Introducing Seven New Consortium Publishers
November 14, 2024
We interrupt our regular Communiqué programming to introduce seven new Consortium publishers for distribution: Tilted Axis Press, LittlePuss Press, Hemeria, Hagfish, Autumn House Press, Aunt Lute Books, and Alabaster Creative.
We’re excited to welcome them to our list! Read on to learn more about these terrific presses and their books, and look for them in our Spring/Summer 2025 catalogs.
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Tilted Axis Press
Start date: January 1
Tilted Axis Press is a British publisher of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. With a focus on translated fiction by the Global Majority, their publishing practice centers building and nourishing community and the complex movement of language, stories, and imagination. Tilted Axis was founded by Deborah Smith, the English-language translator of Nobel laureate Han Kang.
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dd’s Umbrella
by Jungeun Hwang, trans. e.yaewon
Fiction / Literary • April 2025 • 9781911284949
From one of Korea’s most celebrated contemporary writers comes a novel about queer family-building and resistance in the aftermath of the Candlelight Revolution.
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Delicious Hunger
by Hai Fan, trans. Jeremy Tiang
Fiction / Literary • June 2025 • 9781917126021
From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was part of the guerrilla forces of the Malayan Communist Party, and these short stories are inspired by his experiences in the rainforest.
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LittlePuss Press
Start date: January 1
LittlePuss Press is a feminist press run by trans women. Their award-winning books, like Girlfriends by Emily Zhou, have been featured in Vogue, NPR, Vulture, and other publications. Founded by Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick, LittlePuss believes in intensive editing, printing on paper, and throwing lots of parties.
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Realistic Fiction
by Anton Solomonik
Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Transgender • April 2025 • 9781736716885
Finally, a book for men! As if Charlie Chaplin re-wrote the works of Kafka, and he was a Russian trans man, Anton Solomonik’s debut short fiction is “outrageously funny” (Paul Harding).
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With her perspective as a philosopher, artist, and trans elder, Vivian Blaxell takes readers on a witty and expansive sweep through history and the big questions of human existence.
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Hemeria
Start date: January 1
Hemeria is based in Paris, France, and works to bring exceptional photobooks to life. Spanning subjects including nature and wildlife, fashion, society, and more, Hemeria’s books showcase the creative and original projects of photographers around the world.
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A journey from London to Beijing, this collection celebrates the contemporary people, places, and cultures found along the historic route.
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Coral
by Martin Colognoli
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Underwater • April 2025 • 9782490952328
This photobook documents the inextricable link between an Indonesian fishing village and the coral reef on which its survival depends.
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Hagfish
Start date: January 1
Hagfish reissues out-of-print, hard-to-find books and introduces overlooked contemporary writers to the mainstream. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Hagfish was founded by two publishing veterans, Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo, and is self-funded and worker-owned.
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To Smithereens
by Rosalyn Drexler
Fiction / Literary • May 2025 • 9781965028025
A provocative romp through the Manhattan art scene and the female wrestling world of the 1970s, this novel is inspired by Drexler’s experiences as an overlooked artist in the Pop Art movement and her own career in the ring (which was depicted by Andy Warhol).
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Autumn House Press
Start date: January 1
Autumn House Press is a nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it publishes full-length collections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Autumn House is committed to championing debut, emerging, and established authors and is proud to have published debut works from writers such as Ada Limón and Clifford Thompson.
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In this collection of short fiction, women wander small-town streets pondering love and Edith Wharton, and bears don’t just roam the wild—they play basketball and work as midlevel business professionals.
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Rodeo
by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Family • April 2025 • 9781637681022
Selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, this poetry collection celebrates the American West and a rekindling of hope in the aftermath of suffering.
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Aunt Lute Books
Start date: effective now
Aunt Lute Books is an intersectional, feminist press dedicated to publishing literature by those who have been traditionally underrepresented in or excluded by the literary canon. Many of Aunt Lute’s titles are acknowledged as important contributions to the academic fields of lesbian studies and gender studies.
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“Subtle horror, magical realism, and alien-infused SF make for a varied combination of works,” Booklist says of these speculative stories, “but all are grounded in vividly realized main characters with simple human wishes, dreams, and fears.”
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Gloria Anzaldúa’s seminal work of Chicanx literature is a bestseller for Aunt Lute, and it’s available as both this trade edition (recently reissued) as well as a widely-taught critical edition.
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Alabaster Creative
Start date: January 1
Alabaster Creative Inc. launched in 2016 and publishes biblical texts with an emphasis on high-end, modern design. Integrating photography and visual imagery within different books of the Bible, Alabaster books explore the intersection of beauty and faith, and they’ve been featured on social media by the likes Hailey Bieber.
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Available in different Bible translations, this thoughtfully designed hardcover incorporates visual imagery into the full unedited text of the four gospels.
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Each chapter of this Bible study includes key ideas, reading synopses, reflective questions, and more.
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