*ANNOUNCEMENT*
We're reopening submissions on June 15! We'll be
reading full-length manuscripts for our 2026 catalog in
all literary genres + other nonfiction categories. Visit
our website for more information and start getting those
subs ready!
Not every day you get a mention in
@USATODAY
. Bonus points for being listed alongside THE
@elicranor
! Check out the full profile of our favorite local bookstore
@BookishFS
:
We are open for full-length prose submissions! We’ll be reading subs on a rolling basis as we line up our slate for 2023-2024. Get more information here and help us spread the word:
It's pub day! 🥳 Congratulations to Amy Cipolla Barnes (
@amygcb
), whose latest prose collection CHILD CRAFT officially enters the world today. Get your copy now through our website, Bookshop, or your local indie bookstore.
✨COVER REVEAL✨
Introducing CHILD CRAFT by the one and only Amy Cipolla Barnes (
@amygcb
), a hybrid story collection coming September 5! Pre-orders will open in the spring.
Introducing our lineup for MID/SOUTH SONNETS: sixty-six poets from all over the (Mid-)South. We are thrilled to see this project coming together! More details coming soon.
We've reached a big (to us) sales milestone! Not counting forthcoming pre-orders, we have sold 1,000 books to individual customers through website and in-person sales! We're so grateful for the support.
Sneak peek of our next two Prose Series installments, freshly printed! These will be available for sale individually or included free with pre-orders of upcoming books by
@amygcb
&
@ttbrader
.
The time has come, folks: it's a cover and contributor reveal! We are thrilled to share work from these forty talented mid-Southern writers in our upcoming anthology. Publication date coming soon.
Happy New Book Day to Shome Dasgupta (
@laughingyeti
)! HIs latest prose collection, HISTORIES OF MEMORIES, is now available through our website,
@asterism_books
,
@Bookshop_Org
, or your local bookstore. Plus check out our playlist to listen along as you read!
We’re working to clear out our submissions queue this month as we start to build our 2024 catalog, so if you’re looking for a fairly quick response, now is the time! Visit our website for more information.
It's pub day for MID/SOUTH SONNETS and these are two happy co-editors (
@CTsalazar_
&
@CasieDodd
). Many thanks to everyone for reading, sharing, and joining this community.
✨COVER REVEAL✨
Here's the official cover for MID/SOUTH SONNETS, our next anthology coming later this summer. Pre-order your copy now through our crowdfunding campaign! Click through our linktree to learn more.
If all goes smoothly, by the end of the year we will have published 20 books and 18-19 installments in the Prose Series so far--with more on the way in 2024 and going into 2025. Phew!
Did you know that our Founder/Publisher,
@CasieDodd
, is also a writer & stay-at-home mom while running the press? At Belle Point, we believe a better world is possible--one that makes space for personal and creative communities to flourish while staying rooted where you belong.
✨COVER REVEAL✨
Introducing Kirsten Reneau's (
@ReneauGlow
) debut full-length essay collection: SENSITIVE CREATURES is coming March 19, 2024. Now open for pre-orders!
Introducing a new prose lineup for 2024! We are giddy about this stellar, eclectic catalog. Head over to our Substack to learn more about these talented writers and their forthcoming projects--featuring
@laughingyeti
@matt_j_miller
@ReneauGlow
RILLA ASKEW & more!
Introducing our next anthology project: MID/SOUTH SONNETS, co-edited by
@CTsalazar_
and
@CasieDodd
! Get your submissions ready; we start reading January 15.
We now accept submissions through a Google Form instead of email. We keep subs open year-round & strive to respond promptly, so we hope this will help keep the process smooth! You can view our guidelines on our website. (Previous subs from email are still being considered)
✨COVER REVEAL✨
We're really excited about HISTORIES OF MEMORIES, the next prose collection by Shome Dasgupta (
@laughingyeti
) headed your way October 17! Pre-order link is now open as well:
Today's the official launch date for our MID/SOUTH ANTHOLOGY. What better way to celebrate than with a giveaway or two? First up: a Belle Point mug (or other merch of your choice)! RT this tweet for a chance to win; we'll choose someone tomorrow! You can also enter on Instagram.
Happy pub day to MID/SOUTH SONNETS! This remarkable anthology is now available through our website,
@Bookshop_Org
, and your local bookstore.
