December 17, 2021
Meet Marlanda Dekine (they/she), author of their full-length debut poetry collection Thresh & Hold. Marlanda is a poet obsessed with ancestry, memory, and the process of staying within one's own body. Their work manifests as books, audio projects, and workshops, leaving spells and incantations for others to follow for themselves. They are the winner of the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize. Their manuscript was selected as the winner of the prize by award-winning poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi. It will be published in March 2022.
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October 22, 2021
As an independent press, we love to help support other small and indie presses who, like us, work in their community by providing a space and a voice for local readers and writers. In our new blog series, "Meet a Press," we thought we'd reach out to some of our friends in the local publishing business to get to know them a little bit better, see what they're up to, and share their work, and books, with you!
Next up is Blair, located in Durham, North Carolina. Check out our interview with Lynn York!
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September 1, 2021
As an independent press, we love to help support other small and indie presses who, like us, work in their community by providing a space and a voice for local readers and writers. In our new blog series "Meet a Press," we thought we'd reach out to some of our friends in the local publishing business to get to know them a little bit better, see what they're up to, and share their work, and books, with you!
Next up is Forest Avenue Press, located in Portland, Oregon! Check out our interview with Laura Stanfill!
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August 19, 2021
Meet Halle Hill, author of Good Women! Her collection comes out from Hub City Press in 2022, and we chatted with her about her work, her inspirations, what she's reading, and more.
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July 9, 2021
As an independent press, we love to help support other small and indie presses who, like us, work in their community by providing a space and a voice for local readers and writers. In our new blog series "Meet a Press," we thought we'd reach out to some of our friends in the local publishing business to get to know them a little bit better, see what they're up to, and share their work, and books, with you!
Next up is West Virginia University Press, the only university press in West Virginia! Check out our interview with Derek Krissoff!
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June 21, 2021
As an independent press, we love to help support other small and indie presses who, like us, work in their community by providing a space and a voice for local readers and writers. In our new blog series "Meet a Press," we thought we'd reach out to some of our friends in the local publishing business to get to know them a little bit better, see what they're up to, and share their work, and books, with you!
First up, here is Belt Publishing, a press that focuses on the Rust Belt and the Midwest. Check out our interview with publisher Anne Trubek!
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June 8, 2021
Meet Ashleigh Bell Pedersen, author of her upcoming novel The Crocodile Bride. This debut is set in the summer of 1982 in swampy Louisiana and follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy, as the secrets of their family's past swirl around their yellow house in the little town of Fingertip. This novel will be published in spring of 2022 in the Cold Mountain Fund series, in partnership with Charles Frazier.
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February 19, 2021
Meet Andrew Siegrist, the winner of this year's C. Michael Curtis Story Story Book Prize for his collection, All the Colors of Rain. This was chosen by ZZ Packer, who says his work is "like entering a dream journal—every sense is heightened and stretched, every memory expanded and reassembled in the hopes of deciphering the past or surviving the present." We caught up with him about his book, who's inspiring him now, and what he's doing when he isn't writing!
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