Happy New Year! We’re happy to announce that Panhandle Creek Press is now officially launched! We’re excited to introduce three authors, tell you about our annual Writer’s Residency, and share that we’re open for manuscript submissions!
Meet Our Authors
Laurie Fairchild is a Wildlife and Habitat Biologist, recently retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her debut novel, Never Only, is a fresh look at “Mother Nature.” Who is she? What does she want from us? And how far is she willing to go to get it? Laurie Fairchild’s novel, scheduled for release on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2026, is beautifully told – poignant, insightful, and deeply funny. Stay tuned for more about this one!
Frances Park is a Korean American author of sixteen books – novels, memoirs, and children’s books published around the world. Her works often reflect an identity born of two worlds and have been praised by The Washington Post, NPR, Good Morning America, CNN, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, USA Today, and The Times Literary Supplement. A dreamy romp, her forthcoming novel
Ahn Love will be published in 2026 by Penguin Books SEA. Learn more about Frances Park and her gorgeous collection of short stories and essays in upcoming Panhandle Creek Press posts.
Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a poet, memoirist, fiction writer, anti-war/human rights activist, and a war survivor, who immigrated with her family to the US during the 14 year Liberian civil war. She is the author of many books of poetry, including, Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems, When the Wanderers Come Home, The River is Rising, and Where the Road Turns. Dr. Jabbeh Wesley has also published dozens of individual poems,
memoir articles, and short stories in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including in Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner Magazine, Harvard’s Transition Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, among others, and her poetry has been translated and published in languages such as Hebrew, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian.
We’re thrilled that Ardea Herodias Books will publish her children’s picture book, In Monrovia, The River Visits The Sea. More about Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her beautiful children’s book soon!
Apply for Our 2-Week Writer’s Residency in the Rocky Mountains
Panhandle Creek Press offers an annual two-week residency in northern Colorado at 8750′ elevation. With southern exposure and panoramic views, the residency offers a quiet place to focus on your work-in-progress while immersed in rugged Rocky Mountain beauty. Just steps away from nature trails and the Roosevelt National Forest, writers can find inspiration and rejuvenation on any number of beautiful local hikes, or relax on their private deck and watch the wildlife meander along the Panhandle Creek. Learn more here.
Panhandle Creek Press Calls for Manuscript Submissions
Panhandle Creek Press is now open for submissions. We’re looking for novels, memoir, creative nonfiction, as well as story, essay, and poetry collections.
Ardea Herodias Books is now open for submissions.
We’re looking for:
- Outstanding Middle Grade and Young Adult novels, memoir, creative nonfiction, as well as story, essay, and children’s poetry collections.
- Children’s picture books that fit into our “Collected Wisdom” series. These will be stories that pass wisdom from one generation to the next told by authors within diverse cultures and traditions from all over the globe.
4 responses to “Meet Our Authors, Apply for 2-Week Residency, & Calls for Submissions”
To where does one send the submission, please? Thank you.
May this new year be full of pleasant adventures and beautiful dreams come true!
carmel.mawle@panhandlecreek.com
Thanks you, Lorraine. And thanks for catching that! It looks like one of the updates didn’t go through! I fixed that and included my email. Once we get the submittable issue figured out, we’ll go back to the Submittable Button.
Have a Happy New Year!
Incredible offerings on day 1! Congratulations!
Thanks, Esther! We’re excited!