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OUR BOOKS

Driftwood Press publishes fiction, poetry, comics, and more. We can't wait for you to take a look inside our books.

The Tumor in the Clay

The Tumor in the Clay

Nick Francis’ graphic novel plunges into surreal depths as a regarded surgeon turns his scalpel on himself in a journey of self-redemption.

Mega-Galaxies

Mega-Galaxies

Elizabeth J. Coleman’s poetry chapbook considers both the vastness and intimacy of what surrounds us, from our communities to the larger natural world.

I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side

I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side

J Brooke's poetry collection begins in a childhood full of binaries, then navigates through an adulthood fraught with complexities including the question of top-surgery.

Upwards Incursion

Upwards Incursion

Padraig Campbell’s comic collection weaves together a haunting examination of agency and narrative.

Driftwood 2026 Anthology

Driftwood 2026 Anthology

Driftwood Press' latest anthology is filled to the brim with this year's fiction & poetry award winners—and so much more!

say, said

say, said

Fred Dale’s poetry collection interrogates the underpinnings of the American masculine experience with inventive language and a spiral galaxy of artistic and personal references.

Moon as Salted Lemon

Moon as Salted Lemon

Clayre Benzadón’s poetry collection is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and nonbinary identity.

Paper Money

Paper Money

Winshen Liu’s poetry chapbook is a sensory and sparse exploration of grief and the complexity of the second-generation Taiwanese immigrant experience in America.

Sacrificial Steel

Sacrificial Steel

Cate McGowan's poetry uses art, history, and complex, musical poetic lines and forms to explore the biggest question we have as humans: what does it all mean?

Driftwood 2025 Anthology

Driftwood 2025 Anthology

Driftwood Press' 2025 anthology is filled to the brim with this year's fiction & poetry award winners—and so much more!

Girlhood x A Haunting

Girlhood x A Haunting

In Jessica Rae Bergamino's poems, the reader carries Nancy Drew's magnifying glass through an lyrically experimental and visually evocative collection that uncovers the traumas lurking in girlhood.

Girl at the End of the World

Girl at the End of the World

Erin Carlyle’s poetry collection works through a father's death with a sharp focus on place, expanding into the realms of science fiction and mythmaking.

Fruitful

Fruitful

Stefanie Kirby's moving chapbook explores the tragedy of pregnancy loss and motherhood in surreal, artful, & compact poems.

Driftwood 2024 Anthology

Driftwood 2024 Anthology

Driftwood Press' latest anthology is filled to the brim with this year's fiction & poetry award winners—and so much more!

Each Knuckle with Sugar

Each Knuckle with Sugar

Sarah Levine’s poetry collection is a soft yet powerful deep-dive into love and grief told through multiple fascinating perspectives.

River City Fires

River City Fires

In this stunning poetry collection, Derek Annis travels through surreal geographies that are equal parts terrestrial and intimate.

Optometry

Optometry

A woman’s visit to the optometrist catapults her through a multi-medium journey in this kaleidoscopic, experimental full-color comic ten years in the making by Xiang Yata.

Lanternfly August

Lanternfly August

Through poetics, Robin Gow explores the emotional geographies of home and queer identity through the lens of an often-demonized species of insect.

REJOICER

REJOICER

Skyler Osborne's stunning debut collection of poems exist at the intersection of surrealism and reverence.

Memorial with Liminal Space

Memorial with Liminal Space

Equal parts tender and heartbreaking, Mitchell Untch's poems investigate the many intersections of survivor's guilt and queer identity.

Driftwood 2023 Anthology

Driftwood 2023 Anthology

Taking the reins of our previous bi-annual literary magazine, our new annual anthology packs double the punch!

Bark On

Bark On

Mason Boyles' literary crime novel centers on found family and compulsion, shown through the eyes of triathletes; the innovative language in this novel stuns.

Hillbilly Madonna

Hillbilly Madonna

Sara Moore Wagner's harrowing book is a stark and ultimately hopeful collection about rural life and the opioid crisis in modern Appalachia.

The Circle That Fits

The Circle That Fits

Kevin Lichty's novella explores fraught familial relationships in a traveling carnival; the emotional, intense surrealism on display in this compressed novel knows no bounds.

O

O

Writer & performance artist Niki Tulk unearths folklore and profound truths about our collective history of sexual violence, womanhood, and justice.

Bath

Bath

Geographic and lyrical, Jen Silverman's poems communicate complex insights into the landscapes of relationships.

The Convert's Heart is Good to Eat

The Convert's Heart is Good to Eat

Melody S. Gee's chapbook meets at the intersection of cultural and spiritual identity, culminating in a set of harrowing poems that investigates how belief defines us.

Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine

Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine

Nick Potter's collection of experimental graphic works and comics poetry takes on one experiment at a time, mixing lyrical comics with abstract, conceptual works.

One Person Holds So Much Silence

One Person Holds So Much Silence

The bizarre and intimate poems in David Greenspan's collection represent one of the most stunning appeal to the mysteries and anxieties of the human body in poetics today.

Dead Uncles

Dead Uncles

Equal parts humorous and devastating, Ben Kline's poetry chapbook investigates the lingering impacts that formative family experiences can have years later.

Lily-livered

Lily-livered

Wren Hank's poetry chapbook is a stunning portrayal of trans experiences, mixing deft prose poetry and lush lyricism to profound effect.

Magnolia Canopy Otherworld

Magnolia Canopy Otherworld

Erin Carlyle's full-length poetry collection creates a powerful portrait of rural struggle in America with empathetic insights into poverty, the opioid crisis, and female autonomy.

Village of Knives

Village of Knives

Helli Fang's poetry chapbook dives headfirst into harrowing poems that call forth the experiences of Asian American identity and generational tension.

Questions About Circulation

Questions About Circulation

Charles Malone's poetry chapbook is a tender, powerful mediation on the geographies that define us, asking poignant questions about the environments we leave behind.

hell of birds

hell of birds

Mixing ecological insights with medieval hagiographies, Kimberly Povloski's chapbook beautifully connects mysticism to the ongoing crisis of a warming, ravaged world.

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