

Switchback Salon & Fundraiser Saturday 10/2!
SWITCHBACK BOOKS PRESENTS A Salon & Fundraiser with readings and talks by Arielle Greenberg on the Gurlesque and Rock Music Becca Klaver...


Check out this excerpt from Jennifer Tamayo's the hanging cloud of read mistakes
Action, Yes recently published a selection from Jennifer Tamayo's 2010 Gatewood Prize-winning manuscript! Check it out in all its glory...


Switchbacker Dolly Lemke in BAP
Congratulations to Dolly Lemke, whose poem "I never went to that movie at 12:45" is in the newly released The Best American Poetry 2010,...
2010 Gatewood Prize Winner
Switchback Books is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Gatewood Prize, chosen by Cathy Park Hong: ***Jennifer Tamayo's the...
Kristen Iversen & Rocky Flats
Writer Kristen Iversen talks and writes about nuclear power plants and growing up. Iversen is from Rocky Flats. The citizens of Rocky...


Brandi Homan's Hard Reds, SPD Bestseller!
Brandi's first book, Hard Reds (Shearsman 2008), has hit the bestseller list this week! Congrats, B-Ho! And congrats, everybody else, for...
Female Saudi Poet Known for Controversial Verses Game Show Final
A Saudi woman received a death threat last week after she appeared on “Poet of Millions,” Abu Dhabi’s version of the game show “American...


Marisa Crawford talks My So-Called Life
Switchback's latest Marisa Crawford discusses "style-as-identity"over at Ironing Board Collective. Holla!


Craig Santos Perez reviews Mónica de la Torre's Talk Shows
In a thoughtful and thorough review, Santos Perez writes, "De la Torre, throughout Talk Shows, seems to break all the rules of aesthetic...

Table-mates?
Do you like Switchback Books? Do you want to be our friend? We're looking for someone to share our table with at the AWP DC Bookfair...