“I entered each of these sonnets and came out something else." -
@CTsalazar_
Shome Dasgupta's (
@laughingyeti
) next prose collection is coming your way next month! Many thanks to Melissa Llanes Brownlee (
@lumchanmfa
) for these generous words about HISTORIES OF MEMORIES, available now for pre-order.
We love motherhood at Belle Point, and we're eager to support mothers in all their complexity and creativity. Now you can get four of our recent and upcoming poetry titles that address themes of motherhood--our latest $40 bundle.
Seeking reviewers, interviewers, and other books people for our fall catalog! We have prose collections, poetry chaps, a memoir, and a novel available. If you're interested, please fill out the publicity form through our l!nktr*e.
We know tornadoes around here, and we'd like to show our support for the Mississippi communities recently devastated by storms. Through 4/15, $7 from every copy sold of our first MID/SOUTH ANTHOLOGY will be donated to the Rolling Fork Tornado Relief Fund on GoFundMe.
Don't forget to join us next week to hear
@OscarHokeah
in conversation with Toni Jensen (
@ToniJens
)! We'll be at
@pearlsbooks1
up in Fayetteville--it will be a spectacular time.
Just an appreciation post for all these fine poets. We're ever grateful for the community we've found in MID/SOUTH SONNETS and can't wait to see this book officially enter the world next week! (
@CTsalazar_
&
@CasieDodd
)
Today we're celebrating
@jackbedell
and his new chapbook, All the Woods' Wild: The Story of the Swamp Witch of Maurepas! Head to our Substack to learn more about Jack's work.
We loved chatting w/ Mid/South Anthology contributor
@CTsalazar_
about his work--& we have a copy of HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING to give away, thanks to our friends
@friendlycitybks
! RT this tweet for a chance to win. We'll choose someone Sat.
MID/SOUTH SONNETS is off to the printer, and we've migrated regular pre-orders to our website! We're planning on a late August release so you can end
#TheSealeyChallenge
on a strong note.
Our list of independent bookstores that carry Belle Point titles continues to grow! This month we're sending out special thanks to Powell's Books, Friendly City Books, Thank You Books, Bookmarks, & Malaprop's.
#supportindiebookstores
#supportsmallpresses
#SayNoToAmazon
Check out our latest Prose Series release! We love these little micro-chaps. This month features two additional stories by Amy Cipolla Barnes
@amygcb
. Prose
#13
is available to buy individually OR will be included for free with CHILD CRAFT pre-orders, due out September 5.
Belle Point Press has officially joined the Independent Book Publishers Association! We’re excited to keep learning from our publishing community.
@ibpa
We're excited to announce that Belle Point Press (
@BellePointPress
) have partnered with Asterism! You can browse their catalog, which celebrates the literary culture of the American Mid-South, right here:
Happy pub day to Jack Bedell (
@jackbedell
)! His new chapbook, ALL THE WOODS' WILD: THE STORY OF THE SWAMP WITCH OF MAUREPAS, is officially out in the world today. If you know Jack's work, you know it's not to be missed; if you don't know it yet, you should! Grab a copy today.
If you can't make
@NikkiUmmel
's workshop at the end of this month, join us in August to talk sonnets with the one & only
@CTsalazar_
! Registration includes two sessions + a copy of MID/SOUTH SONNETS. Visit our website to learn more!
We're teaming up with our friends
@pearlsbooks1
&
@arkansas_mfa
to bring
@OscarHokeah
to Fayetteville! Join us on Thursday, 9/14 at 6:30pm to hear him in conversation with Toni Jensen (
@ToniJens
). Registration is encouraged, so click through our linktree to RSVP.
Have you heard? We've joined
@asterism_books
! As a small press deeply invested in pursuing sustainable approaches to independence, we love the Asterism model of distribution and are thrilled to be able to offer a simpler Ingram alternative to retailers.
While we're eager to also branch into more prose in the coming months, we're committed to keeping poetry central to our press identity. Check out some information about what we've published so far!
While everyone’s gearing up for AWP, we have three—THREE—regional festivals on our docket for April. We can’t wait to meet more (Mid-)Southern friends.
