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Coffee House Press Following the small press movement of the 60s and 70s, the 80s saw an emergence of professionalization among small publishers.

Coffee House Press creates new spaces for audiences and artists to interact, inspiring readers and enriching communities by expanding the definition of what literature is, what it can do, and who it belongs to. Coffee House Press began as a small letterpress operation in 1972 and has grown into an internationally renowned nonprofit publisher of literary fiction, essay, poetry, and other work that

doesn’t fit neatly into genre categories. CHP’s late-founder Allan Kornblum saw an opportunity to create the sort of publishing house that he wished existed in the world. Since CHP’s founding, our authors have received nominations for or have won many prizes and accolades including the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. We’ve had the honor of publishing books by Karen Tei Yamash*ta, Ron Padgett, Ben Lerner, Linda Hogan, Eimear McBride, Saeed Jones, Anne Waldman, and Valeria Luiselli, among many other writers we are proud to be associated with. As a nonprofit, CHP has also received recognition and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, McKnight, Bush, and Jerome Foundations. These honors and awards, along with book sales and the crucial support of individual donors, keep Coffee House going and create new opportunities for our authors, readers, and program audiences. Remaining independent has allowed us to take meaningful risks and broaden our focus. Over the past few years, we’ve started to identify as both a publisher and an arts organization. We’ve long recognized there are many possibilities for reader/writer exchange beyond (and even without) the page. Through our Books in Action publications and programs, we’ve become interdisciplinary collaborators and incubators for new work and audience experiences—not just with Coffee House Press authors, but with visual, performing, and social practice artists, and others whose ideas and work engage and inspire. CHP’s vision for the future is one where a publisher is more than a company that packages books. We are catalysts and connectors—between authors and readers, ideas and resources, creativity and community, inspiration and action.

2015-16 marks Publisher Chris Fischbach’s 20th year at Coffee House. Under his leadership, last year was our biggest year ever for book sales, CHP’s budget passed the $1 million mark for the first time, and our books have been translated into over a dozen languages. CHP also developed Books in Action and built partnerships with organizations small and large—from Poets House in Manhattan and the Opus Archives & Research Center in Santa Barbara, CA to the Sun Ray Public Library in St. Paul, and many points beyond and between. While we are excited about our programming model and past successes, we also want our bookshelves and yours to better reflect the wide range of voices that exists in the literature of the Americas. Recently, we’ve established our commitment to publishing literature by Latin American authors---both works in English and in translation. And in early 2015 we added our first imprint, Emily Books, a feminist press based in Brooklyn. With your support, we’re able to make experimental, creative choices rather than react solely to sales algorithms and trends. Adventurous readers, arts enthusiasts, community builders, and risk takers—join us.

02/14/2025

🌟 We’re seeing stars! Have you preordered this incredible novel yet?

02/12/2025

Want to spend the evening with these incredible authors and presses? Join us at the Republic of Consciousness Prize Zoom Party next Wednesday at 6pm CT! Link in bio to register…

02/11/2025

✨ Happy pub day to OUT OF THE BLANK and the incredible Elaine Equi!!

02/07/2025

🚨 SALE ALERT! 🚨

01/30/2025

When you wear a new dress to work only to realize your coworker is also wearing a similar, new dress and *then* you see the bookshelf behind you and realize you both match one of your books. TLDR Ülrika and Laura are dressed cute today, we thought the world should know!

01/28/2025

Congratulations to Victoria Blanco! We’re so proud Out of the Sierra has been named a Notable Book by the

01/22/2025

🏅Congratulations to Alt-Nature for being a Southwest Book Award winner!

01/16/2025

Have you preordered your copy yet?!

01/15/2025

LESSER RUINS has been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize! This is a fantastic prize celebrating small, indie presses (who doesn’t love that?) and their commitment to exceptional literary merit!
Congrats to our fellow longlisters:

01/14/2025

A huge thanks to for approving us for a $35,000 grant! Money will go towards the publication of these six upcoming titles (and an undisclosed seventh in title TBA!)

01/11/2025

❤️ Fiction Feature ❤️

01/09/2025

“Is Palestine more suitable for poetic imaginations? Has the exile of numerous Palestinian writers stripped them of the ability to narrate a land that some of them haven’t seen?” Read more in

01/08/2025

⚾️ Complete your collection—preorder TRUE FAILURE (a true Chicago classic)!

01/07/2025

Yup, 2025’s shaping up to be a pretty great year for books!

01/01/2025

🎉 Happy New Year!!! We’re so excited for all the books coming out this year (including a few of our own, we’re not shy about it!)

12/31/2024

Happy New Year’s Eve! To ring out 2024 here’s a roundup of our favorite books we read this year!

12/13/2024

Congratulations to Daniel Borzutzky!

12/10/2024

Celebrate 2024 with our End of Year Countdown Sale! And keep an eye on reels as we celebrate each title we published this year!

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79 13th Avenue NE, Ste 110
Minneapolis, MN
55413

Telephone

(612) 338-0125

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