We like books that tread off the beaten path of traditional publishing, books that big publishing wouldn’t embrace with the same enthusiasm. We want something that pushes the envelope, that doesn’t make a reader feel like they’ve picked up another book that fits into some formula that’s supposedly guaranteed to sell copies.
By then, of course, we’d done plenty in the name of ritual—our word, however off-target, for love. Ah, rushlit December, lamb shanks with the garden mint, heads bowed, may…
there’s an intimacy that’s activated [or visibilized] when making books by hand together. there’s a warmth and a joy in that relationship … to the text, to the author, to your co-makers, to the book itself. we believe it’s worth our time to attend to that warmth and joy.
Our main goal is publishing exciting literary works made from parts. We really leave what exactly this means up to authors. We’ve often told people, “Send us your weird stuff.”
Before we could identify both its virus and disease names. Before our painter, Mark came and fingered the hairline cracks in my office walls, not erasing, but following their lead…
Our mission is to find new literature written in countries around the world and facilitate its translation into English as part of a larger aim to encourage cross-cultural and -linguistic exchange. Our aesthetic is experimental, wild, unkempt.
floods my inbox dripping with spoken and unspoken criticism your poem is an anthem by that I mean rant the last sentence cliché don’t tell me what to think the…
I have strong opinions about art and about publishing, and while it can sometimes be difficult to get people’s attention, I do believe that one can build a devoted, engaged community around a press, just as punk rock communities often coalesce around a particularly beloved venue.
We hope to create a press that supports Native artistry in all forms. We hope to bring quality work to Indigenous literature and create a world for Indigenous voices to thrive as genuinely and true to form.
The falafel cry as they are dolloped into the hot grease by the husband-half of the Lake Ella farmer’s market who demands I take my hands out of my pockets,…
Gordon Hill Press publishes mostly poetry, but also some literary criticism and some stylistically innovative fiction. We strive to include a wide diversity of writers and writing, but we have a particular emphasis on publishing writers living with disability.
We feel our operations need to be positioned within a sphere of revolt and radical will. Pure, pure love.
But expression (not only in myself outwards but by other people inwards) has always enabled me to find optimism. The name of the press embodies this sort of optimistic cynicism.
* * * I’m sorry that they thought you were ugly but if it makes you feel any better they thought I was ugly too, and when I first saw…