MISSION

Established in 2016, PALOMA PRESS is an award-winning, San Francisco Bay Area-based, Filipino American and immigrant women-led, independent literary press. We are founded in the belief that the literary arts can create empathy, bridge divides, and change one’s world. We welcome diverse voices and perspectives, and especially seek out works that tell stories of (be)longing and movement, and arrival and survival, of the body and all its memories. At our core is kapwa, a force that strengthens communities, and nourishes connections and shared identities. Our mission is to publish poems and prose that have the power to inspire and reshape our creative futures.

We are fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media, a veteran nonprofit organization that provides fiscal sponsorship to independent media producers and culture makers.

In Fall 2023, we released the climate change poetry anthology, Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto & Jeremy S. Hoffman, as a companion to the congressionally mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5).

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

We are a community of readers and writers from very different backgrounds, and with very different lived experiences. We respect each other’s uncommon ideas, and strive to create safe and welcoming spaces for our diverse ways of being. We reject prejudice and all forms of bias, particularly on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origins, gender, gender identity, sexuality, class, religion, language, education, disability, and socioeconomic status. We publish works that inspire a more just and more equitable future for all.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We acknowledge that we are settlers on the unceded traditional homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. We pay our respects to the elders who continue to be stewards of this place, and we endeavor to honor the land by understanding its history, supporting indigenous customs and movements, and presenting diverse and balanced narratives of our lived experience.

SUBMISSIONS

We are currently not open to unsolicited submissions. For questions about our catalog, please email editor [at] palomapress.org.

RIGHTS & PERMISSION

Our authors grant and assign Paloma Press exclusive rights to publish their work for a limited period. Our authors own copyright to their work, and as such, we are not authorized to grant permission for further uses of any of the works published by Paloma Press without the permission of the author/s.

BOOK ORDERING

Please email us for individual book orders, or Ingram for volume orders, or visit this page to check out Paloma Press books that are currently available in libraries and bookstores near you.