Alan Squire Publishing

A Small Press With Big Ideas

WELCOME TO ALAN SQUIRE PUBLISHING.

A small press with big ideas.

Joanna Biggar is a marvelous storyteller, and Melanie’s Song 

is an unputdownable, riveting feat of storytelling.

— The Literary Review

Poetry like burnished steel and prose that reads like poetry.

[Navigating the Divide] is the most captivating and rewarding book I’ve read this year.

—Tim Cahill

Billy Christmas is a book destined to be battered, much thumbed,

read and read again until its pages come loose. Pritchard is here to stay.

— James Clark, former Sunday Times journalist

I have admired Reuben Jackson’s work for over twenty years.

Scattered Clouds will alert old and new poetry fans to his fine, abiding talent.

—Terrance Hayes

Grace Cavalieri’s Other Voices, Other Lives is an important and necessary collection.

– Linda Pastan, Insomia

Voltaire. Nietzsche. Kerouac. Peabody. Alan Squire Publishing did it right. The Peabody Reader is a top-notch production.

–– Nathan Leslie, The Pedestal Magazine

It is our belief at ASP that you should be able to lend a good book to a friend, who could lend it to another friend, and, should it ever be returned, you should bloody well be able to read it yet again.

–James J. Patterson, co-founder of ASP

THE LATEST:

Linda Watanabe McFerrin Talks Travel and Literature on KCBX

January 22, 2020

In this interview for NPR affiliate KCBX, Linda Watanabe McFerrin discusses travel, literature, and her new book “Navigating the Divide.”

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Reuben Jackson Talks “Old DC” on the DC Library Podcast

January 15, 2020

ON TUESDAY the writer of 2019’s Scattered Clouds and archivist at UDC’s Felix E. Grant Jazz archives, Reuben Jackson, stopped in for a chat with the DC Public Library’s radio podcast.

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Reuben Jackson’s Poem Cycle Debuts in the Boston Review

January 10, 2020

Reuben Jackson’s new poem cycle, Kelly’s Love for Waltzes, debuts in the Boston Review.

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Scattered Clouds Featured on The Poetry Foundation Reading List

December 30, 2019

Scattered Clouds by Reuben Jackson appears on The Poetry Foundation’s December reading list.

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photo credits: Hankins Lawrence Photography

New releases Spring 2020

Elizabeth Hazen

Upcoming Events

  1. Rose Solari reads her work as part of “Readings on the Pike” in Arlington, VA

    February 18 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

  2. Elizabeth Hazen’s “Girls Like Us” Book Launch

    March 7 @ 7:00 pm

  3. Elizabeth Hazen to Read at Greedy Reads w/Dora Malech

    March 12 @ 7:00 pm

  4. Elizabeth Hazen to Read at Normal’s Books and Records w/ Marion Winik

    March 15 @ 3:00 pm

  5. Reuben Jackson to Read at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore

    March 18 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

  6. Elizabeth Hazen to Read at The Ivy w/ Steven Leyva

    April 8 @ 7:00 pm

  7. Reuben Jackson, Rose Solari, Elizabeth Hazen, and More Read at Kensington Day of the Book

    April 26 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

  8. Rose Solari at the 2020 Washington Writer’s Conference

    May 9

  9. Elizabeth Hazen to read at New Dominion w/Lesley Wheeler

    May 30 @ 7:00 pm

  10. Elizabeth Hazen to Read at Gettysburg’s Ragged Edge Coffee House

    June 5 @ 7:00 pm

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A little about us...

Alan Squire Publishing is an independent literary press founded in 2010 to publish books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that are beautifully written and beautifully made, with the avid reader and book-lover in mind. We are committed to bringing to the public books of great merit that deserve a wide readership, and to forging a new model of collaboration with other independent presses here and abroad.

Our collaborators on various projects include Left Coast Writers in San Francisco, California, Chris Andrews Publications, Ltd., in Oxford, England, and the Santa Fe Writers Project, now based in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2014, ASP officially became an imprint of SFWP.

All ASP titles are distributed internationally by Independent Publishers Group (IPG), the original independent book distributor in the United States. For bulk orders, visit them here: http://www.ipgbook.com/

And we love book clubs, independent bookstores, and all other means of getting our books into the right hands! If you have any problems with your orders, or want to discuss alternative or charitable discounts, please contact us directly at alansquirepublishing@gmail.com, or call us at 301-461-3296.

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