Stillhouse Press

10/01/2024

"...I write almost by feel, like stacking up objects on a table, stepping back to assess how they look and feel in relation to each other, moving things around."

Jennifer Wortman interviews Amy Stuber about Sad Grownups (Stillhouse Press).

Read the full conversation at https://therumpus.net/2024/09/30/amy-stuber/

07/13/2023

If it's nice to put a face to a name, how great is it seeing the cover of a title? Introducing the "faces" of Stillhouse's fall lineup - SUPER NORMAL by Josh Denslow and FINDING MEANING IN THE AGE OF IMMORTALITY by T.N. Eyer. Available for presale at http://stillhousepress.org/books

07/09/2023

September 6, 2022 | Poetry | Paperback ISBN: 978-1-945233-17-3 Distributor: Ingram In The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon , Latif Askia Ba brilliantly delineates the possibilities of the imagination as he builds a bulwark against humanity’s creeping sense of hopelessness. By finding m

01/19/2023

We wrapped up our IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor profiles last week, but we have a few more contributors we want to shout out! Participating in these profiles across our social platforms was completely voluntary, but we want to take a moment to acknowledge the work of our six remaining contributors. Order your copy of IN BETWEEN SPACES today to catch work from Ann, Zackary, Laura, Nathan, Natalie, and Elizabeth, along with all of our other amazing contributors
https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

01/12/2023

For our final IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlight, we’re featuring Kaleigh O'Keefe! Kaleigh O’Keefe (they/them) is a gender outlaw and proud union member living in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Their poetry has appeared in Breaking The Chains Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Button Poetry, and on Ceschi Ramos' album Sans Soleil. Kaleigh is a contributor and editor for Liberation News, co-founder of Game Over Books, and host of First Fridays Open Mic. Find them on Twitter.
We’re delighted to feature Kaleigh’s poems “Diagnostic Laparoscopy” and “Diagnoses and Misdiagnoses (alphabetical, incomplete)” in this collection. Both poems were previously published by Santa Fe Writer’s Project Quarterly: https://www.sfwp.com/quarterly/diagnostic-laparoscopy, and https://www.sfwp.com/quarterly/diagnoses-and-misdiagnoses.
We’re also huge fans of Kaleigh’s poem “Golden Shovel for Desire” from Kissing Dynamite https://www.kissingdynamitepoetry.com/kaleigh-okeefe-golden-shovel-for-desire.html
Watch Kaleigh perform “The Doctor Says My Uterus is Heart Shaped” here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNiYMaMLzBw
And check out this episode of Unexplained, “The mysteries of endometriosis” https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VvpUr6bJZ433NNeRWfl1q?si=LRXgVHhcT9yZvrHLECJoqQ
You can catch “Diagnostic Laparoscopy” and “Diagnoses and Misdiagnoses (alphabetical, incomplete),” and all of our incredible pieces in In Between Spaces today https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

01/11/2023

Today, we’re highlighting IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor Kimberly Jae! Kimberly Jae is a slam poet, author, educator disabled Aphasic named one of the top 30 slam poets in the world by PSI in 2018. She has been awarded multiple fellowships, won slam competitions in multiple countries, has published in print in the US & CA, online & video. Her full-length manuscript, Baptism, was shortlisted for the 2021 Sexton Prize. In addition to other forthcoming published work, her chapbook P***y Poems is due on Tofu Ink Arts Press in 2022.
We’re so excited to feature Kimberly’s poem, “The Beginning of a Long Poem on Why I Burned the Hospital Down” in this collection.
We’re also huge fans of “Upon Considering B**b Privilege,” published in The Ones that Got Away, from Pen 2 Paper in 2018https://www.txdisabilities.org/public/upload/files/general/2018-05_OTGA_Jackson.pdf
And Kimberly's performance in One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives, Poetry Coalition (starts at 7:56) https://poets.org/one-poem-protest-reading-support-black-lives
You can pick up Kimberly’s chapbook, P***y Poems, from Tofu Ink Arts Press https://www.tofuink.com/
You can catch “The Beginning of a Long Poem on Why I Burned the Hospital Down” and all of our incredible pieces in In Between Spaces today https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

