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03/27/2024

Congrats to our FIVE presses that are finalists for the 2024 Lambda Literary Awards! Grab a copy of these LGBTQ+ titles and celebrate q***r brilliance ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

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03/21/2024

🤩 the Nonfiction Bestsellers for December 2023 are simply brilliant! Look no further than this list for the next star title on your bookshelf!
Kelson Books, White Goat Press, Empty Bowl, Rose Metal Press, (imprint “np:”) Roundabout Press,

03/21/2024

🌟 Fiction Bestsellers for November & December 2023 are otherworldly! If you’re looking for a place to escape to, any one of these stories could be your ticket.
Scarlet Tanager, Elixir Press

03/21/2024

✨ Poetry Bestsellers for December 2023 are outta this world! Take a look at these amazing books and let us know if one of your favorites made the list!!!
Winter Editions, Empty Bowl

03/09/2024

Happy International Women’s Day! We have a great selection of titles releasing in the next few weeks by amazing authors all reflecting on womanhood, motherhood, girlhood, what being a woman means to them and how they interact in the world as such! You can preorder them on our site (link in the bio) and you might even find a couple of them available early 😍

Elixir Press

03/07/2024

SPD HANDPICKED for March 24: Happy Women’s History Month! The selection of titles we have for this month features feminine voices and themes such as family, bodies, mental health, and time travel…… just girly things 💅. Authors include (Sift), (A Godless Ascends) , Sarah Burgoyne and (co authors of Mechanophilia). The anthology Awakenings, is a collection of short stories all about the ins and outs of the body, and was edited by .

02/29/2024

SPD is saddened to hear about the passing of Lyn Hejinian. A long time supporter of SPD, she also worked with us as a publisher (most recently with Nion Editions) and her work has been published through SPD publishers throughout her writing career. is going to be publishing a new title of hers, “Fall Creek” this spring. It will be bittersweet, but we are looking forward to reading it, and hope you all are too.

02/28/2024

Tune into Velocity of Content’s latest podcast episode “Small Press Values” to hear SPD Executive Director Kent Watson interviewed by CCC’s Chris Kenneally. You can find it at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

02/08/2024

We are at AWP!!! Check out titles by these publishers as well as a few others 😁 - swipe to see about 50 publishers under the SPD umbrella who have their own booth at AWP!
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02/02/2024

That’s right, our La Presse ( ) 40% off sale is now extended through FEB. 11 and therefore through AWP! Fence Books (umbrella to imprint La Presse) will be in Kansas City at AWP with a few La Presse books to check out in person. Don’t be afraid to say hi!
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02/02/2024

Handpicked for January ‘24, “I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub” by Canadian author Stuart Ross is sometimes poignant, sometimes outrageous in his third story collection. Probe fame through the lens of a French disco icon, save the day with a legendary Hollywood actor, worship an all-knowing potato, devour a neighbor’s house, find love and a dead frog in Nicaragua, and learn the art of writing a short story! Check out ‘s booth at AWP next week!

02/01/2024

Handpicked for January ‘24 “Essential Q***r Voices of U.S. Poetry” from features 100 poets for the Present and Future who illuminate the q***r experience in the U.S., including Kaveh Akbar, Rick Barot, Frank Bidart, Richard Blanco, Jericho Brown, Franny Choi, CAConrad, Natalie Diaz, Mark Doty, Nikky Finney, Nikki Giovanni, Marilyn Hacker, Robin Coste Lewis, Timothy Liu, Eileen Myles, Carl Phillips, Justin Phillip Reed, Kay Ryan, Sam Sax, Richard Siken, Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, and many others. Diverse in styles, subjects, and demographics, the book is a mirror to the lived experience of nearly one century of gay, le***an, bisexual, and transgender poets.
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01/30/2024

Handpicked for January ‘24 “Boomhouse” by Summer J. Hart thrums with loss, with complicated love, with fortitude, weaving stories and spells from the most delicate and indelible details. Boomhouse bends and ripples through oral history, superstitious customs, family lore, and memory.
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01/29/2024

Handpicked for January ‘24, “EtC” by Laura Mullen explores contemporary American selfhood, socially meditated and economically motivated, within a system where we learn to see and represent ourselves as one marketable image among many, where “brand” displaces character, and the corporal and corporate intersect.

01/16/2024

January’s Handpicked titles fittingly are all about self-reflection as we step into this new year. Each title is 20% off with promo code HANDPICKED .
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12/17/2023

Important update about a DDoS attack on SPD.

12/14/2023

December’s Handpicked titles all involve the social. Whether it’s stepping outside our house or a broader look at our collective culture, all of these books show the social connections that exist around us. Each is 20% off with promo code HANDPICKED

11/28/2023

Thanks to the generosity of two private donors, today we’ll be matching all donations up to $1,500! Visit the link in our bio to see how you can benefit from a tax-deductible donation to SPD. Benefits include discounts up to 40%, free shipping on orders, and more!

11/21/2023

November's Handpicked titles all involve dynamics. Whether it's the dynamic between families, nations, or different spaces, all of these Handpicked titles give us a glimpse into how unique such dynamics can be. Get each of them for 20% off with promo code HANDPICKED

11/17/2023

All-new SPD Recommends, featuring books from .press and more

11/14/2023

Our Solstice Sale is now live! Save 20% on ALL books in our catalog with code SOLSTICE23. Link in bio!

11/03/2023

All-new SPD Recommends, featuring books from and more.

10/23/2023

This month, our Handpicked titles all involve balance. Whether it's the balance required for a difficult gymnastic move, to ride a mechanical bull, or just to juggle all of the difficulties we face in life, all of these Handpicked titles give us a glimpse into how we find balance in our lives. Don't balance these books against one another: get each of them for 20% off with promo code HANDPICKED

09/22/2023

September's Handpicked titles all involve struggles. Whether it's struggling against fascist oppression, failed opportunities, or past guilt, all of these titles reflect on how difficult life can be. Each is 20% off with promo code HANDPICKED

09/21/2023

All-new SPD Recommends, featuring books from and more!

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"At my side the Demon writhes forever, Swimming around me like impalpable air; As I breathe, he burns my lungs like fever And fills me with an eternal guilty desire." -Charles Baudelaire Good morning, internet! xoxo, SPD

Be strong Bernadette Nobody will ever know I came here for a reason Perhaps there is a life here Of not being afraid of your own heart beating Do not be afraid of your own heart beating –Bernadette Mayer Good Morning Internet! XO, SPD

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DID YOU KNOW about SPD's very own Poetry Trading Post? Making appearances at a book fair near you, you can trade us a poem for a free book! Here's dear local poet Turner Capehart Canty, curator of the sponge reading series w/ a great piece at the #BayAreaBookFestival

DID YOU KNOW about SPD's very own Poetry Trading Post? Making appearances at a book fair near you, you can trade us a poem for a free book! Here's Timeless, Infinite Light author Paul Ebenkamp reading us a beautiful new composition at the #BayAreaBookFestival