C&R Press Summer Tide Pool 2025 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 2026 Submissions Open on June 20, 2025
We are pleased to announce our 2025 Summer Tide Pool awardee as well as contest shortlist and longlist authors!
SUMMER TIDE POOL CHAPBOOK 2025 AWARD
Felicity Sheehy with Almanac
About the Author of Almanac
Felicity Sheehy is a poet from the Hudson Valley of New York. Her chapbook Losing the Farm (2021) won the Munster Literature Centre’s international chapbook prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Poetry Review, The Irish Times, Poetry Daily, The Yale Review, Narrative, Poetry Ireland Review, P.N. Review, and elsewhere. She has received awards and scholarships from the Academy of American Poets, Narrative Magazine, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Community of Writers, the Banff Centre, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Ledbury Poetry Festival, among others. In 2019 and 2020, she was listed as one of Narrative’s 30 below 30 emerging writers. For the academic year 2024-2025, she was the Artist in Residence at the Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst.
About Almanac
TBD
SUMMER TIDE POOL CHAPBOOK 2025 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
Atina Hartunian
Joyce Schmid
Anna Newman
Hetta Jones
LONGLIST
Kaycee Painter
William Nixon
Marco Patitucci
Dom Blanco
Catharine Bramkamp
Richard Stokes
Ari Yakir
Zoe Luh
LONG LIVE BOOKS!