Ethel Zine & Micro-Press

07/26/2024

You can help support Ethel in getting out our behemoth issue 11! From Sara's fundraising post:

Ok, to be honest, running a micro press by oneself is difficult in many respects, but most recently my struggles have been with selling enough copies of books to keep the press running. I don't receive any funding from anywhere except through sales of books and subscriptions and sometimes my own money--but with a recent move to a different state, I've been struggling to find a job making enough money to even support myself. Ethel 11 is especially expensive because I send out a free contributor copy to every contributor, and this issue is really long, so printing and mailing contributor copies will be challenging.

Link to donate in comments! Thank you for all your love and support of Ethel. 🌼

07/26/2024

For those interested, I'm offering a few different courses in late summer:

✨The next generative writing workshop on Zoom is Sat. 7/27 (tomorrow!), 1-3 PM Eastern. These are only $40, or $25 for paid subscribers to my Substack.

✨'Writing the Lyric Essay' begins on Monday 7/29. This is a five-week course that takes place on the Wet Ink platform online. It's on sale for $250, with payment plans available at checkout. [NINE SPOTS LEFT]

✨'Writing from the Unconscious' is a two-part Zoom-based workshop happening on two Saturdays, August 3rd and August 10th. Sessions can be taken together or separately.

✨And I have another course coming up (a flash memoir class, 'Write into Mystery') at writers dot com in late August!

[Links below to my Substack post describing the classes and to my Muse website, where you can register for most of these classes!]

02/20/2024

You could be forgiven for making some assumptions about Moira Saucer's Wiregrass & Other Poems from the cover, which features hand-sewn flowers, yes actual stitches on illustrations of yellow flowers. I assumed Saucer's book might feature gentle, sensitive, introspective poems, in a style reminiscen...

02/20/2024

Contributor Mike Bagwell explores and reviews poet Juliet Cook’s new chapbook from Ethel Press, Your Mouth is Moving Backwards.

11/26/2023

One of the last readings for Transitory this year, Thursday, 11/30, join me and Hal Sansone for a reading from Transitory and Hal's forthcoming Ethel Zine & Micro-Press chapbook, Winter Garden: Healing Poems for My Root System. All proceeds go to the Center for Transgender Equality! Get tickets from Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-release-of-subhaga-crystal-bacons-award-winning-collection-transitory-tickets-725780658487?aff=oddtdtcreator.

05/23/2023

Support Room Magazine! ✨

10/14/2022

Ethel Zoom Reading featuring four chapbook authors.

08/01/2022

Now available in the Ethel shop, Scorpion Letters by Mark DuCharme!

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/scorpion-letters-by-mark-ducharme

2022//60 copies limited edition Mark DuCharme’s sixth full-length book of poetry (in addition to many chapbooks) is Here, Which Is Also a Place , new from Unlikely Books. Other recent publications include his work of poet’s theater, We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film , publish

03/23/2022

You can watch the Ethel reading live on Instagram right now! Go to the account for A Novel Idea!

03/15/2022

Sooooooo excited to release Cavar’s chapbook OUT OF MIND AND I TO BODY: https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/out-of-mind-into-body-by-s-cavar

[ɥɐɹɐs] Cavar is a PhD student, writer, and transgender-about-town, and serves as managing editor at Stone of Madness Press and founding editor at swallow::tale press. Author of two chapbooks, A HOLE WALKED IN (Sword & Kettle Press) and THE DREAM JOURNALS (giallo lit), they have also had wor

01/31/2022

Now available!

2022//limited edition 45 copies//cover art by Waqas Rabbani Fizza Abbas is a writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her work has appeared in more than 90 journals, both online and in print. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Idle Ink,

01/11/2022

Excited to be publishing Susanne Eules 's chapbook Nivolog in April 2022.

01/07/2022

Now available! Carrie Meadows 's chapbook BUSTED COMPASS. Read a couple poems from and purchase here:

2021//limited edition 40 copies Carrie Meadows is the author of the poetry collection Speak, My Tongue (Calypso Editions, 2017) and the chapbook Slingshot, Catapult (Semiperfect Press, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Mid-American Review, Smartish Pace

12/30/2021

Coming next week! Carrie Meadow’s BUSTED COMPASS. Excerpt shown is from the piece “particles I’m made of.”