01/06/2023

Today, we’re highlighting IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor Becca Carson! Becca believes in hope as an act of defiance. She is driven by relentless curiosity. They live in Missoula, Montana with their wife, kids and menagerie of pets.
We’re so excited to feature Becca’s poems, “Prayer for Forgiveness” and “Health History” in this collection.
We also love this poem, “Homestake Pass” featured in Juxtaprose Magazine https://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/homestake-pass-by-becca-carson/. And “The First Girl I Kissed” in Sonora Review http://sonorareview.com/2022/05/03/the-first-girl-i-kissed-becca-carson/.
Check out Poets of Montana, featuring readings by Becca and other incredible poets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hep_IJurlBg
You can catch “Prayer for Forgiveness,” “Health History,” and all of our incredible pieces in In Between Spaces today https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

01/04/2023

As we enter 2023, we’re coming down to our final few IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor profiles. Today, we’re highlighting Chisom Okafor! Chisom Okafor, Nigerian poet and clinical nutritionist, has been nominated for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Gerald Kraak Prize and Pushcart Prize. He presently works as editor for the Libretto Chapbook Series.
We’re so excited to feature Chisom’s poems, “synonyms for tachycardia” and “a piercing through the dark” in this collection.
We’re also huge fans of these three poems by Chisom, featured in Isele Magazinene https://iselemagazine.com/2021/09/15/three-poems-chisom-okafor/. And this interview, also from Isele Magazine https://iselemagazine.com/2022/05/01/darlington-chibueze-anuonye-in-conversation-with-chisom-okafor/
You can catch “synonyms for tachycardia,” “a piercing through the dark,” and all of our incredible pieces in In Between Spaces today https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

12/22/2022

Today, we’re highlighting IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor Arria Deepwater! Arria (she/they) identifies as q***r, chronically ill & disabled, white & cis female presenting, feminist, and faithfully middle-aged. When able to write she often explores intersections between human limitation, culture, ecology, and spiritual understanding.We’re huge fans of Arria’s short story “Flowers & Stars” published by our friends The Bangalore Review https://bangalorereview.com/2021/05/flowers-stars/
This editorial, “Imagine Canada,” in The Ottawa Citizen is well worth the read https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/deepwater-imagine-a-country-canada-that-can-strive-to-do-better
You can keep up to date with everything Arria is working on over on her website arriadeepwater.com
We’re so excited to feature Arria’s piece “Undertow” in this collection You can catch “Undertow” and all of our incredible pieces by bringing home your copy of In Between Spaces today https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

12/20/2022

For today’s IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlight, we’re featuring Lili Sarayrah! Lili is a Jordanian-American violinist and storyteller who performs all over the world. She began writing to manage her chronic pain and loves reading, traveling, and bargaining. You can keep up to date with Lili and check out some of her musical performances on her website lilisarayrah.com.
We’re so excited to feature Lili’s essay, “pain(t) – by -number” in IN BETWEEN SPACES! You can purchase our anthology today to read Lili’s piece and support all of our incredible contributors. https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

12/15/2022

We’re keeping our IN BETWEEN SPACES highlights going today with Tessa Weber! Tessa loves all things literary and dogs. She is originally from a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and currently lives in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. She graduated with her Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She takes care of patients during the day, writes, and walks her dogs in her free time. She can be seen on her blog and "Write on the DOT," a Dorchester and Umass Boston MFA-affiliated writing series. You can check out “Write on the Dot” here https://writeonthedot.com/
Tessa is currently working on a YA prose piece, a memoir, and a collaborative nonfiction book. You can keep up to date with Tessa on her blog, https://cfgivesmecrazyhair.com/
We’re so excited to feature Tessa’s essay, “Management Problems” in this anthology. You can purchase IN BETWEEN SPACES now and catch Tessa’s essay, along with work from all of our incredible contributors https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

12/13/2022

Today, we’re featuring Anesce Dremenmen for our IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlight! Photo by Balvinder Singh.
Anesce Dremen is a U.S. travel writer often found with a tea cup in hand, traveling between the U.S., China, and India. A first generation college student, Anesce studied in China as a Critical Language Scholarship and Gilman scholar. She is a 2022 Fulbright-Nehru ETA in India.

We’re delighted to feature Anesce’s piece “Hairline Movement” in this anthology. This essay explores Anesce’s experience with using massage to manage her chronic pain from TMJD.

We’re also huge fans of her piece ‘Toxic Relationships’ featured in Persephone's Daughters. http://www.persephonesdaughters.tk/anesce-dremen-toxic-relationships/.

And ‘Authentic and Sustainable Tea Tourism’ featured in Tea Journey Magazine, is a poignant, conscientious read. https://teajourney.pub/authentic-sustainable-tea-tourism/.

