A SAGA Grant has emerged!
An update about a new grant!
It is with great pleasure and honor that I get to announce Carbonation Press as a recipient of a 2025 SAGA Grant from Spokane Arts!
Funding from the SAGA Grant will help grow Carbonation Press in a few key areas of support:
The press’s identity, including marketing costs
Book projects, including author titles and anthologies
A larger Spokane event in 2026
More details are forthcoming! We are forever grateful to be elevated and cherished by the local Spokane artistic community.
Greg
Announcing Divining the Stone
Carbonation 015: Divining the Stone by Scott Lawrance and Gregg Simpson is now released. You can learn more about the book and here.
Announcing By Foot and Wing
The new book by Jeremy Springsteed is now out! Visit our catalog page to learn more about this poetry collection and to order a copy.
Call for Submissions: Winter in America (Still
Consider contributing to the follow-up to 2025’s Winter in America (Again. The new anthology submission guidelines can be found on the Winter in America website. Find the submission form here.
Call for Submissions: Spokane Poetry Anthology
Call for Submissions: Forthcoming Spokane Poetry Anthology from Carbonation Press
Carbonation Press invites you to submit to its first Spokane Poetry Anthology, to be printed December 2025.
This new anthology will celebrate Spokane poetry and the first issue suggested theme is: Home, Roots, or Liminal.
We invite various forms of poetry and hold a loose definition as to what may be considered poetry but for printing limitations, there will be a word limit.
The guest editors for this first anthology are: Margaret Albaugh, Asyia Gover, Dorian Karahalios, Sarah Rooney, and Jessi Vasquez.
Submissions are due September 26, 2025. Please see submission form for more details. Email Carbonation Press publisher Greg Bem (gregbem@gmail.com) with questions or comments.
Access the submission link here.
Announcing Young Stars of the Bubble by Andrew K. Peterson
Today the latest Carbonation release, 014, arrives. Poet Andrew K. Peterson’s new collection, Young Stars of the Bubble, can be found on its catalog page, and we look forward to hearing how you like it!