Small Harbor Publishing
@smallharborpub.bsky.social
Small Harbor Publishing is a non-profit organization that houses a press and online magazine. Our goal is to address gender parity and marginalization in publishing. We are committed to giving diverse voices a home.
Acquired for 2027 📚✨
The Body Shelters in Song by Kory Wells — a luminous new collection from an award-winning poet, former Murfreesboro Poet Laureate, and fierce community builder through language and art. We’re honored to welcome this book to our list.
The Body Shelters in Song by Kory Wells — a luminous new collection from an award-winning poet, former Murfreesboro Poet Laureate, and fierce community builder through language and art. We’re honored to welcome this book to our list.
December 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Acquired for 2027 📚✨
The Body Shelters in Song by Kory Wells — a luminous new collection from an award-winning poet, former Murfreesboro Poet Laureate, and fierce community builder through language and art. We’re honored to welcome this book to our list.
The Body Shelters in Song by Kory Wells — a luminous new collection from an award-winning poet, former Murfreesboro Poet Laureate, and fierce community builder through language and art. We’re honored to welcome this book to our list.
Have you read Harbor Review Issue #15 yet? ✨
SUBLIMINAL is now live—dive into the quiet, strange, and unseen:
www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-sub...
SUBLIMINAL is now live—dive into the quiet, strange, and unseen:
www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-sub...
December 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Have you read Harbor Review Issue #15 yet? ✨
SUBLIMINAL is now live—dive into the quiet, strange, and unseen:
www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-sub...
SUBLIMINAL is now live—dive into the quiet, strange, and unseen:
www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-sub...
Coming soon 💛 T4T by Evelyn Berry.
A chapbook centered on pleasure, embodiment, safety, and care—beyond the sexual, toward the human.
Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4...
A chapbook centered on pleasure, embodiment, safety, and care—beyond the sexual, toward the human.
Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4...
December 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Coming soon 💛 T4T by Evelyn Berry.
A chapbook centered on pleasure, embodiment, safety, and care—beyond the sexual, toward the human.
Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4...
A chapbook centered on pleasure, embodiment, safety, and care—beyond the sexual, toward the human.
Learn more: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4...
📣 Acquired for 2026
We’re thrilled to announce Intern Year by Kristin LaFollette has been acquired for 2026. Author of Hematology and Body Parts, LaFollette brings her incisive, necessary voice to our list. Stay tuned.
We’re thrilled to announce Intern Year by Kristin LaFollette has been acquired for 2026. Author of Hematology and Body Parts, LaFollette brings her incisive, necessary voice to our list. Stay tuned.
December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📣 Acquired for 2026
We’re thrilled to announce Intern Year by Kristin LaFollette has been acquired for 2026. Author of Hematology and Body Parts, LaFollette brings her incisive, necessary voice to our list. Stay tuned.
We’re thrilled to announce Intern Year by Kristin LaFollette has been acquired for 2026. Author of Hematology and Body Parts, LaFollette brings her incisive, necessary voice to our list. Stay tuned.
Meet our January 2026 titles ✨
📘 T4T by Evelyn Berry
📘 FORCE: A Choreopoem by Monica Prince
📘 Mother as Conjunction by Erin Murphy
Launching soon—three bold, necessary books we can’t wait to share!
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/
📘 T4T by Evelyn Berry
📘 FORCE: A Choreopoem by Monica Prince
📘 Mother as Conjunction by Erin Murphy
Launching soon—three bold, necessary books we can’t wait to share!
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/
December 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Meet our January 2026 titles ✨
📘 T4T by Evelyn Berry
📘 FORCE: A Choreopoem by Monica Prince
📘 Mother as Conjunction by Erin Murphy
Launching soon—three bold, necessary books we can’t wait to share!
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/
📘 T4T by Evelyn Berry
📘 FORCE: A Choreopoem by Monica Prince
📘 Mother as Conjunction by Erin Murphy
Launching soon—three bold, necessary books we can’t wait to share!
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/
Big news! 🎉 We’re proud to see three of our books—Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Waveforms: A Short Course in Piano Tuning by Andrea L. Hackbarth, and When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton—named to the CLMP Members’ Most-Celebrated Books of 2025 list.
