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The journal Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine will devote a special section to a forthcoming issue to Steven B. Katz's Plato's Nightmare and invites submissions no later than July 1, 2026. The journal invites diverse voices (scholars, poets, artists) celebrating, interrogating, expanding, and transforming Katz's work in this complex and remarkable book. Read more >>

Congratulations to Liane Malinowski, whose book City Housekeeping: Women’s Labor Rhetorics and Spaces for Solidarity, 1886-1911 has earned Honorable Mention for the CFSHRC Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award. The book appears in Parlor Press's Studies in Rhetorics and Femisms series now edited by Jessica Enoch and Sharon Yam. Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan, the founding editors of the series, were the editors when City Housekeeping was published.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize and the newest titles accepted for publication by Free Verse Editions in late 2026.

To honor the 50th anniversary of the death of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940–1975) and promote his legacy, Parlor Press is pleased to offer a thirty percent discount on An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975 until 1 April 2026. Use the code BRINKMANN40 at checkout to receive the discount.