Four Way Books

Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary publisher located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collections accepted through general submission, panel selection, and solicitation by the editors.[1] The press is run by director and founding editor Martha Rhodes, who is the author of numerous poetry collections. Four Way Books titles are distributed by Chicago Distribution Center. The press has received grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts,[2] The Jerome Foundation and The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses through their re-grant program.[3]

Four Way Books
Founded1993
FounderJane Brox, Helen Fremont, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Martha Rhodes
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
DistributionChicago Distribution Center
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genrespoetry and short fiction
Official websitefourwaybooks.com

Notable poets and writers published by Four Way Books include Gregory Pardlo, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Cynthia Cruz, Allison Benis White, Eileen Pollack, Catherine Bowman, Kevin Prufer, Terri Ford, Forrest Hamer, Pimone Triplett, Jeffrey Harrison, Sarah Gorham, D. Nurkse, Laurel Blossom, C. Dale Young, Noelle Kocot, Joel Brouwer, Pablo Medina, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Cynthia Huntington, Jason Schneiderman, and Sarah Manguso.

Authors have been recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,[4] Rome Prize,[5] The Edward Lewis Wallant Award,[6] Guggenheim Fellowships, NEA fellowships, and many other honors. A recent title was also a finalist for the National Book Award.

Four Way Books titles have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, and many other publications.

Four Way Books offers The Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. The press also used to sponsor a reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club, called Readings on the Bowery, featuring FWB authors and writers from across the country.[7] Be sure to read the electronic literary journal Four Way Review!

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