Unsolicited Press
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Unsolicited Press strives to produce exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from award-winning authors. Unsolicited Press is based out of Portland, Oregon and focuses on the works of the unsung and underrepresented.
Every life is held together by a system. Until one essential piece moves. The Mechanicals by Trevor Payne is available now.
For readers who like their literary fiction ambitious, provocative, messy, and deeply human.
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 merliterary.com/2026/07/12/m...
One book tests love across infinite universes. The other turns an exhausted accountant into an alien’s pet. July is going extremely well over here.
July is a Small Press Big Mouth DOUBLE FEATURE. Members receive Jen & Gary’s Infinite (Quantum) Entanglements plus an ARC of Dave, the Space Pet before its October release. Two strange, funny, tender books. One big summer event
Holy shit, look what we have for you here. Throughout July, we are offering book bundles for 20% off! Use the code TOOCOOL20. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/book-bo...
"Readers who enjoy literary fiction infused with dark humor and existential themes will find this a rewarding read." booklife.com/booklife-rev...
KISS & RELEASE is fast, sharp, tender, horny, formally playful, and emotionally bruised. It’s a party, yes. But it’s also a book about repetition, language, masculinity, intimacy, and what changes after enough things fall apart.
This month we’re reading a book with a pulse: queer romance poems that move through nightlife, desire, hookups, humor, heartbreak, and the loop of love ending again. KISS & RELEASE by Anthony DiPietro is fast, sharp, tender, horny, formally playful, and emotionally bruised. It’s a party, yes.
Menus. Outfits. Games. Theme song. Urn custody. You comply or you get nothing. Cleah’s Bequest is our May book club pick.
What if the scariest thing in your life wasn’t a ghost, but your own body? THE LEG IN QUESTION by K.W. Oxnard is out today: sixteen razor-sharp stories about illness, obsession, desire, grief, and the terrifying ways the body can betray us. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/thele...
Join Summer Stewart, Amy Baskin & Elisa Carlsen for a virtual reading on motherhood, embodiment, labor, religion, desire, survival, class, and the strange performance women are forced into to remain legible to the world around them. Thursday, May 14 6 PM PST Zoom: csupueblo.zoom.us/j/92761376436
FUCK THE MAN (Amazon Edition): If you’re going to buy books on Amazon anyway, help us game the machine a little.
Mother! releases this Friday. Prepare to crack open a book that won't keep secrets buried. What does becoming look like?
Our Stranger Than Fiction bundle is a collection for readers who know the world is weirder than any plot we could invent, and that the best writing doesn’t tame that strangeness — it leans into it. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/stran... #UnsolicitedPress #SmallPress
Small Press Power: Essays, Memoir, Truth-Telling brings together work that refuses to be neutral. Writers who owe nothing to market comfort or ideological safety, and who choose honesty over convenience every single time. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/small...
If you’ve been circling Unsolicited Press and wondering where to begin, this is your entry point. The Unsolicited Press Starter Bundle isn’t a random stack. It’s a deliberate introduction to who we are as a press. #books www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/unsol...
Every preorder tells bookstores and distributors that readers want literary risk to exist. Buying through Asterism helps indie presses stay visible on shelves. Help us make space for stories like ESTUARY. asterismbooks.com/product/estu... #SupportIndiePress #AsterismBooks #BuySmallPress #novel
If you love fiction that blurs the line between the impossible and the intimate, you need Liz Kellebrew on your shelf. Her new book Cloistered is a masterclass in sensory surrealism. Get to know her → lizkellebrew.com
AWP starts next week. We’re heading to Baltimore with bold books, sharp writers, and zero interest in playing small. You’ll find us at Booth T625, surrounded by poets, novelists, essayists, and literary troublemakers who believe independent publishing still matters.
The AWP merch is officially out in the world for anyone side-eyeing censorship and still showing up for the work. shop.unsolicitedpress.com/products/boo... shop.unsolicitedpress.com/products/boo... shop.unsolicitedpress.com/products/rou... www.unsolicitedpress.com/merch See you on the floor.
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
This is your reminder that backlist books don’t “age out.” They outlast. The right book doesn’t expire when the feed moves on. It keeps working on your language, your nervous system, your courage, your ability to name what’s true. Backlist isn’t the past. It’s the foundation.
The kind of book that proves short fiction doesn’t mean small fiction. Swerving Sizes drops March 17, 2026: 100, 200, and 300-word stories that hit harder than novels ten times their length. Clean. Sharp. No filler. No mercy. Preorder today: www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/swerv...
Small Press Big Mouth is a book club that values attention over output and conversation over consumption. Join us. #bookclub
Feb pick: MOUTH — Kerry Donoghue. Stories about consumption + the hungers underneath. Salon: 2/28. #smallpress #bookclub
Ron Pullins’s DOLLARTORIUM is a satirical gut-punch about money, work, family, and the weird places desperation drags us. Preorder: www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/dolla...
We are launching Small Press Big Mouth Book Club. Monthly, author-present, conversation-driven. $25 per month. Built for readers who want more than a list. www.unsolicitedpress.com/small-press-... #bookclub
On January 30, we are participating in the General Strike by redistributing resources. Fifty percent of all sales that day will be donated to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition, which supports and defends immigrant communities in Oregon. #generalstrike
DIQUE DOMINICAN is the powerful debut memoir from Ayendy Bonifacio, born "near a mango-steepled, river-scented town" in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn after migrating as a child. #books asterismbooks.com/product/diqu...