Editors
David Starkey
Chryss Yost
Advisory Editors
Launched in March 2023, Anacapa Review is an online poetry journal and an extension of Gunpowder Press, an independent poetry publisher founded by David Starkey in 2013, and co-edited by Chryss Yost.
Submissions for Anacapa Review are accepted through Gunpowder Press’s Submittable page. Our intention is to publish a carefully-curated set of poems, featuring established poets and newcomers side-by-side, in a format that can be read all the way through. Issues are published bimonthly.
Anacapa Review uses Submittable to manage poetry submissions. If you are interested in sending us poems, please visit our Submittable page here. Anacapa Review considers poems in any style. You may submit up to 3 poems per submission. Accepted poems will appear one month after the deadline for a given issue. For example, accepted submissions made through January 31, 2024, will appear in the March – April 2024 issue. Accepted submissions made from February 1 through March 31 will appear in the May – June issue, and so on.
Anacapa Review also hopes to publish poetry-related prose, such as book reviews, interviews, and reflections. If you have an idea for something you think might be a good fit for Anacapa Review, we invite you to email us at editors@anacapareview.com.
Why Anacapa?
Visible on the horizon from the coast of Santa Barbara, Anacapa Island is part of Channel Islands National Park, located in the Pacific Ocean, known as Anypakh (“mirage”) to the Chumash Native American Indians who first inhabited this land. Anacapa Island is in some ways a mirage: the island is comprised of three distinct islet segments—east, middle, and west Anacapa—that stretch across almost five miles of horizon. As with Anacapa Island, we hope the individual poems in each issue of Anacapa Review will create something magical when they are presented together.
Read more about Anacapa Island(s) on the Channel Islands National Park website.
Photo of Anacapa Island by Lisha Riabinina on Unsplash