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15/01/2025

Cutleaf Issue 5.01 is out now! This all-nonfiction issue features work by Bill Capossere, Howie Good, and Steph Auteri. Check it out below, and let us know what you think about our new Cutleaf website!

For the first issue of 2025, we bring you a new website for the new year. In this all nonfiction issue, Steph Auteri examines what it means to keep things and to give them away, in "Unburden Yourself." Bill Capossere imagines what those security questions are really asking in "Please Update Your Sec...

14/01/2025

"In this brutal, astounding collection, Bonner casts 'relief across a blameless ground' like seeds begging for growth.

In verse that punctures with sparse, aching specificity, Bonner writes with the fervor of a beast under threat: attentive, bare-toothed, unyielding. Like the quaking aftermath of a good f**k, these poems hum an ecstatically offbeat song I never want to be rid of.

This is a debut so violent in its beauty, one can't help but tremble, open-mouthed like prey, before it." — Spencer Williams, author of TRANZ

Learn more about Hannah Bonner's poetry collection, ANOTHER WOMAN, and order a copy today, here: https://bit.ly/4by07LL

12/01/2025

We're down to the final few days to submit your previously published short stories for Volume Three of AN ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR!
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This annual anthology features BIPOC writers who live in or hail from rural or semi-rural locales in the U.S. and whose short stories feature characters living and/or working in rural or semi-rural spaces. We'll also accept work from BIPOC writers who have spent a significant amount of time in rural or semi-rural locales and whose work might reflect those spaces.⠀
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Deesha Philyaw - Writer is serving as guest editor for this year's volume, and our payment to authors upon publication of the anthology will be $100-$300. You can check out the first two volumes of this series at eastoverpress.com and find details about this year’s call on Submittable: https://bit.ly/3Su0GiJ
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Get your submissions in by January 15th!

10/01/2025

Happy 2nd anniversary of the release of Richard LeBlond's HOMESICK FOR NOWHERE!🥳

This absorbing and entertaining book relays LeBlond's long, storied life with wit and compassion for the foibles and blessings of his fellow humans. Learn more and order your copy on eastoverpress.com: https://bit.ly/3BH47x2

08/01/2025

Want a sneak peek into Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross's upcoming collection, DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY, as well as their insights on collaborative writing, literary friendships, and more?

Their co-authored story, "Twenty-Three Safety Manuals," from inside DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY was published in Colorado Review's Spring 2021 issue with a follow-up interview with Kim and Michelle on the podcast!

Listen to episode 61 of Colorado Review's podcast for their excellent conversation around their story and craft here: https://bit.ly/41WEv9R
Learn more and pre-order DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY here: https://bit.ly/4ccQ7qY

This month's episode kicks off the start of fall with not one, but two authors! Podcast host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Michelle Ross and Kim Magowan to talk about their latest co-written short story, "Twenty Three Safety Manuals." This episode features conversation on the craft of collaborative....

06/01/2025

"I felt like I could finally claim: I am a writer."

Hannah Bonner was recently interviewed about her new book, ANOTHER WOMAN, by Phil Goldstein for ONLY POEMS!😃⠀
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They talk all about the themes and inspirations behind ANOTHER WOMAN, emotional and self-exploration, immersing oneself in a natural landscape, and more.⠀
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Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/4gMD7uY
Check out ANOTHER WOMAN here: https://bit.ly/4by07LL

04/01/2025

"Belfast-born Chris Arthur is not only the most accomplished Irish essayist working at present, he also stands among the finest practitioners of the form in the Anglophone world." — Eoghan Smith, author of The Failing Heart and A Provincial Death

Learn more about Chris Arthur's WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? FOURTEEN ATTEMPTS AT AN ANSWER, and order a copy today, here: https://bit.ly/4e3rGhC

02/01/2025

The EastOver Press / Cutleaf team is headed to Los Angeles in March for , and we'd love to see you there! We'll be at booth 815 at the bookfair with our recent releases and lots of great swag. Come say hi!⠀
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Details coming soon on all our activities and events. You won't want to miss any of it, so stay tuned!

01/01/2025

Happy New Year! We're starting off 2025 by extending our deadline to submit your previously published short stories for Volume Three of AN ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL STORIES BY WRITERS OF COLOR to January 15th!
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This annual anthology features BIPOC writers who live in or hail from rural or semi-rural locales in the U.S. and whose short stories feature characters living and/or working in rural or semi-rural spaces. We'll also accept work from BIPOC writers who have spent a significant amount of time in rural or semi-rural locales and whose work might reflect those spaces.⠀
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Deesha Philyaw - Writer is serving as guest editor for this year's volume, and our payment to authors upon publication of the anthology will be $100-$300. You can check out the first two volumes of this series at eastoverpress.com and find details about this year’s call on our Submittable form.⠀
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We can't wait to read your work💛

31/12/2024

We want to wish our readers and contributors a hearty Thank You for making 2024 a success for EastOver Press and Cutleaf.

