Final days to send us your manuscript!

Hello, poets! We’re down to the final few days of our 2026 open reading period, which closes at the end of the day May 31.

We’re looking for full-length poetry collections (around 48-80 pages). As always, we require no submissions fee (though we accept optional tip jar donations and are grateful for all the support we receive this way). No late submissions this year! Once the deadline passes, it passes.

Both editors read every submission with care and attention. Full guidelines at our website, along with a model contract. Submissions via Duosuma.

First book, fourth book, umpteenth book, doesn’t matter! We’re looking for amazing collections from poets at any stage of their writing life.

We are super proud of the catalog we’ve assembled since starting this press in 2022, and we cannot wait to see what this reading period adds to it. If your book is ready, send it to us! And of course feel free to share the call with other poets whose work you think would be a good fit for us.

Thank you, as always, for your support of River River, small presses, and independent bookstores!