Our Writers
Monique-Adelle Callahan D, a winner of our New Voices competition, performs her poetry in Boston, MA.
Our writers have presented their work throughout the United States, the Middle East, Asia, and the United Kingdom.
We do not ask our writers to pre-sell copies. We send out review copies, enter our poets' books in award competitions, work hard to arrange readings and workshop opportunities for those we publish. We believe writers should spend their time writing, not marketing.
Submissions
- Enter our annual Chapbook, Full-length and New Voices contests.
- Submit to our award-winning magazine, One.
- Books you've published with another literary press are eligible for the annual $500 Julie Suk Award.
Community-Active
As a Community Active press, proceeds from our book sales go to support progressive individuals and groups working for change in their communities. This photo shows a reading from Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky, edited by Tony Medina, at Potter's House in Washington D.C.
Jacar Press is a Community-Active Press. Proceeds from all sales of Resisting Arrest went to provide college scholarships to young women in D.C. and Atlanta.We also provide free workshops to under-served communities, including survivors of sexual assault and women in prison.
In our Community-Active role, we have purchased theater tickets for LGBTQ teens, donated books to summer teen programs,and paid fees for young activists to attend leadership training workshops and made direct donations to progressive groups.
Recent direct donations have been made to:
American Civil Liberty Union
Black Art Futures Fund
Childrens Justice Camp(Highlander Center)
ConPRmetidos
Freedom House
Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland
Raleigh PACT(Police Accountability Community Task Force)
Tampire Task Force
Our Recent Books
If It Heals At All - “If It Heals At All defines personal moments that conjure reincarnations of straightforward sensibility with language that names, ‘my black is a heartbeat.’ Ali Black dares metaphors to not get… …
Zombies at the Disco - Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly… …
What I Forgot to Say - Julie Suk is a prize-winning American poet from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born Julie Madison Gaillard in 1924 in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of… …
In These States - In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul. Each of us has various existences, only a few of them coinciding precisely with the boundaries of… …