Over the past year, we expanded our catalog at EastOver Press to thirty-six books. We also released twenty-four new issues of Cutleaf featuring the work of seventy-two talented writers.

It has been a joy to engage with our writers and readers through this work. We thank you for joining us, and we look forward to the new year ahead.

–– Keith Pilapil Lesmeister, Denton Loving, Kelly March, and Walter M. Robinson

30/12/2024

EastOver Press is proud to partner with Table Rock Writers Workshop to help our friends over at Wildacres Retreat rebuild from the devastation of Hurricane Helene.

Donations of up to $10,000 to help with repairs will be matched on behalf of EastOver Press and in honor of Table Rock Writers Workshop through January 31, 2025.

Learn more about how to support Wildacres' recovery in the Table Rock Journal here: https://bit.ly/41FctQ4

Thank you!💛

28/12/2024

"Bathanti’s readers will walk away with the belief that with a little bit of faith, [magical tales] are entirely possible. So if you want to believe, if you want to conjure magic, then this book is for you."

Josepth Bathanti's THE ACT OF CONTRITION has recently been highly recommended in Paola Corso's review for VIA: Voices of Italian Americana Volume 35.2, a semiannual literary and scholarly review of and about the cultures of Italy and its diasporas from Bordighera Press.

Learn more about VIA and purchase the issue here: https://bit.ly/49NCQ8K
Order your copy of THE ACT OF CONTRITION here: https://bit.ly/4it1fnI

27/12/2024

Books from EastOver Press and Cutleaf Journal authors have been featured in Southern Literary Reviews' 2024 Gift Guide For Book Lovers!💝💝

Kari Gunter-Seymour's DIRT SONGS and Cutleaf contributor Linda Parsons' VALEDICTION (Madville Publishing, 2023) were both selected in Southern Literary Review contributor Claire Hamner Matturro's picks. Check out the full guide here: https://bit.ly/4g9JYP7

Order your copy of DIRT SONGS here: https://bit.ly/4a9qM0v

26/12/2024

Issue 4.24 of Cutleaf is out now! This issue features fiction by Charles Dodd White, poetry by Kate Millar, and creative nonfiction by Youssef Rakha. Check it out:

Alternating Ghazal (and other poems) Kate MillarDecember 2024December 2024 The waters in the beginning, were they liquid? I prefer them mist, for the spirit/ to resist gravity with. Poetry

24/12/2024

As part of EastOver Press' commitment to celebrating and supporting the independent literary landscape, we've decided to launch a new series on our Instagram spotlighting amazing indie bookshops in our community!

To kick off this series, we'll be shouting out Plott Hound Books in Burnsville, North Carolina, who have been working to rebuild their storefront in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. To help, you can purchase books from their Bookshop, connect with them on Libro.fm for audiobooks, and follow them on social media for more updates on their journey! Link to their shop in our Stories today, in our IG Highlights forever, and here: https://bit.ly/3Dh8BdW

Independent bookshops are a key part of the indie literary ecosystem. We encourage you to support your local community and independent booksellers by buying directly from their brick-and-mortars, websites, or through their Bookshop.org, as well as attending their events and more!

23/12/2024

"Bonner’s ANOTHER WOMAN renders both the postmodern garnishes and anecdotal carbohydrates fueling each of us into an organic meal best enjoyed slowly but in one sitting."⠀
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Hannah Bonner's ANOTHER WOMAN has recently received an amazingly thorough review by Carson Colenbaugh for The Adroit Journal! Read it in full here: https://bit.ly/4foKkQw
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(You may recognize Carson from his work in our lit mag, Cutleaf. We love when the worlds of our authors collide, especially to celebrate each other's work!)⠀⠀
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Order your copy of ANOTHER WOMAN here: https://bit.ly/3WU0Emx

When I think on phrases with which I can tag this present moment, ones that anchor myself to others’ creations while acknowledging the nonsense that blinks along daily like check-engine lights on our lives’ dashboards, I always return to the phrase coined by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert as t...

21/12/2024

Chris Arthur's WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? FOURTEEN ATTEMPTS AT AN ANSWER has been named in California Review of Books' list of 10 Best Books of 2024!

Their list was compiled after consultation between California Review of Books co-editors David Starkey and Brian Tanguay and the journal’s most frequent reviewers, Walter Cummins and George Yatchisin. Check out the full list here: https://bit.ly/3DpFSDV
As well as Cummins' review of WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? here: https://bit.ly/4fr2vVZ

Order your copy of WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE ALIVE? FOURTEEN ATTEMPTS AT AN ANSWER here: https://bit.ly/3Ytssib