In addition to being a beautiful essayist, Anesce is a talented poet. We love these three poems featured in The Bombay Literary Magazine. https://bombaylitmag.com/three-poems-by-anesce-dremen/

You can find all of Anesce’s work on her website https://tinyurl.com/anesce

You can bring home Anesce's work today by ordering your copy of IN BETWEEN SPACES https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

12/08/2022

Today’s IN BETWEEN SPACES highlight features C.M. Crockford! C.M. Crockford is an autistic/ADHD poet whose work has been featured in Vastarien, Wilde Boy, Better than Starbucks, and Vast Chasm among others. He lives in Philadelphia with his cat Wally but has been all over. You can find more of his work at cmcrockford.com.
We’re huge fans of his short story, “Eye Stalk,” published by Vastarien in Volume 2, Issue 2 from Grimscribe Press.
As well as "Spam Love Poem," published in Vast Chasm: https://vastliterarypress.org/2022/04/16/22q2-crockford-spam-love-poem/
And his chapbook, “Mark The Place,” from our friends at Thirty West: https://www.thirtywestph.com/shop/marktheplace
We’re so excited to feature two of C.M.’s poems, “Isle” and “Autistic’s Scattered Song” in this anthology. You can purchase IN BETWEEN SPACES now and catch C.M.’s work, along with work from all of our incredible contributors https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

12/07/2022

Thanks all for your patience as we took a brief hiatus from our IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlights. We’re back today with Vanessa Garza! Vanessa (she/her) is a survivor of a rare neurovascular malformation (brain AVM), which led to multiple brain surgeries, epilepsy, a deficit in the left superior field of both eyes, and moderate deafness, which requires dual hearing devices.
She holds a BBA in Finance and Government from the University of Notre Dame, worked in the corporate arena, and wore business suits to work every day for nearly 15 years, up to her diagnosis. She transitioned from consultant to essayist, pursuing a passion for writing, when she didn't die from her trauma. In 2021, Vanessa graduated from Grub Hub's Intensive Essay Incubator Program, where she learned to hone her craft. A South Texas native, she currently lives in Boston with her family.
We’re so excited to feature Vanessa’s piece, ‘When My Broken Brain Misfires’ in this anthology. The piece was previously published under the title “Cerebral Firestorms” by Notre Dame Magazine https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/cerebral-firestorms/
We’re also huge fans of Vanessa’s piece “A Medication Guide,” published in Hobart https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/a-medication-guide
You can purchase IN BETWEEN SPACES now and catch Vanessa’s work, along with work from all of our incredible contributors https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

11/10/2022

Today we’re highlighting IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor Cristina Hartmann! Cristina is a DeafBlind Brazilian American writer living in Pittsburgh. Her writing explores relationships and identity through disability and immigrant experiences. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s, The MacGuffin, Kaleidoscope, Peatsmoke Journal, and others.
We’re excited to feature two of Cristina’s short stories, “What You Don’t See” and “Canaval, Upstate”. “Carnaval, Upstate” was previously published in Peatsmoke Journal, and you can read it here: https://www.peatsmokejournal.com/spring-2021-fiction/cristina-hartmann
We’re also huge fans of Cristina’s piece, “The One-Way Mirror” published in https://www.schoolcraftbooks.com/shop_product_detail.asp?catalog_group_id=MTY&catalog_group_name=TWFjZ3VmZmlu&catalog_id=52&catalog_name=VGhlIE1hY0d1ZmZpbg&pf_id=1327&product_name=VGhlIE1hY0d1ZmZpbiAtIFZvbC4gMzcsIE5vLiAzIChGYWxsL1dpbnRlciAyMDIxKQ&type=3&target=shop_product_list.asp
And “Helen Keller’s Shadow,” published in https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2021/11/15/why-we-need-to-stop-making-movies-about-helen-keller/
As well as “A Primer on Seeing and Feeling Sound,” from the audio issue: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcsweeneys64
You can find all of Cristina’s work on her website: https://cristinahartmann.com
We’re so excited to bring you Cristina’s work. You can bring home your copy of IN BETWEEN SPACES today: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

