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Querencia Press
@querenciapress.bsky.social
independent publisher amplifying overlooked voices & creating a safe space for writers and artists to share their stories

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Preorder starts today for @lyfaulk.bsky.social chapbook Hippie Speedball 🥳 this collection explores both grief & depression, but also the safe spaces that get you through it ✨ link in bio
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Woke up this morning to an email from @querenciapress.bsky.social letting me know that one of my short nonfiction pieces was accepted to their quarterly anthology! 🙌 Beyond excited to be included in this! #WritingCommunity
October 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Minor Illusions by Daryl Li is out today! ✨ this short story collection explores themes of grief, memory, and human relationships in a variety of writing styles✨ link in bio

Cover art: Rachel Tan
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Salamander Morning, Nadine Hitchiner’s poetry collection on love & life is out now! This is a tender examination of marriage, self, loss, & mental health to be read with care ✨ link in bio —video is by the author
October 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
1/2 We have a ton of extra inventory & need to make room for new titles! All of our 22-24 quarterly anthologies are $8, Not Ghosts, But Spirits is $18 for paperback and $33 for hardcover, & we have overstock titles listed at $7-$8 on our PayHip store! No code needed—
October 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
elegy for [lukas] by @lunareyhall is open for preorders! This collection is a diary of grief at trans & queer survival, their own selfhood, & the affliction it is to have a body ✨ link in bio

*Amazon is currently not accepting our preorders, but title’s are available everywhere else
October 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Ifunanya Georgia Ezeano’s chap In Storm & Stillwater is available for preorder! This book explores isolation, womanhood, grief, politics, & family and how we adapt ✨ link in bio

*Amazon is for some reason currently not accepting our paperback preorders, but this title is available everywhere else.
October 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s Pub Day!! Jessica Thiru’s debut, Burning of Absence is out today! ✨this chapbook touches on loneliness and grief, but Thiru is a warm hand guiding in the dark to refuse that seclusion ✨link in bio
September 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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from "Atonal Apocalypse: On MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan" (@querenciapress.bsky.social: 2025), in which I compare experimental prose to atonal music

published in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow earlier this year
September 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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#FridayReads:
My book 'The Last Way'
from @querenciapress.bsky.social

with 2 cover options!

Get your copy now!

#horror #BookRecommendations #books #novellas #nowreading #writingcommunity
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Preorder is open for If One Continues to Survive, an anthology organized by @pipkinsjoshua.bsky.social & @axiopoeticus.bsky.social —this unapologetic poetry anthology features work that celebrates the ways we survive & hold hands while doing so. Proceeds benefit The Audre Lorde Project ✨link in bio
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Anthropological Study, Lauren Miller’s first full length poetry collection, is out today! These pieces explore queerness, gender identity, the Anthropocene, neurodivergence, and mental illness and how they are shaping life for new adults ✨ link in bio
August 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Autumn! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, & submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline September 1st
August 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The Last Way by @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social is now available! This novella examines domestic abuse that drives a young boy in a small southern town to plan to kill his father, a violently unpredictable man, It’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt. Or worse. ✨ link in bio
August 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Preorder is open for @nonstickpanda.bsky.social short story collection, Minor Illusions ✨ this collection explores themes of grief, memory, and human relationships ✨ link in bio

Cover art: Rachel Tan
July 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Working the Roots, Amanda Bennett’s debut chapbook is out today! This collection offers up the complexities of self-love’s intersection with grief, desire, intimacy, womanhood, & Blackness ✨ link in bio
July 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Preorder starts today for Jessica Thiru’s debut, Burning of Absence ✨this chapbook touches on loneliness and grief, but Thiru is a warm hand guiding in the dark to refuse that seclusion ✨link in bio
June 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I was thinking today about how important it is to support small presses and recognize the hard work of those who run them. Here's all the roses to the generous and talented @undermeyou.bsky.social and @querenciapress.bsky.social!

And so many wonderful books: www.querenciapress.com/books
June 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Preorder is open for Anthropological Study, Lauren Miller’s first full length poetry collection! These pieces explore queerness, gender identity, the Anthropocene, neurodivergence, and mental illness and how they are shaping life for new adults ✨ link in bio
June 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Preorder is up for The Last Way by @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social —in this novella a young boy in a small southern town plans to kill his father, a violently unpredictable man, who has become such a menacing force that both the boy & his mother live in a near constant state of fear✨ link in bio
June 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Our 2025 Spring anthology is out now! As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so read with care ✨ link in bio

*Small reminder, Spring issue was very behind schedule so we are already starting to read through the Summer subs which close tonight 🥰
June 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Our 2025 Spring anthology (featuring 53 contributors) is available for a quick preorder! As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so should be read with care ✨ link in bio
May 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Preorder starts today for Working the Roots, Amanda Bennett’s debut chapbook! This collection offers up the complexities of self-love’s intersection with grief, desire, intimacy, womanhood, & Blackness ✨ link in bio
May 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Special #Callout for #writers and #artists under 12 y.o. - OPEN - Submission Cap: 150 - @querenciapress.bsky.social is looking for work from #kids 12 and under for an #anthology for middle grade/YA readers! We will be accepting visual art and writing for this anthology...
May 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM