Black Lawrence Press
Founded2004
FounderColleen Ryor
Country of originUnited States
DistributionSmall Press Distribution
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.blacklawrence.com

Black Lawrence Press is an independent publishing company founded in upstate New York by Colleen Ryor.[1][2][3][4][5] It was an imprint of Dzanc Books from 2008 to 2013.[6] It hosts the Big Moose Prize for the novel, the Hudson Prize and the St. Lawrence Book Award.[7][8] In addition to fiction and poetry, it also publishes French and German translations.[9][10] The executive editor is Diane Goettel and the senior editor is Angela Leroux-Lindsey, who also manages The Adirondack Review.

Contemporary authors published by Black Lawrence include Mary Biddinger, Louella Bryant [11][12] Daniel Chacón, B. C. Edwards, Rachel Galvin, Eric Gamalinda, Yvan Goll, Carol Guess, Michael Hemmingson, Hardy Jones, Lawrence Matsuda,[13] Laura McCullough, Daniele Pantano, Pascale Petit, Kevin Pilkington, David Rigsbee, Ron Savage, Anis Shivani,[14][15] Jen Michalski,[16] and Erica Wright. Pilkington's "The Unemployed Man Who Became A Tree" was a finalist for the 2012 Kessler Poetry Book Award.[17]

The press has also published the first English translation of Yvan Goll's Traumkraut and a collection of previously untranslated poems by Robert Walser.

Black Lawrence press published Louella Bryant's "While in Darkness There is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune,” an account of the 1974 death of Charlie Dean (brother of future American presidential candidate Howard Dean) that drew national attention to the story of the younger Dean's disappearance.[18]

Notes

  1. Poets & Writers, May/June 2009
  2. Poets & Writers, January 2011
  3. Writers Digest, 10 Oct 2011
  4. Poets & Writers, May/June 2012
  5. "Small Press, Big Roar," Writer's Chronicle, October–November 2006
  6. Ron Hogan. Galleycat. 6 June 2008
  7. Contest, The Writers, Jan 2011
  8. Black Lawrence Press Offers Early-Bird Special, Poets & Writers, 29 June 2012
  9. Poets & Writers databse, June 2012
  10. American Writer, Spring 2011
  11. "With love, Charlie," Rutland Herald, September 7, 2008
  12. "Lincoln author Louella Bryant's latest book," Addison County Independent September 1, 2008
  13. Ploughshares, Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2011, P. 195
  14. 'Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 10, 2009
  15. Melissa Kwasny, "An Ecopoet's Turmoil" in St. Petersburg Times, April 19, 2009
  16. McCauley, Mary Carole. "For Jen Michalski, a prolific year," Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2013
  17. Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton), 4 May 2012
  18. "with love, charlie," by Kevin O'Connor, Rutland Herald, 7 September 2008


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