EastOver Press

27/12/2025

Happy birthday to these EastOver Press books! This month, we're celebrating...

🎉The 1st anniversary of the release of our ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR VOL.II, guest-edited by Erika T. Wurth.

🎉The 2nd anniversary of the release of the 2nd Edition of Keith Pilapil Lesmeister's WE COULD'VE BEEN HAPPY HERE.

🎉The 3rd & 2nd anniversaries, respectively, of the releases of THE CUTLEAF READER VOLUMES II & III.

Learn more about each of these books and order your copies on eastoverpress.com!

26/12/2025

Congratulations to Linda Michel-Cassidy on her book, WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE, being longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

This award, part of the esteemed PEN America Literary Awards, honors "an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut book, a collection of short stories, represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise for a second work of literary fiction." The ceremony announcing the winners will be held in March.

Check out the full longlist here: https://bit.ly/4s0Zd30
And order your copy of WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE here: https://bit.ly/4cdGacz

23/12/2025

Congratulations to Georgann Eubanks on her new poetry collection, RURAL ASTRONOMY, being named the runner-up for the 2025 Roanoke Chowan Award for Poetry!

This award, part of the North Carolina Book Awards by the North Carolina Literary Review, recognizes “notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens” in the field of literature.

Check out the news here: https://bit.ly/4pD49th
And order your copy of RURAL ASTRONOMY here: https://bit.ly/4hUX0jV

21/12/2025

"I had just finished something, and I didn’t know what I was going to do next, and I wanted to do something that’d get me through the pandemic. And it did."

Learn more about the process behind Lynne Sharon Schwartz's new novel, A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN, in her recent interview with Ruth Mukwana!

They discuss Lynne's writing life, the amnesia that her novel's main character suffers from, and more. Read the full interview, hosting on our poetry editor Denton Loving's blog, here: https://bit.ly/4oTKHYh

Order your copy of A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN here: https://bit.ly/4013jMj

19/12/2025

"For the person who wishes they had Delilah, Aphrodite, and Karen Carpenter on speed dial during a breakup."

Hannah Bonner's debut poetry collection, ANOTHER WOMAN, has made the list of BOMB Magazine's 2025 Small Press Gift Guide!🤩

BOMB curated their guide "for all of the idiosyncratic readers in your life" this gift-giving season. Check out the full list here: https://bit.ly/48G3RMj

And order your copy of ANOTHER WOMAN here: https://bit.ly/4by07LL
Congrats, Hannah!

18/12/2025

Cutleaf's final volume of the year, Issue 5.24, is out now! This all-nonfiction issue features work by Chris Arthur, Meg Sniderman, and Tomás Braiza. Read it all here:

Tomás Baiza observes the complicated goings-on around him in "La Quinta Parking Lot, Caldwell, Idaho." Meg Sniderman enacts a morning in "A Hospital

17/12/2025

"The authors alternated composing sections as the stories developed, leading to the many unpredictable, powerfully off-balance moments that propel these excellent tales."

Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross's co-authored collection of stories, DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY, has made the list of Lit Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!🤩

Their list is "the product of a group of enthusiastic, committed reviewers reading hundreds of small press books from the past year and choosing the few they heartily recommend." DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY was selected by John Sheirer. Congrats, Kim and Michelle!

Check out the full list here: https://bit.ly/445DI6W
And order your copy of DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY here: https://bit.ly/4ccQ7qY

15/12/2025

"If the job of the poet is to notice what we all miss, then Eubanks is a maestro."

Georgann Eubanks' two newest books, RURAL ASTRONOMY (EastOver Press, 2025) and THE FABULOUS ORDINARY (University of North Carolina Press, 2025), have been recently reviewed by Evan Peter Smith in the latest issue of the North Carolina Literary Review!

Read the full, gorgeous review, "The Beauty of Noticing," in the NCLR Fall 2025 issue here: https://bit.ly/4iUHIx7
Order THE FABULOUS ORDINARY here: https://bit.ly/4j0NHAG
Order RURAL ASTRONOMY here: https://bit.ly/4hUX0jV

13/12/2025

"Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s gripping new novel is a deceptively straightforward story of amnesia, betrayal, and forgiveness in which the narrator, having suffered a concussion, has lost all memory of himself."

Lynne Sharon Schwartz's new novel, A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN, has recently been reviewed by Abigail DeWitt for Necessary! Read the full review here: https://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/a-stranger-comes-to-town/
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A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN is out now! Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/4iBwm0N

12/12/2025

Happy 4th anniversary of the release of John Davis, Jr.'s poetry collection, THE PLACES THAT HOLD!🥳⠀
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Intertwining past and present with rural life, social justice, and the value of family, this book offers readers a glimpse into the lesser-known corridors of the Sunshine State.

Learn more and order your copy on eastoverpress.com: https://bit.ly/4k5yCh9

11/12/2025

📣COVER REVEAL📣

Coming in June 2026, STARTING FROM PATERSON is the newest book from Garret Keizer, who has been called “the finest essayist writing today” by Jeff Sharlet.

This collection of essays covers an adult’s supermarket perplexity, a child’s religious formation, the search for the Northwest Passage, meeting Colonel Sanders and Paul Farmer, his love for his father-in-law, and the labor struggles that led to an eight-hour day, all connected to the author’s roots in Paterson, NJ, and the woman he came to love there.

Learn more about STARTING FROM PATERSON here, and stay tuned for pre-ordering information: https://bit.ly/48Lzt33

10/12/2025

Issue 5.23 is out now! This features nonfiction by Rolli, poetry by Seth Brady Tucker, and an exclusive excerpt from Lynne Sharon Schwartz's new novel, A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN, plus an interview with Lynne by Geoff Graser. Read it all here:

From near-feral neighbor children to herbicide deserts, Seth Brady Tucker finds hope and love in four poems including "Lament for the Crabgrass, or Song to