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MIDDLE CREEK PUBLISHING is an award-winning small, independent press that believes responding to the

MIDDLE CREEK PUBLISHING is an award-winning small, independent press, a company seeking to make the world a better place through both the means and ends of publishing. We are publishers of quality literature in any genre from both seasoned and as yet undervalued authors and artists, with a great interest in works which may be considered to be, illuminate or embody any aspect of contemplative Human

Ecology, defined as the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. The expression of this particular interest in Human Ecology, which actually represents a wide genres, subjects and styles, is meant to clarify an aspect of the qualities in the works we will consider for publication, and is meant as a guide to those considering submitting work to us. Our interest is in publishing works which illuminate the Human experience through words, story or other content which connects us to each other, our environment, our history and our potential.

01/11/2025

Middle Creek Publishing & Audio Invites You to celebrate the release of The Clearing, a new novella by Alexander Shalom Joseph via Zoom.

Tomorrow, Sunday, November 2nd from 5-6pm MST

This event will begin with a conversation between publisher and editor David Martin and author Alexander Shalom Joseph, on the process of making of this book. Then Alexander Shalom Joseph will give a reading from The Clearing. The event will then conclude with an audience Q&A.

We look forward to sharing this new book with you!

31/10/2025

The submissions for this year’s annual contests closes tonight at midnight. Get your last minute manuscripts submitted before you head out for fun tonight or before settling in to your sacred or solemn observances.

28/10/2025

The submission window for our three annual contests close at midnight October 31st!

Fledge Poetry Chapbook Award (Chapbooks as close to 40 pp as possible).

Halcyon Award for Poetry (Full poetry collections preferably 80++ pages, best for spine print if over 120 or more!).

Osprey Award for Fiction (fiction, short story-collections, novels, novellas, etc)

You have the entire month of October to submit. Go to the Shop All tab on our website and scroll down to the appropriate contest for details and fees, etc.

We’re looking forward to reading your manuscripts and finding more amazing work to publish in 2026!

Send us your best and most edited and ready versions of your manuscripts. For some additional helpful tips and hopeful guidelines, please find our Middle Creek Publishing Editors Blog on Medium and read a few of the So You Think You’re Ready to Submit articles).

27/10/2025

A lovely review that gets to some of the reasons editor David Anthony Martin knew this manuscript not only HAD to be published, but why it was the winner of Middle Creek Publishing & Audio’s Halcyon Award for Poetry!

And so happy to see Shelli Rottschafer’s review picked up by South Broadway Press! Another great Colorado literary organization.

21/10/2025

Linda Russo, author of the verdant, has been added to the upcoming MCP&A showcase reading! This is going to be an event you won’t want to miss. You’ll be moved and inspired by these poets! Each poet embodies aspects of what MCP&A, both as a press and as a community, is all about!

Please attend if you can, you won’t be sorry. And support these poets coming out to gather and speak through purchasing their books at the book table. This helps support their continued work giving readings and speaking out to connect people to nature and each other and resist the shadow.

20/10/2025

Linda Russo, whose latest collection of poetry, the verdant, won our 2024 Halcyon Award for Poetry, has been interviewed by Paul E Nelson of Cascadia Poetics Lab. Paul believes the poet’s contribution to human ecology and ecological literacy is a vital role. Linda talks about the inception for her book and the importance of connecting to place.

Watch/listen to the interview at the link in our bio’s Linktree!

The Verdant can be purchased from Books.by or Amazon.com, and represents a lovely new organic form of ecopoetic and eco-identity.

18/10/2025

Tonight!!

Need a reason to escape the flatlands this evening? Join Aspen Everett and Opal Zahn in Ward, Colorado at the infamous hand-built library (located behind the post office)

This space has long been a sanctuary for poets and poetry.

18/10/2025

Middle Creek Publishing & Audio Invites You to celebrate the release of The Clearing, a new novella by Alexander Shalom Joseph via Zoom.

Sunday, November 2nd from 5-6pm MST

This event will begin with a conversation between publisher and editor David Martin and author Alexander Shalom Joseph, on the process of making of this book. Then Alexander Shalom Joseph will give a reading from The Clearing. The event will then conclude with an audience Q&A.

We look forward to sharing this new book with you!

16/10/2025

The submission window for our three annual contest is open!

Fledge Poetry Chapbook Award (Chapbooks as close to 40 pp as possible).

Halcyon Award for Poetry (Full poetry collections preferably 80++ pages, best for spine print if over 120 or more!).

Osprey Award for Fiction (fiction, short story-collections, novels, novellas, etc)

You have the entire month of October to submit. Go to the Shop All tab on our website and scroll down to the appropriate contest for details and fees, etc.

We’re looking forward to reading your manuscripts and finding more amazing work to publish in 2026!

Send us your best and most edited and ready versions of your manuscripts. For some additional helpful tips and hopeful guidelines, please find our Middle Creek Publishing Editors Blog on Medium and read a few of the So You Think You’re Ready to Submit articles).

15/10/2025

RELEASE DAY!
October 15th is the official release of Alexander Shalom Joseph’s latest novella, The Clearing.

Read more about it on our website, or on Amazon.com or Books.by!

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An ironic and provocative existential thriller that poses questions about solitude, purpose, and the ego that none of us can answer but all of us should ask.

—Alison Turner, author of Defensible Spaces, finalist, Colorado Book Award

This work is attuned both to the violence of late-stage capitalism, and the beauty that still persists in small pockets of wilderness when we look for it. Ultimately, this story is a parable for our times.

—Sage Marshall, author of Echolocation

13/10/2025

November 7th at the Canyon Theater in Boulder from 3pm to 5pm, six Middle Creek Publishing & Audio poets will be collaborating on a reading MC’d by Aspen Everett .

If you are in the area and can attend, please do and support these local and active poets!

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