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We were the McGill Girls. The phenom that rose from the ashes of my parents’ brutal divorce. Pulled tightly together, a mother and her two girls, arms interlocked and nestled…

We do a lot of work behind the scenes, but the writers create the work so they deserve the most credit and profit for it. They are the reason we even have a project to work on in the first place.

I see people constantly clinging to old models of success and status in the poetry world, and it seems archaic to me to step into this programming telling us who is important and what it means to be successful rather than simply creating our own spaces.

We’re influenced by the old school printers and their legacy of radical politics. The three of us love print and everything related to the medium, but we’re also committed to social justice.

A Girl Goes into the Forest by Peg Alford Pursell Dzanc Books, July 2019 240 pages/ Amazon   Peg Alford Pursell’s second book, A Girl Goes into the Forest, is a collection…

We aim to produce fine books of the very best contemporary writing. Each season’s new titles features the cover artwork of a visual artist or illustrator. We strongly encourage women, writers of colour, LGBTQ writers, Indigenous writers, and writers with disabilities to submit. 

It’s hard to find a place if you don’t fit into those categories. Part of this is that small press publishing is generally unpaid or underpaid. To ask an already marginalized person to take on that type of unpaid labor is difficult, and it creates this cycle.

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

Woman at War | dir. Benedikt Erlingsson | Iceland   It’s a war film without the blood and guts It’s a climate change comedy thriller It’s Kill Bill’s Icelandic sister…

SPOILER ALERT Alfonso Cuarón has made a feminist film. A friend of mine, a Chicana artist and activist, said I had to see Roma. Well, everyone’s saying you have to see…

Website Submission Guidelines Interview with Kate Partridge and Alyse Knorr, Editors How did Switchback Books start? Switchback Books was founded in 2006 by the amazing poets and editors Hanna Andrews,…

Eric Westerlind and I both work in the service industry to support Fathom. Our printer, Eberhardt, is also run by an independent artisan, struggling month to month. The money’s made on our backs and the books are too. We ‘cope’ by gritting teeth, keeping the friends and writers we admire close, and believing in our mission to make and share the dire books. 

We’re not exempt just because we’re editors: if we’re going to ask for this type of work, we better be able to do this type of work. We have to know what it feels like to make it. It’s beyond us, but we’re not beyond it.