Winter Editions is a literary small press with a particular focus on poetry and its intersections with the essay, the novel, and the visual and performing arts, as well as books that investigate print culture and poetics. 

WE supports writing which pursues an “other” way—opposing generic constructs and codified forms, or offering unfamiliar, outsider, or marginalized perspectives. Just as these works derive meaning from their publishing contexts, WE finds its purpose reciprocally through their slow and steady publication.

At WE, the editor does the work of publishing, from acquisitions to design and production, collaborating with writers, translators, artists, and scholars to shape ideas into forms and manuscripts into books. Dreaming of social and aesthetic engagement beyond commodity, hierarchy, and exclusion, WE publishes for readers who desire intimate, unquantified relations. 

Most of WE’s publications take the form of accessibly priced, high-quality paperbacks distributed to the general book trade, at a pace of six to eight titles per year. As time allows and whims appear, WE also releases special editions, chapbooks, pamphlets, broadsheets, and ephemeral prints. All publications are included in the WE subscription.

For a full list of publications, both printed and planned, see here.

CONTACT 

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For information on submissions, permissions, and rights, click here. For questions about the status of individual orders or shipping issues please drop a line to orders [at] wintereditions.net.

PURCHASE / DISTRO / SUBSCRIBE

To support WE’s unpredictable publishing program, please purchase books from the site a la carte; through our distributors Asterism Books (US) and Public Knowledge Books (UK); or through independent bookstores.

WE books are not discounted on our website so as not to compete with the bookstores that carry our publications.

If you reside outside the US, please order direct from our distributors — Asterism (US) or Public Knowledge (UK) — for better shipping rates.

For further details on our distribution and sales to bookstores and libraries, please see the Orders page.

To subscribe for the year, or for life, for yourself or others, see the Subscription page. Library and institutional subscriptions are also available.

SUPPORT 

WE is supported by subscribers and individual donors, and extends special thanks to recent Supporting and Lifetime subscribers: Anonymous, Anonymous (in memory of the Beaubiens), Yevgeniy Fiks, and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.

WE accepts tax-deductible donations through its nonprofit fiscal sponsor, Ether Sea Projects. Checks payable to Ether Sea Projects, Inc. may be sent to Litmus Press, 925 Bergen Street, Suite 405, Brooklyn, NY 11238, with a note that the donation is for Winter Editions. For other ways to donate, please get in touch with us at WE [at] wintereditions.net.