Origami

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Notes on short-form literary publishing: what the small presses are making, how the chapbook is put together, and where to send work.

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If you are new to the form, the pages that cover the most ground are what a chapbook is, how to publish one, and what a lyric essay is.

lyric essay · 2012Level EndBrian Oliu. A video game walkthrough written as lyric essay.Readessays · 2012In Defense of MonstersBJ Hollars on the creatures we cannot dismiss.Readshort fiction · 2013An Elegy for MathematicsAnne Valente. One of the press's most reviewed titles.Readflash fiction · 2015Behind This MirrorLena Bertone. Seven sisters and an angry appendage.Readshort fiction · 2011PhantomsChad Simpson. Midwestern lives in motion.Readnovella · 2013FloaterKate Bernheimer, illustrated by Noah Saterstrom.Read

About this section

This address published a literary press's blog for years. That archive is not reproduced here; it remains available through the Internet Archive. What follows is new writing on the same subject.

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).