Split Rock Review celebrates nine years of publishing literature and art that centers on place, environment, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Four featured authors published by Split Rock Review will read and discuss how their work explores place and complicates the traditions of nature poetry in the Anthropocene. Crystal S. Gibbins, founder and editor of Split Rock Review, will introduce and moderate. A brief Q&A session will follow the reading.

MODERATOR:

Crystal S. Gibbins is the founder and editor of Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press, editor of the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment, and author of Now/Here, winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Her poetry and comics have appeared in Coffee House Writers Project, Hobart, North American Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.

PANELISTS:

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founder of both rinky dink press and. She is the recipient of a 2020 Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and the director of the therapeutic poetry nonprofit, Revisionary Arts.

Jen Karetnick is the author of 10 poetry collections, including The Burning Where Breath Used to Be and Hunger Until It's Pain (forthcoming). Co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she works as a lifestyle journalist, co-author of Dishtillery newsletter, and trade book author.

Rachel Morgan is the author of the chapbook, Honey & Blood, Blood & Honey. She was a finalist for 2017 National Poetry Series Contest and recipient of a grant to the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches at the University of Northern Iowa and is the Poetry Editor for the North American Review.

Wendy Oleson is the author of two award-winning chapbooks, Please Find Us and Our Daughter & Other Stories. Her recent work appears in Denver Quarterly, Passages North, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. Wendy serves as the Managing Editor of Split Lip Magazine and Associate Prose Editor for Fairy Tale Review.

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Join us at the AWP21 Virtual Community Bookfair!

Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press will participate in the AWP21 Virtual Community Bookfair on Saturday, March 6. We’ll be offering big discounts on our chapbooks. Visit our exhibit space and keep an eye on our social media accounts for announcements.

AWP will use Patchable as its virtual platform.

Best Practices for Submitting to Journals

Journals are an crucial part of the literary ecosystem, but the volume of publications can be daunting when trying to decide where and how to submit your work. What are some of the best ways to approach this world? In this session, Crystal Spring Gibbins (Split Rock Review) and Chris Fink (Beloit Fiction Journal) will join moderator Kathryn Savage for a conversation around how to find the right home for your work.

Location: Ski-U-Mah room at the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota campus.

This event is organized and sponsored by The Loft’s Wordsmith, a craft, career, and connection conference that takes place November 2 - 3.

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Final Thursday Reading Series is a collaboration of Final Thursday Press, the Hearst Center for the Arts, and the University of Northern Iowa.

Featured readings are preceded by a creative writing open mic. Bring your best five minutes of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction to share.

7:00: Open Mic

8:00: Featured author Crystal S. Gibbins will discuss her editorial work on Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Poetry Anthology (vol. 1) and her new anthology project Rewilding: Poems for the Environment (Flexible Press), as well as read new and selected poems from her collection Now/Here (Holy Cow! Press).

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit Final Thursday Press.

Split Rock Review is participating in the 19th annual Twin Cities Book Festival!

Stop by the Split Rock Review table at the book fair. We will have big discounts on books, cool merchandise to give away, information on our submission guidelines, and more!

The event is free and open to the public.

Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Poetry Anthology is nominated for the 31st Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (NEMBA) in Poetry.

Split Rock Review will have a table at the book fair. Come by our table to meet the editorial staff and check out some of our recent publications!

The poetry collections by Crystal S. Gibbins and Michelle Menting explore and complicate the traditions of nature poetry. The poets will read from their books and, as editors of Split Rock Review, offer what they look for in submissions of contemporary nature poetry during the anthropocene.

This event is scheduled in the Waterford Room at St. Brendan’s Inn

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Submitting your work to journals and literary agencies can be daunting and intimidating, even for an established writer. Sometimes it feels like there is no way to know what editors are looking for. Join this panel of editors for a chance to gain insight on what editors actually look for when reading through submissions, and what you can do to stand out. 

Speakers: Crystal S. Gibbins, Michelle Menting, Christy Clancy, and C. Kubasta

This event is scheduled in the Meeting Room 7 at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, WI.

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Split Rock Review celebrates the release of Waters Deep, an anthology of Great Lakes poetry, co-edited by Crystal S. Gibbins and Michelle Menting. Come listen to a diverse group of contributing poets read from Waters Deep and discuss how they’ve been inspired by the Great Lakes and the woods, watersheds, hills, bluffs, iron and copper ranges, snow belts, rustbelts, and communities that surround them. From layers of history and human culture to natural landscapes and built environments, the voices, perspectives, and styles of the poets featured in Waters Deep are as varied and powerful as the lakes themselves. A Q&A session will follow the reading.

This event is scheduled in Meeting Room 7 at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, WI.

Poetry Readers: Milton J. Bates, Janna Knittel, Issa M. Lewis, Rachel Morgan, M. Bartley Seigel, Phillip Sterling, Emily Stoddard, Connor Yeck

Event Moderators: Crystal S. Gibbins, Michelle Menting, Casey Thayer

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