Long Day Press

Long Day Press Long Day Press is a literary journal made by hands. Long Day: A communal blend of libations and literature. A hand bound literary chapbook press.

Fiction, Essay Editor: Joshua Bohnsack
Poetry Editor: Eric Intlekofer
Website Design: Nick Pierson

Saddle up! 🤠 All buckaroos welcome to celebrate the release of ’s IN MEMORY OF JAMES WRIGHT, WHOSE POEM I ATE on Friday ...
08/05/2024

Saddle up! 🤠 All buckaroos welcome to celebrate the release of ’s IN MEMORY OF JAMES WRIGHT, WHOSE POEM I ATE on Friday Aug 17 at The Whistler. Featuring good pals Timothy Moore, John Wilmes, & Abigail Zimmer reading their words.

Can’t make it? Order the book through Long Day Press. Or your local indie bookstore or library, whatever!

You read that right: we’ll eat a copy of THE MAKING OF AMERICANS for $30k. Serious inquiries can find us at this weeken...
09/10/2022

You read that right: we’ll eat a copy of THE MAKING OF AMERICANS for $30k. Serious inquiries can find us at this weekend. “Grown” men need their fiber, small presses need paper.

Behold: the Book Bundle: our ‘22–‘23 titles, delivered to you as they emerge into the world: not a minute sooner and not...
09/07/2022

Behold: the Book Bundle: our ‘22–‘23 titles, delivered to you as they emerge into the world: not a minute sooner and not a day later: you’ll get them at a discounted rate and have something to look forward to: four great books and the knowledge that you’ve made an actual investment in the work of a small press: Long Day Press: “Fine” “Literature”
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It’s time, bears and grrrrls. Open submission period is open til Halloween. Send your strange creatures, your weird webb...
09/01/2022

It’s time, bears and grrrrls. Open submission period is open til Halloween. Send your strange creatures, your weird webbed-toed whatsits, your nassty novellas. No submission fee, just buy a book from us.

Long Day Journeys Into Night
08/04/2022

Long Day Journeys Into Night

We’re giving away some books! Donate any amount to your choice of food pantry or climate organization, let us know in th...
07/18/2021

We’re giving away some books! Donate any amount to your choice of food pantry or climate organization, let us know in the comments, and we’ll pick 2 folks to get a couple FREE books tomorrow morning.

Happy Release Day to THE EVERYS & ! Order from us or your local indie bookstore for our first hardcover and first screen...
06/22/2021

Happy Release Day to THE EVERYS & ! Order from us or your local indie bookstore for our first hardcover and first screenplay and first family sitcom spectacular.

"Cody Lee's screenplay, The Everys, is hilarious and sharp. What Lee understands is that the identity-neutral family television experience production studios sell to us is dangerous. Here, Lee exaggerates neutrality until it reveals all of its sharp edges in this masterful screenplay."
— José Olivarez, Author of Citizen Illegal

"'If anything’s a thing, it’s me. [Beat] But that all ends here,' writes Cody Lee in The Everys, brilliantly revealing the absurdities of our contemporary, so-called upward mobility, in which, if we are anything at all, really, we are nothing more than the labels and the inane tasks our human hands are made to perform for the benefit of an absurd theatre, which we mistake for reality, the backstage of which shields the horrors of what these labors actually do. With wit and charm, Lee reveals and elevates the Sisyphian struggle, the Bartlebian preference to prefer not, and lays bare our human predicament: our unending toils, our useless efforts, our cryptic labors, all stripping us of our names, our identities, even our flesh. Don’t press the button. Read this instead.
— Jenny Boully, Author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

COMING JUNE 22 ’s THE EVERYS. The Everys are a family just the same as any other. Bailey kisses corporate ass for a payc...
06/04/2021

COMING JUNE 22
’s THE EVERYS.

The Everys are a family just the same as any other. Bailey kisses corporate ass for a paycheck; Nicky does extracurriculars and feels wary of popularity; Reese and Val have marital issues. In fact, the four of them are so much like every other family that they have no specific race or gender. Their heads are also shaped like… well, shapes: circle, star, triangle, square. Or wait, does that last bit make them odd? And if it does (or at least we think it does?), what does sameness even mean?

A pilot episode in print, The Everys is both an ode to and a satirization of all the familial sitcoms saying the same thing: that our struggles are universally human and also totally unique, just like each of us (at least we think we are?).

We love the USPS because we like our books to be as affordable as possible. We are bad at business but good at books. WH...
03/29/2021

We love the USPS because we like our books to be as affordable as possible. We are bad at business but good at books. WHIMSY is out, LOVE STORIES is close, & THE EVERYS will be here before you know it.

There’s still time to preorder WHIMSY by Shannon McLeod () & be entered into a drawing to win one of these very soft & p...
03/16/2021

There’s still time to preorder WHIMSY by Shannon McLeod () & be entered into a drawing to win one of these very soft & peachy T-shirts. Shannon will be selecting a winner at random each day of release week.

Pre-order at our web store.

Buy our books for 35% less money using the code “GetSMOL” at checkout. & check out all the great stuff going on all week...
03/03/2021

Buy our books for 35% less money using the code “GetSMOL” at checkout. & check out all the great stuff going on all week with SMOL Fair.

"Live" literature coming your way on Sunday.We're teaming up with to celebrate forthcoming chapbooks as part of SMOL is...
03/02/2021

"Live" literature coming your way on Sunday.

We're teaming up with to celebrate forthcoming chapbooks as part of SMOL

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Long Day: A communal blend of libations and literature.

We are a hand-bound chapbook publisher located in Chicago, except for Eric. Help us to be able to pay our writers by checking out our releases at our SHOP. Editors: Joshua Bohnsack, Joe Demes, Eric Intlekofer, Kevin Sterne Former Design: Nick Pierson, Evan Iacone, Randy Timm