Our Pushcart Noms! Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor @majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand @jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas

The last reading of our 2025 series will come to you from the Portland Book Festival #portlandbookfestival with poets Christopher Martin & Portland's own Amanda Hawkins. Please join us on Zoom, Thursday, November 6, 4-5 pm Pacific, 7-8 pm Eastern Pre-register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

At Wandering Aengus, we love the idea of being a home for our authors, so we're super excited to re-issue @jessicagigot.bsky.social first #poetry collection, a beautiful meditation on nature (and living in the Anthropocene). wanderingaenguspress.com/flood-patter...

The fine art of the book review is alive and thriving with @writerstevens.bsky.social! Check out his thoughtful, beautiful review of L. Annette Binder's memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven...

Drop everything and join us for this fab reading today with Jan Shoemaker reading from her essay collection, Slow Learner, and Peter Ludwin reading from his poetry collection, An Altar of Tides! 4p Pacific, 7p Eastern on Zoom. Pre-register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Super excited for this online reading with master-of-the-essay, @marciaaldrich.bsky.social, and eco-poet extraordinaire, Benjamin Cutler. Thursday, Sept 11, 4-5p Pacific, 7-8p Eastern Click here for details and the link to pre-register: wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html

Less than an hour until this powerhouse reading with @humbleessayist.bsky.social Steven Harvey and Martha Gies. Come get a literary (and socio-political) boost! wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html

Don't miss this online reading with @humbleessayist.bsky.social & Martha Gies! Thursday, August 21. If you're feeling discouraged about the state of affairs in the world, Steven and Martha's words are perfect for this moment in history. Come be inspired! wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html

Hey lit lovers! Have you registered for this amazing reading and Q&A with L. Annette Binder and Jed Myers? Thursday, July 10, 7-8 pm Eastern, 4-6 pm Pacific. We hope you'll join all of the 2025 Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Press readings! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you care about Joshua Trees or the desert in general, read Barret Baumgart's YUCK! If you're not sure, check out VM Harrigan's review: "With humor and prose, Baumgart affords us a ... view into ... the history of this country, of the West, and of LA." manifoldhouse.substack.com/p/consider-t...

Join us for a Zoom reading with @majda.bsky.social & Barret Baumgart reading from their new books: In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree. Thurs, 6/12, 4p Pacific, 7p Eastern email publisher jill @ jillmccabejohnson .com for the link

"When I say land sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean I mean all the rest unarticulated with the mouth's profane shape" -Amanda Hawkins from WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES @wapress.bsky.social

Check out our 2025 reading series lineup! 5/4 Daniel Meltz, @tms2072.bsky.social 6/12 Barret Baumgart, @majda.bsky.social 7/10 L. Annette Binder, Jed Myers 8/21 Martha Gies, Steven Harvey 9/11 Marcia Aldrich, Benjamin Cutler 10/9 Peter Ludwin, Jan Shoemaker 11/6 Amanda Hawkins, Christopher Martin

Fabulous review and Book of the Day Roundup feature from Foreword Reviews for CHILD OF EARTH AND STARRY HEAVEN, L. Annette Binder's "compassionate" memoir "infused with love, exhibiting the grace Binder found in others and for herself." www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls by @majda.bsky.social, @wapress.bsky.social, April 2025 "a tactile beauty of stark contrasts" —Jessica Cuello, author of Yours, Creature wanderingaenguspress.com/in-the-house...

@majda.bsky.social's debut collection is a treasure! "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility of history and the grief and joy of being in this world and on this earth." @emanquotah.bsky.social

Happy release day to Barret Baumgart for his amazing, bizarre, riveting, and indescribable book YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird and Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia. Part history, part environmental justice, part poetry, part scandal and all brilliant. wanderingaenguspress.com/yuck.html

Protect the Desert Night at the Brewery! #AWP25 offsite Wednesday, March 26, at Angel City Brewery 7p Release party for Barret Baumgart's YUCK with guest Deanne Stillman 8:30p Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table reading Hands down THE BEST OFFSITE OF AWP25!!! And we're not the tiniest bit biased!

“In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” is out in early April from @wapress.bsky.social & is available for pre-order from Bookshop bookshop.org/p/books/in-t...

AWP peeps! Come find us at Booth 1041 in the Bookfair, March 27-29. We'll have books (ofc), book-signings, and other shenanigans! Ask about our DIY Talent Show! See you in LA!!!

Announcing the results of the Wandering Aengus Press (WAP) & Trail to Table (TTT) Book Awards! Winners: Chrys Buckley - WAP Book Award in Nonfiction John Fadely - TTT Book Award in Poetry @vkornberg.bsky.social - WAP Book Award in Poetry A. Molotkov - TTT Book Award in Nonfiction

Fabulous review by Michael Tideman of L. Annette Binder's forthcoming memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven. “A powerful read for anyone who has dealt with Alzheimers." www.telegraphherald.com/news/feature...

Bookshop.org has a pre-order up for "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls" bookshop.org/p/books/in-t...

Check out Steven Harvey's mini-review of Broken Open by in The Humble Essayist: “'He sagged, then caught himself, recovering instantly,' and she knew he was dying. 'A look of fury came momentarily into his face, and his eyes said, You didn’t see a thing.'” —Martha Gies www.the-humble-essayist.com

This beautiful, funny, frank, profound, irreverent, heartbreaking, uplifting, gay af, debut poetry collection from Daniel Meltz releases like a cocoon of butterflies today! It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You 📚💙 wanderingaenguspress.com/uploads/1/2/...

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Remember to get your literary prose & poetry manuscripts in by this Friday, Jan. 31! Wandering Aengus Press & its imprint Trail to Table have combined submissions. 1 fee : 2 presses : up to 4 awards 💙💙💙💙 We're eager to read your words! wanderingaenguspress.com/submissions....

"I was interested in writing to the bottom—toward a death that does not “come back” to life but continues, so far into death it deteriorates." Olivia Q. Pintair interviews Amanda Hawkins about When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones (@wapress.bsky.social). ➡️ https://buff.ly/4g5ZFWB

Hey, writer friends, wondering what to do while you're definitely not watching an inauguration? It's a great day to submit your literary fiction, nonfiction, or poetry manuscript to the Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table contest. Up to 4 winners published! wanderingaenguspress.com/submissions....

Happy release day to Amanda Hawkins for their gorgeous poetry collection, When I Say the Bones, I Mean the Bones, winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award. D.A. Powell calls it, "A monumental debut." Congratulations, Amanda!

Writer friends! To save authors time & money, Wandering Aengus Press & its imprint Trail to Table Press have combined submissions. Submit your literary #fiction, #nonfiction, or #poetry book manuscript once for up to 4 book awards. Submissions open 12/1: wanderingaenguspress.com/submissions....

We're pleased (and grateful on this Thanksgiving) that Steven Harvey's acclaimed essay collection, The Beloved Republic, has been longlisted for the PEN America Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Woo hoo! wanderingaenguspress.com/news/the-bel...

Congratulations to Peter Ludwin on the release of his new poetry collection, An Altar of Tides!

Writer friends, check out Marcia Aldrich's guest post for @dintywmoore.bsky.social's Brevity Nonfiction Blog. It details ways "to break down and break open a subject that might be too vast to approach head on." brevity.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/t...

Announcing the results of our 2023 Book Awards! Winners: Barret Baumgart L. Annette Binder Majda Gama Finalists: Mary Block Sarah Carey Clayton Adam Clark Elizabeth J. Coleman Eric le Fatte Justine Feron Cate McGowan Joannie Stangeland Amy A. Witcomb Amelia L. Williams Congratulations to all!