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Essay Press is dedicated to publishing artful, innovative, and culturally relevant writing that questions convention and explores issues of significant contemporary relevance.

09/12/2024

We have news!!

We are excited to announce the launch of asides // besides, our new print periodical publication. The first issue is free and will mail out in a few days. Order your copy at the link below!

asides // besides will feature interviews, essays, poetry, art and ephemera in loose conversation with each other and will be printed on tabloid paper.

asides // besides inhabits a space between the immediacy of digital publishing and the long timelines of traditional book publishing, supplementing our publication calendar with new writing, fresh conversations, and an opportunity to respond to our shared present moment.

We plan to publish 3-4 issues per year.

The first issue features art and writing from Jill Magi, Khashayar Mohammadi, and Ariana Nash, as well as an interview with Steffan Triplett.

asides // besides is a new print periodical from Essay Press featuring interviews, essays, poetry, art, and ephemera in loose conversation. asides // besides is printed on tabloid paper and we expect to publish 3-4 issues per year, inhabiting a space between the immediacy of digital publishing and t...

30/09/2024

It's pub day! We are so excited to bring Bad Forecast into the world.

Bad Forecast is a hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weather, about q***rness, about race: their disruptions, their pervasive pull, the isolation they can leave behind. What secrets are kept in the climate of Middle America? What spirals out after a storm? How do race and q***rness, like the weather, inform a landscape? Bad Forecast considers how we interpret the forecasts that linger behind us and those still projected to come, brewing in the distance.

https://www.essaypress.org/triplett/

29/09/2024

LAST DAY to preorder Steffan Triplett's Bad Forecast! Get your copy here or through Asterism:

Bad Forecast is a hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weathe...

12/09/2024

Steffan Triplett's Bad Forecast ships at the end of this month! Preorder your copy here https://www.essaypress.org/triplett/
or through our new distributor, Asterism.

Bad Forecast is a hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weather, about q***rness, about race: their disruptions, their pervasive pull, the isolation they can leave behind. What secrets are kept in the climate of Middle America? What spirals out after a storm? How do race and q***rness, like the weather, inform a landscape? Bad Forecast considers how we interpret the forecasts that linger behind us and those still projected to come, brewing in the distance.

23/08/2024

It's almost here! Steffan Triplett's Bad Forecast is available for preorder.

Bad Forecast is a hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weather, about q***rness, about race: their disruptions, their pervasive pull, the isolation they can leave behind. What secrets are kept in the climate of Middle America? What spirals out after a storm? How do race and q***rness, like the weather, inform a landscape? Bad Forecast considers how we interpret the forecasts that linger behind us and those still projected to come, brewing in the distance.

STEFFAN TRIPLETT is a Black, q***r writer raised in Joplin, Missouri and the author of the nonfiction chapbook Constraints (New Michigan Press, 2024). His essays and nonfiction appear in The Iowa Review, Fence, Lit Hub, Vulture, and Electric Literature, and have most recently been anthologized in It Came From the Closet: Q***r Reflections on Horror (Feminist Press, 2022). He is the Managing Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) and a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Triplett has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Outpost, Lambda Literary, and the National Book Critics Circle.

https://www.essaypress.org/triplett/

23/07/2024

Our new distributor, Asterism, is having a book sale in Seattle this weekend! Support your favorite small presses!

24/06/2024

Our very first title, Jenny Boully's The Body: An Essay, is back in stock! You can order it through our website or through our distributor (Asterism).

Comprised of footnotes to a non-existent text, The Body: An Essay is a meditation on absence, loss, and disappearance that offers a guarded “narrative” of what may or may not be a love letter, a dream, and spiritual autobiography, a memoir, or a scholarly digression, a treatise on the relation of life to book. Christian Bok describes Boully’s groundbreaking text as one that “may simply annotate a fantastic biography from another reality, referring only to itself as a kind of dream within a dream…The reader can only fantasize about the original contexts that might have made such information significant to its author, and ultimately, implies that the body of any text consists of nothing but a void-filled with the exegetical projection of our own imagination.”

So excited to be able to share this brilliant book with you again!

