Thank you to all the presses who participated in the 2023 Massachusetts Poetry Festival Small Press Fair!
About the Presses
Adastra Press
Founded in 1979 in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Adastra Press produces hand-sewn, letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Barrow Street Press
Barrow Street Inc. is a nonprofit literary arts organization that was started in Greenwich Village, NYC in 1994 to provide community outreach and host literary events featuring emerging and established poets.
Broadsided Press
Founded in 2005, Broadsided publishes monthly, original collaborations between writers and artists. The broadsides are released as letter-sized pdfs on our website, free for anyone to download, print, and post in their communities. Our mission is to help people put literature and art on the streets of their communities
CavanKerry
Cavankerry is committed to expanding the reach of poetry and other fine literature to a general readership by publishing works that explore the emotional and psychological landscapes of everyday life, and to bring that art to the underserved where they live, work and receive services.
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Červená Barva Press
ČERVENÁ BARVA PRESS was founded in April of 2005. The press solicits poetry, fiction, and plays from various writers around the world, and holds open contests regularly for its chapbooks, postcards, broadsides and full-length books.
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Curious Corvid Publishing
Curious Corvid Publishing is a community of artists who enjoy the darker side of life. We care about our authors, our partners, and our readers, and we want to bring uncommon delights to everyone who appreciates them. If you’re a little weird, a little dark, and delightfully creative, you’ll fit right in with us.
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Derby Wharf Light Box
Derby Wharf Light Box, based in Salem, is a series of poetry chapbooks with a local focus on the Massachusetts North Shore. The booklet design, a compact 4-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches, is modeled after the legendary City Lights Pocket Poets Series published by renowned Beat poet and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
EmersonWRITES
EmersonWRITES is an urban, creative writing program offering FREE college-style workshops to students grades 8-12 enrolled in a Greater Boston public or charter school. Our teachers are graduate students in Emerson’s MFA/MA program in Writing and Publishing, and have been trained to teach college-level writing in the award-winning Writing Studies/First-Year Writing Program. EmersonWRITES is guided by the principle that writing is essential to intellectual engagement, self-representation, and access to opportunity. We provide our students free lunch each class as well as creative & college-positive workshops during those lunch periods to further facilitate college access pipelines for our youth. Our teachers support students in creating a body of work to be included in “SPINE,” published annually. Each year, at least one student-senior is awarded a scholarship from their EmersonWRITES engagement upon their acceptance into Emerson College.
Game Over Books
Founded in 2017, Game Over Books is a small Boston-based press run by nerdy artists. Our mission? Print books from diverse voices that push creative writing forward into the Next Level. From acceptance to publication, we give continual guidance to writers as they continue to gain experience points, grow their craft, and navigate the world of publishing.
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Grolier Poetry Book Shop
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a “first edition” bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small, one-room store with towering bookcases, it is the oldest continuous bookshop devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism.
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Lily Poetry Review Books
Our porch light is always on…
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Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag
Molecule is an online journal publishing poetry, prose, plays, interviews, reviews, and visual art twice annually. All work should be 50 words or less (including titles, interview questions, etc).
New England Poetry Club
NEPC is a poets’ association founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken to foster the art of poetic expression. We run the oldest poetry reading series in the country. We offer an ongoing writing workshop open to all members. We sponsor awards and contests to encourage and recognize poetic achievement. And we look for new creative ways to foster understanding and love of poetry.
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Nixes Mate
Nixes Mate has been publishing all 26 letters of the alphabet since 2016.
Perugia Press
Perugia Press, founded in 1997, is a nonprofit press that publishes one beautifully designed book each year: the winner of the Perugia Press Prize, our annual national contest for first or second books of poetry by women. Our mission is to support and promote women’s voices in print, and we aim to expand the audience for poetry by making books that welcome longtime readers of poetry and those new to poetry.
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Slate Roof Press / Swamp Press
Slate Roof Press is a member-run press established in 2004 and committed to publishing Massachusetts and regional poets as well as poetry nationwide in alternate years of our chapbook contest.
Swamp Press conceptualizes, designs and prints fine letterpress books, both as a publisher of poetry and as a printer for other publishers.
Solstice MFA in Creative Writing
The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program offers a unique, affordable opportunity for students to act upon their artistic aspirations and embark on lives as serious writers and readers. This hybrid program is designed to be a transformative experience where accomplished faculty instruct students in craft and creative writing techniques that will bring their work to the next level. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @SolsticeMFA.
Soundings East
Soundings East is the annual literary journal of Salem State University, published with support from the Center for Creative and Performing Arts. Founded in 1973, the journal is edited by graduate and upper-level undergraduate creative students under the aegis of an advisory editor from the writing faculty. Soundings East is dedicated to publishing high-quality poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. The magazine is distributed nationally, with recent press runs of 750 copies.
The Massachusetts Review
Committed to aesthetic excellence as well as public engagement, the Massachusetts Review publishes literature and art to provoke debate, inspire action, and expand our understanding of the world around us.
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This Works Press
This Works Press, founded by Neal and Kerry Zagarella, is committed to the idea that a small press can contain big ideas, inspired thought and original writing. Our genesis can be traced to the spoken word explosion of the late eighties and early nineties in Cambridge, Boston, and the North Shore.
Three Mile Harbor Press
Three Mile Harbor Press is a small poetry publisher which has been around since the 1990’s. Open to diverse subject matter and styles, we are particularly interested in feminist, LGBTQ and environmentally aware voices. To that end, we run an annual poetry contest leading to publication (see http://www.3mileharborpess.com for details).
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Zephyr Press
ZEPHYR PRESS, founded in 1980, is an award-winning non-profit independent press whose titles and literary events foster a deeper understanding of cultures and languages from around the world. We focus on contemporary poetry and prose in translation from Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia, but also publish literature from other languages and the U.S., and reprint books of literary and historical value that have long been out of print. We organize bilingual readings, educational workshops and other cross-cultural exchanges in the U.S. and abroad.