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Poetry Contest Winner

Congratulations to Seth Landman, winner of two fantastic Subito books for our mini poetry contest. Read the winning poem below.

A Note on the Text

I have used you
where other words are not
where I am
alone a little
walk a little strong wind
clear eyes full of stars
coming off the crystal the lake
seems to be tonight.
I will write later to light
matches. As much as we are that
we are sentinel listening
over the five or six miles
of threshold between
one town and the next.
This town I found
the cause of it
the river. I have used one thing
where I have had many and the winter
has been difficult and the winter
has not even started yet.
Burn purpose or burn
some big habit you can’t
go back to beforehand.
It will be hard to read
the reminders you set
in the dark preceding
the light in the morning.
By you I mean so it is not
strange but since and promised
and whole in sickness and in
any condition resisted
the big mind shining I know also that.

Win Free Books! Poetry Contest

Like free books? Who doesn’t? Subito Press wants to celebrate the launch of our new blog, so we’re hosting a small contest—write a poem, win two books. Send us ONE poem (one entry per person please) by email at subitopressucb@gmail.com by Friday Dec. 2nd at midnight. The Subito staff will select a winner. If your poem is chosen, we’ll send you two books of your choice from our bookshelf and we’ll publish your poem on our blog. Don’t forget to come back and visit our blog to see highlights of our authors, our books, and news and fun from the small press community. Thanks for playing, odds of winning are one in 7,000.

Subito Press at AWP!

For those of you going to AWP in February, come say hello at the book fair!

We will be sharing a table with our friends at SPRING GUN PRESS in the Table X/Y area!

Check out the wonderful presses we will be joining!

Subito Author Alta Ifland: New Book Out Now!

Alta Ifland, winner of Subito’s 2010 fiction contest, has a new book out now from Spuyten Duyvil! Check out The Snail’s Song here: http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/poetry/snailsong.html

“This Snail’s Song is a refined encapsulation of all the beauty and sadness in the world;
a true tour-de-force of imagination and sincerity.”

-Alex Epstein, author of Blue Has No South and Lunar Savings Time

Contest Winners and Finalists!

Below are our recent contest winners. View our full catalog.

Subito Press is proud to annouce the winners of its 2011 competition! Congratulations to Marcus Pactor and Melanie Hubbard!

The 2011 Fiction winner (chosen by Elisabeth Sheffield) isThe Archived Steve by Marcus Pactor.

Marcus Pactor has lived and cooked across the southeast. His stories have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Conte, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Texas State University. He currently teaches at the University of North Florida.

The 2011 Poetry winner (chosen by Julie Carr) is We Have with Us Your Sky by Melanie Hubbard.

Melanie Hubbard lives in a small town on the west coast of Florida with her family. She received a PhD in literature from Columbia University; she also received a National Endowment for the Humanities research fellowship to do a scholarly book, now being revised, on Emily Dickinson. She has taught at New College of Florida, Eckerd College, and the University of Tampa. Poems, reviews, scholarly articles, and personal essays have appeared in a variety of periodicals. A chapbook, Gilbi Winco Swags, came out with Cannibal Books in 2008.

Congratulations to our finalists as well!

Poetry Finalists:

I Could Be Your Beauty Resort by Drew Krewer
High Life by Phil Estes
After Nightfall by Carrie Bennett
Rough Soul by Aaron McCollough
Whelm by Dawn Lonsinger
ULTRAMEGAPRARIELAND by Elisabeth Workman
The Shiny Jars Aligned by Theresa Sotto
Staple and Sown by Stephanie Anderson
Degrees of Freedom by C. John Graham

Fiction Finalists:

One Step Behind by Rush Rankin
Fifty Minutes by Lyzette Wanzer
The Exiles by Matthew Kirkpatrick
The Light at the End of the Tunnel of Love by Ashley Marie Farmer
Country of Warehouses by Brian Mihok
The Center of the World by Rob Roensch
The Geometry of Distance by Travis Hessman
Empty & Exposed by Harmony Neal
Tool & Die by Michelle Valois