While getting our 2023 books ready, we’ve also been reading submissions as we continue growing our catalog. We’ve been fortunate to receive a lot of great work and are ready to announce our 2024 poetry lineup!
As of now, we plan to publish three chapbooks and three full-length collections next year, featuring writers from Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas. Learn more about these talented poets below and be on the lookout for more details in the coming months!
Justin Carter is a writer who grew up along the Texas Gulf Coast. His poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Bat City Review, DIAGRAM, Sycamore Review, Sonora Review, and other spaces, and he holds degrees in English from the University of Houston (BA), Bowling Green State University (MFA), and the University of North Texas (PhD). He currently lives in Iowa, where he works as a sports writer and editor.
Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998. His poems have been featured in The Potomac Review, Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, Roi Faineant Press, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999, and a finalist for the Kingdoms in the Wild Poetry Prize in 2022. His collection of poems, Snowfire and Home, will be available from Belle Point Press in 2024.
Maggie Rue Hess is a former high school teacher and current graduate student living in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her partner and their two pups. An Appalachian prodigal, she grew up in Pennsylvania, moved all around the South, and finally landed in east TN. Her work has appeared in Rattle, Minnesota Review, Connecticut River Review, and Passages North, among other publications. She served as a poetry reader and online content editor for Grist, the literary journal of the Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Todd Osborne is a poet and teacher originally from Nashville, TN. His poems have previously appeared at Scrawl Place, The Shore, EcoTheo Review, CutBank, and elsewhere. He is a poetry reader for Memorious and a feedback editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal. He is perhaps overly fond of podcasts and cable news, and he spends his free time playing Dungeons and Dragons. He currently lives and writes in Hattiesburg, MS, with his wife and their cats.
Nina Prater is a poet, mother, and soil health specialist. Her poems have been published by One Sentence Poems, Buddhist Poetry Review, Literary Mama, and A Revolutionary Press. She studied English and Environmental Science at William Smith College in Geneva, New York, and Soil Science at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Nina lives with her husband Jeremy and their two inquisitive children on a small farm in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
William Woolfitt is the author of several books, including Ring of Earth (short stories) and Eyes Moving Through the Dark (essays). A native of West Virginia, he teaches writing and lives with his family in Cleveland, Tennessee.