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.

12/02/2025

Tis the season of gratitude and giving! There's never been a better time to support literature and art. Please consider a donation to our nonprofit organization. Your gift supports our publications and events and brings the literary arts to your home and community. In addition, consider giving the gift of a Catamaran subscription to your loved ones this holiday season! 🎁

We also want to express our deep gratitude for the generosity and kindness of our readers, contributors, donors, event hosts, and everyone who is part of the Catamaran family. ✨ Thank you! ✨

Donate: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/donate
Subscribe: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/subscribe-donate

11/04/2025

A special congratulation to Lilly Tookey the winner of Catamaran's 12th annual 2025 George Hitchcock Memorial Poetry Prize for UCSC students! She read her winning poem "Tom" at the fall issue launch event. 👏🥳

11/03/2025

We had such a lovely evening at our fall issue launch event! Thank you to Radius Gallery for hosting us, to friends and family who attended, and to our wonderful readers who came from near and far: Los Angeles, San Louis Obispo, Davis, and the SF Bay Area. We are grateful to witness such talent and be part of such a supportive literary community!

10/26/2025

Best American Essays 2025 has recognized two Catamaran essays in their list of Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2024!

Sage Marshall, "Powder Daze" Spring 2024 Issue
Todd Sformo, "Personality of Probability" Fall 2024 Issue

🔗 Find links to read these excellent essays in our Online Nonfiction Archive or below.
Marshall:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50a3e7b0e4b0216a96954b82/t/661d920174f2a80f88a8b49c/1713213955198/Marshall.pdf
Sformo:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50a3e7b0e4b0216a96954b82/t/68fd2fd78f847071404179a4/1761423319250/Fall2024NonfictionSformo.pdf

10/18/2025

🏆 We are excited to announce our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees! Congratulations to these talented writers! 👏

Charlie Espinosa - Beneath our Cleats, nonfiction (Fall 2025)
James Harms - Buffalo, fiction (Summer 2025)
Kathryn Jordan - Lamentation, poetry (Fall 2025)
Don Lago - The Gravity of Life on Earth, nonfiction (Fall 2025)
Nancy Lord - Moose Season, nonfiction (Fall 2025)
Lisa Allen Ortiz - The Overburden, fiction (Spring 2025)

10/14/2025

✨Join us on Wednesday, Oct 29th for readings by contributors to celebrate our 49th edition, the fall 2025 issue of Catamaran!✨

🥂We will begin with a reception at 6pm, followed by readings at 6:30 pm at the Radius Art Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz.

🎤 Readers: George Cotkin, Albert Flynn De Silver, Nicole Fugette, Kathryn Jordan, Veronica Kornberg, Kelly McGuire, Reilly Newton, Lilly Tookey

📍 Radius Gallery 1050 River St. #127, Santa Cruz
🚙 Parking is in the 1060 Lot at the East end of the Tannery Arts Center. Walk through the center of campus and past the first courtyard entrance, after the stairs, and you’ll see a ramp to enter the Radius gallery on the right side of the campus central corridor, before you get to the theater.

We hope to see you there!

10/05/2025

Catamaran invites you to meander through the world of art and literature with our new Fall 2025 edition of the magazine. With works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and an interview with Percival Everett, this issue will be the perfect reintroduction to the tranquility of fall.

https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

08/25/2025

✍️A few spots left in The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner this Saturday! Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off!

In this workshop, Grant Faulkner, co-founder of 100 Word Story and the author of The Art of Brevity, will discuss how a different type of creativity emerges within a hard compositional limit, exploring the many different forms that short shorts can take. For writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir.

🗓️ August 30th on Zoom at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific

🔗 Register: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for-courses-1

08/09/2025

✍️ Grab a spot in The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner!

In this workshop, Grant Faulkner, co-founder of 100 Word Story and the author of The Art of Brevity, will discuss how a different type of creativity emerges within a hard compositional limit, exploring the many different forms that short shorts can take. For writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir.

🗓️ August 30th on Zoom at 10:30AM - 1:30PM Pacific

🔗 Register: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/register-for-courses-1

08/05/2025

🏆 We are thrilled to announce the winner for the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize is Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand from Portland, Oregon! 🏆

🥳 Our first runner-up is Crop Marks by Charles Hood. Finalists are Jed Meyers with Can't be Far, Steve McDonald with Not Eden, Kathryn Jordan with Old Words, Old Wood, Brian Culhane with Reading Lamp, and Tara Mesalik MacMahon with To the Gods of Perfect Sugar.

Congratulations to all and thanks to our guest judge Mary Szybist!

https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/catamaran-poetry-prize-2025

08/04/2025

📣 Starting this Saturday! Grab a spot! National Book Award winning author Charles Johnson will be joining our 3 session virtual reading workshop facilitated by Richard King!

Details and registration: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/literature-of-the-sea-with-richard-king

📚 In the first two sessions read and discuss his acclaimed historical novel Middle Passage, followed by a session with Charles Johnson.

Aug 9th, 9-10 AM Pacific with Richard King
Aug 16th, 9-10 AM Pacific with Richard King
Aug 23rd, 9-10:30 AM Pacific with Richard King & Charles Johnson

07/28/2025

✨Thank you to all of our amazing readers and attendees who came to our Summer Issue launch party at the Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco! It was such a lovely evening! ✨

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Catamaran is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with public charity status. Each quarterly issue features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction authors along with work from different visual artists and photographers. Catamaran is a print publication with online features and podcasts. We also host many public events not only to celebrate the release of each issue but also to connect the public with poets and writers featured in our pages.