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Ghost City Press

2013

Description:

GHOST CITY PRESS was established in 2013 in Syracuse, NY. Our goal is to provide a platform for the exhibition and distribution of work by new, emerging, and established writers and artists in the online literary community. Through the publication of Ghost City Review (our monthly journal), our catalog of full-length poetry collections, chapbooks, and our annual Summer Micro-Chapbook Series, we hope to bring everyone in the online community closer together to celebrate the persistence of art at a time when it is needed most. We want to maintain a sustainable business model which prioritizes the needs of our authors and our readers. This means lower costs for our readers and higher royalties for our writers and editors. We refuse to sell our books on Amazon, and by keeping the distribution of our books primarily in-house through sales on our websiteand occasionally through regional independent bookstoreswe are able to keep the price of our products as low as possible. We ensure all money made through the sale of books published by Ghost City Press goes back into the publishing and distribution process, helping to fund future projects. We want to build online and regional communities of writers. We wish to do all we can to help literary communities flourish, especially in more rural and suburban areas, and especially in those communities which we call home. We want to support and welcome new writers to the online literary and publishing community. We want to help promote the work done by other small press publishers and to advocate for the work our authors publish and the projects they work on, both before or after collaborating with Ghost City. We exist to support our writers. We would not exist without them, and every decision we make is made in their best interest. We want to provide a space which highlights women, the LGBTQ community, writers of color, first nations writers, and radical individuals within the larger literary community. Activism is an important part of what we believe in.

There are currently no books in the Five Colleges from this press.


Press Information

  • Website: https://ghostcitypress.com/
  • Location:  Syracuse
  • Editors: Kevin Bertolero
  • Identity-Specific: Focus on LGBTQ+
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