Index for Continuance

Join us as we talk to literary hero and former camp counselor Alicia Wright, editor of the magazine Annulet and Annulet Editions, and author of the just-released poetry collection You’re Called by the Same Sound , out...

We spend a killer ep. 24 with Callie Garnett, poet and editorial director of fiction and memoir at Bloomsbury Publishing. (FYI Callie acquired and edited Hilary’s 2025 novel State Champ .) Callie pulls back the curtain...

In this ep Hilary talks to the writer and editor Youssef Rakha, whose novel  The Dissenters  is just out this spring from Graywolf.  The Dissenters  is Youssef’s first novel to be written in...

Join us for a cool milestone in our first-ever transatlantic episode. We interview Kirsty Dunlop and Maria Sledmere, Glasgow-based post-internet poetics prophets and editors of the heroic UK online and IRL publisher...

In this ep we get into “arts administration”: how to do it well, why maybe it should be called something else, and what small presses can offer literary programs of all sizes. We talk with one of the best in the field...

In this episode we talk with poets Noor Hindi and George Abraham about  Heaven Looks Like Us , a new anthology of Palestinian poetry they co-edited, forthcoming from Haymarket Books in May 2025. We discuss their...

We sit down with Kate Kremer, playwright and publisher of  53rd State Press , which now also houses  3 Hole Press and Plays Inverse , making it an essential hub of independent and radical writing for...

Ever wonder what literary orgs have to do with the state? Nonprofits with the CIA? Your own poems with military operations on the other side of the planet? Of course you do. Luckily, so does Buffalo’s own poet laureate...

Strap in as we spelunk some of “indie” publishing’s murkiest and most nutrient-rich depths. Zach talks with Ryan Skrabalak: poet, teacher, cheesemonger, Deadhead, cool punk, and founder of the lively and exciting Spiral...

Hilary talks to friend of the pod Lucy Biederman to get her updated thoughts on the presence of Koch money in literary publishing—specifically, how the independent press  Catapult , which has also acquired the...

Join us for a raw one as we respond in the moment to some real-time small press world-historical events ( the end of SPD ). With minimum filtration and maximum range, it’s an occasion to revisit one of our all-time...

We finally sit down with Caryl Pagel (director of the CSU Poetry Center) and talk about her other job as publisher of Rescue Press . Caryl sheds light on the idea of “generative publishing” and on her approach to...

In this ep we got to sit down with Ali Black , who inspires us (and many people) as a poet, writer, educator, and administrator from Cleveland. We talk to Ali about her new writing program for youth, “The Most...

Here we go with comics artists, educators, and publishers Daryl Seitchik and Dan Nott, founders and operators of Parsifal Press , a comic and graphic text imprint based in White River Junction, Vermont. Our discussion...

We gotta say, this episode is really useful for anyone who wants to learn about publicity and marketing outside the Big Five (or even inside the Big Five, for that matter). We talk to Jeremy Wang-Iverson of  Vesto...