Saturnalia Books

12/02/2025

I�t's time for our annual poetry reading and fundraiser!
https://tinyurl.com/SBFR2025

This Thursday, December 4
8pm EST/ 5pm PST
Via Zoom

Come listen to our 2025 spring and fall poets read from their latest works, featuring: Archana Madhavan, Stephanie Rogers, Kristi Maxwell, Rob Ostrom, Danielle Pafunda, Trace Peterson, and Nicole Callihan

Once you reserve your spot, You're all set!
If you have any issues getting into the Zoom room the night of the event, please email [email protected] -- we will have have someone standing by to help.

https://tinyurl.com/SBFR2025

Thank you for supporting independent publishing!

11/25/2025

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize!

"Nerve Impulses on the High-Voltage Power Line"
by Arndís Lóa Magnúsdóttir, translated from the Icelandic by Rachel Britton

Poet and Translator bios in the comments below!

Congrats to our 2025 Finalists:

Glacier Play
by Nathalie Schmid, translated from the German by Ellene Glen Moore

Sorrowbalm
by Krystyna Dąbrowska, translated from the Polish by Karen Kovacik

Wilderness
by Daniela Danz, translated from the German by Monika Cassel

Thank you to everyone who submitted their manuscripts this year, and please consider sending your work to us again next year!

11/02/2025

Fresh off the press, get 'em while they're hot! Join us in welcoming our newest poets this October!

Pirowa Padowa
by Lee Jenny, translated from the Korean by Archana Madhavan

The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep
by Trace Peterson

We hope you love them as much as we do!

Link to purchase in our bio and bookstore: https://saturnaliabooks.com/bookstore/

Your continued support makes independent publishing possible!

11/02/2025

We love an extension!

Take until November 7 at 11:59pm EST to get your manuscripts in!

The Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize honors the life and work of award-winning poet and translator Malinda A. Markham.
Manuscripts must be a translation by a female translator of a female poet. Female is interpreted as anyone who identifies as female, including AFAB nonbinary, genderfluid, agender, and intersex.
For more information, please see the linktree in our bio
https://saturnaliabooks.com/poetry-prize/translation/
Submit on our Submittable:
https://saturnaliabooks.submittable.com/submit
Questions? email us at:
[email protected]

10/15/2025

Hot off the Press! It's Publishing Day! -

07/17/2025

Saturnalia Books is delighted to announce our 2025 contest winners!

The winning manuscript, In the Service of the Mysteries by Sarah Mangold, was chosen for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize by guest judge Hadara Bar-Nadav.

Saturnalia Books' staff selected Agape by Patrick Kindig and red by Laura Walker for the two Alma Book Awards.

Congratulations Sarah, Patrick, and Laura!

Here is the list of our fabulous finalists!

Anxiety and Other Mythologies by Zachariah Claypole White
Let It Be the Bird by Mickie Kennedy
Dirt Talk by Spencer Williams
The Americans by Brandon Downing
Loop Hole by Julie Choffel
Cosmic Idiot by Michael Montlack
To Remember the Future By by Andrew Nance

Thank you to all those who submitted, and please consider sending your work to us again next year.

07/17/2025

And the 2025 winners are... -

Patrick Kindig is the author of the full-length poetry collection fascinations (Finishing Line Press 2025), the poetry chapbooks all the catholic gods (Seven Kitchens Press 2019) and Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press 2016), and the academic monograph Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernit...

05/07/2025

It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of the extraordinarily talented poet

Saturnalia Books is so proud to have published The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, chosen by Bob Hicock for the Saturnalia Poetry Prize in 2010.

Saturnalia published her next two books, Reckless Lovely (2013) and Gravity Assist (2019), and will be releasing Last Train to Paradise: New & Selected Poems in October 2025.

Martha's voice, so full of love and life, will continue to feed our souls for years to come.

If you are unfamiliar with her work, her family recommends reading and listening to these two pieces:

"Self-Elegies"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1626393/self-elegies

"Once"
https://soundcloud.com/helenadegroot/martha-silano-once

If you would like to honor her memory, Martha's family asks you to please consider a gift to the Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, or The ALS Association

05/07/2025

It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of the extraordinarily talented poet Martha Silano

Saturnalia Books is so proud to have published The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, chosen by Bob Hicock for the Saturnalia Poetry Prize in 2010.

Saturnalia published her next two books, Reckless Lovely (2013) and Gravity Assist (2019), and will be releasing Last Train to Paradise: New & Selected Poems in October 2025.

Martha's voice, so full of love and life, will continue to feed our souls for years to come.

If you are unfamiliar with her work, her family recommends reading and listening to these two pieces:

"Self-Elegies"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1626393/self-elegies

"Once"
https://soundcloud.com/helenadegroot/martha-silano-once

If you would like to honor her memory, Martha's family asks you to please consider a gift to the Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, or The ALS Association

04/02/2025

We love an extension!
Take until April 8th at 11:59pm (EDT) to get in your best poetry manuscripts!

Info in the linktree in our bio and on our website here:
https://saturnaliabooks.com/poetry-prize/pe/

03/28/2025

Congratulations to two of our wonderful poets!

Winner of the 2025 PSV North American Poetry Book Award, Apocryphal Genesis by Travis Mossotti

First Finalist of the 2025 PSV North American Poetry Book Award, In Another Country by Andrea Juriević