"It was my goal to capture Rockford as it really is: flawed, yes, but full of strengths, too." @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social's interview with @rachellayown.bsky.social on editing the "The Rockford Anthology” (@beltpublishing.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/06/t...

Look at that swamp!

Dr. Patty Heyda is coming to @rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social to talk about her book The Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA by @beltpublishing.bsky.social publishing. If you're a map nerd, sociologist, political scientist, journalist, environmentalist or interested in social justice, don't miss it.

Do you follow us on Instagram? We're pretty fun over there. www.instagram.com/beltpub/

Sara Catterall was on the Arte Channel talking about Amelia Bloomer--check it out! @scatterall.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?si=NIJ...

The Rockford Anthology has launched to great community support. Nab your copy. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/the...

Want to get your copy of Cincinnati in 50 Maps personally inscribed by the editor? Pre-order from Downbound! @downboundbooks.bsky.social www.downboundbooks.com/item/UYsPf24...

Go behind the scenes on Cincinnati in 50 Maps with @awoodruff.bsky.social's neat new landing page. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...

The Great Black Swamp is oozing all over. And it's coming out in two weeks! Get your pre-order in. beltpublishing.com/products/the...

Come out, come out for one of The Rockford Anthology events this week! You have options galore. beltpublishing.com/pages/events

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It's Rockford Anthology day, folks! www.rrstar.com/story/opinio...

We have a winner! @ryan.blacksky.app we will send you a message to get your info. One copy of The Great Black Swamp is coming your way soon. Thanks to all who sent us a wild fact about their town to enter.

Look what arrived over the weekend, the author’s copies of my book! It’s a real thing in the world and it looks amazing, thanks to Vicky and everyone @beltpublishing.bsky.social!

"Editor Rachel León has compiled photographs, essays, and poems that offer a vantage point from which a reader can begin to understand how a place, and more specifically an often overlooked midwestern city, can shape, heal, break, and provide for its residents in surprising and lasting ways."

“What we lost in the destruction of our Mill Creek neighborhood,” says...Vivian Gibson, “was a community we relied on to survive.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

We're going to draw a name next week. Until then: who has more facts for me?

One thousand followers huh.... well well well. Who wants to win a copy of The Great Black Swamp then? Comment a wild fact about your town, and we'll pick a random winner to get a finished copy of this incredible environmental disaster book! beltpublishing.com/products/the...

Eight days until The rockford Anthology... have you placed your pre-order? It's on sale with free shipping until publication day! beltpublishing.com/products/the...

Read the full conversation on our site --> beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

The best part of moving back to Rockford has been Screw City’s literary community. Super excited to get my copy of The Rockford Anthology, edited by the spectacular Rachel León and published by one of my new favorite indie presses @beltpublishing.bsky.social.

In honor of our forthcoming The Rockford Anthology, we have city anthologies on sale for the rest of October! www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Our conversation with @sonyahuber.bsky.social about Love and Industry is live on the site. A short read, but one that's bursting with heart and thoughtfulness. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

Ooh, ooh we have a verrrrrry good author interview coming your way later this week. Hint: her book was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay...

Have you pre-ordered The Great Black Swamp yet? It's funny, we swear! www.instagram.com/p/DO19aBkAL1q/

Are you signed up for our newsletter? It'll keep your inbox awash with good news. beltpublishing.com/pages/newsle...

Lammys Day is coming up this weekend, and Belt's Darius Stewart is being interviewed at 11 ET. Get those tickets! www.eventbrite.com/e/lammys-day...

I’m really enjoying Sonya Huber‘s Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook, from Belt Publishing, which I bought at Lit Fest a couple weeks ago. This is an excellent architectural description. @beltpublishing.bsky.social

NEW interview on Columbus in 50 Maps, coming in October. Read the full conversation at our site. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

"A charming, idiosyncratic love letter to his native Ohio." www.publishersweekly.com/9781540270108

This is a good one. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

New author interview live! This one's with Nick Swartsell and Andy Woodruff, the editor and cartographer of Belt's forthcoming Cincinnati in 50 Maps. @awoodruff.bsky.social beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

"Jack's sports reporting was always fair, honest, and straightforward. He tells his own story in the same exact way." —Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sunday Night Football FOOTBALL SISSY is available now. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...

Wonderful Amelia Bloomer review!

It's FOOTBALL SISSY publication day!!! Congratulations to Jack Brennan and welcome to this wonderful memoir. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...

Football Sissy launches tomorrow! Come out, Cincinnati 👠

NEW author and cartographer interview on Belt's site! Vicky and Brent talk mapping Columbus ahead of the winter publication of Columbus in 50 Maps. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

Pretty good haul today at the @beltpublishing.bsky.social tent 😎👍📚

Only four authors have ever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. One of them is Booth Tarkington, whose second award was for Alice Adams. Pre-order our forthcoming reissue of this astounding novel to get it on your doorstep in late September! beltpublishing.com/products/ali...

Football Sissy comes out next week! Read an excerpt online now --> www.queerty.com/he-had-a-wif...

"[Football Sissy] is unique both because of Brennan’s time spent in the super-masculine, conformist world of football... and because of his particular LGBTQ+ identity." www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/jack...

Listen to Jack Brennan on NPR! Football Sissy is out September 9. www.wvxu.org/show/cincinn...

Cincinnati in 50 Maps, by Nick Swartsell and me, is off to the printer, so you can get your pre-orders in now for the December launch! beltpublishing.com/products/cin... Get this, folks: I counted and there are 125 individual maps. That's 75 extra maps for free!

We love you, Rockford! Read our interview with Rachel León, editor of The Rockford Anthology, on Belt's site. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

It's pawpaw season! Tuck a cookbook in your pocket. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...

"The author is unabashedly curious... A surprisingly entertaining read about an environmental disaster." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The last days of the 50% sale are upon us. Stack your cart while you can! www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

"This book captures the beauty and complexity of an often-misunderstood city through a kaleidoscope of perspectives. Local readers will learn surprising things about the Rockford they thought they knew, while others will receive a nuanced introduction to a distinctive piece of America’s heartland."

Take a tour of some of the radical communities just beyond city limits. Radical Suburbs and many other titles are 50% off until the end of August. Discounts reflected at checkout. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Thomas Geoghegan's The History of Democracy is 50% off this week only. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...