My new collection, Residents of the Deep, has a launch date: Aug. 19, 2025. #unsolicitedpress
December 19, 2024 at 5:25 AM
My new collection, Residents of the Deep, has a launch date: Aug. 19, 2025. #unsolicitedpress
So many books, so little time! What’s on your reading pile??? respond in the comments!#WritingCommunity #Writers #Books #Poetry #Fiction #Readers #UnsolicitedPress #Fence#Memoir
January 22, 2026 at 9:23 PM
So many books, so little time! What’s on your reading pile??? respond in the comments!#WritingCommunity #Writers #Books #Poetry #Fiction #Readers #UnsolicitedPress #Fence#Memoir
Outstanding debut novel by Raki Kopernik! Well done! #unsolicitedpress#Authors #Writers #Fiction #WritingCommunity
#RakiKopernik
#RakiKopernik
April 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Outstanding debut novel by Raki Kopernik! Well done! #unsolicitedpress#Authors #Writers #Fiction #WritingCommunity
#RakiKopernik
#RakiKopernik
Loving ‘the strange wondrous works of Eleanor Eleanor’ by Kathryn Cowles, the winner of the Fence modern poet series award. This is an unforgettable collection that I can’t seem to stop talking about! #Fence #KathrynCowles#Literary #WritingCommunity #Poetry #UnsolicitedPress #Writers#SmallPress
February 2, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Loving ‘the strange wondrous works of Eleanor Eleanor’ by Kathryn Cowles, the winner of the Fence modern poet series award. This is an unforgettable collection that I can’t seem to stop talking about! #Fence #KathrynCowles#Literary #WritingCommunity #Poetry #UnsolicitedPress #Writers#SmallPress
So honored to share that WONDERLAND: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption is the True Crime Winner of the 15th Annual IndieReader Discovery Awards. 1,000+ submissions. Deeply grateful. Nov. 3rd @unsolicitedpress @indiereader 🥚
#WonderlandMemoir #IndieReader #TrueCrime #Adoptee #BlackMarketAdoption
#WonderlandMemoir #IndieReader #TrueCrime #Adoptee #BlackMarketAdoption
May 29, 2026 at 10:28 PM
So honored to share that WONDERLAND: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption is the True Crime Winner of the 15th Annual IndieReader Discovery Awards. 1,000+ submissions. Deeply grateful. Nov. 3rd @unsolicitedpress @indiereader 🥚
#WonderlandMemoir #IndieReader #TrueCrime #Adoptee #BlackMarketAdoption
#WonderlandMemoir #IndieReader #TrueCrime #Adoptee #BlackMarketAdoption
Someone is using our business name to "reach out" to authors...offering publication for a cost. This is not us. We do not charge to be published. You should only receive emails from handles that end with at unsolicitedpress dot com. Keep that in mind.
May 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Someone is using our business name to "reach out" to authors...offering publication for a cost. This is not us. We do not charge to be published. You should only receive emails from handles that end with at unsolicitedpress dot com. Keep that in mind.
Two Unsolicited Press books landed on the MER July Bookshelf! We tried being humble about it, but it was deeply unpleasant and lasted roughly eleven seconds.
#UnsolicitedPress #ReadSmallPress #IndiePublishing #MOTHER #TheLegInQuestion #Bookstagram #IndieBooks
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#UnsolicitedPress #ReadSmallPress #IndiePublishing #MOTHER #TheLegInQuestion #Bookstagram #IndieBooks
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July 13, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Two Unsolicited Press books landed on the MER July Bookshelf! We tried being humble about it, but it was deeply unpleasant and lasted roughly eleven seconds.
#UnsolicitedPress #ReadSmallPress #IndiePublishing #MOTHER #TheLegInQuestion #Bookstagram #IndieBooks
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#UnsolicitedPress #ReadSmallPress #IndiePublishing #MOTHER #TheLegInQuestion #Bookstagram #IndieBooks
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Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
🐍 In #MotherViper, snakes — once symbols of sin in my faith — became power, freedom, rebirth.”
