Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including The Palace by Andrés Cerpa and The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
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The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including The Palace by Andrés Cerpa and The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Housed in the trunk of a 1984 Mercedes-Benz 380SL, AUTO Books travels throughout Los Angeles, bringing art, photography, and poetry titles, along with other rare and experimental literature, to neighborhoods across the city.
The author of How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published With Literary Magazines and Small Presses names top journals offering visibility, community, and meaningful pay to poets.
Since 2016, Poets & Writers Magazine has showcased authors who have made their literary debuts after the age of fifty in our annual 5 Over 50 series. These are the fifty writers and books that have been celebrated in our pages.
The editor of Diagram highlights five literary magazines with unexpected ambitions, including a celebration of sentence-long narratives and a journal dedicated to revenge.
Writers looking to place their prose and poetry chapbooks will find committed advocates and caring editors at indie publishers including Cooper Dillon Books and Black Lawrence Press.
Based in Grinnell, Iowa, and motivated by a mission to support reforestation, Green Linden Press publishes around six titles per year and donates a portion of its proceeds to environmental efforts.
The acclaimed fiction writer unpacks the art of the longer short story—a form with space for ambitious plot and rich characterization, with the pressure and punch of concision.
The new executive director of AWP discusses her path from publishing to arts administration and shares what gives her hope for the literary arts.