Querencia Press

@lunareyhall.com poetry collection elegy for [lukas] is out today! This collection is a diary of awareness where luna unleashes grief at trans & queer survival, their own selfhood, & the affliction it is to have a body ✨ link in bio

In Storm & Stillwater by Ifunanya Georgia Ezeano is now available! This chapbook explores isolation, womanhood, grief, politics, & family and how we adapt ✨ link in bio

Black and white photo of Mimi Flood's book "Provocative is a Girl's Name," along with a bookmark from Querencia Press

"Provocative is a Girl's Name," by Mimi Flood. Querencia Press (@querenciapress.bsky.social), Chicago, 2023.

#mimiflood #poetry #poetrybooks #poems #misogyny #querencia #querenciapress

Our 2025 Autumn anthology is out now! This volume features 56 contributors across all genres. As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so do read with care. Big thanks to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for guest editing, and everything always ✨ link in bio

check out these excerpts from FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! ( @troublemakerfire.bsky.social )

poems can be found in @sageciggs.bsky.social @querenciapress.bsky.social & motheaten mag

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i actually went through your (and @querenciapress.bsky.social's) entire catalog when i first made the "friends" page on our site because well. you can see for yourself

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and @kithbooks.bsky.social @querenciapress.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social @troublemakerfire.bsky.social for some other recs

Background is peach and cream swirl with pot leaves and a coffee carafe — foreground is cover of Hippie Speedball by Ly Faulk — text reads Available January 30

Preorder starts today for @lyfaulk.bsky.social chapbook Hippie Speedball 🥳 this collection explores both grief & depression, but also the safe spaces that get you through it ✨ link in bio

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Woke up this morning to an email from @querenciapress.bsky.social letting me know that one of my short nonfiction pieces was accepted to their quarterly anthology! 🙌 Beyond excited to be included in this! #WritingCommunity

Minor Illusions by Daryl Li is out today! ✨ this short story collection explores themes of grief, memory, and human relationships in a variety of writing styles✨ link in bio

Cover art: Rachel Tan

Salamander Morning, Nadine Hitchiner’s poetry collection on love & life is out now! This is a tender examination of marriage, self, loss, & mental health to be read with care ✨ link in bio —video is by the author

2/2 use the dropdown at the top of our store to navigate to the type of book you are looking for (anthology or overstock titles). Once we’re out of inventory, they’ll return to their regular price, so get them while they last ✨ link below

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1/2 We have a ton of extra inventory & need to make room for new titles! All of our 22-24 quarterly anthologies are $8, Not Ghosts, But Spirits is $18 for paperback and $33 for hardcover, & we have overstock titles listed at $7-$8 on our PayHip store! No code needed—

elegy for [lukas] by @lunareyhall is open for preorders! This collection is a diary of grief at trans & queer survival, their own selfhood, & the affliction it is to have a body ✨ link in bio

*Amazon is currently not accepting our preorders, but title’s are available everywhere else

Ifunanya Georgia Ezeano’s chap In Storm & Stillwater is available for preorder! This book explores isolation, womanhood, grief, politics, & family and how we adapt ✨ link in bio

*Amazon is for some reason currently not accepting our paperback preorders, but this title is available everywhere else.

It’s Pub Day!! Jessica Thiru’s debut, Burning of Absence is out today! ✨this chapbook touches on loneliness and grief, but Thiru is a warm hand guiding in the dark to refuse that seclusion ✨link in bio

Greenspan’s use of indeterminacy in language may be best understood via analogy to tonal harmony. The vast majority of music is tonal, using recognizable contours and relationships—including, in the western tradition, a whole nomenclature of terms such as “root,” “dominant,” “key signature,” and more—to create desired effects such as tension, progression, recognition, and resolution. Atonal music is carefully structured to avoid these determinate relationships, instead producing a musical text that is coherent, yet dissonant; eventful, yet without resolution; all the while carefully calibrated, yet apparently chaotic. In literature, if normative devices such as character, plot, and genre are like the shared language of tonal harmony, then Milk Sickness is the atonal exception. The book’s language operates with a concerted effort to avoid typical ordering mechanisms: there are multiple unnamed figures, but no lucid characters; many impactful events and chains of cause-and-effect, but no clearly defined linear plot; countless synchronicities, but no framework for understanding their logic.

from "Atonal Apocalypse: On MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan" (@querenciapress.bsky.social: 2025), in which I compare experimental prose to atonal music

published in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow earlier this year

#FridayReads:
My book 'The Last Way'
from @querenciapress.bsky.social

with 2 cover options!

Get your copy now!

#horror #BookRecommendations #books #novellas #nowreading #writingcommunity

Preorder is open for If One Continues to Survive, an anthology organized by @pipkinsjoshua.bsky.social & @axiopoeticus.bsky.social —this unapologetic poetry anthology features work that celebrates the ways we survive & hold hands while doing so. Proceeds benefit The Audre Lorde Project ✨link in bio

Anthropological Study, Lauren Miller’s first full length poetry collection, is out today! These pieces explore queerness, gender identity, the Anthropocene, neurodivergence, and mental illness and how they are shaping life for new adults ✨ link in bio

If you are wondering about our Summer anthology—contributors should have received an email this week or will be receiving one tonight. All submissions were answered for Summer, so if you haven’t, make sure to check your inbox to accept your contract if you were selected :)

I’m opening this callout a bit later than usual because we already had a lot of tip jar submissions this month that will be added into this queue, so apologies for the shorter window.

Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Autumn! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, & submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline September 1st

The Last Way Check out The Last Way - A young boy in a small southern town plans to kill his father. Each chapter of The Last Way</em> presents a different course of action to get the job done. He could push him o...

My book 'The Last Way' is out from @querenciapress.bsky.social

If you're looking for a dark, twisty read, check it out!

#Booksky #FridayReads #Books #NewBooks #BookLaunch #TheLastWay #horror #DarkFiction #writingcommunity

The Last Way by @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social is now available! This novella examines domestic abuse that drives a young boy in a small southern town to plan to kill his father, a violently unpredictable man, It’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt. Or worse. ✨ link in bio

Preorder is open for @nonstickpanda.bsky.social short story collection, Minor Illusions ✨ this collection explores themes of grief, memory, and human relationships ✨ link in bio

Cover art: Rachel Tan

Working the Roots, Amanda Bennett’s debut chapbook is out today! This collection offers up the complexities of self-love’s intersection with grief, desire, intimacy, womanhood, & Blackness ✨ link in bio

Preorder starts today for Jessica Thiru’s debut, Burning of Absence ✨this chapbook touches on loneliness and grief, but Thiru is a warm hand guiding in the dark to refuse that seclusion ✨link in bio

A close-up of a bush full of yellow roses.

Emily Perkovich and I pose together in from of the Querencia Press booth at AWP.

I was thinking today about how important it is to support small presses and recognize the hard work of those who run them. Here's all the roses to the generous and talented @undermeyou.bsky.social and @querenciapress.bsky.social!

And so many wonderful books: www.querenciapress.com/books