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Things are not ok. There's not a lot we can do as a random small press in Canada, but at the very least, gatekeeping books is not something we want to continue. I've decided now until forever, all our digital chapbooks are $0/pay-what-you-can. Sending love & lit <3
now - forever all digital chapbooks free/pay what you can
November 14, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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We need to talk about Spite. Let us know which of these three stories might draw you in (or haunt you) the hardest.

& if you're brave, preorder: wrongpublishing.com
"French Turn" In New York in the late seventies, Celeste and Arthur are having an affair. Set against the backdrop of their self-involved partners and wealthy, claustrophobic circle of friends, "French Turn" is a response to F. Scott Fitzgerald's early piece "The Popular Girl." The story is set after the sexual revolution and considers queer carnal impulses absent from Fitzgerald's conversation about self-inflicted tragedies of the upper class. "Saint Jane" Jane’s boyfriend has died young in a horrible accident. She’s moved to North Carolina to live with her maiden aunt. She’s also started hallucinating about a slender ghoul that balances on the edge of her desk: Sybil, her childhood friend, who’s grown impossibly tall and is still wearing her old school uniform. Sybil lurks around the house and asks Jane insensitive questions about why her life has come to a sudden halt. "The Wizard" An immortal wizard with crippling depression and the power to tell the future lives in Akron, Ohio. His help is sought by a woman named Sara, who’s unaware that her own mother and grandmother have both visited him with the same problem.
August 23, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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The good news is that preorders are open today for SPITE, the new fantastical fiction collection by Anjeli Chapman Wolf.

The bad news is this will be the last ever title from our press. For my health, I have to step back, but this is a fantastic closer. Enjoy it all the more-

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August 9, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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We can't believe it's real, but "without a listener: a comedy" from our magazine's final issue made it into @sundresspub.bsky.social's Best of the Net.

A gigantic congrats to writer Amelia K, who is not on social media. Thank you for getting our name up there with your words.
Camille U. Adams's "Up Covigne Road" from The Forge Literary Magazine Lissa Batista's "Dreaming in Brazil" from West Trade Review Amelia K's "without a listener: a comedy" from Wrongdoing Magazine Michele Lovell's "What They Bring with Them" from Sky Island Journal DW McKinney's "In the Water's Grip" from Ecotone Jamila Osman's "Street View" from Bellingham Review
July 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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"he wound his mouth into a falsetto
& asked which has eaten more flesh—the soil or a
bullet?"

— “Lágbájá” by Saheed Sunday
from SOMEDAY, BULLETS WILL STOP TRAILING MY SKIN, out now in print & digital 🌲☁️

Get your dose of vital poetry from this exciting young author.

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June 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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We're so elated to announce our next title—Saheed Sunday's poetry chapbook SOMEDAY, BULLETS WILL STOP TRAILING MY SKIN.

A must-read collection on identity and perseverance, it's coming into the world this June 14th.

READ MORE & PREORDER:

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June 1, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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She has also written 20+ plays and immersive experiences performed across Southern California. For more info, visit chelseasutton.com.

And make sure to get your copy of ONLY ANIMALS —

PRINT: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...

DIGITAL: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p141/o...
April 30, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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She’s a graduate of the 2022 @clarionucsd.bsky.social SF&F Workshop and holds an MFA in CW & Writing for the Performing Arts from UC Riverside. Her flash and longer fiction has appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, @apexmag.bsky.social, @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, F(r)iction, CRAFT, and others.
April 30, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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IT'S TIME! ONLY ANIMALS is here in the flesh, alive in print and digital formats, slithering.

MEET OUR AUTHOR: @crsutton.bsky.social is a writer and theatre maker of what she likes to call gothic whimsy— magical realism and horror with a sense of humor.
April 30, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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“Ursula's face slips off easily, as if it never fit just right, as if something had dislodged and warped it long ago, as if it were a gold-plated cathedral door rusting on its hinges.”

— @crsutton.bsky.social, "Ursula the Monster" from ONLY ANIMALS

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ONLY ANIMALS OUT TOMORROW
April 29, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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🗓️ Countdown to ONLY ANIMALS 🗓️

@crsutton.bsky.social's stories are so enthralling and vividly imagined... the magic of transformation in each narrative is pure and undeniable.

—SUSAN STRAIGHT, bestselling author of MECCA and IN THE COUNTRY OF WOMEN

Preorder: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...
April 24, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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@crsutton.bsky.social 's writing is electric. The stories in ONLY ANIMALS crackle with wit, emotion, and big, strange ideas that linger long after you're finished reading.

— @gwenda.bsky.social, New York Times bestselling author of THE FRAME-UP

PREORDER! www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...
April 17, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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We missed you. And we couldn't be more excited to announce ONLY ANIMALS—11 tales of gothic whimsy by the very awesome @crsutton.bsky.social.

OUT APRIL 30TH!

