at Angel City Brewery

7p Release party for Barret Baumgart's YUCK with guest Deanne Stillman

8:30p Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table reading

Hands down THE BEST OFFSITE OF AWP25!!!

And we're not the tiniest bit biased!

AWP peeps! Come find us at Booth 1041 in the Bookfair, March 27-29.

We'll have books (ofc), book-signings, and other shenanigans!

Ask about our DIY Talent Show!

See you in LA!!!

Announcing the results of the Wandering Aengus Press (WAP) & Trail to Table (TTT) Book Awards!

Winners:
Chrys Buckley - WAP Book Award in Nonfiction
John Fadely - TTT Book Award in Poetry
@vkornberg.bsky.social - WAP Book Award in Poetry
A. Molotkov - TTT Book Award in Nonfiction

Fabulous review by Michael Tideman of L. Annette Binder's forthcoming memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven.

“A powerful read for anyone who has dealt with Alzheimers."

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Happy release day to Amanda Hawkins for their gorgeous poetry collection, When I Say the Bones, I Mean the Bones, winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award. D.A. Powell calls it, "A monumental debut."

Congratulations, Amanda!

Congratulations to Peter Ludwin on the release of his new poetry collection, An Altar of Tides!

Writer friends, check out Marcia Aldrich's guest post for @dintywmoore.bsky.social's Brevity Nonfiction Blog. It details ways "to break down and break open a subject that might be too vast to approach head on."

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Announcing the results of our 2023 Book Awards!

Winners:
Barret Baumgart
L. Annette Binder
Majda Gama

Finalists:
Mary Block
Sarah Carey
Clayton Adam Clark
Elizabeth J. Coleman
Eric le Fatte
Justine Feron
Cate McGowan
Joannie Stangeland
Amy A. Witcomb
Amelia L. Williams

Congratulations to all!