Meekling Press

20/08/2024

check it! we’re the featured small press in the September / October issue of ! learn more about our upcoming fall books, and our next open reading period! bugs thanks to for the write-up. follow the link in bio for the full piece💫💫💫

05/07/2024

The proofs of our 2 fall books are looking good! Can’t wait to share these with you — October! GWENDA, RODNEY, a poetry novel by Olivia Cronk and TELEVISION FATHERS, a poetry collection by Sylvia Jones. Link to pre-order in bio! Ya!

30/05/2024

what a brilliant & delightful evening launching ’s WHO LOVES THE SUN in Chicago last night at .
FEATURING:a rad PowerPoint show accompanying Fulla’s reading, with a science poster distillation — ‘The swoosh shows the effort’; Samara Huggins reads poems of petrichor, & ‘oceans that hold you until they break’; Nadine and Nick of perform ‘I Wear Myself in the Morning’; & Fulla and talk of forms and mothers and the intimacies within Who Loves the Sun, especially of voice, and writing about the inherent questions that accompany figuring out one’s life.

With utmost gratitude to Andrea at .literary.complex and Haymarket House for collaboration and use of yr beautiful space; & thank you to everyone who came & shared in the celebration.

21/05/2024

Meekling author Fulla Abdul-Jabbar is coming through Chicago next week and that we’re gathering forces alongside The Guild Complex and Haymarket Books to host an official launch + party for her dynamic WHO LOVES THE SUN.

Come, join us in celebration next Wednesday evening at Haymarket House! May 29, 2024 at 7.00pm – 8.30pm.

FEATURING performances from Samara Huggins and Sonnenzimmer; Fulla will be joined in conversation by Mika Yamamoto.

***We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.***

* see link in bio for more info and to RSVP!

Haymarket House
800 W Buena Ave
Chicago, IL 60613 United States

This event is sponsored by Meekling Press, the Guild Complex and Haymarket Books.

23/03/2024

what a celebration for Fulla Abdul-Jabar’s WHO LOVES THE SUN yesterday eve ! Sabrina Imbler read about the lives of immortal jellyfish, tentacles & limbs; Emily Martin read from a poem that proposed experimenting with expressions of anger among recently made friends (and so much else — if the poem was a net we were caught with this); and Fulla’s reading + her incredible PowerPoint was 💯🎉

thx to Wendy’s Subway and to Brenda Iijima for some of these 📷
💜🖤💚

23/03/2024

18/03/2024

THURSDAY!
Come out & celebrate the NYC launch of ‘s WHO LOVES THE SUN at , where Fulla will be joined in readings by & Sabrina Imbler.

& ak_yaya will join Fulla in conversation about the range of this book — science poster aesthetics, the book’s movement through various modes of writing, and how this project came to embrace (perhaps even exult) the failure of form.

☀️⛅️☀️⛅️

08/02/2024

We’re grateful to have received an abundance of manuscripts during our recent open reading period, and are excited to share our selections for Meekling’s 2024/25 season. In the fall of 2024 we will publish OLIVIA CRONK’s Gwenda, Rodney — a poetry novel, and SYLVIA JONES’ Television Fathers, her first collection of poetry. In the spring of ’25 we will publish MC HYLAND’s The Dead and the Living and The Bridge, a series of very short essays that fall somewhere between prose poem, lyric essay, and literary criticism.

& what’s better? you can subscribe now to our forthcoming season, meaning you will receive all three books as their published, delivered to your doorstep at a significant discount.

see the link in the comments for more info

14/11/2023

“THIS WAS ONCE ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC POSTER.”

So begins ’s “moving, highly original … thought experiment about the creation of selfhood and desire,” WHO LOVES THE SUN which is officially in the world today!!

Beginning as an investigation of the scientific poster, WHO LOVES THE SUN strays to explore how the emotional, personal, & expressive leak from all structures that attempt to contain the self.

Composed of seven chapters, each written in a different form—from email to lecture to mourning diary—WLTS ultimately embraces the failure of form.

More info and copies available via the link!

15/10/2023

our open reading period begins NOW!

