The painting Evening Lights is from French-American painter Vicky Colombet's Monet series. ✨ The Age of Migration by Kai Maristed, the winner of the Kevin McIlvoy Book Award, launches July 21. Preorder now for 20% off with the link in our bio or at www.wtawpress.org/product-page...

This Independent Bookstore Day, we’re proud to celebrate with Big Red Books and Janis Hubschman, author of TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME from our Betty imprint. 🗓 April 25 ⏰ 12–2 PM 📍120 Main Street, Nyack, NY

Writer’s block? You’re in luck ✍️✨ Today, we're featuring Julian Mithra, author of PROMISCUOUS RUIN. Purchase PROMISCUOUS RUIN now with the link in our bio! www.wtawpress.org/product-page...

The Age of Migration by Kai Maristed—winner of the Kevin McIlvoy Book Prize—follows characters on the move, across borders and deep into their interior lives. 🌍📚Now available for preorder! www.wtawpress.org/product-page...

Writer’s block? You’re in luck ✍️✨ Our authors are sharing thoughtful, hard-earned writing advice they turn to when the words won’t come. Today, we're featuring Henry Hoke, author of THE GROUNDHOG FOREVER and OPEN THROAT.

We’re excited to share that WTAW Press authors will be featured in Concord Art’s Independent Press Prose Reading Series on April 30! This series, created by Tracy Winn, was modeled after Peg Alford Pursell's WTAW national reading series. Peg will be on hand to discuss WTAW and Betty.

#TBT the publication of EGGS IN PURGATORY and MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM! Grateful for the words, the writers, and their journey with WTAW Press. Here’s to stories that keep traveling, changing us, and finding new readers. 💫⭐️ #WTAWPress #BookAnniversary #IndiePress #LitLove #ThreeYearsStrong

Check out Sapling Issue 851 from Black Lawrence Press for an interview with Peg Alford Pursell, founder and director of WTAW Press! March is Small Press Month, and we are excited to celebrate the phenomenal work small presses contribute to the literary community.

This Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating extraordinary writers and shining a light on Betty, WTAW Press’s all-female imprint. 💜 Betty champions bold, literary work from self-identified women, including trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming authors.

Happy One-Year Anniversary to Marisolandia by Michelle Cruz Gonzales 🎉📚 Published by WTAW Press, Marisolandia has spent the past year finding its way into readers’ hands and hearts—offering a powerful, vibrant exploration of music, identity, and becoming.

Spring is finally here 🌸📚 Longer days. Brighter light. Fresh beginnings. Spring into reading with a WTAW Press title. Something I Might Say by Stephanie Austin is always inspiring to readers. Use the link in our bio to start browsing.🌷✨

📚 PREORDERS ARE LIVE 📚 The Age of Migration: A Novella and Stories by Kai Maristed is now available for preorder. First annual Kevin McIlvoy Book Prize winner, this collection offers remarkable global stories for our time. 📅 Publication date: July 21, 2026

One year of The Haunt 🕯️✨ Still grateful for the readers, conversations, and quiet hauntings this book has found since its release. Thank you for carrying these stories of loss, longing, and renewal with you—and for letting them linger.

We're still holding onto the Valentine's Day blush, but we’re interested in all kinds of love—messy, quiet, obsessive, unexpected. How We Know Our Time Travels by Anita Felicelli encompasses them all. 💖🧡 What kind of love do you like to read about? Comment down below! ⬇️

This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating love in all its forms--the love of books, the love of language, the love that happens when independent presses make space for daring, thoughtful work. ❤️📚 Share the love. Support independent literature. 🔗 Donate via the link in our bio.

February is Black History Month. We’re honoring the writers whose work continues to shape how we read, write, and understand the world. Comment below an inspirational black author who everyone should be reading! ⤵️

It’s Groundhog Day and WTAW Press has the perfect book to read again and again! Henry Hoke's The Groundhog Forever leans into cycles, returns, and the strange comfort (and unease) of living a moment again and again.❄️📖

Winter reading season is here ❄️📖 If you’re curled up with a WTAW Press book, we’d love to hear what you think. Reviews—on Instagram, Goodreads, Amazon, Bookshop—make a real difference for small presses and the writers we publish.

📚✨ Dive into the archive! WTAW Press’s YouTube channel features panels, salons, and hundreds of readings from incredible authors over the years—voices that will move, challenge, and inspire you. Subscribe and start exploring the collection today. Link in bio!

📚✨ Looking to adopt a new book for your course? WTAW titles are classroom-ready and work beautifully across literature seminars, creative writing workshops, gender studies, and more. Learn more at wtawpress.org or with the link in our bio! #WTawPress #SmallPressLove #LiteraryCommunity

That feeling when a package from WTAW Press arrives 📦📚 Unboxing joy, literary edition.

Reading is better together 📚💬 WTAW Press offers free discussion guides for many of our books—perfect for book clubs, classrooms, and curious readers who love to go deeper. Thoughtful questions, rich context, and new ways into the text, all on our website.

A year in books. 📖 We’re proud to share the titles WTAW Press published in 2025—each one the result of trust, risk, revision, and care. Congratulations to our authors, and thank you to the readers who made space for these stories. #WTawPress #SmallPressLove #LiteraryCommunity #BooksOfInstagram

#TBT to And There Was Evening And There Was Morning by Mike Smith! We’re so grateful for the continued support from our community of readers. Here’s to what’s next! 📖 Purchase this book and others with the link in our bio #ThrowbackThursday #WTAWPress #LiteraryPress

As we start a new year, we want to extend our deepest thanks to our end-of-year donors. Your generosity helps WTAW Press continue working toward a more equitable, representative publishing world—one that listens to, uplifts, and honors a diverse array of writers.

