Our next, the tenth annual Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest, marks the return of an event that,...
The Orchard Street Press was established in 2016 to provide an alternative publishing opportunity to writers whose work deserves an audience beyond the readers of the small literary reviews and journals.
The Press works cooperatively (and creatively) with its writers to produce publications that are both intellectually/emotionally engaging and aesthetically appealing. We take particular pride in the quality of the books we produce.
We all have special places in our lives, places from which the people, sounds, sights remain despite all the days and distance we may have traveled from them. One such place is a small mountain town in Pennsylvania where a family of thirteen once lived in seven-room house built by a coal miner and his brothers, built before electricity and indoor plumbing, at a time when people's lives were all too often measured only by the tiny piece their breath and sweat could add to the coffers of some corporate monolith.
Six brothers, five sisters, father John and mother Mary living in the Pennsylvania sun beneath the shadow of a blue-green mountain in their small white house four doors down on Orchard Street.
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In 2017, The Orchard Street Press (TOSP) conducted a national Chapbook Contest that produced Orchard Street’s first five published collections. In 2018, TOSP switched to an annual Poetry Contest that considered individual poems. Prize-winners and other select Contest entrants were then invited to submit chapbook manuscripts for possible publication. That Contest yielded the next set of chapbooks and the first edition of Quiet Diamonds, Orchard Street’s annual poetry journal. Since 2017, we have published about 90 different titles (mainly poetry collections but also some prose works to include novels, short story collections, and other genres) and nine editions of Quiet Diamonds. The 2018 Poetry Contest also saw the first awarding of TOSP’s Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize, given to the author of the Contest’s First-Place winning poem. The Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize and its awardees are discussed here.
