Unsolicited Press strives to produce exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from award-winning authors. The womxn-owned independent press is based in Portland, Oregon and focuses on the works of the unsung and underrepresented.
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Award Season Has an Invoice
Autumn is when independent publishers begin receiving an impressive number of invitations to prove that we believe in our books financially. Awards windows crack open. Entry portals that didn’t work yesterday suddenly have a working button....
Eventually, the Book Has to Fit in a Paragraph
Friday morning I have three hours blocked on my calendar for something called 2027 TITLES | ISBN + sales copy sprint, which is a very administrative name for the moment when a book has to stop living in a private universe and introduce itse...
15 Years. Still Unsolicited. Still Pissing People Off.
FIFTEEN YEARS. STILL UNSOLICITED.
In 2012, we started an independent press. It wasn’t much. In fact, it wasn’t even publishing books. Just a little tiny lit journal. And then one day, we were all like, let’s just do this.
We didn’t ask pe...
Anne Leigh Parrish’s PEOPLE RUIN EVERYTHING Explores Love, Regret, Secrets, and the Uncanny Damage of Intimacy
Portland, OR — October 20, 2026 — Unsolicited Press announces the publication of PEOPLE RUIN EVERYTHING, a new literary short story collection by Anne Leigh Parrish, author of seventeen books across fiction, poetry, and short stories.
In P...
The 15–5–1 Marketing Block
One of the easiest ways to lose half a workday in book marketing is to begin with the instruction market the book.
The task has no edge. You open Google, search for reviewers, remember that bookstores exist in town, look at Instagram, disc...
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A small press that supports literature, writers, the environment, a good beer, feminism, & the fight against systemic oppression. Not necessarily in that order.
Summer is the publisher of Unsolicited Press. She is also an award-winning journalist, poet, developmental editor, and a badass homeschooling mama.
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