Interview with Savannah Cooper on leaving the Southern Baptist church, reclaiming symbols & writing from the sacred & profane. tinyurl.com/mrxb353c
#poetry #UnsolicitedPress #YearOfTheWomxn
Interview with Savannah Cooper on leaving the Southern Baptist church, reclaiming symbols & writing from the sacred & profane. tinyurl.com/mrxb353c
#poetry #UnsolicitedPress #YearOfTheWomxn
August 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🐍 In #MotherViper, snakes — once symbols of sin in my faith — became power, freedom, rebirth.”
Interview with Savannah Cooper on leaving the Southern Baptist church, reclaiming symbols & writing from the sacred & profane. tinyurl.com/mrxb353c
#poetry #UnsolicitedPress #YearOfTheWomxn
Interview with Savannah Cooper on leaving the Southern Baptist church, reclaiming symbols & writing from the sacred & profane. tinyurl.com/mrxb353c
#poetry #UnsolicitedPress #YearOfTheWomxn
Buy three books. Get $10 off. Support writers who give a fuck about craft, not virality. Read work that doesn’t ask permission, soften its voice, or explain itself to men.
This is independent literature made outside the patriarchal
#books #deals #unsolicitedpress
This is independent literature made outside the patriarchal
#books #deals #unsolicitedpress
February 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Buy three books. Get $10 off. Support writers who give a fuck about craft, not virality. Read work that doesn’t ask permission, soften its voice, or explain itself to men.
This is independent literature made outside the patriarchal
#books #deals #unsolicitedpress
This is independent literature made outside the patriarchal
#books #deals #unsolicitedpress
My poem "May, week 1" received an honorable mention in The Prose Poem's second annual prose poem competition! The judge said my poem was "refreshingly alive"! Check out the six winning poems! #prosepoetry #prosepoem #poetrycommunity #unsolicitedpress #poetry #poetrylovers #poems #Blueskypoets
Issue 23: Second – The Prose Poem
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December 2, 2024 at 9:10 PM
My poem "May, week 1" received an honorable mention in The Prose Poem's second annual prose poem competition! The judge said my poem was "refreshingly alive"! Check out the six winning poems! #prosepoetry #prosepoem #poetrycommunity #unsolicitedpress #poetry #poetrylovers #poems #Blueskypoets
Just received the copyedits for my manuscript from my publisher #UnsolicitedPress. So excited for this next step.
March 19, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Just received the copyedits for my manuscript from my publisher #UnsolicitedPress. So excited for this next step.
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This is brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity#UnsolicitedPress #women and writing
This is brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity#UnsolicitedPress #women and writing
Emotional Labor Is an Editorial Skill
The Credibility Gap, Part II
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March 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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This is brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity#UnsolicitedPress #women and writing
This is brilliant.
#WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity#UnsolicitedPress #women and writing
Today’s writing desk… with Elizabeth Joy Levinson’s Uncomfortable Ecologies 💙📚
#spring #writing #poetry #uncomfortable-ecologies #ElizabethJoyLevinson #unsolicitedpress
#spring #writing #poetry #uncomfortable-ecologies #ElizabethJoyLevinson #unsolicitedpress
March 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Today’s writing desk… with Elizabeth Joy Levinson’s Uncomfortable Ecologies 💙📚
#spring #writing #poetry #uncomfortable-ecologies #ElizabethJoyLevinson #unsolicitedpress
#spring #writing #poetry #uncomfortable-ecologies #ElizabethJoyLevinson #unsolicitedpress
Since it's the first week of January, I've posted a new Substack with the first poem in Gathering the Pieces of Days. The poem is appropriately titled "January 1." The book will be published by Unsolicited Press as part of 2025 Year of Womxn. #unsolicitedpress #poetry #poetrycommunity #YearOfWomxn
Gathering the Pieces of Days
A poem and a book
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January 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Since it's the first week of January, I've posted a new Substack with the first poem in Gathering the Pieces of Days. The poem is appropriately titled "January 1." The book will be published by Unsolicited Press as part of 2025 Year of Womxn. #unsolicitedpress #poetry #poetrycommunity #YearOfWomxn
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Smart, timely words. Why do writers have to constantly give away so many of their precious resources? respond in the comments below.
