A staggering amount happened this year for the Ashland Poetry Press.
January
We re-opened the 2025 Richard Sndyer Book Prize with Kim Addonizio as judge.
Poetry Press Director, Chuck Carlise, also took over as Interim Director of the Ashland MFA Program.
MFA alum, Deja Jones, stepped in as Managing Editor.
Adam Gellings chose the Ashland Broadside Contest winners: Isra Cheema as winner, Brandon Lamson and Jennifer Franklin as runners-up. (Lindsay Lusby designed the broadsides.)
February
We co-sponsored Canadian novelist Thea Lim’s visit to AU’s campus for a reading and talk.
We began a relationship with new distributor, Itasca (a subsidiary of Bookmobile).
March
AWP in LA – we co-sponsored an off-site reading with our friends at Black Fork Review, as well as Chestnutt Review and Muleskinner. We brought Isra Cheema and Tess Taylor.
Broadside winners are now available!
April
Release of Issue 1 of Passages: Revised, Ashland’s new undergraduate literary journal.
May
Richard Snyder Book Prize closes its submissions period.
July
Ashland’s MFA Summer Residency – Poetry Press co-sponsors the reading series, featuring Mat Johnson, Ryan Van Meter, Kari Gunter Seymour.
September
Third Annual Ashland Broadside Contest opens for submissions, with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo as judge.
Winner of the 2025 Richard Snyder Prize announced: K.T. Landon, for Abide, chosen by Kim Addonizio. (Coming in 2026)
We’ll also be publishing Michael Lawson’s Proof as Editor’s Choice. (Coming in 2026)
October
Valerie Perreault’s Neon Pastoral release date!
Neon Pastoral release event in Key West, FL.
Neon Pastoral wins the Key West Literary Seminars Emerging Poet Award.
We co-sponsored Kentucky novelist Ian Stansel’s visit to AU’s campus for a reading and talk.
November
Broadside Contest closes for submissions.
We hosted poetry reading with Steve Haven and Rosa Lane.
Poetry Press travels to Bowling Green, Ohio, for Winter Wheat Literary Festival.
Poetry Press Director, Chuck Carlise, leads writing residency at Monasterino Della Conoscenza in Tuscany, Italy, alongside novelist Kelly Luce.
December
Pella Felton publishes a glowing review of Neon Pastoral in Literary Underground.
We announce 2026 judge for Richard Snyder Prize: D.A. Powell (!)
Issue 12 of Black Fork Review released.
Steve Haven’s The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks, 2nd ed., goes to the printer (release: January 15).
Time waits for no Poetry Press… 2026 is bringing more adventures…
Richard Snyder Prize opens…
Haven’s, Landon’s, and Lawson’s books will come out…
Broadsides will be released…
We’re heading to Baltimore for AWP again…
Black Fork Review opens for submissions again in the spring…
And on and on and on…