🔗 www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...
🔗 www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Big news! 🎉 We’re proud to see three of our books—Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Waveforms: A Short Course in Piano Tuning by Andrea L. Hackbarth, and When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton—named to the CLMP Members’ Most-Celebrated Books of 2025 list.
🔗 www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...
🔗 www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...
🎟️ Tickets now on sale for our next generative workshop!
Join Take Me Back: A Dolly Parton Poetry Workshop with Dustin Brookshire 📝🎶
📅 Jan 24, 2026 | 1–2:30pm ET
✨ Write 3–4 new poems in this virtual workshop
🎟️ secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Join Take Me Back: A Dolly Parton Poetry Workshop with Dustin Brookshire 📝🎶
📅 Jan 24, 2026 | 1–2:30pm ET
✨ Write 3–4 new poems in this virtual workshop
🎟️ secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🎟️ Tickets now on sale for our next generative workshop!
Join Take Me Back: A Dolly Parton Poetry Workshop with Dustin Brookshire 📝🎶
📅 Jan 24, 2026 | 1–2:30pm ET
✨ Write 3–4 new poems in this virtual workshop
🎟️ secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Join Take Me Back: A Dolly Parton Poetry Workshop with Dustin Brookshire 📝🎶
📅 Jan 24, 2026 | 1–2:30pm ET
✨ Write 3–4 new poems in this virtual workshop
🎟️ secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
November 2025 Best Sellers at Small Harbor Publishing:
1. Dissent — Nalley & Freeman
2. The Other Tree — Alison Lubar
3. What’s Left is Tender — Travis Chi Wing Lau
4. Mother of Other Kingdoms — Kai Coggin
5. Eating Turtle — Alexis Stratton
Thank you for supporting small press literature.
1. Dissent — Nalley & Freeman
2. The Other Tree — Alison Lubar
3. What’s Left is Tender — Travis Chi Wing Lau
4. Mother of Other Kingdoms — Kai Coggin
5. Eating Turtle — Alexis Stratton
Thank you for supporting small press literature.
December 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
November 2025 Best Sellers at Small Harbor Publishing:
1. Dissent — Nalley & Freeman
2. The Other Tree — Alison Lubar
3. What’s Left is Tender — Travis Chi Wing Lau
4. Mother of Other Kingdoms — Kai Coggin
5. Eating Turtle — Alexis Stratton
Thank you for supporting small press literature.
1. Dissent — Nalley & Freeman
2. The Other Tree — Alison Lubar
3. What’s Left is Tender — Travis Chi Wing Lau
4. Mother of Other Kingdoms — Kai Coggin
5. Eating Turtle — Alexis Stratton
Thank you for supporting small press literature.
📚 ACQUIRED FOR 2027 📚
We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Clearing Out the Tillage Rows by Rick Mulkey for a 2027 release. Mulkey brings a voice both grounded and luminous to this new work. We can’t wait to share more as this book makes its way into the world.
We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Clearing Out the Tillage Rows by Rick Mulkey for a 2027 release. Mulkey brings a voice both grounded and luminous to this new work. We can’t wait to share more as this book makes its way into the world.
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📚 ACQUIRED FOR 2027 📚
We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Clearing Out the Tillage Rows by Rick Mulkey for a 2027 release. Mulkey brings a voice both grounded and luminous to this new work. We can’t wait to share more as this book makes its way into the world.
We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of Clearing Out the Tillage Rows by Rick Mulkey for a 2027 release. Mulkey brings a voice both grounded and luminous to this new work. We can’t wait to share more as this book makes its way into the world.
Happening now!!
This evening! Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces tonight. Thank you for spending your evening with me!
TODAY IS THE DAY! Join us on Facebook Live or Zoom for a special book release reading featuring Travis Chi Wing Lau and Boston Gordon!
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happening now!!
Reposted by Small Harbor Publishing
This evening! Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces tonight. Thank you for spending your evening with me!
TODAY IS THE DAY! Join us on Facebook Live or Zoom for a special book release reading featuring Travis Chi Wing Lau and Boston Gordon!
