Hayseed Press

06/13/2026

In one week we will be celebrating Maynard Days with the marvelous people at Woo Woo’s on Main! Come on down at 8:00pm, we will take a parade break at 9:00pm and then continue playing after the parade, until 11:00pm! It’s going to be a blast!

06/11/2026

06/11/2026

The Iowa Indie Bookshop Tour is BACK—and it starts in just THREE WEEKS! 🚙📚✨

Get ready, book lovers—our third annual Tour kicks off July 1st and runs through September 30th, and it’s going to be bigger and more exciting than ever!

Here’s how you can join the fun:

📚Grab your passport, murder mystery & bingo card from any of our 62 participating bookshops across Iowa.

🚙 Hit the road! From July 1 through September 30, visit as many indie bookstores as you can. Just two stamps in your passport gets you entered for prizes—but the more you visit, the more chances you have to win!

📍Each stamp equals another entry into our prize drawings.

🏆Go for the grand prize! Visit 55 or more stores and you’ll be in the running for some big prizes.

📮 Don’t forget to turn in your passport at your last stop by September 30 to qualify.

🔍New this year: Bookshop Murder Mystery! Collect up to 14 clues from our bookshops to solve the murder. Once you have your suspect, you submit your final answer via QR code (on the card or our website) for chance to win prizes.

✨Bonus: Play Bookshop Bingo! Complete your bingo card and submit it via the QR code (on the card or our website) for even more chances to win.

Remember to use , tag us & the bookshop you visited on FB, IG, or TikTok for a chance to win a prize!!

Let’s make this the most unforgettable book tour yet—see you on the road!

06/11/2026

Dog-Eared Books is excited to share that our next puzzle competition will take place on Saturday, June 27, from 7 PM to 9 PM. But this puzzle competition isn't quite what you think it is... there will be a twist to it!

Tickets will go on sale on Friday, June 20 @ 6 PM.

06/10/2026

Happy 50th birthday to Hayseed Press co-founder Aaron Narigon. If you see him today be sure to give him a big birthday hug.

06/07/2026

***Hayseed Christmas Submissions Open***

We do Christmas year-round here at Hayseed Press.

Submissions are officially open for this year’s Hayseed Christmas short story collection. We want your cozy, romantic, awkward, and even creepy Christmas stories. The only rule—they have to be based in Iowa.

The deadline is August 25, 2026. We ask that your stories range in word count from 2,000~4,000.

Send us an email at [email protected] with your story idea or any questions you might have.

06/06/2026

Hayseed Press is proud to present our next publication on the horizon: Exercise Finished by Melinda Wichmann - Author.

Exercise Finished explores the traditions and eccentricities of the sport of competitive dog obedience training—with a murder mystery to boot. Think White Lotus meets Best in Show.

Pre-orders for Exercise Finished will be available in early July. Stay tuned for updates!

06/04/2026

Montuga by Nick Narigon is officially our top-selling full-length novel. The reviews are coming in:

"In this epic tale of good versus evil, Nick Narigon explores complex lands steeped in storytelling. Every realm of Montuga: The Spheres of Trivandré is a nesting doll of folklore, both ancient and modern, that ultimately forms the legend of America itself. As one character in the novel says, 'my journalistic instincts told me there was a story buried here somewhere.' So, while shifting between alternative worlds—as well as histories that repeat themselves like cautionary tales—Narigon becomes part mythmaker and part reporter, chronicling fables which are funny and insightful, hallucinatory and haunting, but also absolutely magical from beginning to end."

— Marc Dickinson, author of Replacement Parts

06/02/2026

Congratulations to Calvin and Nile Hennick on the launch of Drunk Onion. The Drunk Onion book launch was held Saturday, May 23, at Newtonville Books. The event was standing-room only.

Thank you to the team at Newtonville Books for putting together a successful event, and thank you again to Calvin and Nile for trusting us to publish their graphic novel.

Get your copy of Drunk Onion today.