Rabbit Catastrophe Press

07/27/2020

We are thrilled to announce that Andrea Wolf has chosen "Memoria", by Michelle Lizet Flores, as the winner of the 2019 Get Like Us contest!

“'Memoria' or an 'attempt to fly without wings' stitches ancestral memory, immigration narratives, intergenerational trauma together in a prosodic-lyric web whose spine is the premature death of the narrator's mother. Amidst the darkness of grief and struggle, the faultlines that the loss of a parent cracks open confer a great heaviness. Our inability to stave off death leaves us to hang, along with our bathing suits, dresses, jackets, buttons, in the space between survival and death.” - Andrea Abi-Karam

Michelle Lizet Flores is a graduate of FSU and NYU creative writing programs. She currently works as a middle school English teacher and has previously been published in magazines and journals such as The Miami Rail, Chircú Journal, and Travel Latina. A finalist for the 2020 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her first chapbook, Cuentos from the Swamp, is available from Finishing Line Press. Find out more at michellelizetflores.com.

2019 Girls Like Us Chapbook Contest

Winner: "Memoria" by Michelle Lizet Flores

Runner up: "6:29am, below sea level" by Maurisa Li A Ping

Finalists (in alphabetical order):
"Extended Voicemail to a Senator" by Meriwether Clarke
"Boys in the Electric Age" by Jordan E. Franklin
"Nightstands" by Sugar le Fae
"Differential diagnosis from the Santa Anas" by Leah Claire Kaminski
"Heaven Is Now" by Risa Pappas
"Defending Cressida" by Kathryn Paulsen
"From the Soot" Kyleen Russell

We are thrilled to announce that Andrea Abi-Karam has chosen Memoria , by Michelle Lizet Flores, as the winner of the 2019 Get Like Us contest! “ Memoria or an "attempt to fly without wings" stitches ancestral memory, immigration narratives, intergenerational trauma together in a prosod

12/18/2019

Oh, look at this. A beautiful new thing for you to cuddle.

Poetry by Tori Cárdenas, Chen, Darren C. Demaree, Annie Diamond, Kristina Erny, Katherine Gaffney, Jaria Gordon, Ann Huang, Shanita Jackson - Poet, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Elspeth Jensen, Cheung Lee, Nathan Lipps, Joplin Morgan, Megan Neville, Amy Pence, Hannah Suchor, Anthony Sutton, Laura Villareal

Includes the winner and finalists from the 2019 Real Good Poem Prize.

Poetry by : Tori Cardenas, Esther Chen, Darren C. Demaree, Annie Diamond, Kristina Erny, Katherine Gaffney, Jaria Gordon, Ann Huang, Shanita Jackson, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Elspeth Jensen, Ho Cheung Lee, Nathan Lipps, Joplin Morgan, Megan Neville, A. Pence, Hannah Suchor, Anthony Sutton, L

11/05/2019

Congrats to our The Pushcart Prize nominees, Elspeth Jensen, Katherine Gaffney, Tori Cardenas, and Laura Passin!

We’re happy to announce our Pushcart Prize nominees: “Small Apocalypse” by Elspeth Jenson, winner of the 2019 Real Good Poem Prize, chosen by Julia Mae Johnson, published in Rabbit Catastrophe Review #15 “Once Read as Ruin,” by Katherine Gaffney, from in Rabbit Catastrophe Review #15 “Ou...

10/05/2019

Last day!

Rabbit Catastrophe Press is based in Lexington, KY.  We publish: Rabbit Catastrophe Review, an annual print literary journal of experimental and traditional poetry, including the winners of our annual Real Good Poem Prize. Chapbooks of poetry chosen from our Girls Like Us chapbook contest Various p...

10/01/2019

Procrastinators like me! This is for you! Extended deadline for the 2019 GLU Chapbook Contest! Oct. 6th, 2019

Rabbit Catastrophe Press is based in Lexington, KY.  We publish: Rabbit Catastrophe Review, an annual print literary journal of experimental and traditional poetry, including the winners of our annual Real Good Poem Prize. Chapbooks of poetry chosen from our Girls Like Us chapbook contest Various p...

09/09/2019

Now available! Laura Passin's ALL S*X AND NO STORY. Winner of the 2018 GLU Chapbook contest.

Winner of the 2018 Girls Like Us chapbook contest, chosen by Tiana Clark. Of this manuscript, Tiana writes, "I loved how this chapbook deftly explored gender, history, and sexuality with stunning lyricism, nuance, and sway. It was lush and mighty (sometimes boldly brash), but also cohesive as

09/01/2019

It's that GLU-y time again!

$500 for the winning chapbook.
Judge: Andrea Wolf
Deadline: Sept. 30th, 2019

06/01/2019

We are thrilled to announce that Julia Mae Johnson has chosen Elspeth Jensen's, "Small Apocalypse," as the 2019 winner of the Real Good Poem Prize!

Elspeth Jensen earned her BA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University, and is currently pursuing her MFA from George Mason University. Her writing can be found in journals such as the Bellevue Literary Review, Rust + Moth, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Midway Review, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. She is the Poetry Editor for So to Speak and Sweet Tree Review.

Elspeth will receive $1,000 and publication in Rabbit Catastrophe Review #15.

Finalists (in alphabetical order):
"Our Lady of Guadalupe" by Tori Cardenas
"Once Read as Ruin" by Katherine Gaffney
"blkhstry" by Jaria Nicole Gordon
"Cruel" by Ann Huang
"I Have No Origin Story" by Jennifer Jackson Berry
"1110" by Ho Cheung Lee
"Parts" by Megan Neville
"Baby Teeth" by Amy Pence
"Chicken" by Alexandra Umlas
"Spring" by Laura Villareal

04/07/2019

Last day to submit all of your REAL GOOD POEMS!

04/05/2019

YES!