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Co-Publishers & editors:
Thoreau Lovell & Barbara Roether
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wetcementpress/
Instagram: @wetcementpress.com
About
Based in Berkeley, California and Asheville, North Carolina, Wet Cement Press has been publishing 4-8 books a year with a focus on poetry, hybrid books, creative memoir, and unusual fiction since 2019. Wet Cement Press was started by a group of writers who once lived and worked together in San Francisco. Our tastes run toward the lyrical and spontaneous, the raw and unsmooth. We are interested in writers & artists who are established in their craft but have not yet been recognized, perhaps because their work is not easily classifiable, or because it falls outside of current trends and approaches. We also support work by more recognized writers and artists that represents a departure from what they are generally known for.
Submissions
BOOKS & Chapbooks — If you have a manuscript that seems to resonate with our list, send us a query and tell us about it. If your vision intrigues us, we will ask to see your manuscript, which we will read with care and respond to personally. Lyricism, far-flung locations, daring, desperation, and experimentation are all of interest. Send queries to editor@wetcementpress.com. Subject line: Book or Chapbook Submission.
WCP Magazine — Currently on hiatus.
Bookstores
Bookstores can order directly from Wet Cement Press. Typically, we offer a 40% discount. Send an email to publisher@wetcementpress.com indicating the titles you’re interested in (and when you need them, especially if the order is for an event) and we will generate an invoice. Thanks!
Review Copies
We are happy to send review copies to book reviewers, booksellers, librarians, teachers. book bloggers, etc. Click here to request.