Yavanika Press

31/07/2026

Our 99th title is a chapbook of collaborative writing featuring free verse, haiku, prose poems, and more by renowned poet John Levy and EIC Shloka Shankar.

“What a delight to be privy to this epistolary friendship between Shloka Shankar of Bangalore, India, and John Levy of Tucson, Arizona. Fresh and never pretentious, their words are buoyed by the spirit of discovery, the anything goes and yes, and attitude that is at the heart of all great collaborations. Writing in prose poems, haiku, haibun, and free verse, sometimes loosely completing each other’s forms (for example, my mind made a haibun of Levy’s free verse ‘seashore’ and the haiku that follows it, Shankar’s ‘mothering the ocean vagabond rain’), these two poets share the joy that ‘always/starts with a crumb/Hanseling and Greteling/into the unknown’ (Shankar). And their joy is infectious: I want to join in and respond with my own poems. Any reader/writer keen on innovative writing will find an exemplar in the skyscape of always.”

— Sabine Miller, Author of rock paper scissors ocean

Cover Design: Shloka Shankar

Download the eBook here:

https://www.yavanikapress.com/our-titles

24/07/2026

We’re kicking off our Friday Feature with Circadian Love by Gayle Worthy. A finalist in our Short Prose & Hybrids category, this chapbook comprises a dozen haibun and prose poems written as a tribute to the author’s grandmothers.

“Circadian Love brings to the reader not only a beloved family but the American South with all its tradition and character and pathos. Two grandmothers, the main characters, bind the work together, but every page brings a new personality, a compelling memory, a chuckle, or wisdom born from time and reflection.”

— Nancy Swanson, Author of Washed and Dried

“Circadian Love is a story about a Mississippi childhood lived in the arms of a doting family, particularly those of two beloved grandmothers. Gayle Worthy opens a home to us where everyday rhythms of love can be depended on—a world of family jokes, funny car games, and cinnamon rolls hot from the oven, where laughter is a lullaby and endearing foibles are as common as the summer corn silk. Worthy’s poems, though, take us much deeper. We come to know people who must somehow endure the unendurable and a place where a “melancholy freight train” rolls through the landscape. In this collection, another talented Mississippi writer navigates the complexities of home.”

— Darlene O’Dell, Author of Main Street & Raised in the World of Everyday Poets

Cover Design: Shloka Shankar

Download the eBook here:

https://www.yavanikapress.com/our-titles

22/07/2026

17/07/2026

The 2026 Catalogue is now live on our website. 🥳

This year, we received thirty wonderful manuscripts and are proud to present our twelve finalists across four categories: short prose/hybrids, mini chapbooks, Japanese short forms, and mixed genre.

Pick and choose which e-chapbooks you'd like to savour first, or grab them ALL at a little over 20% off! We also have a Mini Chapbook Bundle that's ridiculously pocket-friendly.

Will you be reading one of our snazzy new titles this weekend? 🥰

Download here:

https://www.yavanikapress.com/our-titles

10/07/2026

Final call:

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/submission-guidelines

We need more visual poems, please. :)

30/06/2026

We'd love to read your work! 🥰

Guidelines and more here:

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/submission-guidelines

06/06/2026

Send us your visual poems!

Guidelines:

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/contests

26/05/2026

Our submission window for the Sixth Annual Vispo Contest opens super soon! :)

View past galleries and review our guidelines here:

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/contests

18/05/2026

A little less than two weeks left to submit your manuscript!

Head here for our guidelines:

https://www.yavanikapress.com/submission-guidelines

20/03/2026

It's here! 🥳

We received nearly 700 submissions this reading period and we're pleased to present the March 2026 issue, featuring micropoems and visual pieces by 26 new and returning contributors.

Download here:

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/current-issue

Cover Art: Cherie Hunter Day