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
DE Navarro Haiku Editor and Copy Editor
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.
Please check out our quarterly publication, the Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal located at https://betterthanstarbucks.org.
Check out our BTS Journal archives here: Archives
There are 47 issues posted. The journal is available in print since January 2018.
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.
