Four Way Books
  Celebrating 15 Years
Shadow Mountain
by Claire Kageyama-
Ramakrishnan

In the Mouth
stories and novellas

by Eileen Pollack

National Anthem
by Kevin Prufer
Degrees of Latitude
by Laurel Blossom

Lane Changes
by David Lawrence

Anxious Music
by April Ossmann

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2008 Submissions

Four Way Books has two reading periods each year — January 1 - March 31 (contest) and June 1- June 30. Our next contest will be for the Levis Poetry Prize, to be judged by Mary Jo Bang. Our next open reading period for poetry and short fiction will be in June 2009. If you missed our June deadline, you may query us to see if we can read your manuscript outside of this period. If we can, we will. If we can't, we will ask that you send it to us during our regular reading period. Please do not just send a manuscript to us without querying first. Please check our guidelines in November for our contest and in May for our June reading period.

Status of submissions

If you submitted your manuscript in June, we will get back to you between end of August and mid October. Reading manuscripts is a slow process. We have many readers and we deliberate a long time over the manuscripts. Please be patient!

If you do not hear from us by mid November, feel free to query us.

Thank you for your interest in Four Way Books.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2008 Intro Prize has been selected by Brigit Pegeen Kelly.

Jamie Ross's collection BRINGING IN THE NAME will be published in the first quarter of 2010. He will also receive an honorarium of $1000.00 and a reading in NYC's Readings on the Bowery, sponsored by Four Way Books. Jamie lives in Carson, New Mexico.

We want to thank everyone who submitted work to the Four Way Books Intro Prize.

Publishing 6-8 books a year.

Reading Series: Catch us at Readings on the Bowery (see news/events) where we feature our own authors as well as writers from around the country.

Residency Program: sending one author each spring to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

We are proud recipients of grants from
New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses through their re-grant program, and private foundations. We are also grateful to the private foundations and many individuals who support our programs.


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