EastOver Press

08/09/2025

"Discard the idea that discomfort is a necessary element of the writing life."

WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE author Linda Michel-Cassidy has recently been interviewed by Emily Mohn-Slate! They talk all about Linda's literary life, including mindfulness practices, writing rituals, her creative mindset, her recommendations for writers, and her thoughts on writing groups.
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Check out the full interview, "You are not lost. You are here.” on Emily's Substack here: https://bit.ly/487iWXf
And order WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE here: https://bit.ly/4cdGacz

Book photo by Linda Michel-Cassidy.

06/09/2025

Congratulations to THE PLACES THAT HOLD author, John Davis Jr., on his recent book deal with Wayward Writers Press!😍⠀
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His first middle-grades novel, VIDGE FLOYD AND THE SECRET FREQUENCIES, will release this November - stay tuned for the official cover and purchasing links!

Order your copy of his poetry collection, THE PLACES THAT HOLD, here: https://bit.ly/4k5yCh9

04/09/2025

Join some of our EastOver authors at the 2025 Punch Bucket Literary Festival Asheville on September 19 and 20!

Enjoy readings with DIRT SONGS author Kari Gunter-Seymour, ANOTHER WOMAN author Hannah Bonner, our Poetry Editor Denton Loving, many of our Cutleaf contributors, and more.

Learn more about the Punch Bucket Lit Fest activities and order your tickets here: https://bit.ly/47XQzKY
And order your copies of DIRT SONGS and ANOTHER WOMAN ahead of the festivities below.
DIRT SONGS: https://bit.ly/4bjGNBA
ANOTHER WOMAN: https://bit.ly/4by07LL

02/09/2025

"The meticulously written stories in Linda Michel-Cassidy’s WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE take us to marginal spaces: not just edge-of-the-grid stretches of rural New Mexico 'where the postal service won’t go, but UPS will,' but the seasonally-employed fringes of society and the secret corners of the human heart.

Michel-Cassidy is a smart, sly yet compassionate observer of how her people do their jobs, how they talk—what an ear!—and how they manage to take care of themselves and each other." — David Gates, author of Jernigan and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me

Learn more about Linda Michel-Cassidy's collection WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE, and order a copy today, here: https://bit.ly/4cdGacz

Background photo by Linda Michel-Cassidy

31/08/2025

Georgann Eubanks and Denton Loving are going on tour together!🤩

Join these two poets on their North Carolina book tour for their recent poetry collections in two weeks. Georgann will be sharing and signing copies of RURAL ASTRONOMY, and our poetry editor, Denton, will be sharing and signing copies of FELLER (Mercer University Press). Here are the three opportunities to meet them on this special event series:

Friday, September 12, 5-7pm
Tom Steven Gallery (126 West King Street) in Hillsborough, NC
With special musical guest Mary Rocap

Saturday, September 13, 10-11:30am
The Clubhouse at Encore (45 Aspen Avenue) in Pittsboro, NC

Sunday, September 14, 2-4pm
Postmaster’s House (204 East South Street) in Aberdeen, NC
Reception follows, sponsored by the Walter Hines Page Book Club, Friends of Postmaster’s House, and the Arts Council of Moore County

Order your copies of these collections ahead of time here:
RURAL ASTRONOMY - https://bit.ly/4hUX0jV
FELLER - https://bit.ly/3FCvRoa

30/08/2025

Congratulations to YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION author, Louise Marburg, on her recent book deal with Blair!😍⠀
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Her new book, FANCY MEETING YOU, will release in 2026 - so stay tuned! Order your copy of her story collection, YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION, here: https://bit.ly/41WySYs

29/08/2025

Cutleaf Issue 5.16 is out now! This issue features nonfiction by Phillip Hurst, poetry by Richard Hague, and fiction by Karen Multer. Read it all at cutleafjournal.com: https://bit.ly/478ut8u

Phillip Hurst explores the line between wanted and unwanted books, in "In the Library of Shelved Dreams." Richard Hague celebrates the emergence the southwest

28/08/2025

"With her exquisitely sensual and razor-sharp debut collection ANOTHER WOMAN, Hannah Bonner has written 'another kind of body.'

Pulse, gasp, tangle, flare—Bonner does not hesitate to say Yes again and again—to the shimmering natural world, to the past and present, to the body’s orchard, to desire for its own sake.

Invoking other women from Dido to Mary, Bonner’s magnetic poems alchemize loss into love and offer new light to past lives. These poems hang on the 'delicate thread between tenderness and terror,' exploding judgments, expectations, and the familiar boundaries of a self.

With a touch of fire that calls to mind Jean Valentine or Saskia Hamilton, these poems quicken and ache, hunger and heal, blossom and bark. The broken heart has never made such a startling garden.

The moment I finished ANOTHER WOMAN I immediately began again, never wanting to finish."
— Elizabeth Metzger, author of LYIN IN and THE SPIRIT PAPERS

Learn more about Hannah Bonner's poetry collection, ANOTHER WOMAN, and order a copy today, on eastoverpress.com: https://bit.ly/4by07LL

27/08/2025

Congratulations to UNTIL ALL YOU SEE IS SKY author, George Choundas, on the recent release of his new book, I THINK I'LL STAY HERE FOREVER, from Press 53!😍⠀
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This short story collection was the winner of the 2025 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Order your copy of the new collection here: https://bit.ly/45P8P6D
And order UNTIL ALL YOU SEE IS SKY here: https://bit.ly/4drV6pp

25/08/2025

"What allows us to be transported by Arthur’s writing – to be carried from the species of his own history – is the precision of his language which seeks always to find the bigger picture."⠀
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Chris Arthur's collection of essays, WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? FOURTEEN ATTEMPTS AT AN ANSWER, has recently been reviewed by Graham Johnston for Issue 46 of Northwords Now, a journal of writing from Scotland and the wider North!

In the same issue, Chris also has an epistolary essay, "Whaup letter," published. Read the full review and Chris' new essay in Northwords Now here: https://bit.ly/3HGlnoP

Order your copy of WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? here: https://bit.ly/4e3rGhC

24/08/2025

Congratulations to THE ACT OF CONTRITION author, Joseph Bathanti, on the recent release of his new novella, TOO GLORIOUS TO EVEN LONG FOR ON CERTAIN DAYS, from Regal House Publishing!😍

This book continues the universe of Fritz Sweeney, the central character of his stories from THE ACT OF CONTRITION (EastOver Press, 2023) and THE HIGH HEART (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007).

Order your copy of the new novella here: https://bit.ly/3Hmsgf7
And order your copy of THE ACT OF CONTRITION here: https://bit.ly/4it1fnI

23/08/2025

Author of ASIDES: OCCASSIONAL ESSAYS, George Singleton, will be the October featured writer for WRITEABILITY®’s Book Club and Craft Seminar for Writers!

The program runs from September 1st through March 2026. If you register before September 1st, the coupon 2025bccsguests will get you $50 off. George would love to have you participate and support this awesome nonprofit and lineup of authors!

Check out the program here: https://bit.ly/4fHJjou
Learn more and order your copy of ASIDES here: https://bit.ly/3HLc0US

WRITEABILITY®’s Book Club and Craft Seminar for Writers will examine work from celebrated authors through the lens of a writer, considering the authors’ creative lives and writing processes. Each month for six months–through readings, conversations, livewriting, and live craft-based instructi...