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Essay Press is dedicated to publishing artful, innovative, and culturally relevant prose. Distributed by Asterism Books.

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

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

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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...

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

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Bedside #current @juliecarr.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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Thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of Jill Magi’s My Penelope! Out March 1st

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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...

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...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kelly Puig / @essaypress.bsky.social ;
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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, The Garden In the end, as at the beginning, I just wanted to think about the woman smoking at the planter’s edge. Β  Β  The smoke leave...

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kate Colby Kate Colby's books of poetry include I Mean and Reverse Engineer . A book of lyric prose, Paradoxx , just came out with Essay Press. She h...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kate Colby / @essaypress.bsky.social ;
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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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Kate Colby, PARADOXX To lie by omission is to leave out the truth. To tell truth by omission is to leave out the lies, but the lie of my continuity constitutes...

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Thank you @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for this great review!

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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!

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The Garden is also out tomorrow :)

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Paradoxx is out tomorrow!

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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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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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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 β€œnow.”

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

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The Book of Embers, winner of the Essay Press book prize, is coming so soon! Preorder by September 22nd

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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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Praise for Kate Colby’s Paradoxx - available now for preorder, ships September 30th!

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

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

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Colby – Essay Press

Preorder Paradoxx here: www.essaypress.org/colby/

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The Taste of Pencils by Kate Colby August 22, 2025 – β€œIt seems to me I’ve never forgotten a taste.”

The Taste of Pencils, adapted from Kate Colby’s forthcoming Paradoxx, is up in the Paris Review!

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The Taste of Pencils by Kate Colby August 22, 2025 – β€œIt seems to me I’ve never forgotten a taste.”

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

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