Better Than Starbucks — Who We Are
​Founder: Anthony “Uplandpoet” Watkins (Aug 4, 1959 - Dec 10, 2025)
DE Navarro ​Publisher / Senior Editor
Vera Ignatowitsch Editor-in-Chief
​Jacob R. Moses Copy Editor
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DE Navarro Haiku Editor and Copy Editor
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Better Than Starbucks Publications is a small "indie" press which accepts Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction manuscripts.
Please check our submission guidelines page to see if submissions are open.
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Please check out our quarterly publication, the Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal located at https://betterthanstarbucks.org.
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Check out our BTS Journal archives here: Archives
There are 47 issues posted. The journal is available in print since January 2018.
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​Better Than Starbucks was founded by Anthony Watkins in 1995 as Scene, Arts of the Treasure Coast, renamed Abundance, a Harvest of Literature, Life & the Arts in 1998, and revived as Better Than Starbucks in 2016.
