Omnidawn Publishing
@omnidawn
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.
Help with the Berkeley Poetry Festival fundraiser! August 22 2-4:30 pm Pacific Donkey & Goat Winery www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-tak...
Join our 2026 Breaking the Bowl class led by David Koehn with Rusty Morrison! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit “The arts allow us to dance at the edge of uncertainty.” Barbara Groth
We are so happy to share that a new review of Las Palmas by Keith Jones has been published in rob mclennan’s blog! #booksky Read rob mclennan’s review here: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/keit... And order your copy of Jones’ Las Palmas: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Kimberly Reyes' poem, “The Storm Surge, 1981-1992,” is featured today in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets! @poetsorg.bsky.social @umiamienglish.bsky.social Read Reyes’ featured poem here: poets.org/poem-a-day Order your copy of Bloodletting here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We hope you'll join us for our virtual Spring 2026 book launch on Sunday, July 26th @ 1 pm Pacific. We're grateful to Evan Karp for being such a terrific host for this reading. The event is free but you must RSVP before the event begins. app.gopassage.com/events/omnid...
Announcing our 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest! Judge: Julie Carr Prize: $3000, publication and 20 author copies Dates: July 1 to August 16 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Fee: $30 per entry omnidawn.submittable.com/submit We look forward to reading your best work!
We are so happy to share that John Yau’s Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems 1974–2024 will be reviewed in the summer issue of the print edition of Rain Taxi by Amelia Sage Van Donsel. #booksky Order your copy of Diary of Small Discontents: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Congratulations to Kimberly Reyes for BLOODLETTING becoming a finalist for The National Indie Excellence Awards! We are so happy to celebrate! Read the full list of finalists here: www.indieexcellence.com/20th-annual-... Order your copy of BLOODLETTING here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Congratulations to Norma Cole for her collection, Alibi Lullaby, becoming a finalist for The National Indie Excellence Awards! #booksky Read the full list of finalists here: www.indieexcellence.com/20th-annual-... And order your copy of Alibi Lullaby here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We are extending the deadline to the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest to June 30th! The prize is $1000, publication and 20 copies. Judged by Maw Shein Win, author of Percussing the Thinking Jar. We are so excited to read your submissions! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
Congratulations to jason b crawford and YEET!, the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Poetry! We are so happy to celebrate such wonderful news! #booksky Order your copy of crawford’s YEET! here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
In his review, Evan McHenry writes: “Console seeks to examine that damaged world itself” #booksky Read McHenry's review: clereviewofbooks.com/reenactor-of-the-present-on-cyrus-consoles-the-wayfarer/ And order The Wayfarer here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo237307912.html
Congratulations to Audrey T. Williams, winner of the 2025 Fabulist Fiction Contest selected by Arria Deepwater! #booksky And Congratulations to our finalists Amelia Burton, MK Chavez, Peter Hankins, Juhee Singh, and A.J. Vellum!
In his review published in Honey Literary, DeeSoul Carson writes: “YEET! imagines Black people somewhere alive and safe, imagining a new language for the way we breathe." #booksky Read Carson’s full review: www.honeyliterary.com/stickyfinger... Find YEET! here press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Join us in celebrating Molly Bendall for Turncoat becoming a finalist for the 2025 Big Other Book Award for Poetry! Read the full list of finalists here: bigother.com/2026/05/05/a... And order your copy of Bendall’s Turncoat: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We are happy to celebrate Walter Ancarrow and his collection, Etymologies, being selected by Poetry Daily for their 2025: Poetry Daily Staff Picks! Read Poetry Daily’s 2025 Staff Picks here: poems.com/2025-poetry-... Order your copy of Ancarrow’s Etymologies: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Bedient confronts disasters of politics, love, and faithless time, never turning away from the glinting axe. #booksky Pre-order your copy of Bedient’s collection, Clouds Upside Down Among the Flowers: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Congratulations to Daniel DeVaughn, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest selected by Jose-Luis Moctezuma! And Congratulations to finalists Michelle Alexander, Roda Avelar, Bruce Beasley, Tim Carrier, and Charles Wuest!
Read the online exclusive piece, “Who Crouches in Stone Foliage,” by Karla Kelsey featured in Conjunctions here: conjunctions.com/articles/kar... And order your copy of Kelsey’s collection, Blood Feather: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #booksky
We are so excited to congratulate Kimberly Reyes for BLOODLETTING being featured in Ms. Magazine’s article: “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026.” Read Ms. Magazine's article here: msmagazine.com/2026/04/24/b... And order BLOODLETTING: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We're excited to share the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Maw Shein Win. We hope you will consider sending her your best work! How to submit: omnidawn.submittable.com/submit May 1 through June 16, 2026 Prize: $1000 and publication with 20 author copies
Maria Nazos and her forthcoming collection, PULSE, are featured in Ms. Magazine’s “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026.” #booksky Read the article from Ms. Magazine here: msmagazine.com/2026/04/24/b... Pre-order your copy of PULSE: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
José Felipe Alvergue’s en el norte/soy del sur, which translates to “in the north I am of the south,” is an exploration into the limits of the American sonnet, one that seeks to establish a stable sense of place Pre-order Alvergue’s collection here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Throughout this collection, Keith Jones finds truth and community amid despair and the cruelest of circumstances, working through traumatic intimacies and mapping new imaginaries. Pre-order your copy of Keith Jones’s collection, Las Palmas, here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Congrats to Liza Flum, author of Hover, named the winner of 2026 Nassar Poetry Prize, an award that honors Upstate New York poets! Learn more about Flum’s Hover and The Nassar Poetry Prize here: online2.utica.edu/news-events/... Order your copy of Hover: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We are extending the deadline to the 2026 Broadside Poetry Contest to April 30th! Please send us your best work! The prize is $1000 and 20 printed Broadsides. Judged by Rodrigo Toscano, author of WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. We are excited to read your submissions! omnidawn.submittable.com/submit
John Cross’s WHAT BLEAK ANGELS CARRIED YOUR BED opens in exile and st(r)ays there. The character Mathias, a trickster who opens this collection, finds a foothold in cosmic disorder. Pre-order your copy of Cross’s WHAT BLEAK ANGELS CARRIED YOUR BED: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
We are delighted to celebrate Sam Creely for their collection, INVENTORYS, being chosen for the list of Best new Poetry Books by The New York Public Library! Read the full list from NYPL here: www.nypl.org/books-more/r... Order your copy of INVENTORYS here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Congrats to Rodrigo Toscano for his collection, WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA., being chosen as one of The New York Public Library’s Best New Poetry Books! Order your copy of Toscano’s WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUBELA. here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/au...