11/09/2022

Today we’re highlighting IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor Zan Bockes! Zan earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. Her work appears in numerous publications, and she has had four Pushcart Prize nominations. Her two poetry collections, CAUGHT IN PASSING and ALIBI FOR STOLEN LIGHT, appeared in 2013 and 2018.
We’re excited to feature Zan’s piece, “My Favorite Felony: An Unexpurgated Account”. We also love this short story, “A Brief Treatise on Sensual Existences” from The Raven's Perch https://theravensperch.com/a-brief-treatise-on-sensual-existences-by-zan-bockes/. And “Evening Place” in Two Hawks Quarterly https://twohawksquarterly.com/2009/05/26/evening-place-by-zan-bockes/
Check out this reading Zan participated in 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTkpt3LaO7w
We’re so excited to bring you Zan’s work. You can bring home your copy of IN BETWEEN SPACES today: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

11/04/2022

Today we’re highlighting IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor Jill Rachel Jacobs! Jill Rachel Jacobs is a New York based writer whose publishing credits include Reuters, The New York Times, The NY Post, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, The Chicago Sun Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Organic Style, The Chicago Tribune, NPR’s Marketplace, and Morning Edition.
Ms. Jacobs has interviewed noted actors, musicians and humanitarians including Glenn Close, Bette Midler, Jessica Lange, Mary Tyler Moore, Tom Selleck, Gabriel Byrne, Julianne Moore, Lisa Kudrow, Ted Danson, Jane Goodall, Dick Van D**e, Claire Danes, Pierce Brosnan, and Herbie Hancock.
She is a talented interviewer, journalist, and writer. We’re delighted to feature her piece, ‘Confessions of a Reluctant Zebra”. You can bring home your copy of IN BETWEEN SPACES today to catch Jill's work and work from our other contributors: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

11/02/2022

After a successful publication day, we're back with today's IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlight, we’re featuring Colleen Abel! Colleen is the author of Remake, Housewifery, and Deviants. She has appeared in venues such as Lit Hub, The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Colorado Review, and others. She is assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, where she helms Bluestem Magazine.
You find Colleen’s full-length collection, Remake, here https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780877758099/remake.aspx
And her e-chapbook, Deviants, here http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/deviants
We’re so excited to feature two of Colleen’s poems, “At Central State Hospital, Virginia” and “At the End of Her Life, Eileen Watched Keeping Up With the Kardashians” in IN BETWEEN SPACES. You can find all of Colleen’s work on her website www.colleenabel.com And you can now buy Colleen’s work, and work from all of our amazing contributors through your favorite local indie bookstore or our Stillhouse store: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

10/31/2022

We’re ecstatic to celebrate the publication day tomorrow of IN BETWEEN SPACES, our first-ever anthology. But running a small press doesn’t come without challenges, and unfortunately we’ve run into a few in recent weeks. If you preordered a copy through our website, we’ve experienced confusion with our distributor where they've shipped incorrect copies, and now substantial shipping delays with the correct copies. We will get your copies in the mail as soon as we get them in our hands.
If you preordered a copy from a bookseller—like Amazon, Bookshop, or your favorite local indie—and you receive a copy with a large “NOT FOR SALE” banner on the front cover, you have a few options.
You can return the copy to the bookseller and get your money back, or you can message us through our contact form on our website. We’ll need your mailing address, and we’ll get a replacement copy in the mail for you ASAP, at no cost to you. https://www.stillhousepress.org/contact
Thank you all for your continued patience as we work with our distributor to resolve this. We’re extremely sorry for the delays and we will work to resolve any issues brought to our attention.

We love to hear from our readers! Contact us with questions, comments, or concerns. No submissions, please!

10/28/2022

For today’s IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlight, we’re featuring Zoë Luh! Zoë (she/they) is a poet, artist, and Gemini. She writes about intersectional disability justice, and values community in every aspect of her life. In spring of 2020, they published their first poetry book with Assurance Press, and hope to publish another book soon!
You can find Zoë’s collection, [and time erodes like thunder], here: https://assurepress.org/zoeluh
We’re also huge fans of Zoë’s journalistic work in https://oberlinreview.org/tag/zoe-luh/
We’re so excited to feature Zoë’s poem, 8 steps to survive a pandemic. In the meantime, you can find all of Zoe’s work at their website: https://zoeluh.wixsite.com/mysite/writing
We can’t wait to bring you Zoë’s work next Tuesday, November 1. You still have time to preorder IN BETWEEN SPACES here to catch this poem and work from all of our amazing contributors: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

