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,…
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We want to be troubled and inspired by the work. If there is anything explicitly outside our aesthetic, it is work that does not trouble us. We also want to be challenged by the distinct and diverse aesthetics of the various editors working together in this collective press.
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E. Hughes is a poet from San Jose, California. She is the first annual winner of the Mireyda Barraza Martinez Poetry Prize for Social Justice and a 2019 Pushcart…
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New Poetry from Shirmina Smith the women in my family have always been a sea for parched men for men who think themselves as prophets enough to…
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Vein The mulberry creek coursing through and between our eyelids announces: you are your father’s girl. Chances are this bloodline will run dry after my sister and I; all the…
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We’re so happy to share “They all went running after the blockade” by Emma Zurer as the featured artwork for our fall list. Be sure to check out her stunning…
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Our aesthetic, I believe, has always been simple: find unique storytelling, conversational poetry, edgy work that takes risks but isn’t trying to trick anyone or talk in circles or over heads; keep the writing real, imaginative, and mind-opening.
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Correctional. Federal. Once in California testing a bad boy’s new car, fast car, we’d found a stretch—oh it sailed— until a white van honked, waved us over. Printed on the…
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This summer, we return again to an artist whose work we featured in a previous Where to Submit: Dan Cassidy, who originally provided a print for summer 2016. The macro photograph…
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1. Imperatives Warm some oil in a cooking pot and add two or three teaspoonfuls of ghee. (The clear, clarified butter is called ghee.) Add the appropriate amount of sugar.…
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I’m interested in writers who offer exceptional counterpoints to the literary mainstream. These days that usually means people situated outside the Academy.
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Poetry from Summer Block Baby Dreaming In the back seat the baby, sun-striped and damply dreaming: a bright green field bloomed with bunnies and he crawling through the grass…
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Poetry from Masha Udensiva-Brenner Baba Tanya Eins, zwei, drei My great grandmother taught me how to count in German. She survived World War I; World War II; evacuation; bombs exploding…
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Will any of this change? Possibly, but I cannot predict what kind of outcome a potential change might result in, and there are certainly no easy solutions. Regardless of these issues, as publishers we have do whatever it takes to get our books in the hands of readers, and help create a competitive marketplace.
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