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

Accepted/Forthcoming in 2024

Porkbelly Press is pleased to announce the following chapbook & micro chapbook manuscripts have been accepted, and these books will join PP’s 2024/5 lineup of new releases!

POETRY

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

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 2024—micro chapbooks subs open in July 2024.

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

POETRY

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

Flown by B. Fulton Jennes

Ancestral-Wing by Sneha Subramanian Kanta

The Woman, The River by Sayuri Ayers

A Few Mythic Paths by Mari Ness

HYBRID

Self-Talk by Esinam Bediako

2023 Chapbook Acceptances!

Porkbelly Press is pleased to announce the following chapbook manuscripts have been accepted, and these books will join PP’s 2023/4 lineup of new releases!

POETRY

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

Flown by B. Fulton Jennes

HYBRID
Self-Talk by Esinam Bediako

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 2024—micro chapbooks subs open in July 2023.

Also forthcoming from Porkbelly Press:

POETRY

in the aftermath by Jessica Ram

Ancestral-Wing by Sneha Subramanian Kanta

The Woman, The River by Sayuri Ayers

A Few Mythic Paths by Mari Ness

my lost womb still sings to me by Jane Ayres

Butt Stuff Flower Bush by Sam Herschel Wein

CREATIVE NONFICTION

The Maiden in the Moon by Sayuri Ayers

HYBRID

Eldest Daughter: a Break-up Story by Megan Cannella

2019 Chapbooks!

We’re honored to partner with the following poets & authors to bring their chapbook manuscripts into the world as handbound books in future:

POETRY

A Man Ain’t Nuthin’ by Jason McCall

Go Wolf Hunter by Khadijah Lacina

Titania in Yellow by Dayna Patterson

Brown Boy by Nishat Ahmed

We’re Doing Witchcraft by E. Kristin Anderson

She May Be a Saint by Sarah Nichols

Monkey Was Here by Jasmine An

HYBRID

Ever After the End Matter by Sarah Ann Winn

FICTION

Girl Detectives by Emily Capettini

The above chapbooks will join the following micros in 2019:

FLASH CREATIVE NONFICTION, POETRY, & EPHEMERA

Lucid: a Micro-Memoir by Kia Alice Groom

POETRY

Venus in Bloom by Wanda Deglane

Eppur Si Muove by Stacey Balkun

Pre-orders, when available, are linked in our forthcoming titles. Release dates for all books are in the works as we discuss cover art.

Thank you to everyone who sent a manuscript this year — we enjoy your words and your craft.