C&R Press Summer Tide Pool 2024 Chapbook Awardee, Shortlist, and Longlist
C&R Press publishes 2-6 chapbooks of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and other creative writing genres through our Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook and our Summer Tide Pool Chapbook series. Manuscript authors selected for publication receive ten copies of the book, a $100 honorarium, $500 social media and ad network promotional campaigns.
C&R Press Summer Tide Pool 2025 Submissions Open on June 20, 2025
We are pleased to announce our 2024 Summer Tide Pool awardee as well as contest shortlist and longlist authors!
SUMMER TIDE POOL CHAPBOOK 2024 AWARD
Matt Torralba Andrews How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean: Stories
About the Author of How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean: Stories
Matthew Torralba Andrews (he/him) is a queer writer of mixed Filipino descent. His fiction has appeared in Apogee, Bellingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Sonora Review, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University and lives in northern Arizona.
About How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean: Stories
How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean is a collection of linked flash fictions that explore Filipinx American memory, migration, and family in the U.S. Southwest. In the first series of stories, Forest of Stone, a man in the dark depths of grief flees the California coast for the Arizona desert, where he searches for love, recalls his mother’s stories of her native Philippines, and finds life again among the otherworldly mesas. In the title series, a brother travels from California’s Central Valley to the mountains of northern Arizona to help his sister move their aging mother into a senior living facility, a trip that forces him to revisit old sibling dynamics and reimagine them through memories of their family’s migration across the Pacific. From arid badlands to tropical archipelagos, these twenty short-short stories chart the indelible—and sometimes fraught—relationship between place and home.
SUMMER TIDE POOL CHAPBOOK 2024 SHORTLIST and LONGLIST
The press congratulates everyone on the shortlist and longlist and notes that the selection process had many manuscripts worthy of publication, and the press wishes it could publish more work. WE ENCOURAGE ALL READERS TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PRESSES!
SHORTLIST
James Brunton
Christie Marra
Barbara Drake-Vera
Edie Cottrell Kreisler
LONGLIST
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Russell Colver
Wesley Ritchie
Aaron Graham
Molly Fessler
Samantha Malay
Naomi Ortiz
Patricia Behrens
Karen Arnold
LONG LIVE BOOKS!