#UnsolicitedPress #SummerStewart #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poetry! #Books #Creative
Smart, timely words. Why do writers have to constantly give away so many of their precious resources? respond in the comments below.
#UnsolicitedPress #SummerStewart #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poetry! #Books #Creative
Field Notes from the Small Press Swamp: What “Community” Actually Costs
Literary community is a beautiful phrase until someone has to stack the chairs, answer the emails, update the flyer, and pretend the microphone is not actively auditioning for a nervous breakdown.
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July 18, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Smart, timely words. Why do writers have to constantly give away so many of their precious resources? respond in the comments below.
#UnsolicitedPress #SummerStewart #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poetry! #Books #Creative
Smart, timely words. Why do writers have to constantly give away so many of their precious resources? respond in the comments below.
#UnsolicitedPress #SummerStewart #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poetry! #Books #Creative
🚨 Author Spotlight! Douglas Cole talks about The Cabin at the End of the World on The Spotlight Network. Don’t miss this powerful convo about poetry, place, & creativity. 📚🔥
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMU...
#Poetry #DouglasCole #AuthorInterview #UnsolicitedPress
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMU...
#Poetry #DouglasCole #AuthorInterview #UnsolicitedPress
The Spotlight Network on The Cabin at the End of the World by Douglas Cole
YouTube video by The Spotlight Network
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June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚨 Author Spotlight! Douglas Cole talks about The Cabin at the End of the World on The Spotlight Network. Don’t miss this powerful convo about poetry, place, & creativity. 📚🔥
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMU...
#Poetry #DouglasCole #AuthorInterview #UnsolicitedPress
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMU...
#Poetry #DouglasCole #AuthorInterview #UnsolicitedPress
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Wise words on the logistics of publishing and the very real writer fatigue that we all experience but rarely articulate. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Poets #UnsolicitedPress.
Wise words on the logistics of publishing and the very real writer fatigue that we all experience but rarely articulate. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Poets #UnsolicitedPress.
The Invisible Labor of Being a Writer
The Work After the Work — Issue 10
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March 20, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Wise words on the logistics of publishing and the very real writer fatigue that we all experience but rarely articulate. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Poets #UnsolicitedPress.
Wise words on the logistics of publishing and the very real writer fatigue that we all experience but rarely articulate. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Poets #UnsolicitedPress.
Cathryn Shea’s GHOST MATINEE offers readers a powerful meditation on memory, time, and the shadows we carry into each day. Preorder now and meet the ghosts waiting between the lines.
#GhostMatinee #NewPoetry #UnsolicitedPress #Bookstagram #YearOfWomxn #NationalPoetryMonth #Womxn
#GhostMatinee #NewPoetry #UnsolicitedPress #Bookstagram #YearOfWomxn #NationalPoetryMonth #Womxn
April 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Cathryn Shea’s GHOST MATINEE offers readers a powerful meditation on memory, time, and the shadows we carry into each day. Preorder now and meet the ghosts waiting between the lines.
#GhostMatinee #NewPoetry #UnsolicitedPress #Bookstagram #YearOfWomxn #NationalPoetryMonth #Womxn
#GhostMatinee #NewPoetry #UnsolicitedPress #Bookstagram #YearOfWomxn #NationalPoetryMonth #Womxn
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Unbelievably excited to share the link for pre-orders for this collaborative book with my friend Liza Wolf-Francis to be published by #UnsolicitedPress.#LizaWolf-Francis.
Check it out!
Unbelievably excited to share the link for pre-orders for this collaborative book with my friend Liza Wolf-Francis to be published by #UnsolicitedPress.#LizaWolf-Francis.
