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The Red Wheelbarrow Nr. 18 Launch on Wednesday, October 8, 2024, 7 PM

You’re invited to The Red Wheelbarrow #18 launch!! Join us on October 8, 2025 at 7 PM at The Felician University Little Theater at 230 Montross Avenue in Rutherford, NJ, for a fantastic poetry reading, featuring the writers published in RWB #18.

If you have work in this issue, congratulations! We would love you to attend the October 8 launch to read your work from the book. 

PLEASE NOTE: We moved the launch to 10/8 because Rosh Hashana is 10/1. Please put it on your calendar if you’re available. 

At the launch, we’ll have books for sale for the promotional price of $15, two whole dollars less than our listed price online! Come and get your copy! Our contributors are our only “subscribers,” so there are no free contributor copies—but reading at the launch qualifies you to submit to RWB 19! 

Our featured poet this year is Shane Wagner. We’re excited to include the two special sections that continue to expand our local poetry circle: one of them is guest-edited by poet John T. Trigonis, and another one is dedicated to Montclair High School poets. Our main poetry section is curated by Arthur Russell and includes many new names, alongside our core group. You can also admire the black and white photos by Donald Zirilli on the section frontispieces. All this exciting work is wrapped up in a beautiful dark cover, featuring a gorgeous peony digital collage by Frank Rubino.

We hope you’ll find this edition inspiring, a slice of the best contemporary writing in New Jersey and New York. We also hope that The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Nr. 18 will motivate each one of you to continue to write, create, and attend our weekly workshops on Zoom and our monthly events at The Felician University Little Theater. Our community and annual journal are proving this year once again that the William Carlos Williams legacy is still going strong in Rutherford, where the epic is indeed the local fully realized. The good doctor would be so proud.

Hope to see you all on October 8 at the launch in Rutherford!

The Red Wheelbarrow 18 Is Now Open for Submissions! Deadline for Poetry and Essays: July 4, 2025

The Red Wheelbarrow (Volume 18) is open for submissions of poetry and essays from poets who have attended one of the monthly Red Wheelbarrow Poets reading series from June 4, 2024, through July 3, 2025. You are also invited to submit if you participated in any of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Workshops during the same period. Submission deadline: July 4, 2025. 

Please indicate in the submission form when you attended a reading or when you’ve participated in the workshop to qualify. Simultaneous submissions are OK, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. 

Please note: 

  • We are a community journal. We do not require a submission or reading fee and cannot provide complimentary copies of our book to writers whose work is included. We strongly encourage people and hope that they will support everyone’s work by attending our launch and buying copies of our journal.
  • Poets selected by one of our guest editors to submit work for RWB 18 are not eligible to submit in the general submissions as well.
  • Poets with poems accepted for publication in this general call for submissions are not eligible to have their work published in the guest editor section as well.             

When you submit, please complete the online form for one paragraph of relevant biographical information. 

  1. Limit your bio paragraph to 50 words.
  2. In the bio refer to yourself in the third person using your preferred pronoun.

We plan to publish and release Volume 18 in the fall of 2025. 

Submission Guidelines for Essays 
Please submit 1 (one) essay in a single Word document. The only acceptable file formats are .doc or .docx. No pdf or other file types will be accepted. 

We are particularly interested in short (a page or less) reviews of books published in the last year by members of our community.  Book reviews should include the name of the book, the author, the publisher, publication date, and of course, the review. 

Format for the Submission Document  

  1. Submit one Word document containing 1 (one) essay. Topics may include but are not limited to: William Carlos Williams, New Jersey or Rutherford history, art or poetry scenes, book reviews, writing craft. We’re pretty flexible.
  2. Maximum length: 2,500 words.
  3. Use Garamond, Times, or Times New Roman 12-point font.
  4. Do NOT use headers, footers, or automatic page numbering in the document.
  5. Do NOT use the footnote feature in Microsoft Word! If you want footnotes, do it manually.  
  6. Your name should appear above the essay. Do NOT use All caps.
  7. If your submission relies on a special layout, please be aware of the print area this edition can allow: page printable area width is 4 3/4 inch by 6 3/4 inch length.

Submission deadline: July 4, 2025. Click this Submittable link to submit. 

Submission Guidelines for Poems 
Please submit 5 (five) poems in a single Word document. The only acceptable file formats are .doc or .docx. No pdf or other file types will be accepted. 

Format for the Submission Document  

  1. Submit one Word document containing up to 5 (five) poems. Translations are counted as part of the five poem limit.
  2. Use Garamond, Times, or Times New Roman 12-point font.
  3. Do NOT use headers, footers, or automatic page numbering in the document.
  4. Do NOT use the footnote feature in Microsoft Word! If you want footnotes, do it manually.  
  5. Your name should appear above the first poem. Do NOT use All caps.
  6. Each poem must have a page break at the end. Your poems should each start on a new page of the document.
  7. If your submission relies on a special layout, please be aware of the print area this edition can allow: page printable area width is 4 3/4 inch by 6 3/4 inch length.

Submission deadline: July 4, 2025. Click this Submittable link to submit.

You’re invited to The Red Wheelbarrow #17 launch!! 

Join us on October 9, 2024 at 7 PM at The Felician University Little Theater at 230 Montross Avenue in Rutherford, NJ, for a fantastic poetry reading, featuring the writers published in RWB #17.

If you have work in this issue, congratulations! We would love you to attend the October 9 launch to read your work from the book. 

PLEASE NOTE: We moved the launch to 10/9 because Rosh Hashana is on 10/2. Please put it on your calendar if you’re available. 

At the launch, we’ll have books for sale for the promotional price of $15, two whole dollars less than our listed price online! Come and get your copy. Our contributors are our only “subscribers,” so there are no free contributor copies—but reading at the launch qualifies you to submit to RWB18! 

Our featured poet this year is Tom Benediktsson. We’re excited to include two special sections that continue to expand our local poetry circle: one of them is guest-edited by poet Tamara Zbrizher, and another one is dedicated to Lyndhurst High School poets. This year, our main poetry section is curated by Arthur Russell who also took the photos for the section openers (we love the tomatoes prose section!) Don’t miss the insightful prose pieces curated by Frank Rubino, covering topics from Williams’ life and poems to memoir and prose poetry. All this exciting work is wrapped up in a beautiful blue cover, featuring the painting Crow Story #2 by Kay Stanfield, a nod to the doctors’ famous white chickens. We hope you’ll find this edition inspiring, a slice of the best contemporary writing in New Jersey and New York. We also hope that The Red Wheelbarrow Nr. 17 will motivate each one of you to continue to write, create, and attend our weekly workshops on Zoom and our monthly events at The Felician University Little Theater.

Hope to see you all on October 9 at the launch in Rutherford! Please forward this email to your family and friends—this will be a huge celebration.