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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Small Talk by Acie Clark, @hubcitypress.bsky.social & We’re Gonna Get Through This Together by Z. Hanna, @modernartistpress.bsky.social. See alt-text for book details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Small Talk by Acie Clark, Hub City Press: New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner Acie Clark’s debut collection asks us to lean into conversation. https://www.hubcity.org/books/poetry/small-talk

We’re Gonna Get Through This Together by Z. Hanna, Modern Artist Press: A sharp and affecting debut story collection that takes a discerning look at what happens when people search for connection in an alienating world. Blending satire, realism, and speculative fiction, Z. Hanna writes incisively about race, class, gender, sexuality, art, and activism—exploring the forces that bring people together and drive them apart. https://modernartistpress.com/books/were-gonna-get-through-this-together/

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Read Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay’s CHITRA DEMANDS TO GO HOME this #APAHeritageMonth! This novel, newly out from @modernartistpress.bsky.social, “explores mother-son relationships, cross-cultural conversations, and the tribulations of getting older.” modernartistpress.com/books/chitra...

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Chitra Demands to Go Home - Modern Artist Press

by Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay Publication Date: May 12, 2026 A poignant debut novel that explores mother-son relationships, cross-cultural conversations, and the tribulations of getting older. Chitra…

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Modern Artist Press is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay's debut novel, CHITRA DEMANDS TO GO HOME! Coming to your bookshelf in spring 2026!

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Daniel Spielberger @danielspielberger.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Erin Cecilia Thomas entered a Daniel Doc to chat about her new short story collection that's forthcoming from @modernartistpress.bsky.social www.danieldocs.com/p/the-daniel...

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The Daniel Docs Interview: Erin Cecilia Thomas

The short story writer chats about grief, embroidered pillowcases, and pandemic art

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Join me in celebrating the launch of I Watched You from the Ocean Floor at The Bookshop! RSVP and pre-order signed/personalized copies: thebookshopnashville.com/events/28861...

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Join us on Saturday at the Washington Writers Conference! @dcwriterscon.bsky.social www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/page/the-202...

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Join us at Red Emma's next week for a discussion about art-making, fiction writing, and social justice! You can RSVP here: redemmas.org/events/z-han...

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"Modern Artist Press seeks provocative, unforgettable works." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-l... @cabockwrites.bsky.social @modernartistpress.bsky.social #booksky

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In two weeks, I will be speaking with Kristen Arnett, Isle McElroy, Z. Hanna, and Alana Saab about literary humor and their latest work at AWP25 in Los Angeles! Come join us!

Event graphic for the AWP panel From Satire to Dad Jokes: How Humor Can Be Literary, Political & Funny. Includes author photos of Kristen Arnett, Isle McElroy, Z. Hanna, and Alana Saab. The event details are provided: Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm PT in Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center. The word "LAUGH" is spelled out in neon lights at the bottom.

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans:

On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both.

Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices.

If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund.

Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically.

This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history.

Sincerely, the undersigned,

American Booksellers Association
American Booksellers for Free Expression
Andrews McMeel
Annie's Foundation
Audio Publishers Association
Authors Against Book Bans
Berry Powell Press
Cardinal Rule Press
Charlesbridge Publishing
Chestnut Publishing House
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Deborah Sloan and Company and Kidsbuzz
Developmental Texts
Empowering Latino Futures
EveryLibrary
Firewater Media Group
Florida Freedom to Read Project
Foreword Reviews
Freedom to Read Project
Gryphon Publishing Consulting, LLC
Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)
IngramSpark
Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore
Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship
Lambda Literary
Latino 247 Media Group
Lee Wind, author
Levine Querido
Library Futures
Livingston Parish Library Alliance
Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
The National Book Critics Circle
National Coalition Against Censorship
NorthSouth Books
Nosy Crow
Patagonia
Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Orange County
PEN America
PFLAG Fresno
PubWest
Rattling Good Yarns Press
Read Freely Alabama
Red Comet Press LLC
Rutherford County Library Alliance
Sara Paretsky, Writer
SCBWI
SEAT
SparkPoint Studio
St Tammany Library Alliance
Stone Bridge Press
Texas Freedom to Read Project
Walker Books Group for Candlewick Press, Holiday House Books, and Peachtree Publishing
We Need Diverse Books

Logos of the organizations that have signed the statement.

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Join me in celebrating the publication of We’re Gonna Get Through This Together at Lost City Books in Washington, D.C.! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/were-gonna...

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Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

List of concrete actions you can take to defend access to books! #BookSky #FightBookBans

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Erin Cecilia Thomas's forthcoming story collection, I WATCHED YOU FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR. Out on July 1, 2025. Available for pre-order. Erin Cecilia Thomas writes elegiac narratives that are also portraits of strength, resilience, and grit -- exploring what it means to grieve and to keep on living.

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Z. Hanna's forthcoming story collection, WE'RE GONNA GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER. Available for pre-order. Blending satire, realism, and speculative fiction, Z. Hanna writes about race, class, gender, sexuality, art, and activism--exploring the forces that bring people together and drive them apart.

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Modern Artist Press is thrilled to be publishing Z. Hanna's debut story collection, WE'RE GONNA GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER, in spring 2025!

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Why should you publish with a new indie press? Indie presses are known for having smaller budgets and taking bigger risks. Modern Artist Press is building our first frontlist. This means I can offer each author who publishes with us more consideration, time, and resources for their creative ideas.

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Modern Artist Press @modernartistpress.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Submit your work! Modern Artist Press is looking for novels, short story collections, and hybrid works of literary fiction

Text box reads: Modern Artist Press - call for submissions - accepted year round. Background is an image of a female Greek statue painted on a brick wall holding an apple with an arrow shot through it. Two people sit on the ground in front of the painting; the woman is reading a red book.

Text box reads: Modern Artist Press invites writers to submit the following: 1) the first 25 pages of the manuscript; 2) a 1-page description of the overall story; 3) a half-page author biography; 4) initial ideas for marketing the published book. Send complete submission packages to submissions@modernartistpress.com. Background image is a Black woman writing in a notebook.

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