Thank you to everyone who submitted to Tell Me About the Dream: Poetry Inspired by the Work of Richard Siken. The turnout was incredible – we received a total of 563 poems from 235 writers, plus visual art pieces – and we were thrilled to consider all the submissions.
As of June 15, we have selected twenty-eight incredible contributors for the the anthology, and all submitters have been updated on the status of their submissions. We will now spend the summer making the book, which is slated to release on September 15. The anthology will then be available for order through the website BigCartel (we will provide a link to the Papaya Press BigCartel page as the release date nears).
In the meantime, follow @papayapressla on Instagram for updates! This page will also be kept up-to-date as the project progresses.
Thanks again to all the wonderful writers who have shared their work with us.
Love,
Sandro Ortega-Riek, publisher & Amanda Larson, editor
To commemorate both the twentieth-anniversary edition of Richard Siken’s Crush and the upcoming release of his third collection, Papaya Press will be producing a poetry anthology celebrating and reflecting on Siken’s work. Tell Me About the Dream: Poetry Inspired by the Work of Richard Siken will feature poets that have been impacted by Siken’s work as they critique and illuminate his writing from new perspectives.
The anthology will be edited by Amanda Larson, author of Gut, which won the 2020 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize (selected by Jericho Brown) and the 2022 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. The publication will appear in a limited edition made by hand at Papaya Press.
Poets working in any form or genre are welcome to submit.
Submission guidelines:
Submissions are free.
If your work is selected, you will receive one free copy of Tell Me About the Dream upon publication. As of now, contributors unfortunately can’t be otherwise compensated.
Schedule:
Note: If you would like to participate in the production of Tell Me About the Dream by contributing criticism, visual art, or some other creative take on the prompt, please reach out to papayapress@duck.com with your ideas.
To stay updated on the project, follow @papayapressla on Instagram.You can also fill out this form to express interest in ordering a copy upon publication.
Contributors: By submitting, you agree that your work is original, may be distributed in a print format, and may be archived in a digital format. Papaya Press asks for first publishing rights and the right to reprint the work in potential subsequent editions.