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Catamaran Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly magazine publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and fine art. View our website at www.catamaranliteraryreader.com

Catamaran is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with public charity status. Each quarterly issue features at least ten poets, five fiction authors, and five creative nonfiction authors along with work from at least 10 different visual artists and photographers. Catamaran is primarily a print publication. We also hold public events to celebrate the release of each issue and to connect the public with artists and writers featured in our pages.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2026 Catamaran Poetry Prize, judged by Joseph Millar. We received many wonder...
10/14/2026

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2026 Catamaran Poetry Prize, judged by Joseph Millar. We received many wonderful manuscripts!

🏆 Congratulations to winner, Joan Baranow, for her poetry collection “A Good Prognosis”

⭐️ Congratulations to runner-up, Christopher Buckley, for “La Vida es solo lo que hace”

⭐️ And congratulations to finalists:
“One Life to Live” by Cynthia White
“Ground Effect” by David Denny
“Paper Window” by Michael Pearce
“Bright Extinction” by Mary Fontana
“Between Worlds” by Kathryn Jordan

⭐️ And semifinalists:
“Amulet Against Forgetting” by Kathleen McClung
“The Body Center” by Cindy Milwe
“Above the Fellfield by Shane Eaves

All details here: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-poetry-prize-2026

It ended too soon! Final day of our inaugural retreat at Cavallo Point...new friends, bay views, sharing our words with ...
09/11/2026

It ended too soon! Final day of our inaugural retreat at Cavallo Point...new friends, bay views, sharing our words with participant readings, and awards! Hope to see you next year!!!!

Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point, Day 3! In addition to morning workshops, highlights of the day included a t...
09/08/2026

Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point, Day 3! In addition to morning workshops, highlights of the day included a trip to visit the one of a kind Bay Model, and a beautiful evening of poetry with Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar. Both were extraordinary... ✨

Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point, Day 2, highlights included a special afternoon lecture with Grant Faulkner ...
09/08/2026

Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point, Day 2, highlights included a special afternoon lecture with Grant Faulkner on the Art of Brevity, and an evening musical talk by Charles Hood, titled "Why Writing a Book is Like Writing a Rock Song."

Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point, Day 1. Welcoming writers by the Bay and an inspirational talk by Jane Smile...
09/01/2026

Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point, Day 1. Welcoming writers by the Bay and an inspirational talk by Jane Smiley!

Just a few spots left for the Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, ac...
08/14/2026

Just a few spots left for the Catamaran Writing Retreat at Cavallo Point featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, acclaimed nature writer Charles Hood, and renowned poets Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar!

The Catamaran Writing Retreat includes two special afternoon lectures led by Grant Faulkner, available to all attendees....
08/06/2026

The Catamaran Writing Retreat includes two special afternoon lectures led by Grant Faulkner, available to all attendees.

⭐️ The Art of Brevity: Explore how brevity can sharpen language, heighten emotion, and transform storytelling. Through examples from contemporary literature and his own work, he'll discuss the unique possibilities of flash fiction and other compressed forms, offering insights that will inspire writers of every genre—from fiction and memoir to essays and poetry.

⭐️ Writing with Love: Explore how love can transform the stories we tell and the way we write them. Drawing on the work of James Baldwin, bell hooks, Mary Oliver, Edwidge Danticat, and Carvell Wallace, Grant will examine love as an act of attention, courage, compassion, and connection, revealing how it can deepen character, enrich storytelling, and create a more meaningful writing practice.

Experience an intimate literary retreat in the inspiring setting of Cavallo Point: The Lodge at the Golden Gate, featuring small-group workshops with acclaimed authors, engaging conversations, and lasting connections. The retreat is less than a month away and filling up.

Sign up here:
https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/writing-conference-2026

A rare opportunity to spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with two award-winning poets. Dorianne Laux ...
08/05/2026

A rare opportunity to spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with two award-winning poets. Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar will lead an intimate group of 12 poets to explore how personal experience, memory, place, image, and imagination can be transformed into poems that speak beyond the self.

This will be a generative writing workshop, and poets will create new poetry and receive feedback. Through close readings, craft discussions, writing exercises, and thoughtful feedback, writers will discover new approaches to deepening their poems and strengthening their poetic voice.

Experience an intimate literary retreat in the inspiring setting of Cavallo Point: The Lodge at the Golden Gate, featuring small-group workshops with acclaimed authors, engaging conversations, and lasting connections. The retreat is less than a month away and filling up. Sign up here:
https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/writing-conference-2026

You have the opportunity to spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with award-winning nature and science wr...
08/04/2026

You have the opportunity to spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with award-winning nature and science writer, Charles Hood. Hood will lead Writing the Living World: Observation, Imagination, and the Art of Place, a three-morning workshop where participants will learn how careful observation can deepen every genre, turning everyday moments into compelling, memorable writing.

Limited to 12 writers, each participant can submit up to twenty pages of nonfiction for review by the workshop group. Whether writing about nature, travel, or personal experience, participants will leave with practical tools for both seeing and writing.

Experience an intimate literary retreat in the inspiring setting of Cavallo Point: The Lodge at the Golden Gate, featuring small-group workshops with acclaimed authors, engaging conversations, and lasting connections. The retreat is less than a month away and filling up.

Sign up here or with the link in our bio:
https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/writing-conference-2026

Spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley and a small group of ...
08/04/2026

Spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley and a small group of no more than 12 writers. Each participant has the opportunity to submit up to 20 pages of fiction for review by the workshop group.

Equally renowned for her teaching, Smiley has guided generations of writers through the art of fiction with the same intelligence, warmth, and literary insight that distinguish her novels. Jane Smiley's workshop invites writers into the larger architecture of fiction—how memorable novels grow from compelling characters, carefully structured scenes, and an understanding of literary tradition.

Experience an intimate literary retreat in the inspiring setting of Cavallo Point: The Lodge at the Golden Gate, featuring small-group workshops with acclaimed authors, engaging conversations, and lasting connections. The retreat is less than a month away and filling up. Sign up here:
https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/writing-conference-2026

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