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an independent literary press with an online journal named Cutleaf
OUT NOW: An Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, 2025
OUT NOW: An Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, 2025
Third in a series, this anthology edited by Deesha Philyaw features short fiction written by contemporary writers of color. From farms to trading posts, basketball courts to kitchens, houses to cafes, these stories—whose themes include complicated relationships, personified places, death, immigration, love, and loneliness—highlight the experiences of those living in the rural parts of the U.S.
Coming 2026: Starting from Paterson by Garret Keizer
Coming 2026: Starting from Paterson by Garret Keizer
In Starting From Paterson, Garret Keizer, called “the finest essayist writing today” by Jeff Sharlet, collects essays on an adult’s supermarket perplexity, a child’s religious formation, the search for the Northwest Passage, meeting Colonel Sanders and Paul Farmer, his love for his father-in-law, and the labor struggles that led to an eight-hour day, all connected to the author’s roots in Paterson, NJ, and the woman he came to love there.
Coming 2026: Dickens in Brooklyn by Jay Neugeboren
Coming 2026: Dickens in Brooklyn by Jay Neugeboren
Jay Neugeboren, a master storyteller of award-winning fiction and nonfiction, offers his first collection of essays on topics such as madness, families, friendship, activism, and the many other ways we come to live our gloriously imperfect lives.
Coming 2026: Creekwater Mansions by Ian Hall
Coming 2026: Creekwater Mansions by Ian Hall
Creekwater Mansions documents the intimacy of duress. A son puffs cigarette smoke down his grandad’s throat because the old man is too feeble to draw
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2025 Titles
A Stranger Comes to Town by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A Stranger Comes to Town by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Rural Astronomy by Georgann Eubanks
Rural Astronomy by Georgann Eubanks
When We Were Hardcore by Linda Michel-Cassidy
When We Were Hardcore by Linda Michel-Cassidy
Don’t Take This the Wrong Way by Kim Magowan & Michelle Ross
Don’t Take This the Wrong Way by Kim Magowan & Michelle Ross
Through precise prose, deep affection, wry humor, and a measure of snark, the characters in these 25 co-authored stories deceive and manipulate, they scrutinize and admonish, but they also earnestly seek to draw meaning from the flotsam of their lives.
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