Host Publications

🪐 Host Publications has been awarded The Constellation Award and we’re celebrating with Battle of the Constellations: A Celestial Fête at @alienatedmajestybooks on May 15th! The evening will pin all of the zodiac signs against each other in an inspired match-campaign set against the dreamy backdrop of our favorite writers, artists, and musicians! Come dressed in your most ethereal look! 🛸 We’re thrilled to feature: + readings by @debolinunferth and @taisia.kitaiskaia + music by @wakeupspaceboy + tarot readings by @moonandmouth + live-printing by @strawberry_milkweed + drinks by @purocoffeeco + shooting star photo backdrop by @arfranklinstein & @sammy_ness_atx + event photography by @carrdi.mp4 🔭 At 9pm, we will be crowning “the best zodiac sign” determined by which zodiac raises the most funds! Can’t attend the event, but want to donate and champion your zodiac? Head over to givebutter.com/Constellation to join the fun! “During this time of increased violence against the most vulnerable members of our communities and against those who insist on bearing witness, the role of independent publishers that champion the voices of people of color is vital. Their lively functioning—imperiled by the dismantling of federal funding and institutional attacks on diversity—is crucial to the maintenance of our vibrant literary landscape and our democratic chorus. Host Publications, has demonstrated an abiding support of queer and BIPOC writers for decades and offers inspiring and concrete visions for how to meet our current moment.” - Poet and CLMP Board Member Deborah Paredez 🐐 Currently in the lead: Capricorns! 🌟 RSVP & donation link in bio!

❤️ We are currently open for full-length poetry manuscript submissions through June 1st, 2026 (11:59pm CDT)! ❤️ Our mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower socio-economic status, and writers with disabilities. We want to champion work that is experimental, especially writing that queers language and meaning-making. We want to celebrate writing by survivors, writing that explores alternative and subversive cultural experiences, writing that engages with a poetics of liberation. Send us your strangest, queerest, most tender, riotous writing. Send us work that explores the limits of form, voice, language and style—the full spectrum of what poetry can do. Submissions are open to any US-based poet. Though we love and have historically published works in translation, all submissions for this period must be original work written in English. Awardees for The Joe W. Bratcher Prize are selected by our editors from our annual manuscript open call. ❤️ Host Publications awards writers with $6,000, 25 author copies, dedicated editorial work from our skilled editors, a book launch in Austin, Texas, and energetic promotion from our staff. We also offer our authors the opportunity to be a guest on our literary podcast @thehostdispatch ❤️ As always, we encourage to all who submit that familiarize themselves with our most recent publications. You may purchase our titles on our website or through our awesome distributor, @asterism_books ! ❤️ Follow the “Submit Your Work” link in our bio to review the general guidelines on our Submittable page!

✨❤️‍🔥 Host Publications has been awarded The Constellation Award! Thank you @clmporg ❤️‍🔥✨ ❤️‍🔥 This prize recognizes an independent literary press for their excellence in publishing and work that champions the writing of people of color, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American & Pacific Islander individuals. With this honor, we are in lineage and siblinghood with other presses we admire, such as last year’s winner @kayapress and this year’s finalist @cavankerrypress . If you have followed our journey since the passing of our beloved mentor Joe W. Bratcher, you know it’s been a challenging one. Especially as we continue our devotion to publishing historically marginalized writers in an increasingly hostile world. If you have learned anything about Host Publications, however, is that we are resilient, we are fierce, unwavering and unapologetic. We stand by our authors, our mission, and the literature we want to see more of in the world! With that being said, in a moment when we are actively being oppressed or discouraged to do the work we do, we are surprised, overwhelmed, and completely honored to be celebrated in this way. ⭐️ This award generously arrives with the prize of $10,000, which we will use to continue our mission in publishing literature by historically marginalized writers and provide free, fun, and lively literary programming to our Central Texas community! Wanting to share this with our community, we’d love to inspire you to donate to our Battle of the Constellations fundraiser (teams are zodiac signs! Link in bio) Our pals at @alienatedmajestybooks will be throwing us a fête on May 15th, 2026, where we will crown the best constellation! We are excited to celebrate this prize, dream up a better world together, and to be in community with you. In solidarity, Annar & Claire

🔮🌙TONIGHT at @alienatedmajestybooks | Our resident witch & beloved poet @moonandmouth will be reading tarot tonight for Battle of the Constellations!!! Spots are limited, so come early to sign up! 🌙 “Ask a Moon” refers to the advising practice of Austin-based poet and occultist, Stephanie Yue Duhem. It is the name of her advice column, hosted on the Moon and Mouth substack, as well as her tarot and dream analysis offerings. Her poetry collection, Cataclysm Moves Me I Regret to Say, is available at Alienated Majesty. We’re thrilled to feature: + readings by @debolinunferth and @taisia.kitaiskaia + music by @wakeupspaceboy + tarot readings by @moonandmouth + live-printing by @strawberry_milkweed + drinks by @purocoffeeco + shooting star photo backdrop by @arfranklinstein & @sammy_ness_atx + event photography by @carrdi.mp4 🔭 At 9:45pm, we will be crowning “the best zodiac sign” determined by which zodiac raises the most funds! Can’t attend the event, but want to donate and champion your zodiac? Head over to givebutter.com/Constellation to join the fun! 🐏🌙 Current lead: Capricorns, followed extremely closely by GEMINI! It’s too close!!!!! 🌟 RSVP & Donate in our bio!

