WBP was founded in 2009 as an imprint of the Glass Table Collective by a small group of like-minded writers in Los Angeles, a center for art in the globalized world. We came together to create an outlet for groundbreaking literary writing in every genre, and we’re still doing it, bringing out exciting new work every year that we truly believe needs to be in this world.
Since our inception, we have published more than 75 books by known and unknown writers. In 2019, we added a second imprint, Giant Claw Press. Our books continue to garner positive attention and recognition and, most recently, have been honored with inclusion in Lit Hub’s 100 Notable Small Press Books for 2025 and with an Honorable Mention for the Juan Felipe Herrera Poetry Award at the 2025 International Latino Book Awards Festival.
We are a micro-press, publishing four or fewer books a year, about half of which are poetry and half, prose-based narrative. Our list is genre-bending and includes bilingual poetry, eco-fabulist science fiction, magic journalism, and hybrid narrative, so it's fair to say that we gravitate toward work that resists easy categorization. But while we tend toward speculation, a lot of our work is firmly grounded in a world you and I might recognize and call our own. We remain strongly committed to—and are always looking for—new, innovative, and underrepresented writing that challenges both formal boundaries and the pressing social and political issues of our time.
All WBP / GC books feature cover art by the renowned painter, printmaker, and performance artist, Gronk Nicandro.
We are open for submissions from January 1 through April 30 of each year.
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What Book Press is actively seeking full-length works of prose in any genre--fiction, nonfiction, hybrid. In keeping with our eclectic collection of titles, we are looking for work that thrills us with a bending of literary expectation, or a striking use of form, or a poignant portrayal of the human condition--or (why not?), all three.
And as ever, we are always drawn to writing that's as interested in language as we are. Surprise us!
Works accepted in this round of submissions will launch in October 2027.
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- WBP / GC does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.
What Book Press is actively seeking full-length works of poetry. In keeping with our eclectic collection of titles, we are looking for work that thrills us with a bending of literary expectation, or a striking use of form, or a poignant portrayal of the human condition--or (why not?), all three.
And as ever, we are always drown to writing that's as interested in language as we are. Surprise us!
Works accepted in this round of submissions will launch in October 2027.
Privacy and Anti-Discrimination Statement
- WBP / GC will use your contact information to stay in touch with you on matters regarding our activities. Your information will not be sold or passed on to any other individual, business, entity, or agency.
- WBP / GC does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression.