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Omnidawn Publishing Omnidawn is dedicated to publishing literature that brings new light and compassionate insight.

In his review, “Reenactor of the Present: On Cyrus Console’s ‘The Wayfarer’” published in The Cleveland Review of Books,...
06/02/2026

In his review, “Reenactor of the Present: On Cyrus Console’s ‘The Wayfarer’” published in The Cleveland Review of Books, Evan McHenry writes: “Console seeks to examine that damaged world itself, rendering in new terms the man-made environmental change that we might have become numb to.”

Read McHenry’s review here: clereviewofbooks.com/reenactor-of-the-present-on-cyrus-consoles-the-wayfarer/

And order your copy of The Wayfarer:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo237307912.html

Congratulations to Audrey T. Williams, winner of the 2025 Fabulist Fiction Contest selected by Arria Deepwater! .Futures...
05/28/2026

Congratulations to Audrey T. Williams, winner of the 2025 Fabulist Fiction Contest selected by Arria Deepwater! .Futures
And Congratulations to our finalists Amelia Burton, MK Chavez, Peter Hankins, Juhee Singh, and A.J. Vellum!

“Legacies, Interrupted is part invitation, challenge, myth and prayer. Each of Audrey T. Williams’ six stories, written in their own genre—from fantasy, surrealism, horror and pure sci-fi—is a beautifully tangled knot of grief, lineage, and time.”
-judge’s citation

In his review, “Map/Ship/Promise: A Review of jason b. crawford's Second Collection, ‘YEET!’” published in Honey Literar...
05/21/2026

In his review, “Map/Ship/Promise: A Review of jason b. crawford's Second Collection, ‘YEET!’” published in Honey Literary, DeeSoul Carson writes: “YEET! imagines Black people somewhere alive and safe, imagining a new language for the way we breathe."

Read Carson’s full review here: https://www.honeyliterary.com/stickyfingers/mapshippromise-review-of-jason-b-crawfords-second-collection-yeet

And order your copy of YEET!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Y/bo257334030.html

Bedient confronts disasters of politics, love, and faithless time, never turning away from the glinting axe. This collec...
05/14/2026

Bedient confronts disasters of politics, love, and faithless time, never turning away from the glinting axe. This collection includes new poems that are direct in dealing with the difficulties of keeping faith through life.

Pre-order your copy of Bedient’s collection, Clouds Upside Down Among the Flowers:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo265677306.html

Congratulations to Daniel DeVaughn, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest selected by Jose-Luis Moctezuma...
05/11/2026

Congratulations to Daniel DeVaughn, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest selected by Jose-Luis Moctezuma

And Congratulations to finalists Michelle Alexander, Roda Avelar, Bruce Beasley, Tim Carrier, and Charles Wuest!

The Passion is a book of wondrous psalmistry, a hymn to the earth, to childhood and memory, and (following Hopkins) to the “dapple-dawn-drawn” forms of heaven that remind us of our suspended mortality.
--from judge's citation

“Unless we crush orchids. Unless we unglue the symbol from its fixture. Unless we bring ourselves to omission, purpose u...
05/07/2026

“Unless we crush orchids. Unless we unglue the symbol from its fixture. Unless we bring ourselves to omission, purpose unthreaded, we’ll be burden and burden’s daughter…”

Read the online exclusive piece, “Who Crouches in Stone Foliage,” by Karla Kelsey featured in Conjunctions here: https://conjunctions.com/articles/karla-kelsey-2026-04-29/

And order your copy of Kelsey’s collection, Blood Feather:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo234210923.html

We're excited to share the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Maw Shein Win. We hope you will consider sen...
05/03/2026

We're excited to share the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Maw Shein Win. We hope you will consider sending her your best work!

How to submit: https://omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

May 1 through June 16, 2026

Prize: $1000 and publication with 20 author copies

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