[8] Authors published by Gunpowder Press have been interviewed in journals including RHINO Poetry,[9] Atticus Books & Music,[10] Plume,[11] The Christian Century[12] Water-Stone Review.
Starkey launched the press after unsuccessful efforts to find a publisher for a manuscript left by his late friend, poet David Allen Case.
Judges for the Spacks Prize have included Dan Gerber, Thomas Lux, Jane Hirshfield, Lee Herrick, Stephen Dunn, Jessica Jacobs, Danusha Laméris, and Gary Soto.
Gunpowder Press also publishes anthologies of poems by Central California poets as part of the Shoreline Voices Project imprint.
The Alta California Chapbook Series publishes two books a year in bilingual editions.