For the first time since 2015, Spout Magazine is open for submissions! Share your work with us @duosuma.com by May 30th spoutpress.org/submissions/

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Come join us at AWP!! We'll have open-mics at our bookfair booth, and our editor @xandergershberg.bsky.social will be moderating a panel with editors from @juneroadpress.bsky.social @triohousepress.org @perugiapress.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @clmporg.bsky.social !!

So exciting!! Loved working on this project! 🩷

Our new website is up!! Beautifully designed by @hadleyhendrix.bsky.social our site bridges our 90's DIY punk roots with contemporary style, including a store where you can buy our books and merch, direct from us. Take a look at our new digs!! 20% of all sales go to MN mutual aid spoutpress.org

Celebrate the reissue of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 (@wsupress) with author Maureen Aitken and Mona Susan Power – author of 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 – who will share new work from her novel-in-progress! Hosted by Michelle Filkins from the collective on Feb. 21, 2026 at 2pm.

One of our editors @xandergershberg.bsky.social wrote this stunning dispatch on life in Minnesota as the people resist fascism. Please read!

Spout Press stands in solidarity with everyone targeted by ICE's occupation of Minnesota, and with the family of Renee Good. We want to amplify the work of organizations leading the resistance to ICE on the ground and mutual aid networks supporting affected families. Links and info in the comments

Two exciting updates!: 1. We're fundraising to relaunch Spout Magazine, our historic literary magazine that originally ran from 1989-2015. Plus, we're giving thank-you gifts to donors. Donate here www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef 2. We're on Substack now! Subscribe here: spoutpress.substack.com

We are relaunching Spout Magazine! Help us raise the money to do so and get a special thank you gift. Donate at www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef

We are relaunching Spout Magazine! Help us raise the money to do so and get a special thank you gift. Donate at www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef

Alum @alisonmcghee.bsky.social reads along with former English writer in residence Kao Kalia Yang this Wed--as contributors to Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces, winner of the 2025 Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology! @spoutpress.bsky.social

Join us the Aug 27th @ Hook & Ladder Lounge for a night of readings from Kao Kalia Yang, Alison McGhee, Casey Jarrin and music from @squinnysquinny.bsky.social, Whispered the Rabbit, and Kith + Kin Chorus to celebrate our MN Book Award winning Locker Room Talk app.opendate.io/e/locker-roo...

Did you love the Scholastic Book Fair? We got you covered! Tomorrow I'll be with @spoutpress.bsky.social tabling at the Book Fair for Grown Ups! Stop by! inboundbrew.co/book-fair-fo...

We're excited to see you at the Book Fair! inboundbrew.co/book-fair-fo...

This Saturday! We hope to see you there!

This Juneteenth, we're returning to our title from the late-great J. Otis Powell, a legend of MN writing and spoken word communities. Through the rest of June, his book WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP is 25% off on @asterismbooks.bsky.social Buy here: asterismbooks.com/product/wait...

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage, @slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage, @slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

Last night, editors Michelle Filkins and Margret Aldrich accepted the MN Book Award for Best Anthology for “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.” Here is a clip of their lovely acceptance speech. Thank you and congratulations to the 30+ wonderful contributors!

Editor Michelle Filkins and contributor Shá Cage spoke about Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces for KAXE's What We're Reading Series! Read the full feature "New anthology celebrates epic and ordinary moments between women" by Tammy Bobrowsky here: www.kaxe.org/show/what-we...

Spout editor Xander with a brilliant interview of @santisugi.bsky.social about erasure poetry, documentary and visual poetics, writing against colonial legacies, and his new book Small Wars Manual, forthcoming from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

We were delighted to talk about our new collection LOCKER ROOM TALK: WOMEN IN PRIVATE SPACES on @mprnews.org today with @ninamoini.bsky.social !! www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

We are delighted and humbled to have our book LOCKER ROOM TALK nominated for the Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology!! It feels too appropriate to have this collection protesting Trump's misogyny to be recognized now at the onset of another Trump term. Buy @asterismbooks.bsky.social

@asterismbooks.bsky.social Included our title Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces in their new blog post of books to look out for 😀 asterismbooks.com/blog/post/a-...

This Sat Feb 1, we're co-presenting MFA student Chaun Webster, a two-time Minnesota Book Award Poetry winner, talking with poet and Third World Press founder Dr. Haki Madhubuti about self-determination in Black writing, publishing, and distribution: www.eventbrite.com/e/embracing-...

We are extremely grateful to be named a grant recipient for the CLMP Small Press Future Fund! We are delighted to be named along with other presses that we admire. Please check out their books and support small presses.