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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 8d

We have two books coming out today! Kate Colby’s Paradoxx and Julie Carr’s The Garden. An exceptional day in books. happy pub day!

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 9d

The Garden is also out tomorrow :)

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 9d

Paradoxx is out tomorrow!

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 12d

excited to have a review forthcoming in mid-October of Kate Colby’s utterly excellent new book Paradoxx! @essaypress.bsky.social

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 12d

Chilly days are coming. Ghoulish nights are afoot. October’s Afterimages will have a rare 5-piece roster of primarily fiction, a memoir, and a book review. Just remember: you’re not seeing double (or a ghost) just simply quality literature. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 14d

Coming next week!

A one-hundred-day chronicle of a dark period in her life, Kate Colby’s tightly-wound lyric essay is also a poet’s memoir of growing up in the late 20th century and stumbling into the 21st.

Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 18d

The Garden is out on September 30th! Copublished with @pamenarpress.bsky.social

Refusing to stabilize the first-person and rejecting linear progression, The Garden embraces the vulnerable porousness of selves in the overflow of history that is the violence and rapture of the ongoing “now.”

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 20d

The Garden is coming out on September 30th! Preorder a copy here: www.essaypress.org/carr-2/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 26d

The Book of Embers, winner of the Essay Press book prize, is coming so soon! Preorder by September 22nd

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · 26d

The Book of Embers, winner of the Essay Press book prize, is coming so soon! Preorder by September 22nd

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Sep 7

Praise for Kate Colby’s Paradoxx - available now for preorder, ships September 30th!

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Book of Embers is out on September 22nd! Available now for preorder www.essaypress.org/puig/

Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Sep 2

More praise for I’m Sorry But None Of This Is My Fault! www.essaypress.org/shea/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Preorder Paradoxx here: www.essaypress.org/colby/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Taste of Pencils, adapted from Kate Colby’s forthcoming Paradoxx, is up in the Paris Review!

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The Taste of Pencils by Kate Colby

August 22, 2025 – “It seems to me I’ve never forgotten a taste.”

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Taste of Pencils, adapted from Kate Colby’s forthcoming Paradoxx, is up in the Paris Review!

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The Taste of Pencils by Kate Colby

August 22, 2025 – “It seems to me I’ve never forgotten a taste.”

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · Aug 12

middle daughter’s swimming lessons, day two: moving further through Kate Colby’s PARADOXX from essay press / @essaypress.bsky.social ;

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Book of Embers is now available for preorder! Out on September 22nd

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Kate Colby’s Paradoxx is also out next month (with the same pub day!) !! 🪞

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Julie Carr’s The Garden is out next month! Preorder here: www.essaypress.org/carr-2/

Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Jul 30

It’s pub day!! I’m Sorry But None of This Is My Fault is here! www.essaypress.org/shea/

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Jul 26

One week left to submit to our chapbook open reading period! Closes on August 2

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submissions – Essay Press

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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social · Jul 25

Throw in a free copy of asides // besides #3 while you’re at it! www.essaypress.org/periodical/

Periodical – Essay Press

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sarah Rose Nordgren

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The monster is various, time-worn, and tired of fighting. If you would give it a moment, it would like to lie down in that nest over there, in the shade.

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jul 22

8/18 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @umanitobapress.bsky.social @goldenmole.bsky.social @ruedorion.ca @tanyaolson.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬@steffantriplett.bsky.social @essaypress.bsky.social

Book cover for Un Carré de Poussière by Olivia Tapiero (Éditions de la rue Dorion). Un carré de poussière est une enquête, un poème qui pense, un procès sans verdict, une méditation sur la poussière, un essai décomposé sur les liens entre violence sexuelle et histoire de la raison. C’est une sorte de témoignage qui apparait en effaçant la voix (la métaphysique) qui l’étouffait. Le texte, en empruntant aux codes oraculaires et judiciaires, investigue la rationalité comme scène de crime. On y retrouve des peintures rupestres, quelques animaux, la tête décomposée de Socrate, et des femmes qui disparaissent derrière les murs. https://ruedorion.ca/un-carre-de-poussiere/

$Book cover for Bad Forecast by Steffan Triplett‬ (Essay Press‬), with hurricanes, fire, tornadoes and every kind of bad weather tearing apart a landscape. A hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weather, about queerness, about race: their disruptions, their pervasive pull, the isolation they can leave behind. What secrets are kept in the climate of Middle America? What spirals out after a storm? How do race and queerness, like the weather, inform a landscape? Bad Forecast considers how we interpret the forecasts that linger behind us and those still projected to come, brewing in the distance. https://www.essaypress.org/triplett/$

Book cover for A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer (University of Manitoba Press‬), with a photograph of the author playing a drum. Ma-Nee Chacaby, an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian who grew up in a remote northern Ontario community, tells the story of how she overcame experiences with abuse and alcohol addiction to become a counsellor and lead Thunder Bay's first gay pride parade. https://uofmpress.ca/books/a-two-spirit-journey

Book cover for Born Backwards: Poems by Tanya Olson‬ (YesYes Books), with a hog standing on a bit of grass. Olson’s third poetry collection “reports from inside butch culture in the 1980s American South as it traces how geography, family, experiences, and popular culture shape one queer life.” Finalist for the 2024 Indies Book of the Year Awards, 2024 Big Other Award in Poetry, 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society Goldie Award in Poetry, and 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize! https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/born-backwards

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Julie Carr @juliecarr.bsky.social · Jul 24

Back cover and mini excerpt from my new book, The Garden, book one of the trilogy Overflow. All thanks to @pamenarpress.bsky.social and @essaypress.bsky.social and to Tony Robbin, the painter of the 4th dimension. Out in September. ❤️🖤

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