About Sligo Creek Publishing

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As if you were on fire from within…
~Pablo Neruda 

Sligo Creek Publishing seeks out authors and poets who load their pens with kerosene and set their pages on fire. Those who are passionate about the world, in all its cruelty and ugliness, and strive to make it beautiful with their words. 

We seek to publish the ones who, in the words of Jack Kerouac, are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or a saw a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn. 

We seek the ones who are mad to write. 

We also celebrate the art and craft of writing. We believe that a good story is poetic—and that a good poem tells a story. And each of them paints a picture. And that both genres should be as good when read aloud as they look on a page. 

We also seek to feature the voices of the Washington DC area, a region that pulses with passionate voices. 

Sligo Creek Publishing is an upstart. It was launched by Alan Abrams, shortly before his 75th birthday, in no small part at his frustration with the world of Submittable, and the powerhouse journals, where the odds of getting a piece published are microscopic.

This house wants to stay small, so it can read every submission with the care it deserves. 

To accomplish this, its calls for submission will be very targeted. It will also give priority to poets and writers from the DC metropolitan area. This region is a throbbing hotbed of outstanding poetry, both written and spoken. 

Sligo Creek Publishing also takes an active role in this scene, supporting independent bookstores and organizations such as Day Eight. 

So see our calls for submissions, and take a look at the books we have published.