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08/27/2026

Infertility stories are often asked to become outcome stories. Amy Gallo Ryan () refused to offer us something tied up nice and neat.

You May Feel a Bit of Pressure follows the emotional reality of unexplained infertility without turning pain into a lesson or reducing a life to whether treatment succeeds. Hope. Shame. Courage. Grief. Dread. Uncertainty. Absurdity. Love.

This year, it was named a Winner in Women’s Issues in the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Because Amy is a force.

You May Feel a Bit of Pressure is part of The Last Light campaign...six books spotlighted for the shift between summer and fall. Buy one. Buy three. Buy all six.

If you buy 3+ you get 20% off. Code: LASTLIGHT

08/27/2026

THE LAST LIGHT
Late summer. Cooler nights. Books worth staying up for.
Summer is still here, but something has shifted.

The sun is going down earlier. The windows are still open, but not for quite as long. We are entering the part of the year when a book on the nightstand starts to look better than almost anything else.

So we made a reading season out of it!!! Because hello! Reading is for the low lights and the sunshine and the beaches and the late-night star parties.

THE LAST LIGHT brings together six Unsolicited Press books: three from 2026 and three award-winning books from our backlist. Poetry, memoir, stories, family wreckage, strange encounters, grief, survival, humor, and more than one reason to stay up past your bedtime.

THE NEW LIGHT:
Matter’s Edge by Jerrod E. Bohn
My Monstrous Family Cookbook by Jason Daniels
Stepdad on the Dance Floor by Timothy Boudreau

THE AFTERGLOW:
You May Feel a Bit of Pressure by Amy Gallo Ryan
Gathering Broken Light by Heather Lang-Cassera
Can I Have a Hug First? by Mary Paula Hunter

Build your stack: choose any 3 and save 20% with code LASTLIGHT.

Summer is not gone yet. Neither are we.

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08/27/2026

Thirsting for a saintly poetry collection? Well, then this one ain't for you:

Jennifer Clark’s fourth poetry collection, INTERCEDE: SAINTS FOR CONCERNING OCCASIONS, presents saints as surprisingly relatable figures—imperfect, flawed, and very much like us. Some are cranky, dour, and humorless, while others are kind, brilliant, and even funny. Through moving poems, stunning illustrations, and Clark’s witty, insightful commentary, the saints in this collection come to life beyond their legendary feats. Rather than focusing on miracles, INTERCEDE pulls back the curtain to reveal the human side of sainthood, inviting readers to explore deeper truths. These saints guide us to unexpected places, pushing us beyond our comfort zones into sacred, unfamiliar landscapes where we catch a glimpse of the divine.

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Jennifer Clark’s fourth poetry collection, INTERCEDE: SAINTS FOR CONCERNING OCCASIONS, presents saints as surprisingly relatable figures—imperfect, flawed, and very much like us. Some are cranky, dour, and humorless, while others are kind, brilliant, and even funny. Through moving poems, stunnin...

08/26/2026

Yes, we’re announcing 2028 in 2026. That’s on purpose. We want readers to meet these writers before the pub date, before the preorder push, before the industry starts asking everyone to lower their voices.

So here it is: the Unsolicited Press 2028 lineup. Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid work, travel, memory, bloodshed, dirt, appetite, grief, bodies, secrets, monsters, mothers, and books with no interest in behaving.

In 2028, Unsolicited Press turns sixteen. We’re marking it the only way that makes sense to us:

16 / OUT OF LINE
STILL UNINVITED.

Over the next year and a half, you’ll meet these authors properly. Their books, yes, but also their obsessions, their essays, their reading lives, their weird little fixations, the monsters they keep fed, and the worlds they’ve made.

Some books are made for silence. Ours tend to be a little too loud for the quiet shelf.

Welcome to 2028.

08/26/2026

Tomorrow night, we're going to Burntwood.

Join us for the August Unsolicited Press Book Club as we sit down with David Loring Nash to talk about The Burntwood Anthology: six dark stories rooted in a fictional corner of Northern Wisconsin where rivers keep secrets, old legends have teeth, desire gets dangerous, and people have a remarkable talent for convincing themselves they're in control.

We'll talk about the Burntwood River itself, the strange geography of Wondrous Bluffs, masculinity and violence, queerness and secrecy, witchcraft, revenge, monsters, bad decisions, and what happens when the natural world refuses to stay in the background.

And yes, we're going to ask David whether some of these people deserve what happens to them.

