Fiction. Paper, Perfect Bound. 220 pages
2021, ISBN: 978-1-952781-01-8 22.95 + S&H
As members of the wild, wandering generation raised on rebellion find ourselves growing older, who do we now understand ourselves to be? Revolution may be in our souls but our lives are now affected by illness, financial concerns, careers that may not have panned out as expected, and a diminishing pathway leading through the years ahead. But how, exactly, is a lake monster involved...…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58 pages
2021, ISBN: 978-1-952781-02-5 $17.95 + S&H
Wrong ticks on, and it feeds on silence. In her book, "when animals are animals", Betsy Johnson refuses to be “the quietest person in the world.” She names where the teeth are, gets closer to the kick she knows is coming, and makes her weary spirit take up the empty rucksack, because there is work to be done. That is the work of standing up to the “cloud monster,” of being an antidote, of finding hope in a knot of stones.…
Fiction, short stories. Paper, Perfect Bound. 172 pages
2021, ISBN: 978-1-936419-96-8 $20.95 + S&H
Jews being Jewish: that’s the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses’s new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of The Man Who Loved His Wife grapple with God, their loved ones, fate, death, hope, Hitler, transcendence, and the 4000 year old history of Judaism. With a Yiddish sensibility born of passion, an eye for detail, and a deadpan sense of humor reminiscent of Singer, Salinger, and Tillie Olsen, Moses captures singularly Jewish and wholly human characters as they live and breathe through their stories Lovely, tender, and hard to put down, these are short stories that leave you yearning for more.…
Mayapple Press adds our voice to the chorus of those remembering and saluting this fierce fighter for equal rights and justice. While we say “RIP”, we suspect her work is not finished……
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2020, ISBN: 978-1-936419-98-2 $17.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Author Judith Kunst’s writing has been compared to the playground game of tetherball: words and ideas fling out to the outer edges of…
On March 5th 2020 Ellen Stone launched her first poetry collection “What Is in the Blood” at the Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor. Literati included Ellen in Episode 31 of their “Shelf Talking” podcast on April 10th Here is Ellen’s reading from “What Is in the Blood”. The reading lasts 12 minutes and 8 seconds…
Congratulations to Ellen Stone, whose “What Is in the Blood” made the SPD Top Ten for March 2020. The book’s themes of home, family, illness and nature are especially poignant right now. Get your copy direct from us here at Mayapple Press (where we make the most money per copy) OR Get it at SPD…
The 2020 Woodstock Writers’ Retreat will take place from Wednesday July 22nd to Tuesday July 28th. Applications are now open for the 2020 Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat Tired of the “star system” at writers’ workshops? Looking for a place offering time to write as well as fellowship and critique from other professionals? The Woodstock Mayapple…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2020, ISBN: 978-1-936419-95-1 $17.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What Is in the Blood is a poetry memoir about growing up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s and ‘70s with a bipolar…
Mayapple Press is proud to announce that One Less River by Terry Blackhawk has been included in the Kirkus Reviews “Best Indie Poetry of 2019” list. The complete list can be found here. The original Kirkus Reviews review is here. And the book’s page on our own site is here. You can buy the book…
