12/08/2025
🌟 New & Upcoming Releases from FlowerSong Press 🌟
We’re honored to share a powerful wave of new books from voices that challenge, illuminate, and celebrate our communities. Each of these works brings something fierce, necessary, and unforgettable to the page.
The White Picket Fence: Stories of Individuality as Rebelliousness
Edited by Gina Rae Duran & Edward Vidaurre
This anthology is not a quiet book—it's a pulse, a protest, a breaking-open.
These writers dismantle the illusion of the “perfect life” and reveal the real cost of authenticity in a world that fears difference.
For anyone who has ever felt pressured to shrink or conform, this collection stands boldly with you.
🔥 Now available.
JOTA: A Q***r Latina y Latinx Anthology
A landmark collection featuring 70+ q***r Latina/x writers and artists.
Building on the legacy of Compañeras and Chicana Le****ns, JOTA expands the q***r Latinx canon at a critical moment when our communities face renewed threats—and renewed determination.
A celebration of resistance, lineage, joy, and unapologetic identity.
🔥 A defining q***r Latinx anthology.
Not Quite A Disaster After All by Buku Sarkar
In six luminous, haunting stories spanning two continents and two decades, Buku Sarkar follows Anjali and Anita—two women navigating privilege, longing, motherhood, reinvention, and the thin line between self-destruction and survival.
From Calcutta to New York, from quiet suburbs to dive bars, these stories reveal how love, ambition, and grief shape the unpredictable architecture of a life.
✨ A stunning, deeply nuanced debut.
Border Duende by Gina Valdés
Winner of the Américo Paredes Prize for Poetry
A vibrant, intimate portrait of lives along the U.S.–Mexico border, told in lyrical, inventive language.
Gina Valdés weaves the Borderlands with tenderness and fire—honoring stories, ancestors, land, and the symbols that shape our cultural memory.
🔥 A powerful and essential Borderlands collection.
The Five Stages of Stuttering by Cassie Holguín-Pettinato
A stunning hybrid work blending poetry, narrative, and identity, Cassie Holguín-Pettinato brings visibility to the emotional, cultural, and physical realities of stuttering.
A brave, honest exploration of claiming one’s voice in a world that tries to interrupt it.
✨ A moving poetry collection rooted in resilience and self-definition.
📖 Explore these new works, support these authors, and help us amplify voices that matter.
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