Did you know that scores of best-selling publishers and editors are leaving the big publishing houses and going it on their own these days? That’s right: Indie Publishing. These are the people who know how to get you on the bestseller list. It’s an exciting time to be an author. The REAL WRITERS MARKET is…
I remember that morning just like it was yesterday I was still waking up working on my first cup of joe when out my back door I saw this family there They were digging and tamping down and hoisting and tying off It took a moment for the fog to clear but when it did…
Bess Press General Non-fiction, Hawai’i, Pacific Islands besspress.com submissions@besspress.com Bess Press is a family-owned publishing company located in Kaimukī. Bess Press has been bringing the best in Hawai’i an literature for over 45 years now. Bess Press Submissions Aloha. Bess Press welcomes all comers. Agent or not. Bess Press is committed to publishing authors, illustrators,…
by Felipe Philly… All the Unwanted Aliens (from the collection At War in America) Just deport ‘em all I said Ship ‘em off to some island somewhere Just like that asked José Just like that I said That’s your answer asked José Look I said Let’s face the facts They’re Aliens They’re dirty look like…
Strange Rumblings in Aztlan. “Aztlan – the “conquered territories” that came under the yoke of Gringo occupation troops more than 100 years ago, when vendito politicians in Mexico City sold out to the US in order to call off the invasion that Gringo history books refer to as the Mexican American War.” Hunter S. Thompson’s…
DEADLINE: May 1st.. The 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize is sponsored by the Department of English at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, the awards issue one prize to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 poems, from…
BenBella Books Non-fiction (All Genres), Culture, Occasional Fiction benbellabooks.com glenn@benbellabooks.com Founded in 2001, BenBella Books is a publishing house for authors who value personal attention, a partnership philosophy, flexibility, and the creative approach. BenBella operates on a simple business philosophy: publish wonderful, exciting books. BenBella publishes a range of non-fiction (and the very occasional…
Belt Publishing Novels, Non-fiction, History, Culture, Rust Belt beltpublishing.com query@beltpublishing.com “Publishing for the Rust Belt” Belt Publishing is an independent press founded in 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Originally a publisher of anthologies about Rust Belt cities, since 2015 Belt has moved into publishing a wider scope of both fiction and non-fiction. In February 2024, it…
Bellevue Literary Press Literary Fiction, Literary Non-fiction blpress.org ops@blpress.org Bellevue Literary Press has been publishing prize-winning books since 2007. It is the first and only non-profit press dedicated to literary fiction and non-fiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences. Originally housed in historic Bellevue Hospital, BLP was established as a project of the…
DEADLINE: May 1st… The 34th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest is organized by Winning Writers. For this contest, a story is any short work of fiction, and an essay is any short work of nonfiction. Both published and unpublished work is accepted, written in any theme. No restriction on age of author. Deadline: May…
This is Water is David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College. This Is Water is a book by David Foster Wallace, published in 2009, that contains his famous 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”. The…
