Spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with award-winning nature and science writer, Charles Hood. Hood will lead Writing the Living World, where you'll learn how careful observation deepens every genre, turning everyday moments into compelling, memorable writing.

Spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley and a small group of no more than 12 writers. Each participant has the opportunity to submit up to 20 pages of fiction for review by the workshop group. Sign up now! ✍️

The Catamaran Writing Retreat includes two special afternoon lectures led by @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social, available to all attendees. ⭐️ The Art of Brevity ⭐️ Writing with Love The retreat is less than a month away and filling up. Sign up here: catamaranliteraryreader.com/writing-conf...

Spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with award-winning nature and science writer, Charles Hood. Hood will lead Writing the Living World, where you'll learn how careful observation deepens every genre, turning everyday moments into compelling, memorable writing.

Spend each morning of the Catamaran Writing Retreat with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley and a small group of no more than 12 writers. Each participant has the opportunity to submit up to 20 pages of fiction for review by the workshop group. Sign up now! ✍️

🌿 The Summer Issue of Catamaran has arrived! 🌿 ✨ Order your copy and support independent literature and art catamaranliteraryreader.com/summer-2026 #writing #writingcommunity #lierarymagazine #poetry #fiction

Join us for the Catamaran Writing Retreat! Writing faculty include: ⭐️ Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley ⭐️Acclaimed memoir and nature writer Charles Hood ⭐️Pulitzer Prize Finalist Dorianne Laux and acclaimed poet Joseph Millar catamaranliteraryreader.com/writing-conf...

Join us for our Summer Issue Launch Party on Thursday, July 23rd and our Writing Retreat at the end of summer! Details in the newsletter: mailchi.mp/catamaranlit...

Catamaran Summer Issue and Retreat

The Summer Issue of Catamaran invites readers on a journey of discovery, where writers and artists explore the natural world, memory, identity, and the hidden connections that shape our lives. Featuri...

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🌿 The Summer Issue of Catamaran has arrived! 🌿 ✨ Order your copy and support independent literature and art catamaranliteraryreader.com/summer-2026 #writing #writingcommunity #lierarymagazine #poetry #fiction

🌸 Join us for our summer launch event and summer writing retreat! Details on all our upcoming events and opportunities in our newsletter: mailchi.mp/catamaranlit...

Enjoy ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 💕Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social's essay "Cut-ups" is in Catamaran Literary Reader! Get your copy now: buff.ly/lnqrroW

Join us on Thursday! 🤩 #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetrylovers, #poets #writingcommunity, #literaryevents

Catamaran Literary Reader@catamaranlit.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us Thursday at 5:30-6:30PM Pacific for a conversation and reading celebrating the 2025 winner of our Poetry Prize for West Coast poets, Aaron Tyler Hand. Aaron will be joined by poet Kathy Fagan for a discussion and poetry reading from Floodchaser. Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/floodchase...

Join us Thursday at 5:30-6:30PM Pacific for a conversation and reading celebrating the 2025 winner of our Poetry Prize for West Coast poets, Aaron Tyler Hand. Aaron will be joined by poet Kathy Fagan for a discussion and poetry reading from Floodchaser. Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/floodchase...

🗓️ Book signings at booth #923 with Aaron Tyler Hand : ---Saturday at 10:30AM ---Sunday at 2:00PM 🗓️ Saturday, April 18th at 7PM, Poetry Reading to Celebrate Aaron Tyler Hand 📍The Art of Elysium, 3278 Wilshire Blvd., PH, Los Angeles The Art of Elysium #Bookfest #LATimesFestivalofBooks #poetry

Catamaran will be at the LA Times Festival of Books April 18-19! Come visit us at Booth #923 in the Black Zone. Peruse old and new issues of Catamaran and get a signed copy of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize winner, Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand. 📚

On April 18, Lynne Thompson will be taking part in Catamaran Literary Reader’s celebration of the Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets, featuring the 2025 winning poet Aaron Tyler Hand and poets Alison Turner, Brendan Constantine, and Michelle Bitting. @catamaranlit.bsky.social

Cover art is out and pre-orders are open for the new fashion-themed issue of Catamaran Literary Reader, in which I have a short essay that begins with the time I took a bet that I couldn't wear 20 t-shirts simultaneously! Out in print next week. catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-fashion-...

The Fashion Issue 2026 — Catamaran Literary Reader

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Catamaran will be at the LA Times Festival of Books April 18-19! Come visit us at Booth #923 in the Black Zone. Peruse old and new issues of Catamaran and get a signed copy of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize winner, Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand. 📚

We hope you will join us for the special Fashion Issue launch event on Tuesday, March 24th at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History! --5:30-6:00 - Experience the museum --6:00-6:30 - Reception in the garden --6:30-7:30 - Readings in the atrium #literaryevents

Good news: ✨Catamaran's special Fashion Issue, and launch event! ✨Floodchaser, by Aaron Taylor Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize, is available for preorder! ✨We will be at the LA Festival of Books in April! Details. mailchi.mp/catamaranlit... #writingcommunity #literarycommunity

Catamaran special Fashion Issue and Launch Event

Catamaran's special Fashion Issue explores from a literary perspective the meaning of things we wear. As a whole this issue teaches us how personal fashion is, how it really is a creative expression o...

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Good news: ✨Catamaran's special Fashion Issue, and launch event! ✨Floodchaser, by Aaron Taylor Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize, is available for preorder! ✨We will be at the LA Festival of Books in April! Details. mailchi.mp/catamaranlit... #writingcommunity #literarycommunity

Catamaran special Fashion Issue and Launch Event

Catamaran's special Fashion Issue explores from a literary perspective the meaning of things we wear. As a whole this issue teaches us how personal fashion is, how it really is a creative expression o...

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Aaron Tyler Hand's poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist. 🌊 Books ship on April 3rd. Pre-order link below!

Aaron Tyler Hand's poetry collection Floodchaser is now available for pre-order! Aaron was the winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. The book was selected by the judge, National Book Award-winning poet Mary Szybist. 🌊 Books ship on April 3rd. Pre-order link below!

Looking for a last minute gift? Give the gift of Catamaran! Your gift supports a small nonprofit press and brings #literature and #art to a loved one. 🎁 Subscriptions: catamaranliteraryreader.com/subscribe-do...

Tis the season of gratitude & giving! There's never been a better time to support literature and art. Consider donating to our nonprofit and bring the literary arts to your home and community. In addition, consider giving the gift of a Catamaran subscription to your loved ones this holiday season! 🎁

We still have room for a few more pieces of #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry in our special fashion themed issue! Send something our way! 👀 Details to submit here: catamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com/submit

We still have room for a few more pieces of #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry in our special fashion themed issue! Send something our way! 👀 Details to submit here: catamaranliteraryreader.submittable.com/submit

Current Wally @jasonmazzotta.bsky.social's story "A Kiss" has been published in the Fall 2025 issue of @catamaranlit.bsky.social. catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

We had such a lovely evening at our fall issue launch event! Thank you to Radius Gallery for hosting us, to friends and family who attended, and to our wonderful readers who came from near and far. We are grateful to witness such talent and be part of such a supportive literary community!

Join us tomorrow for what will surely be a wonderful evening hearing readings from exceptional writers!

Catamaran Literary Reader@catamaranlit.bsky.social · 12mo ago

✨Join us on Wednesday, Oct 29th for readings by contributors to celebrate our 49th edition, the fall 2025 issue of Catamaran!✨ 🥂We will begin with a reception at 6pm, followed by readings at 6:30 pm at the Radius Art Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz. #literaryevents #writingcommunity