Unsolicited Press

11/03/2025

📣 This Is Not a Quiet Panel: Womxn Writing for Their Lives 📣
🗓️ Wednesday, November 5
🕡 6:30–8:30pm
📍 Up Up Books

Get ready for an evening of fierce, fearless conversation with six incredible womxn authors who are not here to whisper.

We’re talking identity, memory, motherhood, sexuality, growing up rural, and reclaiming women’s stories that history tried to erase. ✊

Featuring:
✨ Amy Baskin
✨ Elisa Carlsen
✨ Kerry Donoghue
✨ Summer Stewart
✨ Mari Matthias
✨ Aileen Keown Vaux

Expect bold words, big truths, and the kind of energy that lingers long after the books are signed. 💥

11/03/2025

🔥Writers, stretch those creative muscles!🔥 The Writer’s Workout Conference is coming in hot — and the best part? It’s FREE and totally virtual. No travel, no excuses, just pure writerly goodness.

Our own Summer Stewart is stepping up to the mic for a Small Press Panel and delivering a powerhouse presentation called “Navigating the Business Side of Authorship.”

If you’re ready to level up your writing and learn how to crush the business side of being an author, this is your sign.

💻 Log in. Tune in. Dominate your craft.

10/28/2025

Um, hello. Coming your way!

Split Ink: Conversations Across Gender and Genre
A COVER TO COVER Event, Sponsored by the Portland Book Festival

Join us for an evening of powerful prose, poetry, and conversation with a dynamic lineup of authors from Unsolicited Press. Split Ink spotlights voices that challenge the literary canon and speak from the intersections of queerness, womanhood, and lived experience. Through readings and discussion, our authors explore what it means to write from the margins—and why these stories matter now more than ever.

Featuring:
🌈 Anthony DiPietro
✒️ Kerry Donoghue
📚 Jerrod E. Bohn
🖋 Douglas Cole
⚖️ Jennie Bricker
🌸 Marianne Villanueva

Expect raw honesty, radiant language, and resonant stories that defy convention and embrace complexity. Whether you're a reader, writer, or ally, this evening is for anyone who believes literature is a space for truth-telling and transformation.

📍 Rose City Book Pub
🗓 November 8 | 7:30–9:30 PM

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10/28/2025

Meet Ayendy Bonifacio — poet, professor, and storyteller.

In Dique Dominican, he revisits the landscapes of his childhood and the long road to becoming Dominican-American.

A memoir of language, memory, and finding home in the in-between.

💬 “These times demand such acts of courage and skill.” — Ana Castillo

📘 Coming January 2026

10/28/2025

🌴 “Born near a mango-steepled, river-scented town.”

From the Dominican Republic to Brooklyn to Ohio, Ayendy Bonifacio’s Dique Dominican is a lyrical memoir of migration, identity, and belonging.

📘 Publishing January 31, 2026 from

🔗 Preorder now: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dique-dominican

10/24/2025

✨ New Release ✨

Kim Farrar’s The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird asks: how do we keep flying when life says we shouldn’t be able to? Through grief, illness, disability, and loss, these poems insist on love, laughter, and resilience. 🕊️💫

📖 Available November 11, 2025 from Unsolicited Press.

10/24/2025

💔 GETTING DRESSED IN THE DARK
An Artist’s Way Home

When decades of radical honesty collapse with one betrayal, what’s left behind?
Gabriella’s memoir is a raw, poetic excavation of love, art, and loss. After discovering her husband’s affair—with her young friend, no less—she punches him in the mouth and watches the life they built unravel.

From smoky cafés to a 19th-century Maine schoolhouse turned art haven, they lived for creativity, intimacy, and openness. But can art still save you when the story of your life crumbles?

🔥 GETTING DRESSED IN THE DARK is for the artists, the heartbreakers, the betrayed, and anyone who's ever rebuilt themselves from the mess.

Out now from Unsolicited Press.

10/23/2025

10/23/2025

Our publisher made it to Jackson! 13 hours of driving and wiped! Ready for a fun weekend.

10/22/2025

Andrew Brenza doesn’t just write poetry—he dissects language until it sings in code.

His upcoming book ET AL (Unsolicited Press, Jan 2026) is an erasure poem that feels like a séance for forgotten words.

🖤 Step into the void: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/etalpoetry

10/22/2025

What if every book contained every other book that’s ever existed?

Meet ET AL — Andrew Brenza’s new experiment in erasure and resurrection.

A dark-fantasy-turned-poetic-epic that listens for ghost-voices inside language itself.

✨ Publishing January 13, 2026 from

🔗 Preorder now: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/etalpoetry

10/21/2025