Blue Light Press

04/23/2026

A stellar review of my new book of poems, Prayer to the Invisible. My appreciation to Charles Rammelkamp for his insight.

Book Reviews, Poetry Reviews A review of Prayer to the Invisible by Diane Frank April 23, 2026 Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp Prayer to the Invisible by Diane Frank Blue Light Press Jan 2026, $20.00, 126 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4218-3601-0 “Drink this!” the first line of the first poem, “Appalachia...

12/03/2025

Open for submissions: BLUE LIGHT PRESS Book Award for a full length manuscript of poems, prose poems, or microfiction. We publish imagistic, inventive, honest poems that push the edge. For guidelines send an email to [email protected].

11/04/2025

Blue Light Press is open for submissions of full-length manuscripts. For guidelines send an email to [email protected]. It's important to read our guidelines.

11/04/2025

Blue Light Press congratulations our 2025 nominees for the Pushcart Prize:
Terry Lucas - "Everything" from Everything: New and Selected Poems.
Will Walker - "Sight Reading" from The World Since Yesterday.
Jim Schutz -"Covert Maneuvers at Safeway" from The Mayor Has a Hammer.
Michael Malan - "Keys to a Different Kingdom" from Midnight at the Chevron Station.
Nancy Lee Melmon - "Snippet of a Conversation with My Therapist about Courage" from Light the Way.
Jim Ralston - "Blindsided" from Dangerous Intimacies

07/26/2025

Blue Light Press has published a new book by Grace Cavalieri and Geoffrey Himes. They collaborated on a book of modern fables. A voice never heard before, even by the two authors! The cover art is a painting by Grace. Order from your favorite bookstore (distributed by Ingram) or from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Third-Voice-Grace-Cavalieri/dp/1421835819/

07/26/2025

Chapbook submissions are open until July 31. For guidelines, email [email protected]

06/10/2025

Tom Hazuka is one of the people who coined the term "Flash Fiction" with his groundbreaking anthology, FLASH FICTION. His new book VISIBLE HUMAN is full of what Hazuka considers his best work. Blue Light Press is honored to be the publisher of this book. Book launch today! Order it at your favorite bookstore, ISBN 978-1421835761 (distributed by Ingram) or https://www.amazon.com/Visible-Human-Tom-Hazuka/dp/1421835762/

Winner, 2025 Blue Light Book Award! "Tom Hazuka has long been a major editor of flash fiction anthologies, and for decades I've enjoyed reading his work in magazines. Now at last we have a full volume of his own flash stories and they're brilliant. Raw, acerbic, soulful, funny. What a treasure." -Robert Shapard, author of Bare Ana and Other Stories; co-editor of Norton sudden and flash fiction anthologies"

"The characters in Tom Hazuka's collection Visible Human are all wonderfully human as they confess and complain, hope and dream. They allow their transgressions to play out in full view, with humor and yearning, in arresting stories that ask for and earn the reader's admiration and absolution." -Pamela Painter, Author of Fabrications: New and Selected Stories

"With Visible Human, Tom Hazuka casts a wise and incisive glow over the commonplace as only the best storytellers can. He gives us narratives, with a diamond cutter's precision, that are as universal as they are personally told. Here is sure word of those fissures and hard-won triumphs that mark our days." -Robert Scotellaro, author of What Are the Chances? and Quick Adjustment

05/06/2025

Open for submissions: BLUE LIGHT POETRY PRIZE for a chapbook - Imagistic, inventive, honest poems that push the edge. Open for submissions until June 30. For guidelines send an email to [email protected].

03/19/2025

It's published! Book launch today! In Everything: New and Selected Poems, Terry Lucas anthologizes work from five previous collections and adds twenty pages of new poems to create a cohesive, lyrical-narrative arc that is a faithful sample of his personal and writing life. Childhood preacher, adult minister turned teacher, retail executive, and finally poet in his 50s, now at age 75, Lucas assembles images and narratives from disparate vistas that wrestle with the big questions by attending to the small things.

11/18/2024

Blue Light Press congratulates the poets we have nominated for the Pushcart Prize:
GRACE CAVALIERI - "Your Awe Is Not My Awe" from Owning the Not So Distant World.
IRWIN KELLER - "Taking Sides" from Shechinah at the Art Institute: Words, Worry, Wonder.
MARY KAY RUMMEL - "Pelicans in the Rain" from Little River of Amazements: New and Selected Poems.
MARK TATE - "Red Stems of the Japanese Maples" from Walking Scarecrow.
STUART P. RADOWITZ - "While You Were Away" from The Simple Changes.
TONY CRUNK - "Night" from Cosmogeny: Night and Time.

11/18/2024

Attn Poets! The Blue Light Book Award for a full-length collection of poems or micro fiction is open for submissions until February 1, 2025. For guidelines, send an E-mail to [email protected]. Send us your best work!