
The 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize is sponsored by the Department of English at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, the awards issue one prize to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 poems, from which a judge […]

BenBella Books Non-fiction (All Genres), Culture, Occasional Fiction benbellabooks.com glenn@benbellabooks.com Founded in 2001, BenBella Books is a publishing house for authors who value personal attention, a partnership philosophy, flexibility, and the creative approach. BenBella operates on a simple business philosophy: publish wonderful, exciting books. BenBella publishes a range of non-fiction (and the very occasional […]

Belt Publishing Novels, Non-fiction, History, Culture, Rust Belt beltpublishing.com query@beltpublishing.com “Publishing for the Rust Belt” Belt Publishing is an independent press founded in 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Originally a publisher of anthologies about Rust Belt cities, since 2015 Belt has moved into publishing a wider scope of both fiction and non-fiction. In February 2024, it […]