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We are open now to submissions for publication in 2020. We are only looking for writers who have not yet published a book of literary fiction. I’m especially looking for female and LGBTQ voices. My tastes lean toward (but are not limited to) the genre-bending, the fabulists, as well as literary comedies.

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Our 2017 titles have been raved about by the likes of James Salter, Laird Hunt, Tom Bissell, and Kirkus Reviews.

Kirkus Reviews calls Jenn Stroud Rossmann’s novel THE PLACE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO LAUGH “a thoughtful, caring examination of race, class, and wealth in America.”

“…a testament to a changing city in a changing country at a defining time in history.”

Forthcoming November 14, 2018