The Invisible Labor of Being a Writer The Work After the Work — Issue 10

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Wise words on the logistics of publishing and the very real writer fatigue that we all experience but rarely articulate. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Poets #UnsolicitedPress.

Our Stranger Than Fiction bundle is a collection for readers who know the world is weirder than any plot we could invent, and that the best writing doesn’t tame that strangeness — it leans into it.

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But here’s the part you don’t have to wait for: Our AWP Preview Sale starts now. From today through March 3, take 15% off the books we’re bringing to AWP.

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Can’t make it to Baltimore? We’ll bring Baltimore to you. Start building your stack.

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IT’S HERE. Cloistered by Liz Kellebrew launches today. A surreal, cinematic short story collection where reality bends toward the deliciously strange.

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Buy three books. Get $10 off. Support writers who give a fuck about craft, not virality. Read work that doesn’t ask permission, soften its voice, or explain itself to men.

This is independent literature made outside the patriarchal
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Loving ‘the strange wondrous works of Eleanor Eleanor’ by Kathryn Cowles, the winner of the Fence modern poet series award. This is an unforgettable collection that I can’t seem to stop talking about! #Fence #KathrynCowles#Literary #WritingCommunity #Poetry #UnsolicitedPress #Writers#SmallPress

So many books, so little time! What’s on your reading pile??? respond in the comments!#WritingCommunity #Writers #Books #Poetry #Fiction #Readers #UnsolicitedPress #Fence#Memoir

THE PRSL WRITING PROJECT is exactly what it sounds like: stories, poems, and whatever-the-hell-else from your favorite punk rockers—built to turn noise into care. Every cent goes back into creating community, healing, and helping.

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Just finished this collection and especially loved the last poem, ‘Sculpture: Mother & Child’
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Small Business Saturday reminder: Corporations don’t love you. Books might.

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Two books for the price of 1 is the most ethical form of rebellion available without getting fined.

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Friday Preview Night Post
🎉 Friday Preview Night Special — 6–8 PM ONLY!
Buy 1 book, get another for $5 (or use your festival voucher!)
Start your PBF weekend early with candy, chaos, and community at the table.
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Meet Gary the Skeleton!
He’s serving writer’s tears, handing out candy, and lurking at the Unsolicited Press table at PBF.
📸 Bring your camera. Bring your questions. Bring your courage.
Gary guarantees literary mischief.
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The rest of our 2025 titles are up for grabs this November on LibraryThing’s Early Review Program! 📚

Up to 30 readers can snag advance copies before release—don’t miss it 👀

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Pardon Me for Moonwalking. Red cover with black headphones and blurb by Sara Lippmann, reading, "Pardon Me for Moonwalking is an ode to the ensnared and alone, the lost and the lonely. Transient, searching characters long to 'shed life like an old patchwork coat and walk away to a bright-lit studio apt with no closets and one brick wall as if on stage at an intimate club.' With restraint, razor-sharp precision and astute insight, Patricia Q. Bidar delivers spiky story after deeply human tale. This debut collection is a terrific achievement."

Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
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🐍 In #MotherViper, snakes — once symbols of sin in my faith — became power, freedom, rebirth.”
Interview with Savannah Cooper on leaving the Southern Baptist church, reclaiming symbols & writing from the sacred & profane. tinyurl.com/mrxb353c
#poetry #UnsolicitedPress #YearOfTheWomxn

Crowds. Culture shock. Questionable sushi. Public shame. GERI O SHIMASU: ADVENTURES OF A BAKA GAIJIN is the travel memoir you didn’t know you needed. →https://bookshop.org/a/2655/9781963115543

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🎧📚 Hey Audiobook Narrators! 📚🎧

Unsolicited Press is opening the floodgates! We’re releasing batches of new books for narration on ACX—memoirs, poetry, fiction, essays… you name it, we’re casting it.

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🚨 Author Spotlight! Douglas Cole talks about The Cabin at the End of the World on The Spotlight Network. Don’t miss this powerful convo about poetry, place, & creativity. 📚🔥
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Radiant Wound Essai #3: My First In-person Book Launch & Poetry Workshop in Abidjan My Joyful Book Launch: Finding Connection Through Poetry & Discovering my Ivoirian Daughterland

🌟 My heart is full after my first 'Radiant Wound' book launch at American Space, Université Felix Houphouët-Boigny! Discovered #Cotedivoire as my "daughterland", a conscious, developing connection rather than one tied to ancestry. 🙏📚✨ bit.ly/43Vqr1r
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Cathryn Shea’s GHOST MATINEE offers readers a powerful meditation on memory, time, and the shadows we carry into each day. Preorder now and meet the ghosts waiting between the lines.

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This year, Unsolicited Press is celebrating THE YEAR OF WOMXN, publishing an incredible lineup of books exclusively by womxn writers—and April is bringing FOUR stunning new releases that will blow you away. 🌿🔥

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@poetrysociety.bsky.social

I'll be at AWP signing and selling books at the Unsolicited Press table (T755) on Thursday, 3/27 at 11 a.m. with @cathyshea.bsky.social, on Friday, 3/28, at 11 a.m., and Saturday 3/29. #AWP2025 #UnsolicitedPress #PoetryLover #PoetryBooks #PoetryCollection #NewBookRelease #52WeeksOfPoetry

Gathering the Pieces of Days, my debut collection, is available for preorder now! Preorders help authors, and you can get 25% off your book with code GATHERING from March 1 through April 8 at Tertulia!

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Upcoming Events | Nancy Christie A list of upcoming events (in-person and virtual) where I'll be doing presentations, signing books and generally hanging out!

This is what I love to see: a book signing schedule that fills my calendar! What a great launch for THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE AND OTHER STORIES! Hope to see you at one or more of these events! www.nancychristie.com/workshops/up... #TheLanguageofLove #lovestories #storiesoflove #unsolicitedpress

Gathering the Pieces of Days A poem and a book

Since it's the first week of January, I've posted a new Substack with the first poem in Gathering the Pieces of Days. The poem is appropriately titled "January 1." The book will be published by Unsolicited Press as part of 2025 Year of Womxn. #unsolicitedpress #poetry #poetrycommunity #YearOfWomxn

My new collection, Residents of the Deep, has a launch date: Aug. 19, 2025. #unsolicitedpress

Issue 23: Second – The Prose Poem

My poem "May, week 1" received an honorable mention in The Prose Poem's second annual prose poem competition! The judge said my poem was "refreshingly alive"! Check out the six winning poems! #prosepoetry #prosepoem #poetrycommunity #unsolicitedpress #poetry #poetrylovers #poems #Blueskypoets

Guess who’s heading to the 2024 PNBA Trade Show? Yep, that’s right—Unsolicited Press is rolling in with a stack of fresh reads & plenty of bookish banter. We’ll be there connecting with amazing booksellers who believe in the power of great storytelling.📚! #PNBA2024 #UnsolicitedPress #BookLoversUnite

🎉📬 Hot off the press and cooler than a summer breeze! Our newsletter is here! 🌞🔥 Don't miss out – your TBR pile is about to get a serious upgrade. Check it out now! 📚✨ #UnsolicitedPress #BookishNews #JulyNewsletter

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