Harbinger of the Literary Crossover Revolution - seeking the sensible road between hardcore mainstream and the unrealistically soft  in a number of fascinating genres - and having fun doing it!
Coming in 2014 / 15 - Nonfiction & Poetry
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Joliet in My Blood by Francine Tolf - Flawed beauty, fragility of relationships, mystery beneath surfaces, class differences, race - all find their way into various pieces in this collection of related essays that explore how growing up in Joliet, Illinois, in the late sixties and early seventies shaped the author as a person and a poet.
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Nancy Hightower's The Acolyte is a poetry collection which explores myth and ritual through a surreal retelling of Biblical stories and cultural movements. It includes the 2014 Rhysling nominated poem, "A Virtuous Woman," which will be available in the 2014 Rhysling Anthology.
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Night Flying by Joy Christine Mlozanowski: epistolary pieces/poems which form a powerful fictional, non-judgmental narrative around faith and the controversial topics of abortion and end-of-life care. 
Tony Connor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature says this: "Audacious and original, it fuses Job-like questioning of God’s goodness with the colloquial exchange of emails, touching, as it does so, upon religious heritage, the flawed human flesh, childhood hopes, death’s certainty, the limits of language and truths to be apprehended only in silence." 
Coming in 2014 / 15 - Fiction
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Fiction by author Timothy Laskowski: "Mazurka is a deft and large-hearted family saga that explores the terrain of physical and spiritual displacement. Laskowski's characters are vivid and alive. Their struggles become ours." - Deirdre McNamer, two-time author of New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year novels
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A dystopian novel by New Zealand author, Grace Bridges, Mariah's Dream will captivate you with its picturesque look at Ireland after a worldwide catastrophe.
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Follow Declan and Paddy to a fictional village in Northern Ireland where they dig up the cursed locket of a noble woman murdered twenty years prior. Burning for revenge, the ghost manifests itself in frightening, lethal ways and beguiles one of the young men to help her punish those ultimately responsible. 
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Small Crimes and Bad Behaviour:  "From malice to murder … Australian writer Maris Morton hits her stride with 17 stories exposing the dark undercurrents of ordinary domestic life." - Carmel Shute, National Co-convenor, Sisters in Crime Australia
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Stephanie Dickinson's Waking Water is "an explosion of lyrical realism; a wild celebration of nature and names and poetry in this harsh universe. Apocalyptic like The Road, but based on a real event, in the end horror is dwarfed by courage and compassion and love. Dickinson is one of the most beautiful and powerful writers of our day." - Jill Hoffman, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship & editor of Mudfish
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Although with special interest for young adults, After Genevieve is a page-turner for readers of all ages. It addresses serious issues of aging, death, abandonment, adoption, parenting (and grandparenting), and coming-of-age, at any age. Most of all, After Genevieve is a grace-filled lesson in hard-won friendship, love, and loyalty. - Sara Pritchard, author of Crackpots and Help Wanted: Female
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Would you begin thinking about what you can submit to PYP's inaugural issue of the Bonté Review in February? Click on title link for more details. 
Next regular press reading period is August, 2015 (next year). Please do not send queries until then.

Stephanie Dickinson's Waking Water is "an explosion of lyrical realism; a wild celebration of nature and names and poetry in this harsh universe. Apocalyptic like The Road, but based on a real event, in the end horror is dwarfed by courage and compassion and love. Dickinson is one of the most beautiful and powerful writers of our day." - Jill Hoffman, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship & editor of Mudfish

Did you know Port Yonder Press is the harbinger of the Literary Crossover Revolution? Books focusing on story and the right word choices while downplaying overtly offensive elements, all for a wider range of readers. This is what we call "literary crossover." And this is what we do best.

PYP author Nancy Hightower has been shortlisted in the Flann O'Brien Award for Innovative Fiction for a short story collection.

In 2013/14 PYP released about a dozen books back to their authors. We continue to shift direction from the commercial to the literary, so check back often for our latest releases, or better yet, subscribe to our newsletter! (Upper right corner.) 

April 20-26 was Cowboy Poetry Week.  Be sure to check out Rod Miller's Things a Cowboy Sees, winner of the 2012 Spur Award for "Tabula Rasa," as well as several other awards.
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Chila managed an anthology of work done by several authors, making a seamless book that flowed well from story to story. I found her to be supportive, and easy to work with.  ~Robert Vaughan, New York Times bestselling novelist & Writers Hall of Fame inductee

Chila Woychik has been a wonderful editor with whom to work: she was in touch with me often during the production stages of my book, Ship of Light, with questions about my preferences, wanting to make sure I was pleased at every step. She was clear in her communications, and she provided me with a wonderful artist, Benjamin Bailey, who created a beautiful cover for the book. I cannot praise her and the press highly enough. ~Susan Shaw Sailer, author, poet, educator

I have found Chila Woychik to be a real professional and an excellent editor. She is also very personable--a pleasure to deal with. ~Tim Champlin, author of over 20 books 

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