EastOver Press

21/11/2025

EastOver Press' ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR, 2025, is now available for pre-order!🥳

Third in our annual series, this anthology of short fiction is guest-edited by Deesha Philyaw - Writer, award-winning author of THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES. The collection features work by Noah Alvarez, Victoria Ballesteros, Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, C.G. Crawford, Monic Ductan, LaTanya McQueen, Jennifer Morales, Ruby Hansen Murray, Michael Pacheco, Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera, Sarp Sozdinler, Sejal Shah, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sara J. Streeter, Lisa Wartenberg Vélez, and Robert Yune.

The stories in this collection explore region and place, to be sure, but they also deftly mine the psychological landscape of their characters and highlight the complicated experiences of those living in the rural parts of the U.S.

The anthology officially releases on December 2 (less than two weeks away!), but you can pre-order your copy NOW! Learn more and reserve your book on eastoverpress.com: https://bit.ly/4iaCWLD

19/11/2025

Congratulations to our ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR VOL.II contributor Arah Ko on her debut book, BRINE ORCHID!

The poetry collection will release on December 9th, 2025, from YesYes Books. Pre-order your copy of BRINE ORCHID here: https://bit.ly/4r6EhXN
And order your copy of the 2024 ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR here: https://bit.ly/47POyjQ

17/11/2025

"In her meticulously crafted new poetry collection RURAL ASTRONOMY, Georgann Eubanks writes, 'I am the keeper of my people and their planting…I am the last among the flourishing.'

These poems read like a book of psalms in praise of rural America, past and present, warts and all, filled with endurance, resilience, buffalo nickels, sweet gum trees, okra, e***a bulbs, motel soaps, cucumber pickles, crabapples and 'towel[s] sweet from Cheer/ and rough from Wednesday’s wind.'

Eubanks is a master wielder of language. Once I began reading, I couldn’t stop until I had savored every wondrous line." — Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate and author of DIRT SONGS

Learn more about Georgann Eubanks' first collection of poetry, RURAL ASTRONOMY, and order a copy today, here: https://bit.ly/4hUX0jV

13/11/2025

Why should authors work with independent presses over big traditional publishers?

We've compiled our top seven reasons here, but at the heart of them all are two important things:

🥇Specialized Support
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🥈Intimate Community

And those are just the benefits for individual authors. Working with an independent press is also important for a healthy publishing ecosystem, adding to to the diversity, support, and connectivity of the entire literary industry. Independent publishers also work hard to prioritize their authors, helping them thrive in a complex, evolving literary environment

As an indie press ourselves, we are beyond grateful to get to publish such amazing books and promote their talented authors. The amount of strong work we get in our inbox is so encouraging as a small outfit, and exciting as lovers of literature.🥰

How lucky we are to be part of such a supportive and involved community, because the indie lit scene is truly that: a community. It's incredibly heartwarming to constantly see everyone lifting each other up, sharing one another's work, and championing our shared passions for writing and reading.

So, from all of us at EastOver Press, THANK YOU for supporting independent literature!❤️❤️❤️

12/11/2025

Cutleaf Issue 5.21 is out now! This issue features nonfiction by Andy Fogle, fiction by Lucile Barker, and poetry by Ralph Sneeden. Read it all here:

The signal of an object jogs the memory of the narrator in Lucile Barker’s “Green Grolsch Bottle.” Andy Fogle remembers the past and an imagined future, in

11/11/2025

"The stories in Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross’s collection are sharp-toothed, playful, trippy introspections on the mundane insanity of office-life, the gluey-soup of dating, the casual cruelty of childhood.

This collection explores the grimy underbelly of what it means to be human—raw and honest, real and revelatory. Each story is a geode waiting to be cracked open.

We couldn’t say it better than the very first story in the collection: 'Enjoy! It’s a command.'"
— Dana Diehl and Melissa Goodrich, authors of The Classroom

Learn more about Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross's co-authored short story collection, DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY, and order a copy today, here: https://bit.ly/4ccQ7qY

10/11/2025

Happy 3rd anniversary of the release of Louise Marburg's short story collection, YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION!🥳⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Dubbed a “short story collection worth reading” in The Washington Post, this book invites us to face ourselves and our own life journeys with sympathy, humor, and courage.

Learn more and order your copy on eastoverpress.com: https://bit.ly/41WySYs

09/11/2025

Happy 4th anniversary of the release of Ralph Sneeden's poetry collection, SURFACE FUGUE!🥳⠀
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Vivid and experiential, these poems deliver reverie and threat with equal power; as the poet’s description of refraction suggests, “…a dipping oar / is able to inhabit both worlds.”

Learn more and order your copy on eastoverpress.com: https://bit.ly/43dVNiG

08/11/2025

Happy 2-year anniversary of the release of ASIDES by George Singleton!🥳⠀
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"Asides: Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Brought Up Questionably, Et Cetera" is award-winning author George Singleton‘s debut collection of essays. Word of advice? Buckle up and relish this ride.

Learn more and order your copy on eastoverpress.com: https://bit.ly/3WE7JHY

05/11/2025

Joan Wickersham's poem, "An Eroded Lion," from NO SHIP SETS OUT TO BE A SHIPWRECK, has inspired a piece of music by composer Beth Wiemann! 🤩

With Spencer Brand on trumpet and Katrina Clements on clarinet, "Eroded Lions" premiered live in concert earlier this fall. You can watch a video of this performance here: https://vimeo.com/1125236439

To catch the piece in person, their upcoming concert dates include:
🎶November 12, 2025 at Northwestern State University,
🎶November 14, 2025 at University of Louisiana at Lafayette,
🎶March 25-27, 2026 at International Duo Symposium at Universidad de Costa Rica.

NO SHIP SETS OUT TO BE A SHIPWRECK is a poetic and philosophical meditation ignited by a beautiful, frightening, mysterious object: the seventeenth-century Swedish warship Vasa. Order your copy here: https://eastoverpress.com/book/no-ship-sets-out-to-be-a-shipwreck-by-joan-wickersham/

04/11/2025

Congratulations to Arah Ko, one of our ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR VOL.II authors, on making the 2025 Granum Foundation Prize shortlist!

Arah's work in our 2024 RURAL STORIES ANTHOLOGY, selected by guest editor Erika T. Wurth, include "Camaro" and "Chicken Husbandry." The former originally appeared in Swamp Pink, and the latter in The Pinch.

The Granum Foundation Prize is an annual prize designed to help U.S.-based writers complete or launch substantive literary works. The winner and finalists will be announced later this month.

Check out the full 2025 shortlist here: https://bit.ly/49yFEIw
As well as the longlist (which includes many of our Cutleaf contributors) here: https://bit.ly/4oISW9Q
Order your copy of our second volume of the EASTOVER ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR here: https://bit.ly/3Bpo4Iv

01/11/2025

📣COVER REVEAL📣

Coming in April 2026, DICKENS IN BROOKLYN is a virtuoso collection of nonfiction by prize-winning author Jay Neugeboren.

In all its essays, in exquisite and dramatic detail, Neugeboren draws on his experiences in ways that will captivate readers and enable them to summon up and reflect on their own lives.

Learn more about DICKENS IN BROOKLYN: ESSAYS ON FAMILY, WRITING, & MADNESS here: https://bit.ly/47A6Unt
Stay tuned for pre-ordering information!