About

Origami is a new, independent record of short-form literary publishing, published at the former address of Origami Zoo Press. We are not that press, we are unaffiliated with it, and we sell nothing.

The chapbook is a physical tradition as much as a literary one: short, cheaply printed, and made to be handed around.

What we publish

Reference pages on the chapbook, the lyric essay and flash fiction, and an archive of the eight titles this address once carried. The aim is to be the page that answers the question you arrived with.

What we are not

This address previously belonged to Origami Zoo Press, a small literary press that closed in 2015. Origami is a new and entirely unaffiliated project. We are not that press, we are not its successor, and we hold none of its rights. Much of its catalogue was taken on by Bull City Press; where a book is in print, that is where to find it.

Why the name

Origami is the art of folding one flat sheet into a finished form. A chapbook is made the same way: one sheet, folded, gathered and stitched. The name is the method, not a claim on the former press.