Dandelion Revolution Press

11/28/2025

“To celebrate Dandelion Revolution Press’s fifth anniversary, we’re running the essay series “In Her Words: Celebrating Women in Literature” throughout 2025. We’re seeking personal essays recognizing women authors and/or characters that have impacted your life.

In this personal essay about prolific author Taylor Jenkins Reid, Lina Nassma explores the powerful realization that not everyone’s problems are the same, and it is through those differences that we can understand one another.

To read click the SubStack link in bio!📚

11/23/2025

‼️NEW CREATIVE NONFICTION PIECE ‼️
“Belonging: The Wander and the Wonder” by Debbie Hoke

From the very first line (“I hear that I don’t belong.”), Debbie Hoke invites us into the deepest vulnerabilities of her heart as she and her husband build a new life in the Finger Lakes, an area neither had any ties to but where their dreams lived. Belonging is a pesky thing, often sending you down a turbulent journey as you seek it, and Debbie shares her specific ups and downs in an open way that feels universal.

Read “Belonging: The Wander and the Wonder” now on Dandelion Revolution Press Substack. Link in bio 📚🔗

11/22/2025

At Plymouth Meeting Mall Book Fest!

11/17/2025

‼️NEW CREATIVE NONFICTION PIECE ‼️
“Being Reborn” by Hilary Keller Connors

Creative nonfiction takes a special kind of bravery—first the ability to look at yourself and your life with so much honesty, and then to share it publicly with others. Hilary Keller Connors shares how she began to heal after her divorce. She beautifully shows how hurt can bring healing; growth can bring messiness; anger can bring peace.

Read “Being Reborn” now on Dandelion Revolution Press Substack. Link in bio 📚🔗

11/12/2025

All our short fiction, personal essays, and creative nonfiction pieces are free to read—so when someone chooses to support us with a paid subscription, it means everything!! Huge thanks to Hilary C. for upgrading to a paid subscription and helping us keep indie lit alive. We will continue to publish pieces that enrich your life and ours. 💛

11/11/2025

PA friends - we've got a table in Plymouth Meeting this Saturday. Come say hi and check out our books and some other gift merch.

10/31/2025

Our collection of short stories have a witch or two, but the stories always offer a different perspective to what you were told to expect.

https://tinyurl.com/5e59y82c

Our collection of short stories have a witch or two, but the stories always offer a different perspective to what you were told to expect.

https://tinyurl.com/5e59y82c

10/31/2025

Another story from our first book, "Not Quite As You Were Told" that centers around a Halloween event, though it becomes a pivotal moment for the characters.

Not Quite As You Were Told
https://tinyurl.com/yc6xfbnp

10/31/2025

This was the first story in our first anthology.. an anthology of women doing not what they are told and behaving as society expects them to be.
"Not Quite As You Were Told"
https://tinyurl.com/yc6xfbnp

This was the first story in our first anthology.. an anthology of women doing not what they are told and behaving as society expects them to be.

"Not Quite As You Were Told"
https://tinyurl.com/yc6xfbnp

10/28/2025

"If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it."
~ Toni Morrison

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
~ Natalie Goldberg

Submissions for "Twisted Myths" close this week on October 31st!!

2025 CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS Celebrate DRP’s 5th year with exciting new opportunities to showcase writers and their stories Dandelion Revolution Press (DRP) is an independent publishing house founded by women writers from Pennsylvania whose mission celebrates and amplifies the female perspective. Si...

10/25/2025

Local Pennsylvania friends - we'll be at Norristown / Norriton Authors Alliance book event at Plymouth Meeting Mall on Nov 22nd.
Support small independent authors! We'll have our 3 print anthologies for sale -- they're so beautiful!

Meet Revolution Press and fall for your next favorite book at the Plymouth Meeting Mall book fest! Books make great holiday gifts. And Santa will be at the fountain court for family photos!

Saturday, November 22, 2025
11 am to 5 pm