10/26/2022

For today’s IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlights, we’re featuring Kara Dorris! Kara is the author of two poetry collections: Have Ruin, Will Travel (2019) and When the Body is a Guardrail (2020) from Finishing Line Press. She has also published five chapbooks. She currently teaches writing at Illinois College. For more information, please visit karadorris.com.
You can find Have Ruin, Will Travel from Finishing Line Press here https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/have-ruin-will-travel-by-kara-dorris/
And When the Body is a Guardrail, also from Finishing Line Press, can be found here https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/when-the-body-is-a-guardrail-by-kara-dorris/
We also love this collection from Kara and Gwendolyn Paradice published by https://www.thecupboardpamphlet.org/product-page/carnival-bound-or-please-unwrap-me-by-kara-dorris-gwendolyn-paradice
We’re so excited to feature Kara’s poem “Pin-Up Girl” in IN BETWEEN SPACES.
We can’t wait to bring you Kara’s work in just a few short days. You still have time to preorder IN BETWEEN SPACES here to catch this poem and work from all of our amazing contributors: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

10/24/2022

Up next for our IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlights, we’re featuring Cynthia Romanowski is a disabled writer living with bipolar disorder. Her fiction explores the lived experience of trauma and mental illness. She holds an MFA from UC Riverside Palm Desert and lives in Huntington Beach, CA.
We’ll be featuring two of Cynthia’s short stories in IN BETWEEN SPACES, “Wrestle Mania,” previously published in The Whistling Fire, and “Live Action Regret,” previously published in The Weekly Rumpus. An excerpt from “Live Action Regret” is linked below https: //therumpus.net/2014/01/15/weekly-rumpus-fiction-cynthia-romanowski/
We’re also huge fans of Cynthia’s piece, "The System of Things" in The Nervous Breakdown http://thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbfiction/2014/03/the-system-of-things-bycynthia-romanowksi/
And her piece, "O-Rings & Aqua L**e" in AFLW Mag http://aflwmag.com/2017/06/16/cromanowski/
We’re also huge fans of her other creative outlets, including dance. "A Day Can Change Your Whole Existence" https://cynthiaromanowski.live/2021/10/10/a-day-can-change-your-whole-existence/
You can keep up with all of Cynthia’s work on her blog, https://cynthiaromanowski.live
We can’t wait to bring you Cynthia’s work. You still have time to preorder IN BETWEEN SPACES here to catch these short stories and work from all of our amazing contributors: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

10/21/2022

Up next for our IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlights, we’re featuring Duane L. Herrmann! Duane has science fiction, poetry, history, memoir, fiction, and children's stories published in print and online in the US and other countries despite childhood abuse, dyslexia, ADHD, cyclothymia, an anxiety disorder and PTSD.
Duane has published quite a few books of poetry, including Prairies of Possibilities, available through our good friends over at Bookshop https://bookshop.org/books/prairies-of-possibilities-new-and-selected-poems/9780595801312
As well as Ichnographical 173 https://bookshop.org/books/ichnographical-173/9781534927018
And Family Plowing and Other Prairie Poems https://bookshop.org/books/family-plowing-and-other-prairie-poems-new-and-used/9781732241091
We’re so excited to feature two of Duane’s poems, “At Sixteen” and “Cooking Lessons” in our forthcoming anthology, IN BETWEEN SPACES. And of course, you can find all of Duane’s work on his website https://dlherrmann.wixsite.com/home
We can’t wait to bring you Duane’s poetry. You still have time to preorder IN BETWEEN SPACES here to catch these poems and work from all of our amazing contributors: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces

10/19/2022

We’re keeping our IN BETWEEN SPACES contributor highlights rolling today with Teresa Milbrodt! Teresa has published three short story collections: Instances of Head-Switching, Bearded Women: Stories, and Work Opportunities. She has also published a novel, The Patron Saint of Unattractive People, and a flash fiction collection, Larissa Takes Flight: Stories. She is addicted to coffee, long walks with her MP3 player, and writes the occasional haiku.

We’re so excited to feature two of Teresa’s pieces, her essay “Cyclops Notes” and her short story “You May Mistake This for a Love Story” in our forthcoming anthology.

In addition to the two pieces we’re publishing, we’re big fans of Teresa’s piece “Tea and Owls,” published by Apparition Lit https://apparitionlit.com/tea-and-owls/

We also love this piece, “Dragons” published in Strange Horizons http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/dragons/

And this short story over in Juked Magazine, “Losing Mom” http://www.juked.com/2021/01/teresa-milbrodt-losing-mom.asp

You can keep up to date with Teresa and find all of her work on her website: http://teresamilbrodt.com/homepage/

We can’t wait to bring you Teresa’s amazing work. You still have time to preorder IN BETWEEN SPACES here to catch these poems and work from all of our amazing contributors: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/in-between-spaces