12/22/2021

Now available! Scott Ferry 's THE SEA OF MARROW

Scott Ferry helps our Veterans heal as a RN in the Seattle area. In former lives he taught high school, managed aquatic centers, and practiced acupuncture. He has four books of poetry: The only thing that makes sense is to grow (Moon Tide, 2019), Mr. Rogers kills fruit flies (Main St. Rag, 2020)...

10/22/2021

Now available! Anne Whitehouse’s chapbook ESCAPING LEE MILLER:

2021//limited edition 75 copies Anne Whitehouse’s poetry collections include Outside from the Inside, Meteor Shower, The Refrain, and Blessings and Curses. She is the author of a novel, Fall Love. Escaping Lee Miller is Anne’s second chapbook with Ethel Zine & Micro Press, following

09/22/2021

This self-guided class designed by Joanna Penn Cooper opens Monday 9/27, and it's a great deal!

Learn to use a variety of techniques to map the territories of inner worlds and the possibilities of the world we share.

08/24/2021

Ethel 8 cover happenings.......

08/06/2021

Issam Zineh's Issam Zineh chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation is now available for pre-order over in Ethel's shop, should ship Aug. 16!

2021//limited edition 60 copies Issam Zineh (he/him) is a Palestinian-American poet and scientist. He is author of The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel, 2021). His most recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Pleiades , Tahoma Literary Review , Tinderbox Poetry Journal , Guesthouse , L

08/05/2021

Congratulations to Issam, whose chapbook will be released from Ethel soon, and whose full-length collection Unceded Land will be published by Trio House Press in 2022!!!

Trio House Press welcomes Issam Zineh
Trio Award Finalist for Unceded Land

Issam Zineh is a Palestinian-American poet and scientist. He is author of Unceded Land (forthcoming, Trio House Press), which was a finalist for the Trio Award for first or second book, and the chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel, 2021). His poems often engage with territory as both demarcated physical and psychological spaces and explore associated concepts: boundaries, identity, power, subjugation, resistance, and reconciliation. Much of his current work contends with the politics of place and accounts for the marks of the past in poems that tangle with love and intimacy. The son of immigrants, he was born in Los Angeles and has lived in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and Southern U.S. He currently lives on the ancestral homeland of the Paskestikweya people. His poems appear or are forthcoming in AGNI, Pleiades, Ni**od, Tahoma Literary Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry (Poets Resist), Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Find him at issamzineh.com or on Twitter .

07/28/2021

Now Available!!!! Nick Mehalick's chapbook Melissa Ethridge's Seminal 1993 Album Made of Two Overlapping Triangles Instead of One

2021//60 copies limited edition Nick Mehalick is a son of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University and currently lives and teaches in Philadelphia. His poetry can be found in "The Cerurove," and "Philosophical Idiot," among others,

07/14/2021

Now Available! Venus Davis's chapbook THE BIRTH OF VENUS DAVIS. Venus will be reading from their book TONIGHT at Ethel's online reading

limited edition 60 copies//2021 Venus Davis is a q***r black writer from Cleveland, Ohio. They are a former poetry reader for Random Sample Review and Gordon Square Review . Their work has been featured in Marias at Sampaguitas, Royal Rose Magazine, Ayaskala, Crepe and Penn , and many other pub

07/14/2021

Tonight!

Ethel reading coming up this coming Wed. July 14, 8PM best. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ethel-chapbook-reading-release-tickets-161946898533

07/10/2021

Now Available!: Elizabeth Robinson's A TANGLE IN EVERY INSTANCE. Elizabeth will also be reading some of her work at Ethel's reading this coming Wednedsay, July 14 at 8PM est, I'll put the registration link in the comments section.

2021//limited edition 60 copies Elizabeth Robinson is the author, most recently, of On Ghosts , published by Solid Objects, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry and Rumor , published by Free Verse Editions. With Jennifer Phelps, Robinson edited the critical antholog