Check it out!
SKY THEY YEARNED TO CALL MINE — Unsolicited Press
sky they yearned to call mine is a collaborative poetry collection by Brenda Beardsley and Liza Wolff-Francis, written as an exchange that reshapes grief in real time. Moving between the personal a...
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June 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Unbelievably excited to share the link for pre-orders for this collaborative book with my friend Liza Wolf-Francis to be published by #UnsolicitedPress.#LizaWolf-Francis.
Check it out!
Unbelievably excited to share the link for pre-orders for this collaborative book with my friend Liza Wolf-Francis to be published by #UnsolicitedPress.#LizaWolf-Francis.
Check it out!
THE PRSL WRITING PROJECT is exactly what it sounds like: stories, poems, and whatever-the-hell-else from your favorite punk rockers—built to turn noise into care. Every cent goes back into creating community, healing, and helping.
#PunkRockSavesLives #UnsolicitedPress #PRSLWritingProject
#PunkRockSavesLives #UnsolicitedPress #PRSLWritingProject
January 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
THE PRSL WRITING PROJECT is exactly what it sounds like: stories, poems, and whatever-the-hell-else from your favorite punk rockers—built to turn noise into care. Every cent goes back into creating community, healing, and helping.
#PunkRockSavesLives #UnsolicitedPress #PRSLWritingProject
#PunkRockSavesLives #UnsolicitedPress #PRSLWritingProject
Just finished this collection and especially loved the last poem, ‘Sculpture: Mother & Child’
#Poetry #WritingCommunity #UnsolicitedPress
#Poetry #WritingCommunity #UnsolicitedPress
January 13, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Just finished this collection and especially loved the last poem, ‘Sculpture: Mother & Child’
#Poetry #WritingCommunity #UnsolicitedPress
#Poetry #WritingCommunity #UnsolicitedPress
This book originated during lockdown. Isolation was getting to me, unable to connect with anyone. Liza Wolff-Francis and I wrote ‘sky they yearned to call mine’ during national poetry month. It’s available through Unsolicited Press. #WaitingCommunity#Poetry #UnsolicitedPress #LizaWolff-Francis. 
September 14, 2026 at 11:57 PM
This book originated during lockdown. Isolation was getting to me, unable to connect with anyone. Liza Wolff-Francis and I wrote ‘sky they yearned to call mine’ during national poetry month. It’s available through Unsolicited Press. #WaitingCommunity#Poetry #UnsolicitedPress #LizaWolff-Francis. 
IT’S HERE. Cloistered by Liz Kellebrew launches today. A surreal, cinematic short story collection where reality bends toward the deliciously strange.
Buy now → www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/clois...
#LizKellebrew
#Cloistered
#shortstories
#2026books
#UnsolicitedPress
Buy now → www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/clois...
#LizKellebrew
#Cloistered
#shortstories
#2026books
#UnsolicitedPress
February 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
IT’S HERE. Cloistered by Liz Kellebrew launches today. A surreal, cinematic short story collection where reality bends toward the deliciously strange.
Buy now → www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/clois...
#LizKellebrew
#Cloistered
#shortstories
#2026books
#UnsolicitedPress
Buy now → www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/clois...
#LizKellebrew
#Cloistered
#shortstories
#2026books
#UnsolicitedPress
Crowds. Culture shock. Questionable sushi. Public shame. GERI O SHIMASU: ADVENTURES OF A BAKA GAIJIN is the travel memoir you didn’t know you needed. →https://bookshop.org/a/2655/9781963115543
#japan #books #womxn #unsolicitedpress
#japan #books #womxn #unsolicitedpress
August 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Crowds. Culture shock. Questionable sushi. Public shame. GERI O SHIMASU: ADVENTURES OF A BAKA GAIJIN is the travel memoir you didn’t know you needed. →https://bookshop.org/a/2655/9781963115543
#japan #books #womxn #unsolicitedpress
#japan #books #womxn #unsolicitedpress