Heads up! We will be temporarily closing submissions at the end of this month. We've received so many solid manuscripts that our catalog is steadily growing, so we'll be ready to pause new acquisitions soon. Thanks to everyone who has trusted us with their work!
Thanks so much to everyone who submitted to our sonnets anthology! We have sent responses to everyone, so please let us know if you didn't hear back from us. We'll be announcing the full lineup soon!
Just a few days left until Shome Dasgupta's (
@laughingyeti
) next release, HISTORIES OF MEMORIES! Many thanks to Ra'Niqua Lee (
@raniqualee
) for her thoughtful praise for this collection that "spirals through tales of joy, loss, and grief."
We're working on our next round of poetry chaps! Planned for release from September 2023-March 2024, you can treat yourself now and subscribe for all five. Be on the lookout for more details in the coming months! Pre-order here:
We are saddened to learn that Christy Lorio has passed. She was a true light, and we’re grateful to have been part of her life in the last few months. Our condolences to her husband Thomas, her siblings, her niece, and to her many other friends and loved ones.
✨ COVER REVEAL ✨
THIS NEW DARK by Chase Dearinger: the next novel by Belle Point Press, coming February 2024. TRUE GRIT meets TWIN PEAKS in what
@EdgarAwards
-winner
@elicranor
calls "a damn fine debut." Pre-orders are open!
Great news! The first two installments of our new Prose Series officially release today. Check out some cool short reads by
@SallyThomasNC
and
@jennifereeser
available in our shop now:
We're one week away from the official release of Jason Myers' (
@jasonpmyers
) debut collection, MAKER OF HEAVEN &, and today we're thinking about this lovely poem, "Near the End":
"On a hill near a house where I used to live
an olive tree hosted a congregation of starlings."
At The Floating Bookshop tomorrow, we'll have copies of
@robroensch
's new novel AND his Prose Series installment available. Can't wait to see our OKC friends and check out this wonderful new bookstore!
💛💜💚Surprise! We're running a Mardi Gras flash sale TODAY ONLY. The six books pictured here are available in a Louisiana bundle for $40. Add discount code MARDIGRAS at checkout to save another 15% on the bundle or any of these individual titles + pre-orders on BOTTOMLANDS!
ICYMI: We launched pre-orders for CHILD CRAFT (by
@amygcb
) this week. But if you're looking for more prose by Belle Point, you can order a subscription now for our fall catalog! Be among the first to get books by Amy +
@ttbrader
,
@laughingyeti
, and
@robroensch
, coming Sept-Nov.
Many thanks to Jolene McIlwain (
@jolene_mcilwain
) for these generous words for Amy Cipolla Barnes' (
@amygcb
) upcoming book, CHILD CRAFT, now available for pre-order:
We’re celebrating
@SealeyChallenge
with
#sealeysonnets
starting with the beginning to
@CTsalazar_
’s “Sonnet River”—first in AMERICAN CAVEWALL SONNETS, then HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING:
ICYMI: we got a shoutout in
@USATODAY
last week! Thanks again to our beloveds at
@BookishFS
for thinking of us and for supporting the indie literary ecosystem!
✨COVER REVEAL✨
Introducing HULK CHURCH by Justin Lacour (
@TrampolinePoet1
), coming your way November 14.
Pre-orders are open--or you can treat yourself to a chapbook subscription.
We are thrilled to see MAKER OF HEAVEN & officially out in the world today! Congratulations to Jason Myers (
@jasonpmyers
)! Find Jason at AWP to get your copy signed or order one from us if you can't attend this year.
We're halfway through our reading period for MID/SOUTH SONNETS and trust us--you're not going to want to miss this lineup. We are still taking submissions through March 15!
@CTsalazar_
and
@CasieDodd
are having more fun than you'd think possible in a shared Google Drive.
CHILD CRAFT's release date is getting closer, and we've added a special bundle to the preorder page. You can now get both of
@amygcb
’s full-length collections (CHILD CRAFT & AMBROTYPES
@wordwestpress
) for $27. We only have seven bundles available, so act now to reserve yours!
It's here! Happy pub day to Teresa Tumminello Brader (
@ttbrader
). You can now order her debut memoir, LETTING IN AIR AND LIGHT, through our website,
@Bookshop_Org
, Ama$on, or your local bookstore. This is a book you won't soon forget.