Anxiety Press
@anxietypress.bsky.social
If you aren’t already broken, don’t worry, we’ll get you there.
This book has been exorcised. It didn’t work.
Coming Fall 2025
Coming Fall 2025
August 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This book has been exorcised. It didn’t work.
Coming Fall 2025
Coming Fall 2025
He used to fetch. Now he seizes. ✊🏻✊🏻
July 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
He used to fetch. Now he seizes. ✊🏻✊🏻
Every book is a gravestone. Ours just come pre-shattered.
July 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Every book is a gravestone. Ours just come pre-shattered.
Lacan spoke of the Real. Sweeney’s about to make it hyperreal. ✊🏻
July 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Lacan spoke of the Real. Sweeney’s about to make it hyperreal. ✊🏻
Something new is on the horizon. Take a look at the cover for EARLY STORIES—coming soon from Anxiety Press.
July 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Something new is on the horizon. Take a look at the cover for EARLY STORIES—coming soon from Anxiety Press.
We publish the kind of lit that makes you ache in places Bataille warned you about.
July 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We publish the kind of lit that makes you ache in places Bataille warned you about.
If you grew up on burned CDs and untreated trauma, this one’s for you.
July 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If you grew up on burned CDs and untreated trauma, this one’s for you.
When you shoot your shot and land a restraining order from The Paris Review.
July 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When you shoot your shot and land a restraining order from The Paris Review.
We don’t publish—
we pierce.
we pierce.
July 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We don’t publish—
we pierce.
we pierce.
"When I think of Anxiety Press... I think of a hound, with its eyes growing bigger and bigger, and its smile growing wider and wider giving me a deranged happy-go-lucky face in the abyss. Let that image burn in your mind."
- Mr. Omar King, author of An Odyssey of Dingbats!
- Mr. Omar King, author of An Odyssey of Dingbats!
July 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"When I think of Anxiety Press... I think of a hound, with its eyes growing bigger and bigger, and its smile growing wider and wider giving me a deranged happy-go-lucky face in the abyss. Let that image burn in your mind."
- Mr. Omar King, author of An Odyssey of Dingbats!
- Mr. Omar King, author of An Odyssey of Dingbats!
Here’s something new: we’re giving money to the most fucked-up fiction you can cough up.
$100 cash. No trophies. No clapping. Just shame, ruin, and a digital certificate of despair.
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/the-...
$100 cash. No trophies. No clapping. Just shame, ruin, and a digital certificate of despair.
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/the-...
July 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here’s something new: we’re giving money to the most fucked-up fiction you can cough up.
$100 cash. No trophies. No clapping. Just shame, ruin, and a digital certificate of despair.
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/the-...
$100 cash. No trophies. No clapping. Just shame, ruin, and a digital certificate of despair.
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/the-...
Saving the world? I can’t even answer my phone.
June 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Saving the world? I can’t even answer my phone.
They played this ad in ‘92, right before the sci-fi channel was launched. Just static, space, and the kind of loneliness that makes a boy stare at the screen like it’s god. I still think about it. How something like that could live in your ribs for thirty plus years is strange to think about.
June 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
They played this ad in ‘92, right before the sci-fi channel was launched. Just static, space, and the kind of loneliness that makes a boy stare at the screen like it’s god. I still think about it. How something like that could live in your ribs for thirty plus years is strange to think about.
Cornel West just reached into the gutter, pulled us up by the collar, and said, ‘These are the fucking guys.’ That’s not approval. That’s divine intervention.
June 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Cornel West just reached into the gutter, pulled us up by the collar, and said, ‘These are the fucking guys.’ That’s not approval. That’s divine intervention.
For they write what cowards pray to forget.
June 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
For they write what cowards pray to forget.
It’s not satire — it’s a blood-soaked scream filtered through a cartoonist having a nervous breakdown in a Chuck E. Cheese ball pit.
June 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s not satire — it’s a blood-soaked scream filtered through a cartoonist having a nervous breakdown in a Chuck E. Cheese ball pit.
Turns out no one wanted to read about your cousin fucking a ghost in coal country.
June 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Turns out no one wanted to read about your cousin fucking a ghost in coal country.
We don’t print books. We perform ocular violations.
June 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We don’t print books. We perform ocular violations.
Still not over the fact that Alissa Nutting blurbed How to Steal a Train.
Anxiety Press is loading the cargo. You’ll want a seat.
Anxiety Press is loading the cargo. You’ll want a seat.
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Still not over the fact that Alissa Nutting blurbed How to Steal a Train.
Anxiety Press is loading the cargo. You’ll want a seat.
Anxiety Press is loading the cargo. You’ll want a seat.
You don’t attend an Anxiety Press event. You survive it!
May 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
You don’t attend an Anxiety Press event. You survive it!
Poets call it 'a reading.' He calls it 'bait.’
May 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Poets call it 'a reading.' He calls it 'bait.’
Some say we aren’t a real press. They’re right — we’re a cult with better merch.
May 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Some say we aren’t a real press. They’re right — we’re a cult with better merch.
We fuck better. We write meaner.
May 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We fuck better. We write meaner.
In case ya’ll forgot 🤘🏻
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In case ya’ll forgot 🤘🏻
“The only film that made me want to both dance and self-immolate.”
– Jaded Librarian Quarterly
– Jaded Librarian Quarterly
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“The only film that made me want to both dance and self-immolate.”
– Jaded Librarian Quarterly
– Jaded Librarian Quarterly