From Miriam Gershow, the author of Closer: This week saw the culmination of a year’s work on the 100 Notable Small Press Books project I started last winter. Forty remarkable reviewers spent 2025 reading small press books, and Lit Hub published the final list on Monday. Click on the image to read the list. Sign up to …
I loved this beautiful, affirming collection of speculative fiction centering the disability experience. Particular favorites were “A Balanced Breakfast,” by Eirik Gumeny, in which a cereal enthusiast accidentally summons a cosmic horror, “TheWarp and Weft of a Norse Villainesss,” by El Park, which reinterprets the Norse version of the three fates, and “The Rising Currents …
Soul Jar: Thirty-one Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors, edited by Annie Carl, Forest Avenue Press, was selected by attendees as the winning title in the BuzzBooks contest at the 2023 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Tradeshow, held last week, in Portland, OR. Punch cards were handed out to booksellers and librarians who then visited supporting exhibitors for quick-pitches …
Yes, you heard that right, folks: Tsunami Press, the publisher related to Eugene, OR’s Tsunami Books, is urging readers to buy their beautiful hardcover copies of Cronies by Ken Babbs so they can eventually print a paperback with a cover that gives the Kens their pants back. The book is available through independent bookstores everywhere …
Cochrane creates a world filled with glorious nature, magic, enchanters, spells, beauty, roses, and fairy tales. But, lest you think this is close to paradise, darkness does dwell here: a rampaging beast, unbreakable spells, a cave dweller, hexes (where no hex should ever be), and perhaps the most terrifying of all is the pervasive, overwhelming …
From Forest Avenue Press publisher, Laura Stanfill: We’re nearing the end of Dispatches from Anarres panels and conversations. Thanks to all our amazing authors and editor Susan DeFreitas. I have learned so much from each event–and we have two more coming up! […]Friday, March 4, on OPB’s Think Out Loud, tune in to hear Susan, …
Published on catapult.co September 13, 2021 As a part of our Money Week series, Laura Stanfill argues that you should work with your publisher to do what feels organic, genuine, and true to you as a human being. I’m running out of copies of Joanna Rose’s A Small Crowd of Strangers. My warehouse report says …
If your local booksellers seem a little more tired than usual this week, it could be because they’ve been shoveling paths to the store during the snowpocalypse, dealing with power and internet outages, and/or they’re attending a virtual conference for booksellers all around the country, which starts very early in the day for west coasters. …
Ramiza Shamoun Koya has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Columbia Review, Lumina, Washington Square Review, and Mutha Magazine. She has been a fellow at both MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Her father was born in Fiji, her mother in Texas, and she was …
Hear ye, hear ye! This weekend, folks should flock to the AuburnFest Book and Small Press Fair held Saturday August 11th from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm in the Community and Events Center in Les Gove Park at 1005 12th St SE Auburn, WA 98002 Local authors, poets, journals, small publishers, and book stores have been invited to participate. The event …
