Airlie Press

Airlie Press We produce beautiful and compelling books by Pacific Northwest poets. Founded in May 2007, Airlie Press consists of six members, all active poets.

Submissions open now: https://airliepress.submittable.com/submit
Airlie Press is a nonprofit publishing collective dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry. Each member shares in the editorial and book production responsibilities of Airlie Press and serves for a three-year term. All funds earned through book sales and contributions go toward creating new books of poetry. Ai

rlie titles have received significant recognition, including finalist for the Oregon Book Award, finalist for the da Vinci Eye Award in Design, and short list for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, among others. Airlie Press is supported by individual book sales, by contributions to the press from its supporters, and by the donation of time by all the poet-editors of the press.

“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” — Agatha Christie
08/23/2026

“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” — Agatha Christie

Join Airlie Press alumn for an 8 week course called Nurse Logs: Growing Your Creative Obsessions from Poem to Poem. The...
08/22/2026

Join Airlie Press alumn for an 8 week course called Nurse Logs: Growing Your Creative Obsessions from Poem to Poem. The course started this week but there are still spots open, so grab yours now!

Register on writers.com here: https://writers.com/course/nurse-logs-growing-your-creative-obsessions-from-poem-to-poem

Do you have a creative obsession: something you can’t stop thinking about, a core aspect of life that baffles and fascinates you? In this course, your chosen theme or line of inquiry becomes the basis for building a body of work.

We’ll explore how to shape the raw material of journal entries, rough drafts, and freewrites into completed poems. Like a nurse log, a fallen tree that grows new trees out of its trunk, we’ll grow new poems from old poems and work on expanding your theme so it can sustain a larger project.

Megan Alpert is the author of The Animal at Your Side, which won the Airlie Prize, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She’s a recipient of an Orlando Poetry Prize and her poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Harvard Review, Verse Daily, and many others. She’s been a resident-fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and the Marquette Chamber Residency. As a journalist, she has reported for The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Smithsonian, and received fellowships from Foreign Policy and the International Women’s Media Foundation. She has a short story forthcoming in The Bennington Review.

Get ready for the release of our latest poetry collectio, All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths, by samodH Porawagamage. Pre ...
08/20/2026

Get ready for the release of our latest poetry collectio, All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths, by samodH Porawagamage. Pre orders are open now on the Airlie Press website, and the book will be officially released September 1st, 2026.

Pre order here: https://www.airliepress.org/samodh

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We have extended the deadline to submit to our open reading period to August 24th! Visit our Submittable to enter your p...
08/18/2026

We have extended the deadline to submit to our open reading period to August 24th! Visit our Submittable to enter your poetry manuscript.

08/18/2026

This Saturday! We will have two dozen young entrepreneurs selling their wares behind our bookstore! Come support our under-18 makers in their aspirations, where spending even a dollar will light up someone's face 🥰❤️
These kids always blow me away with how professional and polished their brands can be, come help make their dreams a reality on saturday, 11-3!

We are proud to present the cover for our upcoming title All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths by samodH Porawagamage!All the...
08/01/2026

We are proud to present the cover for our upcoming title All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths by samodH Porawagamage!

All the Salty Sand in Our Mouths is a child’s chronicle of the 2004 tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Its 4 sections respectively—though not chronologically—deal with the onset of the tsunami, its immediate aftermath, the long traumatic aftermath, and the experiences of tsunami survivors and victims other than the narrator/speaker // interviews with survivors. Taking a leaf out of Muriel Rukeyser’s highly influential poetic documentation of the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster in The Book of the Dead, this firmly place-based collection attempts to capture a disaster without sensationalizing, trivializing, glorifying, or exploiting the tragedy.



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Today is the final day for the Airlie Press open reading period for this year! Visit our Submittable page to submit your...
08/01/2026

Today is the final day for the Airlie Press open reading period for this year! Visit our Submittable page to submit your full length manuscript. Please note this is for authors residing in the PNW (Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska).

Dive into poetry with a past Airlie author! Megan Alpert, author of The Animal at Your side, will be offering a free wor...
07/29/2026

Dive into poetry with a past Airlie author!

Megan Alpert, author of The Animal at Your side, will be offering a free workshop on how to complete difficult poems and projects. We'll talk about caring for yourself when writing about trauma, grief, and anger. I'll also share some writing practices to help sustain you through the work.

Scan the QR code to sign up!

Now through July 31, we seek full-length manuscripts from poets who reside in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington,...
07/29/2026

Now through July 31, we seek full-length manuscripts from poets who reside in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska) who are willing and able to commit to a three-year term of doing the shared work of running a collective press. Entries are accepted via Submittable.

Members are expected to attend monthly meetings—usually held virtually via Zoom, although we sometimes meet in person for readings and other events. Each member’s book is published in the second year of their term. Authors have the final say about the content and presentation of their books. All profits from the sale of books are returned to the collective for the production and promotion of future books.

We are actively seeking collections from writers of color, trans and nonbinary writers, disabled writers, and others whose voices are underrepresented in literary publishing. As our membership changes continuously, we are open to a wide range of aesthetics in our publications.

We look forward to reading your writing!

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