1/14/21: Open Reading Period Winners announced
Make for Higher Ground by Diane Moomey
Tawny Grammar by David Landrum
Thanks to all who entered!7/4/2020: Open Reading Period Ends.
6/1/2020: Open Reading Period Begins.
8/30/2019: Open Reading Period Winners announced
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable by Tiel Aisha Ansari
Temporary Kin by Kathleen McClung
Thanks to all who entered!7/5/2019: Open Reading Period Ends.
6/3/2019: Open Reading Period Begins.
8/5/2016: Open Reading Period Winner announced
What Once You Loved by Allison Joseph
Semi-finalists: Erin Murphy and Robert Donohue.
Thanks to all who entered!4/30/2016: Open Reading Period Ends.
4/1/2016: Open Reading Period Begins.
10/30/2015: Best of the Raintown Review is now available.
7/8/2014: Solicited Reading Period chosen collections announced
Why We Go By Twos by Linda Stern
Back Road by Jim Burrows06/16/2014: Heimat by Quincy R. Lehr is now available
04/16/2014: Nothing In-Between by Marybeth Rua-Larsen is now available
12/16/2013:Self-Portrait as Bettie Page by Heidi Czerwiec is now available
11/1/2013: Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer's is now available
6/28/2013: Open Reading Period Chapbook Winners announced
Nothing In-Between by Marybeth Rua-Larsen
Self-Portrait as Bettie Page by Heidi Czerwiec
Semi-finalists: Jean Free, T.R. Poulson, Jim Burrows and Jenna Le.
Thanks to all who entered!4/1/2013: Second Chapbook Open Reading Period Begins
1/8/2013: Shadows & Gifts by Quincy R. Lehr, and Selected Poems of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore are now available for pre-order
6/19/2012: High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari is now available for pre-order
5/5/2012: Open Reading Period Chapbook Winners announced
High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari
Shadows & Gifts by Quincy R. Lehr
Semi-finalists: Lois Marie Harrod, Robert Donohue, Wendy Kaplan-Emmons and Frank Osen.
Thanks to all who entered!5/1/2012: Official publication date of Saint-Pol-Roux & Other Poems from the French
4/1/2012: First Chapbook Open Reading Period Begins