🌟👑 FRIDAY at @alienatedmajestybooks | Eva, the most ethereal person we know & the designer of our incredible logo will be live-printing original Varo linocuts at Battle of the Constellations! 🪐 Eva runs Austin printmaking business @strawberry_milkweed , creating linocut designs of real and mythological creatures and printing them on clothing and paper. She’s inspired by folk art, nature, surrealism and creatures of all kinds! 🌟 We’re thrilled to feature: + readings by @debolinunferth and @taisia.kitaiskaia + music by @wakeupspaceboy + tarot readings by @moonandmouth + live-printing by @strawberry_milkweed + drinks by @purocoffeeco + shooting star photo backdrop by @arfranklinstein & @sammy_ness_atx + event photography by @carrdi.mp4 🔭 At 9:45pm, we will be crowning “the best zodiac sign” determined by which zodiac raises the most funds! Can’t attend the event, but want to donate and champion your zodiac? Head over to givebutter.com/Constellation to join the fun! 🐏🌙 Current lead: Capricorns, followed closely by Sagittarius! 🌟 RSVP & Donate in our bio!

WEEKEND LINEUP! Scroll for more info 👉🏽 Starting the weekend off, come nerd out Friday at @alienatedmajestybooks where we are celebrating @hostpublications for winning The Constellation Award! Tarot card readings, live screen printing, live music, cafe + matcha and much more! Saturday get your girlies and come sip and shop at @scoutvintage_atx for Vintage Store Day — 15% off with a purchase! After stopping by, go check out the neighboring vintage shops as well to keep the day going! Sunday we are splitting up the team to do a double header! Come hang with Missa and the @brodies_atx fellas at @happycloudsatx for the MORNING FUNCTION parte DOS! Breakfast sandos, cold brews, matcha, flower arrangements, music and art! Grab a pre-roll while you’re at it! Liz and the girls are at Café Con Sazón powered by @yquepasoentertainment and @willyeldemente at the @bungalowaustin on Rainey! Get ready for a cafe y perreo!

🌞✨ This Friday at @alienatedmajestybooks | Our fave @purocoffeeco is popping up for Battle of the Constellations!!! 🌟 Meet Liz & Missa, the owners and operators of Puro Coffee Co. They started their business earlier this year with the goal of building community, and a passion for sharing their Mexican and Puerto Rican roots through their recipes. They have hit the ground running this year by partnering with amazing brands all over the Austin area, and engaging in community events to grow their following. 🛸 We’re thrilled to feature: + readings by @debolinunferth and @taisia.kitaiskaia + music by @wakeupspaceboy + tarot readings by @moonandmouth + live-printing by @strawberry_milkweed + drinks by @purocoffeeco + shooting star photo backdrop by @arfranklinstein & @sammy_ness_atx + event photography by @carrdi.mp4 🔭 At 9pm, we will be crowning “the best zodiac sign” determined by which zodiac raises the most funds! Can’t attend the event, but want to donate and champion your zodiac? Head over to givebutter.com/Constellation to join the fun! 🐏🌙 Current lead: Capricorns, followed closely by Sagittarius! 🌟 RSVP & Donate in our bio!

🪐 NEXT FRIDAY: We’re living it up at Battle of the Constellations: A Celestial Fête at @alienatedmajestybooks ! The evening will pin all of the zodiac signs against each other in an inspired match-campaign set against the dreamy backdrop of our favorite writers, artists, and musicians! Come dressed in your most ethereal look! 🛸 We’re thrilled to feature: + readings by @debolinunferth and @taisia.kitaiskaia + music by @wakeupspaceboy + tarot readings by @moonandmouth + live-printing by @strawberry_milkweed + drinks by @purocoffeeco + shooting star photo backdrop by @arfranklinstein & @sammy_ness_atx + event photography by @carrdi.mp4 🔭 At 9pm, we will be crowning “the best zodiac sign” determined by which zodiac raises the most funds! Can’t attend the event, but want to donate and champion your zodiac? Head over to givebutter.com/Constellation to join the fun! ✦✦✦ Featured Performers✦✦✦ ✦ Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novels Barn 8 and Vacation, the story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance, and the memoir Revolution, finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Her next novel, Earth 7, is forthcoming in June, 2026. Her work appears in Harper’s, the Paris Review, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine. ✦ Taisia Kitaiskaia was born in the former Soviet Union and raised in the United States. She is the author of four books, which have been translated into multiple languages: The Nightgown and Other Poems; two volumes of Ask Baba Yaga advice from the witch of Slavic folklore; and Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, a collaboration with artist Katy Horan and an NPR Great Read of 2017. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals such as McSweeney’s, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, and Guernica. ✦ Wake Up Spaceboy is an indie-emo band based in Austin, Texas and features members Michael Williams, Diego Glascock, Charlie Campillo & Alex DeRoehn! 🐐 Currently in the lead: Capricorns, followed by Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces, & Scorpios very close behind! 🌟 RSVP & donation link in bio!