Cover artwork is by Mashaal Sajid, who always kills it. 🖤🐙

Preorder yours now: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p140/o...
ONLY ANIMALS stories by Chelsea Sutton Preorders OPEN Publication April 30th wrongpublishing.com
April 13, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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"i dialed the number on your throat
the operator said “on your knees”
time for praying

so i slot a peseta in the payphone
and the mcflurry machine…
starts working (hallelujah)."

—"sourdough"
from CRINGEROTICA by Soli

OUT NOW: www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p138/c...
March 5, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Come celebrate our two latest releases with a NEW online reading event!

When: Feb 16 evening, 9 ET/8 CT/7 MT

Where: Twitter Spaces (@wrongpublishing)

What: Tune in to hear Mary Mandeville and Kate Pashby read from their beautiful chapbooks... then an extra special preview of CRINGE.... 👀 🕷️🥩🕯️
Kate Pashby + Mary Mandeville VIRTUAL READING Feb 16, 2024 9 ET/8 CT/7 MT (PM) + a special preview of our next title, CRINGEROTICA Feb 16, 2024 9 ET/8 CT/7 MT (PM)
February 6, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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🕯️🕯️ Cover reveal 🕯️🕯️

CRINGEROTICA. 23/02/24.

Preorder yours: wrongpublishing.com/store/p138/c...
February 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Get yours: wrongpublishing.com
January 26, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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"I grew roots so deep and strong no wind could blow me down. Not a detective calling to tell me about my son’s multiple felonies, not his commitment to residential treatment, not even the dark-eye-circle insanity that enveloped him at age nineteen.”

WHAT LASTS is OUT NOW in print & digital 💙⬇️
Mary Mandeville, "Blooming is Just a Promise" from WHAT LASTS What I didn’t notice as quickly was the way my heart stretched and grew. The way I faced challenges with an expanding sense of calm. I grew roots so deep and strong no wind could blow me down. Not a detective calling to tell me about my son’s multiple felonies, not his commitment to residential treatment, not even the dark-eye-circle insanity that enveloped him at age nineteen.
January 26, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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MEET THE AUTHOR!

Together with her wife, Mary cares for a century-old house, tends a flock of city chickens, and shepherds a really old canine through his final years. Mary and her wife hold the memory of the son they lost a decade ago to teen suicide.

Continued ⬇️
January 12, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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"This book is a love song and a heart prayer. I will carry the pieces in my body forever."
— Lidia Yuknavitch

"WHAT LASTS is essential heart reading."
— Anne Gudger

WHAT LASTS is up for preorder below! Get yourself these intimate essays—insights on trying to breathe after losing a son to suicide.
December 29, 2023 at 10:07 PM
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"One wild ride of weird, it’s a haunted house story perhaps best compared to HOUSE OF LEAVES."

— @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social reviewed @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social's POSTHASTE MANOR (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social)

READ ON THE WRONG BLOG: wrongpublishing.tumblr.com
December 24, 2023 at 4:36 PM
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"he says you are a fine specimen
an excellent example of your race
but you don’t know what these dragons do
with their collections"

—Kate Pashby, "collection"
from A SHELF OF MY ANCESTORS

Out now in print & digital formats:
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December 22, 2023 at 5:01 PM
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"SISTERS is enough to set my old Catholic school nuns on an extended rant about faith, respect, and chastity (which is to say that former Catholics will catch something gleeful about it)."

@elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social reviewed @authorplm.bsky.social's novella (@timberghostpress.bsky.social) ⬇️
December 20, 2023 at 5:57 PM
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What happens when human remains are objectified, when they are assigned serial numbers in a catalog and placed into storage?

Happy book birthday to Kate Pashby's A SHELF OF MY ANCESTORS, available now in both print & digital formats: wrongpublishing.com
a shelf of my ancestors by Kate Pashby "a shelf of my ancestors is frustrating and beautiful in all the right ways. Part One has us caught up in bureaucracy and legends and letters and semantics. Part Two speaks of defiance, allegory, ancestorial point of view and hope. Simply excellent work by Kate Pashby. Just marvellous." — Daniel Poitras, Edmonton poet ​"To read a shelf of my ancestors is to share in an archivist’s rage. To witness real people reduced to specimens as a gentle and clinical poet pulls you further into a spiraling history. Pashby’s strong voice, historian’s heart, and aching storytelling make this chapbook a vital part of the narrative." ​​ — Kit E Lascher, Editor-in-Chief of Trash Wonderland Magazine "a shelf of my ancestors is an emotionally resonant collection of poems with an electric voice that explores colonization as a living practice, one that commodifies even the bones of the ancestors." — Audrey T. Carroll, author of In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be
December 15, 2023 at 8:47 PM
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48-hour essay collection sale starts NOW❗❗

Get a discount bundle of IN THE NAME OF THE BODY + a way-ahead-of-the-line preorder of Mary Mandeville's WHAT LASTS.

It won't be back again for several weeks, so get your sneak peek while you can:

www.wrongpublishing.com/store/p132/n...
December 12, 2023 at 9:06 PM