(for more details go to our submissions page @ meeklingpress.com)

13/10/2023

it’s the perfect rainy fall weekend to amble about the

Reb & will be tabling all weekend, so stop by & say hello, & take a look at our new arrival !! —

‘s WHO LOVES THE SUN, which begins as an inquiry into the aesthetics of the science poster, and along its journey learns to embrace the failure of form

10/10/2023

dust off those typewriters, empty your drawers— we’re opening submissions for the first time in a long while for our upcoming season of books

18/09/2023

closing out our ‘23 is ’s incredible book that begins as an aesthetic study of the science poster — Who Loves the Sun— out in November but available for preorder now!!
(follow the link in bio)

Who Loves the Sun begins as a study of the scientific poster, in an attempt to understand the object and the people who make them. Eventually focus strays to explore how the emotional, personal, and expressive leak from all structures that attempt to contain the self. Composed of seven chapters, each taking a different form—from email to lecture to personal essay to mourning diary— Who Loves The Sun ultimately embraces the failure of form.

13/09/2023

Just sent off the final of our 2022-2023 series of paperbacks to the printer. How exciting! We’re excited for you to read it, & here is a sneak peek of the cover (design by Ilona Gaynor & art by Fulla Abdul-Jabbar).

This is also the last book we have in the works. The future is totally unknown. How delightful! So… we’ll be asking to read your manuscripts soon… keep it in mind…

06/09/2023

we’re giddy AF to be featured this week in ’s graphic interview series, at .

a surreal glimpse of Meekling HQ, with at the guillotine, and amongst books & pills & pills

read on (via the link) for the full convo

26/08/2023

03/08/2023

This fall Reba Elliott & Maya Rayner are going to be teaching some bookbinding & printmaking workshops in our studio in Pilsen, Chicago! We’re excited to share our space with you, gather together to make things, and have a nice time. The workshops will all be offered on a pay-what-you-can basis. Hope you can join us!

Sign up at the link in the bio

06/04/2023

heya see you in Iowa City this weekend for Mission Creek Festival !

Come out to the Industry Talk on Saturday morn to see Rebecca Elliott + Black Lawrence Press editor Abayomi Animashaun talk about publishing genre-defying art books

& find us all day on Sat with our brand new releases at the Small Press Book Fair 💯📚🐿️

04/04/2023

Three New Books from Meekling Press - https://mailchi.mp/3a483f391b6f/meekling-press-at-awp-5405212

Riffing off The Brothers Grimm’s famous collection of fairy tales, Children’s and Household Tales, this HOUSEHOLD TALES updates its tales for the 21st century, with episodes that include a dapper talking cat, a woman who births squirrels uncontrollably, and a series of quantum endings. It’s al...

10/03/2023

A hummingbird
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05/03/2023

Meekling Press at AWP 2023 😈 - https://mailchi.mp/7fe1d138a383/meekling-press-at-awp-2023

Long time, no email. I hope you’re doing ok! We’ve been busy little monsters over here at Meekling Press, making lots of books that we can’t wait to share with you!

25/02/2023

The first copies of Household Tales are coming together and getting little numbers penciled in— this is going to be an edition of 150 books, all printed and hand bound in our Pilsen, Chicago studio (and also a bit at home)

We’ll have some copies at AWP in Seattle in a couple weeks, or you can preorder online! (See link in profile)

Surreal meandering fairytales, feral children, polar bears, and of course squirrels, with pop-up illustrations and paper dolls, by Rachel Linn.

p.s. does that say 2022? Well I tried my best but did not quite get it done in time 👽

16/02/2023

Squirrels scurry throughout two of our spring releases — countless relentless baby squirrels in HOUSEHOLD TALES by Rachel Linn and one or two scruffy beasties smelling smoke and scolding from their perch in A ROUNDTABLE, UNANIMOUS DREAMERS CHIME IN by Brenda Iijima & Janice Lee ( & )

(& you can preorder both these books now at shop.meeklingpress.com !)

1. A drawing of squirrels by 🐿️
2. From “A Roundtable…”
3. The squirrel who runs down the power lines outside my () window all day
4. A baby squirrel emerges from a shell (illustration by Rachel Linn in Household Tales)
5. From Household Tales