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This evening! Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces tonight. Thank you for spending your evening with me!
TODAY IS THE DAY! Join us on Facebook Live or Zoom for a special book release reading featuring Travis Chi Wing Lau and Boston Gordon!
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
TODAY IS THE DAY! Join us on Facebook Live or Zoom for a special book release reading featuring Travis Chi Wing Lau and Boston Gordon!
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’re thrilled to share the cover of The Marabou Who Crossed the Sea by Rohanna Ssanyu! Coming February 2026!
Cover art: Rohanna Ssanyu
Cover design: Jessy Montoya
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/the-marabou-who-crossed-the-sea-by-rohanna-ssanyu
Cover art: Rohanna Ssanyu
Cover design: Jessy Montoya
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/the-marabou-who-crossed-the-sea-by-rohanna-ssanyu
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We’re thrilled to share the cover of The Marabou Who Crossed the Sea by Rohanna Ssanyu! Coming February 2026!
Cover art: Rohanna Ssanyu
Cover design: Jessy Montoya
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/the-marabou-who-crossed-the-sea-by-rohanna-ssanyu
Cover art: Rohanna Ssanyu
Cover design: Jessy Montoya
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/the-marabou-who-crossed-the-sea-by-rohanna-ssanyu
Cover reveal!! Shanta Lee Honeycutt’s “Do Words Dream Themselves Into Silence Told in Riddles?” is coming February 2026!
Cover art: Megan Merchant
Cover design: Diana Baltag
Cover art: Megan Merchant
Cover design: Diana Baltag
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Cover reveal!! Shanta Lee Honeycutt’s “Do Words Dream Themselves Into Silence Told in Riddles?” is coming February 2026!
Cover art: Megan Merchant
Cover design: Diana Baltag
Cover art: Megan Merchant
Cover design: Diana Baltag
✨ Still Open: Laureate Prize! But not much longer! ✨
Submissions are open October 1–December 31 at Small Harbor Publishing. We’re thrilled to welcome work from writers of all backgrounds.
🏆 Judged by Traci Brimhall
📬 Submit at smallharborpublishing.com
Submissions are open October 1–December 31 at Small Harbor Publishing. We’re thrilled to welcome work from writers of all backgrounds.
🏆 Judged by Traci Brimhall
📬 Submit at smallharborpublishing.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
✨ Still Open: Laureate Prize! But not much longer! ✨
Submissions are open October 1–December 31 at Small Harbor Publishing. We’re thrilled to welcome work from writers of all backgrounds.
🏆 Judged by Traci Brimhall
📬 Submit at smallharborpublishing.com
Submissions are open October 1–December 31 at Small Harbor Publishing. We’re thrilled to welcome work from writers of all backgrounds.
🏆 Judged by Traci Brimhall
📬 Submit at smallharborpublishing.com
On December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom registration at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Zoom registration at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
On December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM Eastern, we’ll gather on Zoom to celebrate two stunning new collections—What’s Left Is Tender and Loose Bricks.
Zoom registration at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Zoom registration at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
How READY are you for MOTHER AS CONJUNCTION, lyrics essays, by Erin Murphy?! Here’s the cover!
Cover image: Leslie F. Miller
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Coming late January, 2026! Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
Cover image: Leslie F. Miller
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Coming late January, 2026! Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
How READY are you for MOTHER AS CONJUNCTION, lyrics essays, by Erin Murphy?! Here’s the cover!
Cover image: Leslie F. Miller
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Coming late January, 2026! Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
Cover image: Leslie F. Miller
Cover design: Brianna Protesto
Coming late January, 2026! Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/mo...
LAST DAY TO REGISTER!
Writing With Pain: A virtual generative workshop on illness & disability.
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Writing With Pain: A virtual generative workshop on illness & disability.
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
LAST DAY TO REGISTER!
Writing With Pain: A virtual generative workshop on illness & disability.
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Writing With Pain: A virtual generative workshop on illness & disability.
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
We are so excited to welcome @thischerokeerose.bsky.social as our new Editor-in-Chief!
