a / long / division now available!!
Founding editor Hanna Andrews' chapbook, a / long / division, is now available from Tilt Press! Buy it!!!
Switchback hearts YOU.
...Almost as much as we heart Marisa Crawford, selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of the 2008 Gatewood Prize. Here's a poem of...


Switchback Guide to AWP
Overwhelmed by the lists of AWP panels and offsite readings? Calm your bleary eyes: just stick with the Switchback staff, who are all...
2008 Gatewood Prizewinner Announced!
As if there weren't enough already going on, we wanted to throw some more information at you... Denise Duhamel has selected Marisa...
Switchback Founding Editors' Week in Review
Sunday: Brandi Homan finds out that Shearsman Books will publish her second book, Bobcat Country. Some kinda pigskin game going on in...


A Broader Vocabulary
Milwaukee's feminist bookstore, Broad Vocabulary, recently had to close its doors. They're hoping to reopen under a cooperative model:...
Editors are poets too!
...And founding editor Becca Klaver's new chapbook, Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape, is officially available from the greying ghost...
A quick note to contest entrants everywhere
We just wanted to take a minute to draw some attention to a problem that has occurred with our last two contests. Entrants have not...


Switchback Staff, Past Lives (1925)
from Melix! & Shorpy!
Contest Update
We've made our decisions for the 2008 Gatewood Prize finalists. We'll be contacting the finalists in a week or so before passing their...