C is for Chimera

Silversong

Growing up in The Warren — gnomish slums in a big, human, city — Garryn Silversong has one goal. He wants to become a powerful wizard and use that power to rescue himself, his mother and his best friend from the dream-destroying poverty they are forced to exist in.

Armed with only a harp, a stolen book about arcane theory, and single-minded determination, Garryn claws his way up from obscurity, becoming a household name. 

But when unimaginable tragedy comes to The Warren, Garryn discovers there are things that fame and money can not buy. Will he find a way to protect those who are most important to him or he will spiral down into oblivion, taking them with him?

Silversong
B is for Broken

Prairie Spirit(s)

Poetry about the spirit of the prairies and the spirits that haunt them.

Deadly droughts, malevolent entities and snow drifts that keep secrets (at least until thaw) are just some of the encounters, spooky and otherwise, that await you in Prairie Spirit(s).

Prairie Spirits

G is for Ghosts

A teenage girl’s classmates begin disappearing only to haunt her dreams, ships full of ghostly passengers in need of release test those who are tasked to give them peace, psychopomps whose job is guiding the spirits of the dead to the other side meet in a support group, and more fill these pages.

G is for Ghosts
A is for Apocalypse

Dark Waters

Water doesn’t need to be deep to be dark.

A remote lake where the locals wear iron anklets for protection, a ghost ship, a goddess, a pearl diver who finds much more than she’s looking for, the true story about a familiar fairy tale and more all lurk within these pages.

Dark Waters
A is for Apocalypse

Arcana

Tarot card decks have twenty-two major arcana, filled with symbolism and imbued with meaning. Explore the greater secrets and ideas behind those cards with the stories and poems of Arcana. Discovery awaits, in tales such as: a grasping king struggling with his legacy; an alchemist setting a golem out on a mission of revenge; and a woman finding what she didn’t know she was looking for.

Arcana

News

D is for Dinosaur

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We are excited to announce that the next installment in the Alphabet Anthologies series will be D is for Dinosaur. While our contributors are interpreting the dinosaur theme quite widely, we are assured there will be at least a handful of prehistoric creatures within...

C is for Chimera — Pre-Order and Save!

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Our Goodreads Giveaway is over, and winners have been chosen from the 1336 people who entered. Congratulations to the winners (who have been notified)! The books will soon be winging their way toward you. If you didn't win, don't despair--we have good news. Pre-orders...

C is for Chimera Cover Reveal & Giveaway

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This installment of Rhonda Parrish’s alphabet anthology series asks skilled storytellers to write around the theme of chimera. The resulting tales are part fable, part poem, part dream. But like any chimera, the parts make up a greater whole. Blend reality with...

Pushcart Prize Nominations

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Every year small press editors pick out their six strongest stories or poems and nominate them for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Here at Poise and Pen Publications we do the same. Our task was not easy but from the anthology, B is for Broken, published in May...