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Belle Point Press A new regional small press based in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

03/04/2025

From our home to yours: Happy Mardi Gras!

02/28/2025

Check out the gift link in our bio for a review of THE CANNIBAL OWL in THE NEW YORK TIMES! We’re thrilled to see their appreciation for Aaron Gwyn’s “starkly poetic storytelling” in this moving novella.

02/27/2025

✨COVER REVEAL✨

Our next memoir will be here before you know it, and it's a pretty special one. SPLIT THE BABY by Lauren Rhoades () is coming your way this June! Pre-orders are open now.

In honest and captivating prose, Split the Baby chronicles the toll of divorce and family rupture from the perspective of a child who was nearly torn in two. Lauren Rhoades retells her experience of growing up caught between two homes run by equally strong women: a fervently Catholic stepmother and a deeply sensitive Jewish mother. Pulled toward radically distinct family cultures with rich but conflicting religious traditions, the young girl struggles to reconcile her stepmother's possessive charm with her mother's fierce and vulnerable love. Working with a trove of salvaged documents—including psychological evaluations, legal records, and personal family diaries—Rhoades searches for answers to questions of identity, spirituality, and the relationships that most deeply shape us. Ultimately, this debut memoir-in-pieces is a thoughtful story of learning to become whole again.

02/26/2025

Today we have not one but TWO new releases! THE SINGING RIVER, our latest poetry collection, and I DARE YOU, our newest novella, officially enter the world today.

02/25/2025

✨COVER REVEAL✨

Our next poetry release is coming to you this Earth Day: the debut collection by Oklahoma poet Damien Uriah, BIRDS I CANNOT NAME is reflective and insightful. Pre-orders are open!

02/22/2025

With pre-orders heading out the door today, now's your chance to be among the first to read our latest poetry release! Many thanks to talented poets Brad Richard, Rodrigo Toscano, and C.T. Salazar for their thoughtful praise of this new debut.

THE SINGING RIVER is officially out on Tuesday, and you can catch author Benjamin Morris at several stops this spring: starting with the New Orleans launch at our buddies Blue Cypress Books 2.25 at 7pm!

02/19/2025

Coming soon, we've got a special project close to our hearts set right here in Fort Smith: I DARE YOU is a coming-of-age novella in segregated 1950s Arkansas by Dorothy Dodson Marcy. Officially out next week, you can pre-order your copy now.

02/18/2025

Catch our latest author Katy Goforth on Zoom this Thursday if you can't make it in person at Clemson University! Sign up through our linktree to watch the reading live.

If you can't make it this week but are local to SC, visit our friends at on Thursday 2.27 to hear in conversation with ! Register through their Eventbrite page beforehand to save 10% on the book.

02/11/2025

Happy pub day to Katy Goforth and ANCHORED! Check out what folks like Meagan Lucas, Amy Cipolla Barnes, and Adam Van Winkle have already said about this moving prose collection, and then order your copy for a Southern taste of home.

If you're local to Katy, be sure to stop by TONIGHT at 6pm for her book launch in conversation with Laura Leigh Morris!

02/03/2025

A recent acquisition from our dear friends at .

01/29/2025

Happy pub day to ! His latest book, THE CANNIBAL OWL, is now available. Check out what the good folks at & had to say:

“The spirit of perseverance is given wings in Aaron Gwyn’s touching coming-of-age novella.”

"Gwyn's story thrums with life."

01/09/2025

Around here.

01/06/2025

How we’re feeling on the first Monday of the year.

01/01/2025

Our hearts are in New Orleans.

12/30/2024

For anyone who needs the reminder during this time of preparation for a new year, a new season: rest is good.

12/14/2024

Befitting this season of anticipation, our latest Prose Series chaps have just arrived! Ben Myers’ essay “Advent in Oklahoma” is heading out the door today with AMBIGUITY AND BELONGING, and Aaron Gwyn’s “Parricide Blues” will begin shipping out with pre-orders of THE CANNIBAL OWL soon.

12/10/2024

✨NEW RELEASE✨

Happy pub day to our last 2024 title, AMBIGUITY & BELONGING: ESSAYS ON PLACE, EDUCATION, AND POETRY by Benjamin P. Myers. The second in our new Lookouts nonfiction series, this thought-provoking collection rooted to place is both timely and timeless--great for gifting or for keeping through the year.

In a new compilation of essays, Benjamin P. Myers articulates a well-rounded vision of a rooted life. Gathering critical observations about localism, liberal arts education, and contemporary poetics, Ambiguity and Belonging lays out the work necessary to live intentionally in one’s home, career, and vocation. With a unique perspective as a former state poet laureate, Myers intertwines personal reflections with close readings, poetry reviews, and cultural analysis, making these essays accessible to writers and educators interested in creating their own expressions of authentic community. Ideal for readers of Wendell Berry, Ambiguity and Belonging offers a stable way forward in an often-precarious time.

12/05/2024

The first two books in our new nonfiction series make a pretty pair.

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