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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · 3d

2/2 use the dropdown at the top of our store to navigate to the type of book you are looking for (anthology or overstock titles). Once we’re out of inventory, they’ll return to their regular price, so get them while they last ✨ link below

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · 3d

1/2 We have a ton of extra inventory & need to make room for new titles! All of our 22-24 quarterly anthologies are $8, Not Ghosts, But Spirits is $18 for paperback and $33 for hardcover, & we have overstock titles listed at $7-$8 on our PayHip store! No code needed—

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · 4d

elegy for [lukas] by @lunareyhall is open for preorders! This collection is a diary of grief at trans & queer survival, their own selfhood, & the affliction it is to have a body ✨ link in bio

*Amazon is currently not accepting our preorders, but title’s are available everywhere else

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · 4d

Ifunanya Georgia Ezeano’s chap In Storm & Stillwater is available for preorder! This book explores isolation, womanhood, grief, politics, & family and how we adapt ✨ link in bio

*Amazon is for some reason currently not accepting our paperback preorders, but this title is available everywhere else.

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · 12d

It’s Pub Day!! Jessica Thiru’s debut, Burning of Absence is out today! ✨this chapbook touches on loneliness and grief, but Thiru is a warm hand guiding in the dark to refuse that seclusion ✨link in bio

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 29d

from "Atonal Apocalypse: On MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan" (@querenciapress.bsky.social: 2025), in which I compare experimental prose to atonal music

published in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow earlier this year

Greenspan’s use of indeterminacy in language may be best understood via analogy to tonal harmony. The vast majority of music is tonal, using recognizable contours and relationships—including, in the western tradition, a whole nomenclature of terms such as “root,” “dominant,” “key signature,” and more—to create desired effects such as tension, progression, recognition, and resolution. Atonal music is carefully structured to avoid these determinate relationships, instead producing a musical text that is coherent, yet dissonant; eventful, yet without resolution; all the while carefully calibrated, yet apparently chaotic. In literature, if normative devices such as character, plot, and genre are like the shared language of tonal harmony, then Milk Sickness is the atonal exception. The book’s language operates with a concerted effort to avoid typical ordering mechanisms: there are multiple unnamed figures, but no lucid characters; many impactful events and chains of cause-and-effect, but no clearly defined linear plot; countless synchronicities, but no framework for understanding their logic.

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Cameron L. Mitchell @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social · 12d

#FridayReads:
My book 'The Last Way'
from @querenciapress.bsky.social

with 2 cover options!

Get your copy now!

#horror #BookRecommendations #books #novellas #nowreading #writingcommunity

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · 16d

Preorder is open for If One Continues to Survive, an anthology organized by @pipkinsjoshua.bsky.social & @axiopoeticus.bsky.social —this unapologetic poetry anthology features work that celebrates the ways we survive & hold hands while doing so. Proceeds benefit The Audre Lorde Project ✨link in bio

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Aug 15

Anthropological Study, Lauren Miller’s first full length poetry collection, is out today! These pieces explore queerness, gender identity, the Anthropocene, neurodivergence, and mental illness and how they are shaping life for new adults ✨ link in bio

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Aug 10

If you are wondering about our Summer anthology—contributors should have received an email this week or will be receiving one tonight. All submissions were answered for Summer, so if you haven’t, make sure to check your inbox to accept your contract if you were selected :)

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Aug 10

I’m opening this callout a bit later than usual because we already had a lot of tip jar submissions this month that will be added into this queue, so apologies for the shorter window.

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Aug 10

Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Autumn! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, & submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline September 1st

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Cameron L. Mitchell @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 8

My book 'The Last Way' is out from @querenciapress.bsky.social

If you're looking for a dark, twisty read, check it out!

#Booksky #FridayReads #Books #NewBooks #BookLaunch #TheLastWay #horror #DarkFiction #writingcommunity

The Last Way

Check out The Last Way - A young boy in a small southern town plans to kill his father. Each chapter of The Last Way</em> presents a different course of action to get the job done. He could push him o...

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Last Way by @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social is now available! This novella examines domestic abuse that drives a young boy in a small southern town to plan to kill his father, a violently unpredictable man, It’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt. Or worse. ✨ link in bio

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Jul 31

Preorder is open for @nonstickpanda.bsky.social short story collection, Minor Illusions ✨ this collection explores themes of grief, memory, and human relationships ✨ link in bio

Cover art: Rachel Tan

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Jul 11

Working the Roots, Amanda Bennett’s debut chapbook is out today! This collection offers up the complexities of self-love’s intersection with grief, desire, intimacy, womanhood, & Blackness ✨ link in bio

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Jun 28

Preorder starts today for Jessica Thiru’s debut, Burning of Absence ✨this chapbook touches on loneliness and grief, but Thiru is a warm hand guiding in the dark to refuse that seclusion ✨link in bio

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · Jun 4

I was thinking today about how important it is to support small presses and recognize the hard work of those who run them. Here's all the roses to the generous and talented @undermeyou.bsky.social and @querenciapress.bsky.social!

And so many wonderful books: www.querenciapress.com/books

A close-up of a bush full of yellow roses.

Emily Perkovich and I pose together in from of the Querencia Press booth at AWP.

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Jun 17

Preorder is open for Anthropological Study, Lauren Miller’s first full length poetry collection! These pieces explore queerness, gender identity, the Anthropocene, neurodivergence, and mental illness and how they are shaping life for new adults ✨ link in bio

Galaxy and ocean background with cover of Anthropological Study by Lauren Miller in the foreground, text reads: available august 15th

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Jun 7

Preorder is up for The Last Way by @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social —in this novella a young boy in a small southern town plans to kill his father, a violently unpredictable man, who has become such a menacing force that both the boy & his mother live in a near constant state of fear✨ link in bio

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · Jun 1

Our 2025 Spring anthology is out now! As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so read with care ✨ link in bio

*Small reminder, Spring issue was very behind schedule so we are already starting to read through the Summer subs which close tonight 🥰

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · May 14

Our 2025 Spring anthology (featuring 53 contributors) is available for a quick preorder! As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so should be read with care ✨ link in bio

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Querencia Press @querenciapress.bsky.social · May 13

Preorder starts today for Working the Roots, Amanda Bennett’s debut chapbook! This collection offers up the complexities of self-love’s intersection with grief, desire, intimacy, womanhood, & Blackness ✨ link in bio

Pink hydrangea petal background foreground cover of Amanda Bennett’s Working the Roots

Alternate cover for Amanda Bennett’s Working the Roots

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Tinamarie Cox @tinamariecox.bsky.social · May 10

Special #Callout for #writers and #artists under 12 y.o. - OPEN - Submission Cap: 150 - @querenciapress.bsky.social is looking for work from #kids 12 and under for an #anthology for middle grade/YA readers! We will be accepting visual art and writing for this anthology...

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 30

@lowermelody.bsky.social @querenciapress.bsky.social

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