forthcoming books

Accepted & Forthcoming in 2025/6

Porkbelly Press is pleased to announce the following chapbook & micro chapbook manuscripts have been accepted, and these books will join PP’s 2025/6 lineup of new releases!

POETRY

touching grass by Mukethe Kawinzi

where the bluegrass grows, june 1916 by Sarah Josephine Pennington

The Sword Swallowers by Emily F. Kerlin

Texas Flood by Robert Okaji

FICTION

The Uses of Hardness, the uses of softness by Sarah Beddow

Thank you to all of the poets & authors who took the time to submit and shared work this reading period. We’ll read again for chapbooks in January 2025—micro chapbooks subs open in July 2025.


Also forthcoming from Porkbelly Press in 2024/5 (as of this post):

POETRY

dream about an uncle by miles a.m. collins-sibley

The Woman, The River by Sayuri Ayers

A Few Mythic Paths by Mari Ness

Mascara, Boobs, & Headbands by Susan Milchman

Notes on how the wolf resuscitates by Paris Jessie

There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi by Noreen Ocampo

Arizona is in its 28th year of drought by Brekken Carns

FICTION

For Every Tower, a Princess by Kathryn Kulpa

HYBRID

Self-Talk by Esinam Bediako