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As native Floridians, we are thrilled to share WE CAN'T HELP IT IF WE'RE FROM FLORIDA: New Stories From a Sinking Peninsula, an anthology of stories and essays.

Florida is more than just fodder for hard-boiled crime novels and zany farces. This anthology of new stories and essays challenges a star-studded line up of current and former Floridians to write about the state through a literary lens, though not without the requisite weirdness. The Florida within this book contains: lightning, oil spills, road rage, a lizard tied to a balloon, swimmers, sleepwalkers, characters that love Florida, characters that hate Florida, and at least three sinkholes. Featuring new writing by Lidia Yuknavitch, Sarah Gerard, Kristen Arnett, Laura van den Berg, Lindsay Hunter, John Brandon, Jaquira Díaz, Alissa Nutting and many more.

• Paperback // 6 x 9 
• Ed. Shane Hinton
  

The Florida Man meme lodged itself into the national consciousness through viral headlines like “Florida man threw live gator in Wendy’s drive-thru window.” But there’s much more to the meme than a punchline. In this innovative collection, Tyler Gillespie strips away the accepted myths of his home state and its inhabitants in poems centered on Florida’s history and culture. He uses a lyric mix of journalism, science, family lore, and lived experience to reveal complex realities of the state and a redemption that’s wondrously messy and surprising.

Since the collection’s initial publication in 2018, Florida has become even more chaotic and unsafe. In this time, too, Gillespie emerged as one of the state’s rising literary voices for his wit and style. This second edition revisits the original collection and extends its themes with 20 new poems that form the chapbook-length addition HEAT ADVISORY.

“Gillespie has published an empathetic book of poems.” – WASHINGTON POST

• Paperback
• 5.5″ x 8.5″
• 128pp
• LGBTQ+

We are happy to present this hyperlocal novel BRIGHT LIGHTS, MEDIUM SIZED CITY: The Great Orlando Novel, by Nathan Holic.

Orlando, Florida. Summer of 2009. The Magic are steamrolling through the NBA playoffs, but your life is falling apart. For years you were told that Orlando was the city of the future. Every new high-rise condo and sparkling subdivision confirmed this. Now the boom years are over, and your fiancé is gone. Your house-flipping partner emptied the bank account, sold off the staging furniture, and skipped town. You’re an abandoned man with an empty McMansion you can’t afford, and a dozen properties you can’t sell. What’s your next move, big guy?

Bookended by a choose-your-own-adventure story and a final exam, Bright Lights, Medium-sized City is a formally inventive city novel in the tradition of The Bonfire of the Vanities. Bright Lights follows Marc Turner, a toxic male and hapless house-flipper caught in Orlando’s collapsing housing market. Through text, comic panels, and watercolor illustrations, Nathan Holic’s third novel shepherds readers from the glitz of downtown block parties to the grit of the Bithlo school bus races, with a spiraling detour in which the spirits of Orlando’s past confront Marc and force him to realize the danger of his own ambitions.

• Novel
• Hardcover
• Dist. by Ingram

Burrow Press presents a new pocket edition of Helen House, a queer ghost story, by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya.

An anthology of poetry, prose & art exploring how humans, particularly marginalized people, experience and interact with nature. Presented by Burrow Press, ed. Chad B. Anderson.

• Limited edition anthology containing two new prose works
• Features six stunning visual artists.

Moonlight Over Sea Trees catalogs the exhibit of the same name, which took place in 2023 at the Hand Art Museum in Deland, FL, featuring the work of the visual artists Edgar Heap of Birds and Michael Maxwell. With a primary focus on Heap of Birds’ Neuf series and Maxwell’s Night Drawings, the book explores the ways both artists engage with the natural world through abstraction. Including an array of images, an artist talk, and three essays––by Teresa Carmody, Luca Molnar, and Claire Voon––that contextualize the works and consider the artists in relation to one another, Moonlight Over Sea Trees is an engaging and inspiring look into Heap of Birds’ and Maxwell’s work and practice.

• Presented by Burrow Press
• 11″ x 8.5″
• Hardcover
• 72pp

Burrow Press presents this literary-architectural hybrid project, 36 Dwellings, that sketches fault lines within a Filipinx family, linking intimate harm to the forces of colonialism and labor migration. The story takes its form and title from the 36 houses, apartments, and rooms in which Padios has lived across nine cities in the US and the Philippines.

• This limited edition book is printed on insulation pink French Paper coverstock with custom die-cuts
• 5″ x 7″
• Paperback - 86pp
• Color Illustrations 

“Jan Padios’s deeply moving new work spatializes the complex architectures of human connection, gifting us with a haunting cartography of memory and movement across 36 dwellings. Prepare to be enraptured by her refreshingly experimental eye that weaves intimate schematics and ghosted images together with lucid lines carefully carved from miles and years of diasporic distance. Another word for dwell is pause. Padios offers us a moment to catch our breath among these achingly resonant geographies in this stirring chapbook of genre-defying innovation.”
–MONICA ONG, author of Silent Anatomies

A new pocket edition of essays from author, Selah Saterstrom and presented by Burrow Press.

To heal is to be changed, to be, potentially, revolutionized by the fracture whose initial presence signals as a wound. For all of its pain, the fracture sends out new lay lines – new paths of inquiry that necessitate new modes of knowing and being-with. Rancher follows such paths into the uncanny territories of life after rape: What happens when a lie becomes the truth? What happens when the ghost haunting your house turns out to be you? Saterstrom considers these questions with the oracular input of saints behaving subversively, black widow spiders, and a host of ghosts and friends alike. With original color illustrations by H.C. Dunaway Smith

• Essays
• 4 x 6 // paperback // pocket edition
• Distributed by Asterism

Burrow Press presents Cell, book by Luciana Chixaro Ramos.

Using bees, hives and keepers as a central conceit, this collection explores how language acts as imperfect material for building not only poems, but also laws and institutions.

• Poetry
• Limited Edition Hardcover // 7 x 9
• Distributed by Asterism