Submission Opportunities for 2021! In May and June of 2020, I sat in my house, watching as news reports of protests and unrest streamed in from all over the country. I felt the same way many Black folx at the time felt: helpless. Yes, we could go to the streets, risk...
This is not a solidarity statement. During times of turbulence, especially for marginalized communities, corporations put out statements of solidarity because they know that they must appear to support equality even if the actions of those corporations do not. I’m...
New Year, New Decade, New Imprint By Andrew Gifford When I started SFWP, everyone told me to “find a niche.” This was 1998, and it was a very different time for the publishing industry. It was a world before e-books, before the self-publishing revolution. As I stormed...
We’re looking for a social media manager to lead our social media strategy across Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to help support our growing presence in the literary community! SFWP is a traditional publisher who, for the last 22 years, has gone against the...
What an extraordinary contest! This was one of SFWP’s most exciting years. We saw so many amazing entries, and are still reviewing dozens of them for the publishing wing. Contracts have already been offered to several contestants, including Elizabeth Gonzalez...
The World Doesn’t Require You Author: Rion Amilcar Scott Liveright Publishing, of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-63149-538-0 $27.95 Make Your Descendants Proud: Ancestral Worship, Language Ownership, and Whose Stories We Tell in Rion Amilcar...