In a collection of linked tales filled with irony, humor, and magic, Talking with Boys introduces...

Winner of the Fall 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition

Heart Eater traces the author's childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned nine-...

A vibrant and gritty debut from poet Arielle Hebert, Bottom Feeders is a queer coming-of-age coll...

Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry

Public pools shuttered for storms. Game shows for endangered species. The teeth of a fine snail. ...

Isaac Pickell writes from the middle of things: the tensions between Blackness and Jewishness, be...

A Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series Selection

Against the surreal landscape of the deep south, three Lebanese-American sisters encounter their ...

Selected for The Immigrant Writing Series, The Apricot Tree invites us into a collection of linke...

Winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition

How can we claim a place as a ' home' if that home no longer exists? Not because we moved away bu...

Daughtersong Diaspore is a series of poems, epistolaries, lyric essays, unanswered questions, exp...

The poems in Kevin Pilkington's Walking on October explore life in urban environments. Each poem ...

Winner of the 2025 Big Moose Prize, Far Ocean tells the story of 18th-century botanist and explor...

You find yourself in the midst of an overwhelming and ambiguous loss-- someone you deeply loved w...

In the style of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, and poetic epics that have come before it, moon moon by J...

Stylish, smart, and big-hearted, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint...

Encounters With Men is a searching memoir as only Bob Ostertag could tell it. In these pages are ...

Spanning four books across a six year period, Darling's selected delivers a natural cohesion, a s...

'T.J. Sandella's poems have compassion, humor, grace, and range. He writes about himself and othe...

The Japanese word 'koan' is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism...

Set on the marshlands of working-class southern New Jersey, Python with a Dog Inside It, the debu...

WITHOUT SAINTS is a breathtaking journey to rediscover hope between the ruins: Poet Christopher L...

Known for their lyrical intensity and thematic range, David Rigsbee's poems have appeared promine...

Welcome to Will and Grace with kids, cats, and a mortgage.

Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist for Transgender...

In THE VIOLENCE ALMANAC, Miah Jeffra complicates the boundaries between culture and nature, ficti...

'In astonishing lyrics that give us more than intimate negotiations of memory, the poems in WOMEN...

Mother land, winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, is focused on the intersection of motherhood and im...

Linguistically acrobatic, FishWife interrogates dictionary definitions and the messy function of ...

Like a hanging mobile, the stories in The New Low move around each other, creating ever-changing ...

2022 Hudson Prize WinnerA young couple raises crickets for food, a woman in a caged complex is wi...

All the Lands We Inherit is a searing, heartbreaking, and formally inventive debut memoir about f...

The Bones Beneath captures what it means to be American, Southern, diasporan, what it means to be...

In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press ti...

In her debut full-length poetry collection, Always a Relic Never a Reliquary, Brazilian American ...

Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings...

'What is it to be poor? Discovering an ATM's smallest withdrawal is more than the little left in ...

THEY SAID: A MULTI-GENRE ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY COLLABORATIVE WRITING includes poetry, fiction...

'Adam McOmber could be describing Fantasy Kit as a whole with these lines: 'This is my house. The...

A searing portrait of survival, Worth Burning traces a boy’s journey from a turbulent Southern ch...

'THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the bon...

Karen Llagas's ALL OF US ARE CLEAVED explores how we are shaped by the connections we form and ar...

In NEXT TIME YOU COME HOME, Lisa Dordal distills one hundred eighty letters she received from her...

Poetry manuals, at their most essential, are aimed at demystifying aspects of poetry, in order to...

In supreme night, the troubles of double consciousness and anti-Black violence recede into the te...

You must be connected to earth to read this book, because its effect is that of a live wire. Read...