A NEW FIRST ENGLISH EDITION TRANSLATION TITLE from RARE SWAN EMPORIUM We are thrilled to have signed a second novel in translation, by the ever brilliant award-winning penmanship of WILL FIRTH, brin...

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New & First title release of 2026, Date of Release January 12th 2026 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - An International portraiture - from South America to India, my heartfelt thankyou to all the contri...

Through The Looking Glass. An International Portraiture of Mothers Pre Orders Now Available ISBN: 978-3-9526204-2-7 A glimpse into the lives and passions of the imperfect, but central women in our …

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Author Profile HOLLY QUILTER Holly Quilter writes fiction and poetry at Wild Deer Girl. She is a British writer from Devon whose work explores the thresholds of language: the places where expressio…

We are thrilled to announce the release of Sam’s new poetry collection FALLEN LEAVES, as well as his signing a long term, author contract with Ballerini Book Press. Our long literary collabor…

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Through the Looking Glass Anthology Submission Window January 15 – May 20, 2025 Gray Smith Rasnake Through the Looking Glass An International Portraiture of Mothers. The everyday lives of &#8…

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Tanja Stupar-Trifunović, Since I Bought A Swan,  Rare Swan Press. Tr. Peter Penda Reviewed by Nicholas Birns New York University Since I Bought A Swan is a taut, emotionally involving, intense, and…