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

1 October 2011. THE 2011 ROBERT WATSON POETRY AWARD WINNER: The 2011 final judge, A. Van Jordan, has awarded the Robert Watson Poetry Award to Maureen A. Sherbondy of Raleigh, NC for her manuscript 'The Year of Dead Fathers'. More information and a full list of finalists can be found here. (link)

30 September 2011. A. Van Jordan to teach workshop on "Cinematic Movement" for the Bear River Writers' Conference. (link)

26 September 2011. Tung-Hui Hu to lecture on "The Nuclear-Proof Internet and Other Myths" for the University of Michigan Institute for Humanities on November 8. (link)

19 September 2011. Natasha Trethewey to read at The University of Maryland on October 12. (link)

15 September 2011. Charlotte Matthew's poem Whistle What Can't Be Said featured in the Fall 2011 Issue of storySouth. (link)

6 September 2011. Camille Dungy to present "We Live Here: Writing and Living Of and Off the Natural World" for the Central Arkansas Library System. (link)

1 September 2011. Dan Albergotti's public reading at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro featured at from the Fishouse. (link)


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