Penn Stewart Joins Big Wonderful Authors

We are super excited to annouce: Big Wonderful Press will be publishing THE WATER IN OUR VEINS by Penn Stewart this fall. This fiction chapbook made me almost cry, which is significant because I’m not the tears type. We will be telling you more about it in the...

Melinda Wolf Joins Big Wonderful Authors

Congratulations Melinda Wolf! BWP will soon publish Melinda Wolf’s chapbook, THERE IS A GREETING AS WELL AS A PARTING. Melinda Wolf grew up in Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals including The American Literary Review, The New York...

HAPPINESS IS A FISH NAMED MELVIN is Ready

It’s finally here! This chapbook size anthology features work from Catherine Nichols, Alexis Pope, Brendan Walsh, Karen Skolfield, and more. We will be adding it to our store in the next couple of...

Funny Poem Contest Winner

And the winner is Our happiness-themed funny poem contest winner is John Stupp for his fishing poem: “Happiness”. Happiness will be published in an upcoming collection: HAPPINESS IS A FISH NAMED MELVIN. **Fish Image by Sean Reed**  Funny Poem...

Do Twitter followers really matter?

Do Twitter followers really matter when trying to get published? When you are looking to find an agent or publisher, how concerned should you be with social media? Do Twitter followers really matter? Many publishing professionals will tell you that all that matters is...

To Square or Not to Square

No, I don’t mean Squarespace. I don’t mean Foursquare. Or any other new thing with “square” in the title. I am thinking of a beautiful, square version of Hilary Sideris’s brilliant forthcoming book of poems, THE INCLINATION TO MAKE WAVES,...

New Poetry Book by Hilary Sideris Coming Soon

  Our first full-length poetry book, THE INCLINATION TO MAKE WAVES by Hilary Sideris, is in development now. The book’s title, The Inclination to Make Waves, comes from a line in Hilary Sideris’s poem “Flat,” in which nothing makes waves. Instead, it’s all...