Host Publications
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Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host publishes radical poetry & fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.
❤️ Awesome coverage in today's @austinchronicle.bsky.social Crosstalk on Host Publications receiving The Constellation Award! @clmporg.bsky.social Such a big honor to bring this award home! www.austinchronicle.com/music/crosst...
The Pinky Rings Take a Final Bow, De Nada Cantina Expands, Host Publications Awarded • The Austin Chronicle
Host Publications won the $10,000 2026 Constellation Award from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. The award, underwritten by publisher Penguin Random House, honors independent literary ...
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February 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
❤️ Awesome coverage in today's @austinchronicle.bsky.social Crosstalk on Host Publications receiving The Constellation Award! @clmporg.bsky.social Such a big honor to bring this award home! www.austinchronicle.com/music/crosst...
We are overjoyed to announce that Host Publications has been awarded The Constellation Award by @clmporg.bsky.social !!! In a moment when we are discouraged to do the work we do, we are surprised, overwhelmed, and completely honored to be celebrated in this way. www.clmp.org/press-center...
February 12, 2026 at 12:32 AM
We are overjoyed to announce that Host Publications has been awarded The Constellation Award by @clmporg.bsky.social !!! In a moment when we are discouraged to do the work we do, we are surprised, overwhelmed, and completely honored to be celebrated in this way. www.clmp.org/press-center...
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We're thrilled to announce that @hostpublications.bsky.social, based in Austin, Texas, is the winner of the $10,000 Constellation Award!
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Host Publications Receives the $10,000 Constellation Award - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY (February 11, 2026)—The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is thrilled to announce that Host Publications, based in Austin, Texas, is the winner of the 2026 Constellation…
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February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
We're thrilled to announce that @hostpublications.bsky.social, based in Austin, Texas, is the winner of the $10,000 Constellation Award!
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dezireé a. brown’s THEY/SHE/HE: RITUAL TO FORGET YOUR UNBECOMING is on our reading list for #BlackHistoryMonth!
This collection “maps the odyssey of a life lived in transition and serves as an archive of Black transmasc experience.” @hostpublications.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...
This collection “maps the odyssey of a life lived in transition and serves as an archive of Black transmasc experience.” @hostpublications.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...
they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown
Winner of the 2025 Joe W. Bratcher Prize they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming by dezireé a. brown is a momentous debut, tracking a self-proclaimed antihero’s quest for liberation via the…
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February 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
dezireé a. brown’s THEY/SHE/HE: RITUAL TO FORGET YOUR UNBECOMING is on our reading list for #BlackHistoryMonth!
This collection “maps the odyssey of a life lived in transition and serves as an archive of Black transmasc experience.” @hostpublications.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...
This collection “maps the odyssey of a life lived in transition and serves as an archive of Black transmasc experience.” @hostpublications.bsky.social hostpublications.com/products/the...
💜 Order THE HUNGERING YEARS by @summ.bsky.social now for a SIGNED copy & limited-edition goods! hostpublications.com/products/the...
February 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
💜 Order THE HUNGERING YEARS by @summ.bsky.social now for a SIGNED copy & limited-edition goods! hostpublications.com/products/the...
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Looking for the latest Palestinian poetry? I got you. Pre order The Hungering Years by Summer Farah: hostpublications.com/collections/...
The Hungering Years by Summer Farah
Utterly magnetic, Summer Farah’s debut poetry collection The Hungering Years is a rush of breathless song, voicing confessions so often left unsung amidst personal and collective crisis. “I am afraid ...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Looking for the latest Palestinian poetry? I got you. Pre order The Hungering Years by Summer Farah: hostpublications.com/collections/...
💙 The Host Dispatch Returns for Season 6! S6E1 is in conversation with poet and author of WAYWARD CREATURES, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes | Listen on iHeart (or wherever) 💙 www.iheart.com/podcast/338-...
January 29, 2026 at 10:44 PM
💙 The Host Dispatch Returns for Season 6! S6E1 is in conversation with poet and author of WAYWARD CREATURES, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes | Listen on iHeart (or wherever) 💙 www.iheart.com/podcast/338-...
💜 On the blog: The Hungering Years Companion Reading List curated by @summ.bsky.social 💜https://hostpublications.com/blogs/news/the-hungering-years-companion-reading-list
The Hungering Years Companion Reading List
Hijra by Hala Alyan I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the function of food in contemporary poetry by Palestinian American women. What was being communicated through the act of eating? There’s a line ...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
💜 On the blog: The Hungering Years Companion Reading List curated by @summ.bsky.social 💜https://hostpublications.com/blogs/news/the-hungering-years-companion-reading-list
🌞On the Blog: Host Publications has a new face, and it is luminous, view our new mascot, Varo and read about the behind the scenes process as we worked with linocut artist Eva Frederick! 🌞 hostpublications.com/blogs/news/v...
