Welcome to Spring Garden Press

Founded by graduates of the MFA program in Creative Writing at UNCG, Spring Garden Press is a not-for-profit independent literary press located in Greensboro, NC, a place Randall Jarrell once described as "Sleeping Beauty" for its uncanny ability to attract and produce so many wonderful writers. Our mission is to publish poetry that, by entering the world, wakens it.

Recent News

8 July 2008. Dan Albergotti named South Carolina Artist Fellow. (link)

30 June 2008. Elizabeth Volpe winner of the Alligator Juniper 2008 National Poetry Contest. (link)

15 June 2008. Tung-Hui Hu has been named Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi. (link)

5 June 2008. Dan Albergotti featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. (link)

3 March 2008. Tung-Hui Hu has been awarded The San Francisco Foundation's James Duval Phelan Literary Award for his poetry manuscript Assigned to Okinawa. (link)

5 February 2008. Charlotte Matthews featured in the Greensboro News & Record. (link)

11 September 2007. Elizabeth Volpe of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has been awarded the 2007 Robert Watson Poetry Award for her chapbook, Brewing in Eden. The final judge was the contest’s namesake, Robert Watson. Click here for more information and a list of finalists. The next contest will begin on 1 October 2007.

A 2001 and 2004 Pushcart Prize nominee, Volpe has had work appear in numerous journals, including The Adirondack Review, Illya’s Honey, The Louisville Review, Passager, Phoebe, Rattle, Red Rock Review, and Tiger’s Eye: A Journal of Poetry. She received first prize in the Briarcliff Review 2004 Poetry Contest and the 2006 Metro Detroit Writers Contest. New work is forthcoming in Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, Tar Wolf Review, and Epicenter.