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Congratulations to Andrew Krivak, recipient of the University of Scranton’s Royden B. Davis, S.J., Distinguished Author Award “for his luminous contributions to American letters and his enduring witness to the immigrant and working-class heritage of Northeastern Pennsylvania.”
Recent & Forthcoming Titles
With smaller print runs and often an intimate relationship with readers, these smaller houses are able to take bigger risks than their larger counterparts and are finding truly excellent writers outside the mainstream. Don’t miss works from Open Letter, Deep Vellum, Bellevue Literary Press, Catapult, Restless Books, Two Dollar Radio and Los Angeles’ Unnamed Press; like more established independents Graywolf and McSweeney’s, they are delivering so much genuinely exciting fiction that they make it look easy.
From Our Authors
I have been writing for many years and have been published both by presses that were part of large conglomerates (William Morrow, Atlantic Little Brown), and by small publishers (Monthly Review Press, Feminist Press). Working with the people at Bellevue Literary Press on A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State was one of the best publishing experiences I have had. The Publisher and Editorial Director, Erika Goldman, was the one who had the idea for the book, and she was always on call when I needed to talk to her. Although the BLP staff is small and on a tight budget, they are unfailingly professional and supportive, and work to a very high standard. They always got back to me promptly, usually the same day. Erika and I had many frank discussions about subrights, the prospects of the book, etc. Their publicity person, Molly Mikolowski, is a marvel, well-prepared, diligent, and creative; she accomplished far more working from Minneapolis than the freelance publicist I hired for one of my novels and the big in-house publicists I worked with on the other. I would unreservedly recommend them to my writer friends and, in fact, already have.
Award Winning Titles
The Jump Artist, the Sami Rohr Prize-winning debut novel by Austin Ratner, is based on the true story of Philippe Halsman, whose role in the “Austrian Dreyfus Affair,” rocked Europe in the years leading up to World War II and who later became famous for his portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Salvador Dalí.