07/06/2024

Cover reveal! Steffan Triplett's Bad Forecast is forthcoming this fall. Artwork by Julie Mehretu & design by Blair Johnson. Stay tuned for updates with pre-order details!

15/04/2024

On Thursday, March 28, our book distributor, SPD, announced its sudden and immediate closure.

We have now moved to Asterism as our distributor. If you ordered Essay Press books through SPD and did not receive them, please get in touch with us at [email protected].

Like many small presses, we are feeling the impact of SPD's sudden closure and the many uncertainties it has brought. Please continue to support small press publishing by ordering our books and making a tax-deductible donation if you are able.

Essay Press is a 509(a)(2) non-profit literary organization, with tax-deductible donations going directly toward the press' core mission: to publish and cultivate innovative non-fiction that questions convention and addresses issues of contemporary significance.All orders of $40 or more through our....

05/04/2024

Congratulations to Michael Martin Shea, whose manuscript, I'm Sorry But None of This Is My Fault, has been selected for publication. Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2023 chapbook open reading period!

22/02/2024

Celebrating our 3 most recent titles with readings from Jade Lascelles, Sarah Rose Nordgren, and Aditi Kini on March 3rd!

This event is virtual—please register here: https://howard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsceypqDsiHNAZ3q1Yem8LfmLSRLgYa9z7

15/02/2024

Aditi Kini's Oriental Cyborg is here! Pre-orders are ready to ship. If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can order one here: https://www.essaypress.org/kini/

Who is the Oriental Cyborg? asks Aditi Kini in this collection of notes, jokes, and queries into the provenance of a creature designed for labor, 3-D printed in the technoscientific post-colonies, modeled on old automata. Race is a technology, that we know, and technology can be raced — so why inquire into this at all? Perhaps this, the Oriental Cyborg, is a fantasy more than a memory, or an echo more than a form — or just an essayist’s extraction of personal anguish and humor from globalist decay.

Taking on the form of historical analysis / lyrical essay / documentary poem / experimental buzzword / positionality statement, this chapbook and its titular character might still be an elusive mystery even after reading.

Oriental Cyborg Aditi Kini Preorder $12.00 Who is the Oriental Cyborg? asks Aditi Kini in this collection of notes, jokes, and queries

01/02/2024

Happy pub day! Feathers: A Bird Hat Wearer's Journal is here!

Designed as a turn of the century women’s magazine that combines memoir, history, theory, poetry, and image, Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer’s Journal explores women’s complex relationship with birds through the history of feather fashion. Originating in the bird-hat controversy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which coincided with both the women’s suffrage and budding American conservation movements, this polyvocal book moves in multiple directions as it examines ases of women and birds from across cultures and time periods, from the Virgin Mary, to Leda, Swan Lake, and Alexander McQueen. As its connective thread, Feathers also follows one woman’s enculturation into the world of bird-women and its inherent violence. What might we learn about gender from the birds?

Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer's Journal Sarah Rose Nordgren Preorder $18.00 Winter 2024 Designed as a turn of the century women’s m

16/01/2024

Snow day reading—Sarah Rose Nordgren's Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer's Journal, out on 2/1! Preorder here: https://www.essaypress.org/nordgren/

14/01/2024

Thrilled to see an Essay Press title, Dennis James Sweeney's You're the Woods Too, included in this excellent list!

It’s almost 2024, another year, and I’m still a sucker for a year-end list. I love seeing what people enjoyed, adding to my TBR, and discovering new titles and authors. However, I also suffer…

19/12/2023

New book out this winter!

Designed as a turn of the century women’s magazine that combines memoir, history, theory, poetry, and image, Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer’s Journal explores women’s complex relationship with birds through the history of feather fashion. Originating in the bird-hat controversy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which coincided with both the women’s suffrage and budding American conservation movements, this polyvocal book moves in multiple directions as it examines cases of women and birds from across cultures and time periods, from the Virgin Mary, to Leda, Swan Lake, and Alexander McQueen. As its connective thread, Feathers also follows one woman’s enculturation into the world of bird-women and its inherent violence. What might we learn about gender from the birds?