![Beige graphic advertising Jessica Doe Mehta as the new Editor in Chief. Her image and bio are included.
Bio: Jessica Doe Mehta is an Aniyunwiya writer, artist, and scholar whose avant-garde, place-rooted work centers Indigenization and decolonization. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she creates across books, exhibitions, and interdisciplinary installations. She serves as Assistant Director at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection [sp]RED.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fx4atmhx5ngya6ftksvmr74f/bafkreihu2kndab5cfye4r2svnmth3ilkjvb2czcrgseqhfqvejrqpy7lue@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are so excited to welcome @thischerokeerose.bsky.social as our new Editor-in-Chief!
Cover reveal!! Coming February, 2026! Welcome BLOWDOWN by Jessica L. Walsh!
Cover design by: Diana Baltag
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/blowdown-by-jessica-l-walsh
Cover design by: Diana Baltag
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/blowdown-by-jessica-l-walsh
December 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Cover reveal!! Coming February, 2026! Welcome BLOWDOWN by Jessica L. Walsh!
Cover design by: Diana Baltag
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/blowdown-by-jessica-l-walsh
Cover design by: Diana Baltag
🔗https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/blowdown-by-jessica-l-walsh
We are so thrilled to welcome Priscilla Wathington to Harbor Review as a Poetry Reader!
Welcome aboard, Priscilla!
Welcome aboard, Priscilla!
December 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We are so thrilled to welcome Priscilla Wathington to Harbor Review as a Poetry Reader!
Welcome aboard, Priscilla!
Welcome aboard, Priscilla!
Writing With Pain: A virtual generative workshop on illness & disability.
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Writing With Pain: A virtual generative workshop on illness & disability.
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Join us 12/13/25, 1–2:30pm EST with our founder & facilitator Allison Blevins for craft, community, and prompts that help you write through pain.
Buy tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
Issue #15 of Harbor Review is now live — “(Sub)liminal” is out now and ready for you to explore!
🔗https://www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-subliminal
Expect work that delves into the subconscious — poems and art that linger under the surface and change meaning with each viewing.
🔗https://www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-subliminal
Expect work that delves into the subconscious — poems and art that linger under the surface and change meaning with each viewing.
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Issue #15 of Harbor Review is now live — “(Sub)liminal” is out now and ready for you to explore!
🔗https://www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-subliminal
Expect work that delves into the subconscious — poems and art that linger under the surface and change meaning with each viewing.
🔗https://www.harbor-review.com/issue-15-subliminal
Expect work that delves into the subconscious — poems and art that linger under the surface and change meaning with each viewing.
Congratulations to our Best of the Net 2025 finalists! 🎉
We’re thrilled to celebrate Adebowale Adelegan for “Boys in the Whip” and Kristina Erny for “Self Portrait with a Bowl of Noodles in 私房牛肉面.”
Read the full list here: bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-finalists
We’re thrilled to celebrate Adebowale Adelegan for “Boys in the Whip” and Kristina Erny for “Self Portrait with a Bowl of Noodles in 私房牛肉面.”
Read the full list here: bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-finalists
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congratulations to our Best of the Net 2025 finalists! 🎉
We’re thrilled to celebrate Adebowale Adelegan for “Boys in the Whip” and Kristina Erny for “Self Portrait with a Bowl of Noodles in 私房牛肉面.”
Read the full list here: bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-finalists
We’re thrilled to celebrate Adebowale Adelegan for “Boys in the Whip” and Kristina Erny for “Self Portrait with a Bowl of Noodles in 私房牛肉面.”
Read the full list here: bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-finalists
Congratulations to Sarah Fawn Montgomery and ABBREVIATE for earning a place in Independent Book Review’s “The Best Books We Read in 2025” list! We’re so proud! 🔗https://independentbookreview.com/2025/12/03/the-best-books-we-read-in-2025/
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Congratulations to Sarah Fawn Montgomery and ABBREVIATE for earning a place in Independent Book Review’s “The Best Books We Read in 2025” list! We’re so proud! 🔗https://independentbookreview.com/2025/12/03/the-best-books-we-read-in-2025/