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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our 2026 open reading period. We read many, many incredible manuscripts. We are thrilled to announce our three selections, as well as our list of finalists.

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have a new chapbook! What happens when we invite the land to read the poetry that we write upon it? Public Papers poses this question, bringing poetry into intimate contact with the land and ecology of Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan.

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Issue 5 is here and ready to mail! Subscribe for free here: www.essaypress.org/periodical/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Happy pub day! Toby Altman’s Jewel Box is out today. Purchase through @asterismbooks.bsky.social or on our website! www.essaypress.org/altman/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A little excerpt from Toby Altman’s Jewel Box, forthcoming later this month!

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It was fun to spend a day or two in the mind of someone else Kate Colby—Paradoxx @essaypress.bsky.social

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Afternoon read Paradoxx by Kate Colby @essaypress.bsky.social

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thrilled to share that Toby Altman’s Jewel Box is now available for preorder! Ships June 30th. www.essaypress.org/altman/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One more day to submit your full length manuscripts!

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

New issue of asides // besides just dropped! After a short hiatus, we are changing the format a bit and moving to a subscription-based model that is more aligned with the newsletter style. Subscribe to receive the next few issues www.essaypress.org/periodical/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We are now open for submissions! Send us your manuscripts

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kelly Puig

Kelly Puig is a Cuban-American writer and interdisciplinary artist. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University where she was the rec...

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kelly Puig

Kelly Puig is a Cuban-American writer and interdisciplinary artist. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University where she was the rec...

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Julie Carr @juliecarr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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.

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Julie Carr @juliecarr.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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.

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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.”

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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

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August 22, 2025 – “It seems to me I’ve never forgotten a taste.”

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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

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August 22, 2025 – “It seems to me I’ve never forgotten a taste.”

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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

Book cover for Un Carré de Poussière by Olivia Tapiero (Éditions de la rue Dorion). Un carré de poussière est une enquête, un poème qui pense, un procès sans verdict, une méditation sur la poussière, un essai décomposé sur les liens entre violence sexuelle et histoire de la raison. C’est une sorte de témoignage qui apparait en effaçant la voix (la métaphysique) qui l’étouffait. Le texte, en empruntant aux codes oraculaires et judiciaires, investigue la rationalité comme scène de crime. On y retrouve des peintures rupestres, quelques animaux, la tête décomposée de Socrate, et des femmes qui disparaissent derrière les murs. https://ruedorion.ca/un-carre-de-poussiere/

$Book cover for Bad Forecast by Steffan Triplett‬ (Essay Press‬), with hurricanes, fire, tornadoes and every kind of bad weather tearing apart a landscape. A hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weather, about queerness, about race: their disruptions, their pervasive pull, the isolation they can leave behind. What secrets are kept in the climate of Middle America? What spirals out after a storm? How do race and queerness, like the weather, inform a landscape? Bad Forecast considers how we interpret the forecasts that linger behind us and those still projected to come, brewing in the distance. https://www.essaypress.org/triplett/$

Book cover for A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer (University of Manitoba Press‬), with a photograph of the author playing a drum. Ma-Nee Chacaby, an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian who grew up in a remote northern Ontario community, tells the story of how she overcame experiences with abuse and alcohol addiction to become a counsellor and lead Thunder Bay's first gay pride parade. https://uofmpress.ca/books/a-two-spirit-journey

Book cover for Born Backwards: Poems by Tanya Olson‬ (YesYes Books), with a hog standing on a bit of grass. Olson’s third poetry collection “reports from inside butch culture in the 1980s American South as it traces how geography, family, experiences, and popular culture shape one queer life.” Finalist for the 2024 Indies Book of the Year Awards, 2024 Big Other Award in Poetry, 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society Goldie Award in Poetry, and 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize! https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/born-backwards

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