💚 May 22nd, 7pm :: I Scream Social is thrilled to welcome an inspiring line-up of writers, educators, and community organizers this May, featuring Marissa Ayala, Miss Jackson Newbern, and Marina Peterson! Open mic and friendly hangs to follow! 🌟 Presented by Host Publications, I Scream Social is a monthly feminist reading series and ice cream party that takes place at Alienated Majesty Books. We aim to celebrate and empower historically marginalized writers and share incredible literature and diverse perspectives to an Austin-area audience. 💚 Open mic sign-ups begin at 6:45pm and are reserved for writers from historically marginalized communities. 🌟 This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department. 💚 Health & Safety Statement: masks are strongly encouraged and will be provided for this event. ✦✦✦ ABOUT THE FEATURED READERS ✦✦✦ 🌟 Miss Jackson Newbern is a poet from Georgia. They received their MFA in poetry from the New Writers Project at UT Austin and their poems have appeared in Dialogist, Mudroom, and Seedlings. 💚 Marina Peterson writes, thinks and listens with the unruliness of elemental forces and phase shifting matters – sound, clouds, helium, cities. She is Professor of Anthropology at UT-Austin, where she co-directs the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography. As a cellist, her improvisational practice experiments with sonic textures and materialities. 🌟 Austin-based writer, researcher, and artist Marissa Anne Ayala is the recipient of the 2026 In Cahoots writing residency and the 2025 Puffin Foundation environmental advocacy artist grant. She also held a 2025 residency at Chulitna Lodge in Alaska. Her creative writing organization, the East Austin Writing Project, is a 2026 recipient of the City of Austin Elevate grant. Marissa’s work appears in Poets & Writers Magazine, Fugue, TELEPHONE, and Pen + Brush, and more.

❤️ CLOSING SOON, DEAR POETS: We are currently open for full-length poetry manuscript submissions through June 1st, 2026 (11:59pm CDT)! ❤️ Our mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower socio-economic status, and writers with disabilities. We want to champion work that is experimental, especially writing that queers language and meaning-making. We want to celebrate writing by survivors, writing that explores alternative and subversive cultural experiences, writing that engages with a poetics of liberation. Send us your strangest, queerest, most tender, riotous writing. Send us work that explores the limits of form, voice, language and style—the full spectrum of what poetry can do. Submissions are open to any US-based poet. Though we love and have historically published works in translation, all submissions for this period must be original work written in English. Awardees for The Joe W. Bratcher Prize are selected by our editors from our annual manuscript open call. ❤️ Host Publications awards writers with $6,000, 25 author copies, dedicated editorial work from our skilled editors, a book launch in Austin, Texas, and energetic promotion from our staff. We also offer our authors the opportunity to be a guest on our literary podcast @thehostdispatch ❤️ As always, we encourage to all who submit that familiarize themselves with our most recent publications. You may purchase our titles on our website or through our awesome distributor, @asterism_books ! ❤️ Follow the “Submit Your Work” link in our bio to review the general guidelines on our Submittable page!

💙 We are thrilled to announce that Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a 2026 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award! We're so honored to champion this collection and it is such a tremendous privilege to work with and learn from heidi andrea restrepo rhodes @vessels.we.are Congratulations to this year's William Carlos Williams Award Winner, Diana Arteria ( @dianaarterian ) and her collection Agrippina the Younger, @nupress ! And big love to this year's finalists: - Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (Host Publications) - Glove Money by Sophia Dahlin @nightboatbooks - Games for Children by Keith S. Wilson @milkweed_books The William Carlos Williams Award is bestowed by @poetry_society and recognizes a book of poetry published by a small press, non-profit, or university press. This year's winner and finalists were selected by Alan Gilbert.

🌟 We’re popping up at our favorite market! Join us & over 150 makers, artists and craft people at @thefront.market this weekend! Swing by & get some good deals on our books, get some merch, chat with us about writing & publishing! Bring your bestie! 🔥 As one of the largest and longest-running independent craft markets in Austin (established in 2016 – yes this marks ten years of The Front Market and Future Front as a nonprofit), visitors will be able to shop a rotating lineup of pop-up shops by 150+ makers, artists, designers and craftspeople based in Texas. As always, guests can expect all-day DJs, workshops, art installations, chef-curated menus and more, too, amplifying women and LGBTQ+ creatives. 100% family-friendly, dog-friendly and human-friendly, all are invited to attend The Front Market for free or by donation, registering at thefrontmarket.com.