River River Books

02/06/2025

One of our two new ones!!

A new title from River River Books! Your Mother's Bear Gun: Poems, by Corrie Williamson, a recipient of the 2020 PEN Northwest/Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Available through Itasca Books at https://bit.ly/40YYIuV

02/05/2025

Listen to Joe Wilkins discuss and share poems from his new book Pastoral, 1994! https://ofpoetrypodcast.com/2025/01/28/episode-66-joe-wilkins-of-pastoral-tender-models-of-masculinity-and-the-sonnet-haunted-prairies/

01/11/2025

More shenanigans from the RRB editors who just can't stop finding amazing books to publish.

12/23/2024

If you’re interested in hearing River River’s editors talk about the goings-on at the press, check out this episode of the Of Poetry Podcast— https://ofpoetrypodcast.com/2024/12/19/episode-63-river-river-books-of-writing-the-rural-new-book-news-and-the-cahaba-river/

12/21/2024

So yesterday we mentioned the in-progress presales for our next two books. But that's NOT ALL WE HAVE HAPPENING. This week we announced the acquisition of TWO MORE BOOKS OF POETRY to join our 2026 lineup: Scythe by Elizabeth Sylvia and The Visible Field by Zoe Ryder White. The editors are dancing with delight over here, y'all.

12/20/2024

We have SO MUCH to tell you about all the things going on at River River books right now. Let's start with our two books currently on presale, publishing in January: Your Mother's Bear Gun by Corrie Williamson and Pastoral, 1994 by Joe Wilkins. https://riverriverbooks.org/store/

08/23/2024

Our four selections from the 2024 open reading period are AMAZING books, and we can't wait to share them with you.

08/21/2024

We are both delighted to announce the finalists from our 2024 opening reading period. Although these weren't our selections, these are all amazing manuscripts and we're certain they'll find their homes soon.

https://riverriverbooks.substack.com/p/2024-reading-period-finalists

08/18/2024

We are SOOOO delighted to share the covers of our upcoming books! Corrie Williamson's Your Mother's Bear Gun and Joe Wilkins' Pastoral, 1994 are both due in January. Here are the glorious covers designed by Alban Fischer.

06/23/2024

Final week to send your full-length poetry manuscript our way! Full guidelines on our website: https://riverriverbooks.org/

06/14/2024

16 days left in June! That means you have plenty of time to send us your amazing poetry manuscript during our open reading period (tip jar optional, pay what you can or pay nothing).

https://riverriverbooks.org/editors/submissions/

05/03/2024

We're open! Send us your poetry manuscript!

04/01/2024

Today, River River is launching a Kickstarter to help us fund the transition to a new distributor in the wake of SPD's abrupt closure last week. We are not the only small press impacted by this event, and many presses might be in worse shape than we are. Please support the publishers that make books you love, whether it's us or some other small indie press.

Help us ship poetry to independent bookstores, libraries, and readers.