Origami
A vintage book cover

Authors

The writers whose chapbooks appear on this shelf. This is an index into the archive, not a biography of living writers.

a shelf of chapbooks:short, folded, two-colour,gone within a year.
The chapbook is a physical tradition as much as a literary one: short, cheaply printed, and made to be handed around.
Writers in this archive
AuthorTitleForm
Brian OliuLevel EndLyric essay
BJ HollarsIn Defense of MonstersEssays
Anne ValenteAn Elegy for MathematicsShort fiction
Laura van den BergThere Will Be No More Good NightsShort fiction
Chad SimpsonPhantomsShort fiction
Kate BernheimerFloaterNovella
Lena BertoneBehind This MirrorFlash fiction
Ben HoffmanTogether, ApartShort fiction

A note on these writers

Several have gone on to publish widely since these chapbooks. We link to the works as they appeared here and do not reproduce biography; for current work, seek the writers' own pages and their later publishers.

Origami

An independent record of short-form literary publishing: the chapbook, flash fiction and the lyric essay.

Origami is a new and independent project published at the former address of Origami Zoo Press. We are not that press, we are not affiliated with it, and we sell nothing. Where a book remains in print we point to the press that carries it (much of the original catalogue is at Bull City Press).