RECENT TITLES

The Heart's Traffic:
a novel in poem
-Ching-In Chen

Stories, letters, and riddles follow the life of Xiaomei.

Shapely and wild, personal and cultural, tough and vulnerable, this is a poet and a poetry of steadfast innovation and depth. —Terrance Hayes

Interpretive Work
-Elizabeth Bradfield
-Winner of the 2009 Audre Lorde Award

Naturalist/poet connects work, nature, queerness, and family

An important new voice... she brings her scientist's accuracy and artist's lyricism to poems on our lives, our loves, our work. —Robin Becker

COMING IN 2010:
Cut Away - a novel by
Catherine Kirkwood

NEWS

The Heart's Traffic is newly (and ravingly) reviewed in the Lambda Literary Report & on BookDragon (Lambda Review) (BookDragon Review)
Elizabeth Bradfield's Interpretive Work won the Audre Lorde Award from the Publishing Triangle and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award
Elizabeth Bradfield has poems and commentary on From the Fishouse
Two poems from The Heart's Traffic were finalists for the Borders Open-Door Poetry Contest, judged by Billy Collins.

EVENTS

January 8: Elizabeth Bradfield reads at WOMR in Provincetown
February 25: Elizabeth Bradfield reads at Whitman College
March 2: Elizabeth Bradfield reads at Central Washington University

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MISSION

An imprint of Red Hen Press, Eloise Klein Healy established Arktoi Books to publish literary works of high quality by lesbian writers.

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SUBMISSIONS

Arktoi publishes one book a year. Submissions will be accepted from August through November. In 2009 (publication in 2011), submissions will be accepted in poetry.

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