C&R Press

02/27/2026

We've made our selection for the 2025 C&R Fiction Award! We're pleased to share our awardee, Bria Purdy, as well as the shortlist, and longlist. Please click here for the full lists: https://crpress.org/cr-press-2025-awards/

FICTION SELECTION
Bria Purdy w/ The Harebell

ABOUT:
A woman boards a boat heading for an unnamed island. Her only instructions are to observe and keep a record of the dying native plant life. Haunted by memories of the past, carrying out an increasingly hopeless and incongruous task, she begins to wonder about the people who brought her here and why she was sent to watch everything die. Until one day, she discovers a new, thriving plant and must confront what it means for all she believed about the impossibility of a future.

C&R congratulates everyone on the the 2025 shortlist and longlist (compelling & serious writing all around), and everyone who submitted as well. As always, the selection process had many manuscripts worthy of publication and serious consideration across all genres. We hope everyone lands where they need to be!
LONG LIVE BOOKS!

01/20/2026

We're pleased to announce that later this year we will publish a second edition of Kelli Allen's first book "Otherwise, Soft White Ash", with a forward by Brian Turner. Look for pre-sales coming soon! This is the second, second edition we've published of an author's book. The first second-edition was Millennial Roost by Dustin Pearson with an introduction by Jericho Brown.
https://crpress.org/shop/millennial-roost/

We have a number of other great announcements coming this month too!

LONG LIVE BOOKS!

10/21/2025

Another great chap selection, a little delayed, is out just now!

"Your Body Should Be a part of the World" by Ellen Samuels

C&R's 2024 Winter Soup Bowl Contest Selection.

https://crpress.org/shop/your-body-should-be-a-part-of-the-world/

“...these poems pulse with life....”
--Jim Ferris.

“Samuels invites us into her bodyworld, sharing its infinite intimacies with us.”
--Alice Wong.

“Delicious, finely wrought poems.”
--Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

09/24/2025

We're please to announce our Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Contest selection for 2025!
A powerful collection called, "breeding season" by Dante Fuoco.

Click over to C&R's website for the short list and long list and more on the author.

https://crpress.org/cr-press-winter-soup-bowl-chapbook-awards-2025/

There were many great submissions, per usual, so we thank everyone for their participation in the contest. The Winter Soup Bowl 2026 Contest will open in December.

C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl 2025 Chapbook Awardee, Shortlist, and Longlist C&R Press publishes 2-6 chapbooks of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and other creative writing genres through our Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook and our Summer Tide Pool Chapbook series. Manuscript authors selected for public...

05/14/2025

We're pleased to announce Matt Torralba Andrews "How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean: Stories" is the recipient of our Summer Tide Pool 2024 Chapbook Award!

Please read more about the awardee, and the shortlist, and longlist here.

https://crpress.org/cr-press-summer-tide-pool-chapbook-awards-2024/

Our Summer Tide Pool 2025 Chapbook Prize opens June 20th!
LONG LIVE BOOKS!

05/02/2025

Lovely to see Michelle Bitting reading for her recent title "Dummy Ventriloquist" at . MB is one of the strongest and perseverant people we know! (not to mention a a great poet) Bravo.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DI9Ex7TJiOg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

For a copy: https://crpress.org/shop/dummy-ventriloquist/

04/21/2025

We're pleased to announce our 2024 Fiction awardee, shortlist, and longlist for the C&R Press 2024 awards in Fiction! Please click here for the full Shortlist and Longlist: https://crpress.org/24a/

FICTION AWARD
Curtis VanDonkelaar with "He Plants His Foot" a collection of stories.

C&R congratulates everyone on the the 2024 shortlist and long-longlists (we added 10 extra names to the fiction list b/c of how great the writing was this year ), and everyone who submitted as well. The selection process had many manuscripts worthy of publication and serious consideration across all genres. We wish we could publish more work and wish everyone well!

LONG LIVE BOOKS!

03/26/2025

*Deadline extension for our Winter Soup Bowl Chapbooks is now April 1! Check out the awesome book that we selected last year here https://crpress.org/wsb24/

And find us here https://crpress.org

03/18/2025

(Updated 9.23): We are in the process of testing the new site and importing image files and other data. This process has taken longer than expected and even when we go live with the new site, we'll likely experience bugs and hiccups that need to be fixed. We appreciate your patience. Tech work is not terribly easy for us.

(Updated 5.15): Most functionality has been restored, though our check out app is a new plugin for most books. Some of our older titles are still connected to the previous commerce system., If you have difficulty, hit us up on FB. Coming soon, we are working on a revamped website, possibly as early as June.

(Updated 4.7): We continue to make improvements to the website, although our commerce app is still giving us fits. We thank you for your patience as we continue to debug our site.

(Updated 3.27): Website is back! However our commerce app is still wonky. Please stay tuned for updates on that. C&R books are still and always available on Bookshop and Amazon and other digital vendors. Emails are still touch and go. Thanks for your continued patience.

(Updated 3.19) Website Update:
Dear supporters, Apologies, but our domain host has let the ball drop after we migrated plans and underwent a routine site maintenance. The C&R site is currently down. We are working to have that up and running in the next few DAYS.
Also, our emails are frozen. Please reach us on FB or IG if need be.

Contest Update:
Please note that we can be reached via IG and FB. We will be announcing the Summer Tide Pool selection shortly as well as the Fiction Contest selection (which we acknowledge is running behind schedule). We will announce each item on FB and in our newsletter before posting to the website.

Thanks for your support and patience.

12/28/2024

We're pleased to announce our 2024 Nonfiction and Poetry awardees, shortlist, and longlist for the C&R Press 2024 awards in Nonfiction and Poetry! Please click here for the full Shortlist and Longlist https://www.crpress.org/24a/
POETRY AWARD
Stacy Boe Miller, Ready to Answer With Hunger
NONFICTION AWARD
Nathan Long, As Is: Essays on a Q***r Life, Writing, and the Unpredictable Nature of Things
C&R congratulates everyone on the the 2024 shortlist and longlist (such stellar writing!), and everyone who submitted as well. The selection process had many manuscripts worthy of publication and serious consideration across all genres. We wish we could publish more work and wish everyone well!

Update 4.7: Our fiction reading has taken longer than expected. We are nearing an announcement. Thank you for your patience in letting us read as fully as we'd like and need to make our determination.

LONG LIVE BOOKS!

12/17/2024

We're pleased to announce Ellen Samuels' "Your Body Should Be A Part of The World" is the recipient of our Winter Soup Bowl 2024 Chapbook Award! Please read more about the awardee, and the shortlist, and longlist here.
https://www.crpress.org/wsb24/
Our Winter Soup Bowl 2025 Chapbook Prize opens December 21st!

LONG LIVE BOOKS!