Horse Less Press

Congratulations to Horse Less author Jenny Drai, whose novella LETTERS TO QUINCE won the Deerbird Novella Prize from Artistically Declined Press and will be published in 2015! Drai’s horse less chapbook : BODY WOLF : is one of many chapbooks you can purchase via our spring Kickstarter campaign. 

This summer, we’ll be published Siel Ju’s chapbook MIGHT CLUB. Siel Ju’s work has recently appeared in Drunken Boat, Leveler, and Toad.    

This fall we’ll be publishing the chapbook TWO: (GHAZALS) by Judith Roitman, whose work has recently appeared in Talisman,  Yew, and in Horse Less Review; and the chapbook KEEN by Lauren Gordon, whose work has recently appeared at Escape Into Life. 

Check out our full chapbook line-up on our Kickstarter page, and then order a spring, summer, or fall chapbook subscription! Each seasonal subscription is only $30 for five chapbooks, or you can order the entire year’s run for only $75. 

We have 11 days to go of our spring mini-Kickstarter campaign, and we’re 30% funded. Thank you! If you haven’t yet, please stop by and order some books or chapbooks & support Horse Less Press in the process. Coming up in the next couple months, we have chapbooks by Carolina Maugeri and Kris Hall, a full-length book by John Duvernoy, and Horse Less Review #17, guest edited by Megan Burns. 

In case you missed it, I posted some great news & work from our authors over the holiday weekend: a new review of Stephanie Anderson’s IN THE KEY OF THOSE WHO CAN NO LONGER ORGANIZE THEIR ENVIRONMENTS, some video of Tim Earley reading from POEMS DESCRIPTIVE OF RURAL LIFE AND SCENERY, and a new SONNET from Nikki Wallschlaeger. I also announced that we’ll be publishing Nikki Wallschlaeger’s first full-length book, HOUSES, in 2015. We’re so excited! HOUSES was a solicited manuscript; if you submitted a manuscript during our open reading period this spring, we hope to be in touch by the end of June, so more announcements forthcoming! 

Here’s a great review of Stephanie Anderson’s In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments over at VOLTA. Thanks, Abigail! Still need a copy of Stephanie Anderson’s book? You can pick one up and help support Horse Less via our spring Kickstarter campaign. 

Go spend some time at Fanzine with this great poem by Nikki Wallschlaeger, from a manuscript in progress. Order a pair of chapbooks or the spring chapbook subscription from Horse Less Press’s current Kickstarter campaign, and you can have a copy of Wallschlaeger’s wonderful chapbook I WOULD BE THE HAPPIEST BIRD.

And, can I tell you a secret, friends? A very brand new bit of information that almost no one knows? In addition to the manuscripts we will choose from this year’s open reading period, Horse Less Press will be publishing two solicited book manuscripts in 2015, and we are so happy to announce that one of those manuscripts is Nikki Wallschlaeger’s HOUSES. You can read some excerpts from HOUSES and some of Nikki’s other amazing work here. We cannot keep a secret. We are so excited.  

Here is some fantastic video of Tim Earley reading from Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery at Malvern Book’s Everything Is Bigger series in Austin, Texas. You can order a copy of PDORLAS and help support Horse Less Press via our current Kickstarter campaign. 

we’re launching a Kickstarter alongside our direct pre-orders. I’ve made it a short one, only 16 days, so you don’t have to hear about it much. Please help horse less press keep making amazing books! 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2049449313/horse-less-press-2014-season

Seth Abramson writes about Tim Earley’s Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery for the Huffington Post today.

Virginia Konchan reviews Annah Browning’s horse less chapbook THE MARRIAGE over at Barn Owl Review. Thanks Virginia & Barn Owl!

In 2014, we have or will publish books and chapbooks by a lot of amazing writers: Pattie McCarthy, Tim Earley, John Duvernoy, Kirsten Jorgenson, Russ Woods, Scott Hammer, Jenny Drai, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Eleni Sikelianos, Lisa Cattrone, Carolina Maugeri, Frank Sherlock, Kristi Maxwell, C.S. Carrier, Siel Ju, Mark Lamoureux, Brenda Iijima, Annie Won, Judith Roitman, Kris Hall, Dan Brady, Lauren Gordon, and Tony Mancus. 

In 2015, who knows what magic’s going to happen! We are currently reading full-length book manuscripts, but only for seven more days. We’d love to see what you’re working on! Review the guidelines and send your work here.

Horse Less Press will have a table at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, and Mike and I will be reading Saturday night at the after-party; we’d love to see you there! Check out the amazing full schedule (which starts tonight!) here.