New Chapbooks!
What's next for Belle Point Chaps
Since publishing our first chapbook (Nikki Ummel’s Hush) in October 2022, we’ve released ten more, with Clara Bush Vadala’s Book of Altars marking #11 this month. As a small press interested in the material culture and artistic history of independent publishing, we love chapbooks and have enjoyed being able to support both emerging and established writers through this form. Throughout the second half of 2024, we’ll be releasing five more chaps across poetry and prose, with some interesting in-between experiments along the way:
June: Take Me Home, Bethany Jarmul
Bethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer and poet. She’s the author of two chapbooks, and her debut poetry collection Lightning Is a Mother is forthcoming with ELJ Editions in 2025. Her work was selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2023 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Wigleaf Top 50. Connect with her at bethanyjarmul.com or on social media: @BethanyJarmul.
July: Together Now, Alfonso Zapata
Alfonso Zapata is a poet living in Lexington, Kentucky. He received his MFA in poetry at The University of Kentucky, and has attended The University of Toledo and The University of Southern Mississippi, where he obtained his master’s degree in poetry. He has previously received the Jim Lawless IV Poetry Prize, and the 2022 & 2023 University of Kentucky MFA Poetry Awards. His work has previously appeared in Sho Poetry Journal, and he can be found editing and re-editing already published poems in various coffee shops in the area.
August: The Day, Troy Pancake
Troy Pancake grew up in the Midwest and is now a writer and pastor in Denton, TX. His work has appeared in Brevity, The Windhover, Plough, and other publications. He loves his wife and kids.
September: I Can’t Forgive a Dead Man, Damon McKinney
Damon McKinney is an Indigenous author currently residing in Northeast Arkansas. His body of work is found in various online literary magazines, and he is the author of Beer-Breath Kisses (Belle Point Press). He’s been married for 23 years to his wife, Sara, and together they have two children.
November: The First Day, Beth Gordon
Beth Gordon is a poet, mother and grandmother currently living in Asheville, NC. She is the author of several chapbooks including The Water Cycle (Variant Literature), How to Keep Things Alive (Split Rock Press), and Crone (Louisiana Literature). Beth is Managing Editor of Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Assistant Editor of Animal Heart Press, and Grandma of Femme Salve Books. Twitter, Instagram, and BlueSky @bethgordonpoet.
We’ll start rolling out pre-orders for individual titles later this spring, but you can also order a subscription for all five chaps now! Go here to treat yourself and support these stellar writers.