JackLeg Press

Novels, SS, Creative Non-fiction, Drama, Poetry
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About JackLeg Press

JackLeg Press is a writer-centric, literary small press based in Washington, D.C., that publishes full-length poetry and short fiction collections, as well as select literary novels and creative non-fiction.

Known for an environmentally sustainable publishing model, the press actively champions bold, innovative voices that challenge the status quo.

JackLeg Press Submissions

Unsolicited submissions welcome. No agent required.

Jackleg is looking for Full-length poetry collections. Literary fiction (novels or short stories), Creative nonfiction or hybrid

They are not looking for YA, mysteries, romance, historical nonfiction, art books, chapbooks, etc. Absolutely no AI!

At this time, JackLeg only publishes US-based writers.

Meet the Team

Jennifer Harris (Publisher/Founder) – Jennifer is a writer and community psychologist with more than 20 years of non-profit leadership experience. Jennifer is the publisher and founder of JackLeg Press and serves as Senior Vice President of Philanthropy at the National Park Foundation.

Simone Muench (Poetry Editor) Simone was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago, IL. She is the author of seven full-length collections: She is also the author of Trace which received the Black River Chapbook Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), and the editor, with Dean Rader, Jackie K. White, and Sally Ashton, of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018).

Zakiya Cowan (Associate Poetry Editor) – Zakiya  is a writer from Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in Four Way Review, the Chicago Reader, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. Cowan is a 2020 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship recipient, a Best of the Net nominee, and a Best Small Fictions nominee.

What’s new in 2026 for Jackleg Press

Karaoke at the End of the World by Genevieve DeGuzman – Karaoke at the End of the World is a mesmerizing poetry collection that takes readers on an intergalactic journey through the multiverse. DeGuzman’s poems are rich with vivid imagery, exploring themes of extinction, survival, and the human condition.

I Was Your Bird by Brett Hanley – I Was Your Bird explores love, memory, identity, and transformation with a voice that is sharp, intimate, and often hauntingly surreal. Grappling with disconnection, environmental destruction, substance misuse, trauma, and the dissolution of a relationship, these poems move through dive bars, prehistoric landscapes, and dreamlike interiors shaped by queer poetics and magical realism. This collection leans into the strange to confront both personal and planetary collapse.

What Came Down in the Smoke by Summer J Hart – Suffused with the horror, humor, and magic of Wabanaki storytelling, What Came Down in the Smoke is, like a child left for dead in the snow who comes home with a beaver’s tail, a book about survival. With vivid imagery and lyrical intensity, Hart weaves together fragments of the natural world with deeply personal reflections on grief, love, and the passage of time.

Summer J. Hart’s newest book pulses with life, its vivacity made more exhilarating and exquisite by how poised the poems are, too, on the brink of pain, loss, grief, vulnerability, and death.

Thank you and Happy Publishing…

Jackleg Press
Washington DC

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