Small Fires Press

08/06/2018

New cassette sleeves going out to Notice Recordings!

07/03/2018

We've extended the deadline for Matchbook Volume 5 until the end of July! Hurry up and get those tiny poems sent in!
http://www.smallfirespress.com/submissions/

04/19/2018

New broadside printed to commemorate Marthe Reed for the New Orleans Poetry Festival in the New Orleans Healing Center this weekend. Come pick one up at the Black Radish Books table from 9-5 Saturday and Sunday.

02/21/2018

Check out the first review of Matchbook Volume 4!

Out just in time for tonight's reading:
https://www.facebook.com/events/365723463902415/

Matchbook Vol. 4 (Small Fires Press, 2017) Guest edited by Jessica Elsaesser Especially for poets, communicating ideas on the page often becomes the work of compression—beginning with multitudes of…

02/19/2018

Hello Friends of Small Fires Press,

We're moving at the end of the month & could use some help raising some funds to move the press to the new house.

From now until the end of the month we're offering all Small Fires Press books at a discount of 50% & we will include a complimentary issue of Matchbook Volume 4 with every order. Use promo code: MOVINGSALE when you check out: http://www.smallfirespress.com/shop/?category=D.+BOOKS

The sale has been so successful so far that we're also offering 25% off of our stationery. Use promotional code: STATIONERY to take advantage!

There will be a Release Party & Reading at BJ's Lounge as a part of the Blood Jet Reading Series this Wednesday at 8 PM. Details on readers and such can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/365723463902415/

We're also reading submissions now for Matchbook Volume 5, which will be edited by Michael Jeffrey Lee - check out our submissions page for more! http://www.smallfirespress.com/submissions/

Thanks so much!
Friedrich Kerksieck

02/06/2018

Excited to be dropping off a stack of broadsides tonight for Antenna's RM220 reading featuring fellow University of Alabama alums Nik De Dominic & Michael Jeffrey Lee at 7pm tonight at Saturn Bar - these broadsides feature the illustrations of Cherie Weaver & were designed and printed by us!

https://www.facebook.com/events/159399421451427/

12/22/2017

Very very excited to announce that Matchbook Volume Four is ready to get into your pockets!

http://www.smallfirespress.com/shop/matchbook-volume-4
http://www.smallfirespress.com/shop/matchbook-volume-4-3-pack

Featuring artwork by Sarah McDermott, Jared Wright, Sophie Lucido Johnson, & Caesar Meadows.

Poetry by Kristin Case, Patton Halliday Quinn, Stephen McClurg, Jeanne Morel, Andrew S. Nicholson, John Kane, Carol Szamatowicz, Abraham Smith, Cassondra Windwalker, Alex Patrick Dyck, Karolina Pawlik, and Miho Kinnas.

Guest editor, Jessica Elsaesser.

Text printed digitally, artwork letterpress printed. Every copy is bound in a different vintage Matchbook Cover.

P.S. We've also updated the shop with new journals & stationery!

06/28/2017

Last 3 days to submit some work for Matchbook Volume 4! Details here: http://www.smallfirespress.com/submissions/

06/12/2017

We've extended the deadline for Matchbook until the end of June - please share & send in some work!

03/29/2017

We're making a new issue of Matchbook - please send us your finest short work!

02/01/2017

Here are three of the dozen or so handmade journals we made for the "Born the Hard Way" Budweiser Superbowl advertisement. It's already been viewed 2.5 million times, which feels pretty amazing!

We used some of our wood type to punch the initials of Adolphus Busch into the leather cover.

Check out the commercial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBZvl7dIu4