Cobalt Press

30/11/2024

HEY IT IS CYBER WEEK! And Press has $10 books!

Get Maggie Cleveland's new collection of poetry for $12.

All other Cobalt books are $10 until December 6!

And, pssssst.... Maggie's book is only $10 if you add any other book to the order (just use code THATSWEIRD for the extra $2 off).

30/11/2024

Maggie Cleveland's badass collection of poetry, A COMPLICATED PIECE OF MACHINERY WITH NUMEROUS POSSIBILITIES FOR INJURY is officially out on Tuesday, December 3!

Between now and then, get yourself a super-discounted copy direct from our distributor FOR ONLY $10!

01/08/2024

Check out this great review of Judith Krummeck's THE DECEIVED ONES by Danielle Ar**no, published last week in Cobalt Review!

The tricky part for any contemporary writer adapting a play from Shakespeare’s canon is that to do it successfully, the writer has to give all the appropriate nods to the original, while also making their text feel new and fresh. In Judith Krummeck’s latest release, The Deceived Ones, she does j...

01/08/2024

Hey! Fresh poetry from Glenn Ingersoll!

Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California. Videos of his poetry reading and interview series Clearly Meant can be found on the Berkeley Public Library YouTube channel. Ingersoll’s prose poem epic, Thousand, is available from bookshop.org and as an ebook from Smashwords. ...

10/08/2023

Our latest magic is from Inga Piotrowska. Check out here poem "Vanilla" on The Cobalt Weekly!

https://www.cobaltreview.com/poetry/2023/08/09/poetry-by-inga-piotrowska

the moment I realize I’m empty and feel nothing iswhen the ice cream man asks me about what flavour I wantand I don’t know the answer because I’m emptyand I don’t know whether I like chocolate or raspberry

10/07/2023

Happy All Star Break! There's no better time to submit to our 10th and final baseball writing prize. Now through Thursday, submission fees are reduced 20%. Play ball.

This prize has long been named for after long-time Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who once said that baseball is all "pitching, defense, and the three-run homer." While we still dedicate this prize to the great Earl of Baltimore, this is our final round of the Baseball Writing Prize, so we are callin...

05/07/2023

"Spatch Cock'd" -- new fiction by Laura J Morris -- is now live on The Weekly!

I stuff the chicken. One hand up and under its skin. My fingers pushing the soft buttery mixture between its skin and flesh, massaging, rolling, caressing its rawness with my butter-y lemon-y fingers, plumping it. Readying it. 400 degrees. Like that. Roasted. Crispy skin in my mouth.

28/06/2023

Hey all. Our web host is experiencing significant server issues that are affecting the Cobalt website. We discovered the intermittent problem while making some alterations to the site design, so now a few pages look a little wonky. Bear with us. We'll get it fixed as soon as we can.

15/06/2023

James Joyce erasure poetry by Justin Hamm is now live on The Weekly!

Check it out! https://www.cobaltreview.com/weekly/2023/06/15/115-justin-hamm/

New poetry by John Dorsey Cobalt Press 2023

04/05/2023

New Sid Haig poetry from John Dorsey is live on The Weekly!

https://www.cobaltreview.com/weekly/2023/05/04/113-poems-by-john-dorsey/

New poetry by John Dorsey Cobalt Press 2023

26/04/2023

Now's a great time to submit your baseball-themed poetry, essay, short story, rant, or whatever to the *tenth and final* Cobalt Press baseball writing prize.

Accepted submissions are included in this fall's "Extra Innings" baseball issue, from which we select a winner and finalists. We're reviewing submissions in near-real-time. So get your best baseball writing in now!



https://cobalt.submittable.com/submit/259580/cobalt-extra-innings-baseball-writing-prize-250

Submitting is easy thanks to the great Submittable platform.

This prize has long been named for after long-time Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who once said that baseball is all "pitching, defense, and the three-run homer." While we still dedicate this prize to the great Earl of Baltimore, this is our final round of the Baseball Writing Prize, so we are callin...

10/04/2023

After a season on the IL, we're swinging for the fences with ONE MORE baseball writing prize. The tenth and final "Extra Innings" baseball writing prize is now live!

Play ball.

https://cobalt.submittable.com/submit/259580/cobalt-extra-innings-baseball-writing-prize-250

This prize has long been named for after  Earl Weaver, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1996, was manager of the Baltimore Orioles for 17 years. The legend, who died in 2013, once said that baseball is all "pitching, defense, and the three-run homer." While we still dedicate this prize to the grea...