We are delighted to share our 2025 selections! This year we'll publish three chapbooks: 

• diamond & rust, poems by Catalina Vergara, translated by Tiffany Troy
  
• Middle-Aged Man's Self-Portrait, poems by Yan An, translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen
• Leaving the Beach, poems by Ariane Dreyfus, translated by Elaine Terranova.

Thanks again to all who submitted during our open reading period this year! It was wonderful to see what you've been working on, and we loved reading your translations! 

Look for diamond & rust, Middle-Aged Man's Self-Portrait, and Leaving the Beach this summer and fall!

 

Book Bundles are here!

 

Summer is a great time for reading, and we have four new chapbook + full-length bundle selections now available on the Veliz Books site! 

Choose from the Uruguayan Poets bundle, Prose selections, 2022 Poetry selections (2 options), or the Maritime bundle! Bundles are a great way to find new voices and get a taste of what Veliz Books + Toad Press have to offer. Shop bundles and save at https://veliz-books.square.site!

Here are your excellent bundle options:

Uruguayan Poets bundle ($33):

• The Lady of Elche by Amanda Berenguer, translated by Kristin Dykstra +
  
• We Do Not Live in Vain by Selva Casal, translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas +
  
• Anti-Ferule by Karen Wild Díaz, translated from the Spanish by Ron Paul Salutsky
  

Prose selections bundle ($23):

• Splendid Anatomies by Allison Wyss +
  
• The Seamstresses by Elena Poniatowska, translated from the Spanish by Rowena Galavitz +
  
• The Meat Market by Shaheen Akhtar and Mashiul Alam, translated from the Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

2022 Poetry selections bundle ($23):

• Void Odyssey, a book-poem-performance by Renato Negrão, translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Sarah Rebecca Kersley +
  
• In the Gloom on the Left, poems by Joyce Mansour, translated by Molly Bendall +
  

And 1 of the following books:

• Year of the Murder Hornet, by Tina Cane or
  
• Share the Wealth, by Maureen Thorson

Maritime bundle ($23)

• The Hole in the Ocean, short stories by Kathleen March +
  
• Tail of the Whale, poems by Alice Sant'Anna, translated from the Portuguese by Tiffany Higgins +
  
• mainland, poems by stinne storm

Read the World! Chapbooks are 20% off through 5/23

 

 

We’re excited to join the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and Veliz Books for the third year of #ReadTheWorld, an online bookfair celebrating translators and their publishers! All Toad Press chapbooks and Veliz Books translation titles are 20% off through May 23, 2023 at the Veliz Books store! 

Fill your cart here: https://veliz-books.square.site/

20% off for poetry month!

 

It's poetry month, and all Toad Press poetry (and poetry-ish) titles are 20% off at the Veliz Books store! Visit https://veliz-books.square.site/ to get some great poetic deals through April 30! 

Open Submissions, October 15-December 31, 2021

  

Submissions for the 2022 Toad Press International chapbook series are now open, and we can't wait to read your translations! 

Review our Submission Information and FAQs for more details. When you're ready, send us your chapbook manuscript via Submittable. We'll be open for submissions through December 31, 2021, and we aim to make our choices for the 2022 series (publication in summer/fall 2022) by late January. 

While we don't require submission fees, we do hope you'll consider purchasing a chapbook from our impressive catalog when you submit to us, or purchasing our Toad Press titles, book bundles, or Veliz titles from the Veliz Books store. 

 

Big announcement!

We are delighted to announce that Toad Press is now an imprint of Veliz Books!

As an imprint of Veliz Books, Toad Press will be able to expand its reach and get our translations into the hands of more readers. We’ll be able to better get the word out about your Toad Press titles, and we’ll have a larger platform for promotion. 

We’ll continue making your chapbooks available for purchase on Submittable, and we’ll keep using this blog and updating our Toad Press facebook page. In addition, we now have a Toad Press tab on the Veliz Books site, and a selection of our chapbooks is available for purchase in the Veliz Books store. 

Our partnership is a win-win! It means our presses, which already have so much in common, can participate together in the literary world: at conferences, readings, and events. Together, we look forward to continuing to support exciting, literary writing and cheering on our authors and translators. 

Read more about our partnership: "Working Alone, Working Together" in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics

 

 

Small Press interview at Entropy Magazine

We're working on our 2017 titles and will have some beautiful chapbooks to show you very soon! For now, though, you can go behind-the-scenes with Toad Press by reading our interview as part of Entropy Magazine's Small Press Database: https://entropymag.org/toad-press/

We've been busy

reading your translation submissions! We promise to decide on our upcoming 2014 publications as soon as humanly possible. Thanks so much for your patience and, of course, for sending so much wonderful work our way!

And, we've been working on making our sold-out chaps available for free online. Check out our first re-released e-release, OF THE SAME MIND. This collection of poems by Jóhann Hjálmarsson was translated from the Icelandic by C.M.Burawa and published by Toad Press in 2005.