✨ Happy New Year from WTAW Press! ✨ As we welcome 2026, we’re making one final call for end-of-year support. Thank you for being part of our literary community. Donate now with the link in our bio.

⏰ FINAL DAY! Our 2025 Open Submission Call and End-of-Year Fundraiser close tonight at midnight. Don’t miss your chance to submit your work or support WTAW Press's mission. Let’s finish strong! ✨

⏰ FINAL CALL! Only two days left to submit to WTAW Press’s 2025 Open Call. If you’ve been waiting for a sign… this is it. Your book could be next to join our shelf! Submit by December 31st. ✍️

✨ One-Year Anniversary ✨ Read how Anita Felicelli begins her collection of stories, HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS, a finalist for the 2025 Northern California Book Awards and the 2024 Foreword Indies Book Awards. WTAW Press is open for Submissions until December 31st!

Happy holidays from all of us at WTAW Press! 🎁 A special thank you to everyone who has supported our authors and us this giving season. 🙏 Our end-of-year fundraiser comes to a close in one week. Donate today with the link in our bio!

Our Week in Reviews: 12/20/25. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @wtawpress.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @spiegelandgrau.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social #booksky

Last-minute gift panic? We’ve got you. 📚✨ Our WTAW Press Holiday Gift Guide is here—stacked with unforgettable fiction, daring stories, dreamy vignettes, powerful memoirs, and books for writers who want to sharpen their craft. Link in bio to shop before it’s too late.

📣 One more week! WTAW Press’s 2025 submission call is still open — but not for long. If you’ve been polishing a manuscript, this is your sign to send it in. ❄️📝 Submit your manuscript with the link in our bio!

🧡 Thank you for being so supportive this #GivingTuesday. Contributions go directly to publishing and championing important, beautiful books that otherwise may not have found a home.📖 We welcome your help via our donation link (in our bio).

✨ This year, your support keeps diverse voices alive! Join our end-of-year campaign to ensure these stories continue to reach readers everywhere. 👉 Donate today — link in bio! Every dollar fuels emerging writers and groundbreaking literature.

WTAW on YouTube = deep dives, big laughs, brilliant minds. Get inspired. Get curious. Get writing. 📺 Watch the full archive anytime — link in bio. #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writing #authorlife #litcommunity #writerslife #creativewriting #fictioncommunity #indielit

WTAW Press is important now, and forever, and we're rallying our community for #GivingTuesday. With your support, we can continue to publish and champion literature and voices that deserve to be heard. Head to the link in our bio to seize this giving opportunity.

20% Off with the code sale20 while supplies last! This Black Friday, #SupportNonprofits. ➡️ Shop our collection with code sale20 for 20% off your purchase at WTAWPress.org or with the link in our bio

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at WTAW Press! 🍂 We are thankful for: Our authors, our readers, and the power of independent literature. (P.S. Keep an eye out next week for #GivingTuesday—we’ll be sharing how you can help us publish more amazing books in the year to come!)

Get ready! Our end-of-year fundraiser is just around the corner. As a nonprofit publisher, we’re dedicated to finding and championing extraordinary books by exceptional authors.

Happy one-month anniversary to "Willingness: A Writer’s Meditations on Crossing the Flood" by Kevin McIlvoy with Christine Hale! 🥳📚 What's your favorite passage or story from the book? Let us know in the comments! 👇 Link in bio to shop!

Our imprint Betty just published their third title, If the Owl Calls, by Sharon White! 🦉📚 Be among the first to unravel the mystery! Snag your copy and join us at 5:30 PM PST today for the virtual launch with Sharon White and Anita Felicelli!

OUT NOW! IF THE OWL CALLS is here! Set in 1979 Norway, this literary mystery follows Detective Hans Sorensen as a death investigation unearths buried history and environmental resistance. Big thanks to @bettybooks.bsky.social—grab your copy today! #IftheOwlCalls #OutNow #BookLaunch

📚 And don't forget to join us TOMORROW at our virtual book launch event with Sharon White and Anita Felicelli! Register here: bit.ly/42aTqwG

It’s here! ✨ We’re thrilled to announce the publication of If the Owl Calls by @sharonw.bsky.social—a haunting, atmospheric mystery that weaves together landscape, loss, and the pull of ancestral memory. Get the book here: bit.ly/3JciufZ

✨ About Us — Support WTAW Press ✨ We’re an independent, nonprofit publisher championing bold, risk-taking fiction and nonfiction. This #GivingTuesday—just two weeks away—you can help us continue to publish fearless new voices and keep our literary community thriving.

Support diverse voices. Fuel emerging writers. ✨ At WTAW Press, our mission is to champion incredible authors and bring their unique, vital stories to the world. Visit wtawpress.org to learn how you can champion our authors and our work. To support us directly, use the link in our bio.

✨Praise for The Haunt ✨ We’re thrilled to see The Haunt by Liz Green resonating with readers. Huge thanks to Brian Phillip Whalen, author of Semiotic Love, for these kind words — and to everyone who has picked up a WTAW Press book.💛 📖 Grab your copy of The Haunt at wtawpress.org

📚 REMINDER: WTAW Press Open Submissions Are Live! We are accepting submissions of full-length books of prose, including novels, memoirs, essays, story collections, narrative nonfiction, and hybrid works. 🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2025 💻 Submit your manuscript with the link in our bio!

🎃 Happy Halloween from WTAW Press! 👻 No tricks—just literary treats. 🍬 Explore our Alcove Chapbook Series and discover bite-sized stories that linger long after the last page. 📚 wtawpress.org #WTAWPress #HalloweenReads #IndependentPublishing #Chapbooks