C&R Press

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!

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 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!

10/24/2024

This week has been busy with announcements! Available now for presale: C&R's Winter Soup Bowl 2023 Selection, "Dinner at Las Heras" by Luciana Jazmín Coronado.
https://www.crpress.org/shop/dinner-at-las-heras/

You can preorder this lovely chapbook from the C&R website.

More about the book:
A bittersweet lovesong to a broken world, a geographical and psychological cartography spanning cityscapes and tangled internal terrain, Coronado creates a tapestry from Las Heras that is dystopian yet optimistic, where children raise themselves and sprout from the rubble of adult disillusionment. Here, the dead are never dead, gardens speak, and ravenous flowers wait under the dinner table.

10/23/2024

Wow! The Indiana Authors Awards are filled with C&R authors, past and present. https://indianaauthorsawards.org/honorees2024/

Congrats to Curtis L. Crisler whose poetry collection "Doing Drive-bys on How to Love in the Midwest" (which won the 2022 C&R Poetry Prize) came in second place to another C&R Author George Kalamaras (w/ a book out from a different press). And, as mentioned a few weeks ago, Brian Leung was named to the shortlist for Fiction!

All in all, reviewing the winners and shortlistees, these are some fantastic writers to be associated with. We proudly congratulate our authors for their killer work!

https://www.crpress.org/

The 2024 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards announced the shortlist of books eligible for top honors in eight of its literary categories. Fifty-two books written by Indiana authors and published in 2022 and 2023 have been shortlisted. All winners will be announced by Aug. 22.

10/22/2024

Out Now! Our 2023 Summer Tide Pool Prize selection: "The Consolation of Geometry" by Alice Campbell Romano.

This story-in-poems reads like a movie, and exposes the bitter compromises a couple will make with abuse and love. Lyrical & accomplished poems examine and ultimately reveal “why we stay” as the poet recovers herself and her love through the language of healing.

https://www.crpress.org/shop/the-consolation-of-geometry/

“Virginia Woolf writes, “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” Alice Campbell Romano’s speaker tells the truth, hard truths, about herself and about everyone in her orbit.

Fiction We are looking for great short stories and amazing novels, by both new and established writers, to publish as C&R Fiction. Our award winning fiction titles feature a range of voices and approaches that push boundaries alongside strong writing.

10/17/2024

Coming soon! We're excited that our 2023 Non-fiction Prize selection from Dale Corvino, "Afterlife of a Kept Boy" is available for pre-order. This voicey memoir plunges into themes of personal agency and longing, reckoning with legacy (both aesthetic and traumatic), generational identity, taboos, and much more.

https://www.crpress.org/shop/afterlife-of-a-kept-boy/

Corvino casts a q***r lens on the Gen X condition as analog children thrust into a digital context. We hope you'll pick up a copy from the C&R website or anywhere else you like!

Long Live Books!

10/13/2024

Dear friends, we've extended the submission deadline for C&R Press Prizes to October 31st. All entries are considered for publication outside of prize selection, and awardees in each genre receive $1,000 and publication. This is the final deadline and reading will begin promptly.
Thank you for doing the hard work of writing; we love reading! Long Live Books!
https://www.crpress.org/submissions/

09/30/2024

2020 Award Shortlist choice for publication, Transcendent Gardening by Ed Falco has a great write-up in Electric Literature, "The genius of this novel is that it leaves the reader with the nagging suspicion that, given the country’s gun culture and dearth of mental health counseling, this could happen to many American citizens."

https://electricliterature.com/7-literary-villains-and-a-group-of-malevolent-nuns/

It's available as an audiobook from Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Transcendent-Gardening-Audiobook/B0BGSYJQ2C?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

Get the book from us here: https://www.crpress.org/shop/transcendent-gardening/

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