GenPop Books is an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, cross-genre work, and sundry literary curiosities.1
Paper Publications
Shortly after the October 2009 release of Alan Semerdjian's In the Architecture of Bone, we will resume reading full-length manuscript submissions. Please check back for details.
Online Publications
GenPop publishes online-only content in No Contest. For submission guidelines, please click here.
GenPop Books is also...
GenPop Books is also a consortium2 offering not only the products of its members and partners, but also their collective skills. Presently we offer design, marketing, distribution, and promotional services: we can take care of a few things for your press or project, or we can take care of all of it.3 Our staff has experience with an array of projects including online literary magazines, non-profit literary organizations, and author's personal websites.
Future GenPop projects include a books-for-prisons program,4 and an online bookstore for new, used, and rare books (primarily the small press variety).
1 Presently we're entertaining the idea of publishing at least one book in every conceivable genre and sub-genre, and in the process, inventing roughly 372 to 548 new genres with varying degrees of usefulness. We expect that our bread and butter will remain the old standbys, of course: textbook romances, true-crime children's books, DMZ travel guides.... We also seem to like poetry—probably because it's a lucrative investment for any publisher.
2 Membership in the GenPop Books Consortium is by invitation only (we need to feel wholly supportive of our members/partners and their missions), but we welcome queries. If you are the owner of small press or literary organization, or are interested in joining for other reasons, feel free to contact us.
3 Not to be confused with being published by GenPop Books: we choose our manuscripts from those discovered during open reading periods, contests, and the explorations and suggestions of our editors. We offer any combination of design, marketing, distribution, and promotional services to presses, organizations, and individuals, either as part of the GPB Consortium or as independent contractors, but not under the GenPop Books imprint.
4 Although GenPop Books is a separate entity from GenPop.org, the blog "devoted to bringing prison issues to light," we strongly support their mission and encourage you to visit their website.
GenPop Authors & Titles
Alan Semerdjian,
In the Architecture of Bone
Poetry | October 2009
FORTHCOMING
Michael Klein,
Then, We Were Still Living
Poetry | Fall 2010
Julianna Spallholz,
The State of Kansas
Short fiction | Fall 2010
& FROM THE GENPOP BOOKS CONSORTIUM:
Sinan Antoon, Jenny Boully, William Cirocco, Jan Clausen, Mark Cunningham, Danielle Dutton, Alice B. Fogel, Laura Davies Foley, Elena Georgiou, Noah Eli Gordon, Norman MacAfee, Gordon Massman, Joyelle McSweeney, Ana Merino, David Miller, Robert Nichols, David Oliveira, Elizabeth Robinson, Noah Saterstrom, Mario Susko, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Max Winter, Andrew Zornoza
