Thirty West Publishing House

01/16/2025

If we hosted a virtual open mic in February with a 3-min set list per person, would you read?

01/15/2025

One week until TW Tales 4. Meet one of the readers, Jesi Buell Register today for the free event on 1/22 at 8PM EST. Prize wheel for all participants at the end.

Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Child of Light (Whiskey Tit, August 2025), the play Kinderkrankenhaus (Sagging Meniscus 2021), the novel The Book of the Last Word (Whiskey Tit 2019), and a few chapbooks. Her shorter work can be found in FENCE, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Denver Quarterly, and others. She also helms KERNPUNKT Press, a home for experimental writing. www.jesibender.com

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YCCBh0VXRy-d35FIcA7JRQ #/registration

01/14/2025

Afterimages is here once again. Enjoy the marvelous prose of Esénia Bañuelos, a past feature of TW Tales 3. If you attended, you can revisit “Manolo” in text right here right now. Otherwise, grab a beverage and get ready. Read Afterimages more and often.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thirtywest/p/manolo

01/14/2025

All the angles 📐
YOU’RE MY FAVORITE (2022)

01/11/2025

Royalty day part 1. Bonus cover commission check, too. Hundreds of 💸 going out. It’s business.

Money in publishing is a cycle. Authors deserve their worth. Books are as eternal as you wish.

Looking for a 🆕 favorite read, look no further. That’s how we escape the mundane.

01/10/2025

It’s showtime tonight. Your feature is in 30 and you’re on the bus with some anxiety and nervous energy. Give me some “new sh*t” right here, right now.

01/10/2025

Yeah, we’re minting NFTs…
Neat
Fiction
Titles

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01/08/2025

Looking forward to announcing our partial 2026 roster soon

01/07/2025

First flash fiction of 2025 also completes the Swetha Amit hat trick 🎩

A post-Christmas story, this one is amazing and heartbreaking. Relative loss is a common theme lately and it always hits close to home.

Ready to read now, only on Afterimages.

https://thirtywest.substack.com/silent-night

01/05/2025

The first 10 parts of “Buying Cøcaine” from the poetry collection ON THE TIP OF YOUR MOTHER’S TONGUE. No one captures the gritty NYC life and literary theory better than

Publishes in February. Read the full piece in our January 2025 newsletter in Afterimages.

01/04/2025

TW TALES IS BACK!

The fourth reading & first for 2025 with the theme of “new journeys.”

Enjoy poetry and prose from on 1/22 at 8 pm. Register now. Prize wheel at the end.

01/03/2025

First newsletter is live on Afterimages. We have much to talk about. A Writers Party in Philly, an excerpt from ON THE TIP OF YOUR MOTHER’S TONGUE by JP Infante and other awesome stuff.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thirtywest/p/thirty-west-newsletter-january-2025

01/02/2025

New Afterimages today. A newsletter with a hot book excerpt from On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongue. Dropping in inboxes at 1pm est; socials later

01/01/2025

It’s finally complete. All 526 submissions have reached a decision.

12/31/2024

And so it begins. Our 10th year. Escape the Mundane.

12/29/2024

Binding chapbooks today. Filling a couple orders. Typesetting our next book. Calculating royalties. You know, ending the year as it is, is nice. Keep us mailing, keep us publishing.

Shop Thirty West and the vast selection of hand-made chapbooks, novels, and story or poetry collections.

12/28/2024

Start the 2025 New Year with Afterimages. Newsletter first, then flash fiction by hybrid prose heard at TW Tales 3 by a book review by and finishing up with flash fiction by You won’t want to miss these in your inbox.