Thursday, August 27
6 PM Pacific / 8 PM Central
Live on Zoom

Book Club members: check Discord for the Zoom details.

Come having read the whole book, one story, or simply ready to talk about why dark water in the middle of the woods is never just dark water.

The Burntwood Anthology is out now from Unsolicited Press.

08/26/2026

The Home Stretch by Michael Campagnoli is not afraid to experiment with form and movement, in a collection that weaves dialogue, theme, and image together. Metaphor drives the collection of poems, as seen in "Loons", when the speaker says:

There, in the distance,

two threw back

their wet black heads, gave

answer and reply

answer and reply

sad-sweet skirl of melody.

Almost entwined, they slipped

beneath the water’s edge. Silent.

Disappeared.

Loons

​​The Home Stretch by Michael Campagnoli is not afraid to experiment with form and movement, in a collection that weaves dialogue, theme, and image together. Metaphor drives the collection of poems, as seen in "Loons", when the speaker says:  There, in the distance, two thre

08/26/2026

2027 will be our 15th year. It will be unmistakably Unsolicited. The covers will be on f-ing point. The authors, what a freaking roster. I’ve powered through this year in a bit of a tizzy. Taken on too much. Always feeling like I’m doing too little. But here we go.

2026 is far from over. This is a catalog that absolutely blew it out of the water and forced us to grow. Keeping up has been tough, but guess what? We’re there. The press is no longer a little thing. It’s transforming into what it was always supposed to be!

We’re looking forward to celebrating every single title. Every voice has a place.

08/25/2026

🔥 COVER REVEAL: THEY MORE THAN BURNED🔥

There could not be a more fitting cover for this book.
In THEY MORE THAN BURNED, writer and filmmaker Tara Stillions Whitehead turns the camera back on her own life.

Built from memory and an extraordinary personal archive of tapes, photographs, recordings, emails, journals, evidence, and the people who remain on film long after they are gone, this memoir moves between a Southern California adolescence in the shadow of 9/11, a career in Hollywood and the men who abused their power there, addiction and recovery, marriage, motherhood, grief, and the long work of deciding who gets to tell the story of what happened to you.

And Tara tells it like a filmmaker.

Scenes. Cuts. Screen tests. Treatments. Lost footage. Revisions. The frame burns. The camera keeps rolling.

At the center of it all is a woman examining the evidence of her own life and refusing to surrender authorship of it.

So yes, this cover had to look like this.

The red.
The filmstrip.
The fragments.
The American flag.
The photographs caught between documentation and memory.

Coming in 2027 from Unsolicited Press.

We have a lot to say about this one.

08/25/2026

The bright red fish are gone from a sports fishing destination lake in Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains, and the Nez Perce Tribe and the government want to know why. Biologist Jess MacKinnon tears into the mountains on her motorcycle to solve the mystery. She takes the place of a government scientist, Ben Fletcher, who drowned in that very same lake. Jess knew Ben, and not just professionally—but that’s a secret.

There are a lot of secrets in the tiny mountain town of Still Lake, including one that puts Jess in danger: Ben’s death was no accident. With help from a quirky private investigator who describes herself as “not neurotypical,” Jess solves the mystery of Ben’s death and the mystery of the fish. She comes to terms with her own past, too, including her connection to Ben Fletcher, his privileged parents, and the biases of social class that destroyed their relationship.

Based on a real-world environmental disaster, THIRSTY CREEK is a murder mystery and ecological mystery combined, a story about human arrogance, greed, and unintended consequences.

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The bright red fish are gone from a sports fishing destination lake in Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains, and the Nez Perce Tribe and the government want to know why. Biologist Jess MacKinnon tears into the mountains on her motorcycle to solve the mystery. She takes the place of a government scientist, B...

08/25/2026

A boy discovers he may have a gift for escaping disaster.
An alcoholic commercial lender spends his final day at the office.
A former sitcom star turns up in a New Hampshire trailer park.
A widower begins to suspect his Magnus Chord Organ can summon something from beyond this world.

Welcome to Stepdad on the Dance Floor by

In Timothy Boudreau’s new collection, ordinary American lives bend just far enough for something stranger to get through. These are stories about work, grief, family, aging, longing, luck, and the moments when the life you thought you understood suddenly looks different.

The weirdness here doesn’t announce itself. It strolls into the room, pulls out a chair, and waits for you to notice.

STEPDAD ON THE DANCE FLOOR
Timothy Boudreau
August 25, 2026

Out now from Unsolicited Press.