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We are now open for submissions! Send us your manuscripts

Jill Magi’s My Penelope is out now! Buy a copy on our site, through Asterism, or at our booth at AWP. www.essaypress.org/magi/

Join us on Friday, March 6th for an offsite reading at AWP!

Opening for submissions soon! More details on our website www.essaypress.org/submissions/

Because it is within language that war starts, because it is within language that the other materializes, the role of the writer is to keep as close an eye on the alphabet as possible, and report back with rigor because our humanity depends on it.-Kelly Puig robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/12-o...

Bedside #current @juliecarr.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social www.juliecarrpoet.com/books/the-ga...

Thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of Jill Magi’s My Penelope! Out March 1st www.essaypress.org/magi/

Because it is within language that war starts, because it is within language that the other materializes, the role of the writer is to keep as close an eye on the alphabet as possible, and report back with rigor because our humanity depends on it.-Kelly Puig robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/12-o...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kelly Puig / @essaypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/12-o...

I am profoundly grateful for small press publishing @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @omnidawn.bsky.social @solid-objects.bsky.social THANK YOU! Here is The Garden. My writing owes so much to the generous people behind these presses.

Julie Carr, The Garden / @juliecarr.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/juli...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kate Colby / @essaypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

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Cambridge/Boston: I'm reading Thursday w/ Laynie Browne & Chloe Garcia Roberts. 5:30 at Harvard. The link has the location and QR code to register. www.hds.harvard.edu/news/public-... Also, here's the beautiful back cover of my new book The Garden. @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social

Kate Colby, PARADOXX / @essaypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/kate...

Thank you @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for this great review!

We have two books coming out today! Kate Colby’s Paradoxx and Julie Carr’s The Garden. An exceptional day in books. happy pub day! www.essaypress.org

The Garden is also out tomorrow :) www.essaypress.org/carr-2/

Paradoxx is out tomorrow! www.essaypress.org/colby/

excited to have a review forthcoming in mid-October of Kate Colby’s utterly excellent new book Paradoxx! @essaypress.bsky.social

Coming next week! A one-hundred-day chronicle of a dark period in her life, Kate Colby’s tightly-wound lyric essay is also a poet’s memoir of growing up in the late 20th century and stumbling into the 21st.

The Garden is out on September 30th! Copublished with @pamenarpress.bsky.social Refusing to stabilize the first-person and rejecting linear progression, The Garden embraces the vulnerable porousness of selves in the overflow of history that is the violence and rapture of the ongoing “now.”

The Garden is coming out on September 30th! Preorder a copy here: www.essaypress.org/carr-2/

The Book of Embers, winner of the Essay Press book prize, is coming so soon! Preorder by September 22nd www.essaypress.org/puig/

The Book of Embers, winner of the Essay Press book prize, is coming so soon! Preorder by September 22nd www.essaypress.org/puig/

Praise for Kate Colby’s Paradoxx - available now for preorder, ships September 30th! www.essaypress.org/colby/

The Book of Embers is out on September 22nd! Available now for preorder www.essaypress.org/puig/

More praise for I’m Sorry But None Of This Is My Fault! www.essaypress.org/shea/

The Taste of Pencils, adapted from Kate Colby’s forthcoming Paradoxx, is up in the Paris Review! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...

The Taste of Pencils, adapted from Kate Colby’s forthcoming Paradoxx, is up in the Paris Review! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08...

middle daughter’s swimming lessons, day two: moving further through Kate Colby’s PARADOXX from essay press / @essaypress.bsky.social ;

The Book of Embers is now available for preorder! Out on September 22nd www.essaypress.org/puig/

Kate Colby’s Paradoxx is also out next month (with the same pub day!) !! 🪞 www.essaypress.org/colby/

Julie Carr’s The Garden is out next month! Preorder here: www.essaypress.org/carr-2/

It’s pub day!! I’m Sorry But None of This Is My Fault is here! www.essaypress.org/shea/

One week left to submit to our chapbook open reading period! Closes on August 2 www.essaypress.org/submissions/

Sarah Rose Nordgren @essaypress.bsky.social

8/18 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @umanitobapress.bsky.social @goldenmole.bsky.social @ruedorion.ca @tanyaolson.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬@steffantriplett.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social

Back cover and mini excerpt from my new book, The Garden, book one of the trilogy Overflow. All thanks to @pamenarpress.bsky.social and @essaypress.bsky.social and to Tony Robbin, the painter of the 4th dimension. Out in September. ❤️🖤

Just a few days left to preorder Michael Martin Shea’s I’m Sorry But None Of This Is My Fault! www.essaypress.org/shea/

Now available for preorder: The Garden by Julie Carr, book one of the Overflow trilogy. Memory, war, Jewishness, techno biology, grief. Essay meets autofiction in lucid, layered prose. Co published by Pamenar Press and @essaypress.bsky.social‬. Order: www.pamenarpress.com/product-page...

Asides // besides #3 is mailing out now! Featuring new writing by Joe Hall, Jena Osman, Caroline Rayner’s, and Brandon Shimoda. Order a free copy: epbooks.square.site/product/asid...

recent book mail courtesy of @asterismbooks.bsky.social @actionbooks.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social

Preorder The Garden! Out in September, co-published with @pamenarpress.bsky.social www.essaypress.org/carr-2/

Coming September 30th! Julie Carr’s The Garden will be co-published with @pamenarpress.bsky.social www.essaypress.org/carr-2/

I’m Sorry But None Of This Is My Fault is out on July 30th! @immanentfields.bsky.social www.essaypress.org/shea/

We are accepting chapbook submissions via submittable through August 2nd! For details: essaypress.submittable.com/submit

New asides // besides is out this month! Featuring new writing by Joe Hall, Jena Osman, Caroline Rayner, and Brandon Shimoda epbooks.square.site/product/asid...

5/ #Pride #SmallPress #books: A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby (@umanitobapress.bsky.social), Born Backwards by @tanyaolson.bsky.social (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social) & Bad Forecast by @steffantriplett.bsky.social ‬(@essaypress.bsky.social). See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