Varo, The Celestial Lion Emerges
Introducing Our New Mascot, Varo We greet you here at the beginning of 2026 with a long overdue announcement: after 36 years as a publishing house, Host Publications has converted to nonprofit! You ...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
🌞On the Blog: Host Publications has a new face, and it is luminous, view our new mascot, Varo and read about the behind the scenes process as we worked with linocut artist Eva Frederick! 🌞 hostpublications.com/blogs/news/v...
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This is the best contemporary poetry book I've read in the past couple of years. Wow.
It's rare that I feeI exactly what the poet intended, that their words can push my ego aside and I can glimpse their internal life.
Absolutely (beauti/power)ful
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It's rare that I feeI exactly what the poet intended, that their words can push my ego aside and I can glimpse their internal life.
Absolutely (beauti/power)ful
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November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is the best contemporary poetry book I've read in the past couple of years. Wow.
It's rare that I feeI exactly what the poet intended, that their words can push my ego aside and I can glimpse their internal life.
Absolutely (beauti/power)ful
hostpublications.com/products/the...
It's rare that I feeI exactly what the poet intended, that their words can push my ego aside and I can glimpse their internal life.
Absolutely (beauti/power)ful
hostpublications.com/products/the...
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you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
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November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
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🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🔥Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for the DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS 11th Anniversary Edition by Fernando A. Flores! Order now on our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🔥 hostpublications.com/collections/...
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“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode.
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode.
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IUaqAj
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This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...
Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser
All funds collected through this page will be sent to The Sameer Project, a donations-based initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. You can ...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...
Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!
August 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Still flying high from last week's I Scream Social at Alienated Majesty Books! We featured Julie Poole, Marzetta, Ari Kelly, & Austen Scheib!
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We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
July 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We're so excited and grateful to see @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social's and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva's poetry collections named as finalists for @lambdaliterary.org's 2025 Lammy Awards in Gay Poetry and LGBTQ+ Poetry! 🎉
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
Check out the full list of finalists across all categories: tinyurl.com/yc5uu4ea
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Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign!
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Stop Cop Cities Everywhere — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40) Step 2: Register for “Stop Cop Cities Everywhere” here Join organizers from struggles against cop cities and carceral infrastr...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Sign up for Stop Cop Cities Everywhere, August 26th on zoom. To benefit the Sameer Project’s North Gaza campaign!
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Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/
Wildflower -
Wildflower celebrates 8 BIPOC writers from across the country, each of them opening a window into our lives and journeys on and across the spectrum.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Read WILDFLOWER from @luckyjefferson.com for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/
🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...
July 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🌻Cover reveal + pre-orders are officially up for WAYWARD CREATURES by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes! On our website & @asterismbooks.bsky.social! hostpublications.com/products/way...
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
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“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
Read here:
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the city that loves the bomb
I was in high school when Oklahoma City was bombed
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July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
Read here:
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“the city that loves the bomb” by @elgallosalvaje.bsky.social from Book of Provocations published by @hostpublications.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/the-cit...
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🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation.
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
[W4G] $500 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project
July 2: A new match! Poet Alina Stefanescu has stepped up to offer a $500 match to support the work The Sameer Project is doing with their new Medical Campaign! Help us raise $500 --> which will me...
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July 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🌿🚑 Another day, another chance to double your donation.
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
Poet Alina Stefanescu is offering to match up to $500 for Sameer Project's Medical campaign.
Yesterday's was met in a day. Can we do the same?
These funds are urgently needed! ❤️🩹 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth!
The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz
Inaugural Winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize mónica teresa ortiz posits that the most important role of the poet is that of “provocateur, to prod the audience, to interpret a visible and invisible…
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June 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
mónica teresa ortiz’s BOOK OF PROVOCATIONS (@hostpublications.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #PrideMonth!
The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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The poems in this collection “explore catastrophe, illustrating in verse the refusal of the human spirit to submit to systems of oppression.”
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Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth!
This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
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This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
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threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks by m. mick powell
Winner of the Fall 2023 Host Publications Chapbook Prize Featuring an introduction by poet, mother, and educator Brittany Rogers. Formally inventive, emotionally symphonic, glittering and…
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June 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Read m. mick powell’s THREESOME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA for #PrideMonth!
This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
hostpublications.com/collections/...
This collection from @hostpublications.bsky.social “sings about Black queer femmehood in harmonies of multiple voices, asserting the self as ever-changing and voluminous.”
hostpublications.com/collections/...
A look inside LOCAL REMEDIES by Chiagoziem Jideofor, forthcoming from Host Publications Spring 2026! @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/local-r...
local remedies
like prayers and hymns
like a fence of gmelina trees blocking the sun
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June 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A look inside LOCAL REMEDIES by Chiagoziem Jideofor, forthcoming from Host Publications Spring 2026! @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/local-r...
Submissions close this Sunday (06.15.25) at 11:59pm CDT! Host Publications is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts written by historically marginalized writers! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Submissions close this Sunday (06.15.25) at 11:59pm CDT! Host Publications is looking for full-length poetry manuscripts written by historically marginalized writers! hostpublications.submittable.com/submit