2026 titles available for preorder

 

We are so excited about our 2026 chapbook selections! We're putting the final touches on our two exciting titles: 

 

 

LOOPHOLES, poems by Tamara Štajner, translated from the German by Rebecca Weingart. (21 pages, paper, staple-bound. Toad Press, 2026. $6.00)

 

 

 

 

& IN BLOOM, stories by Katarzyna Szaulińska, translated from the Polish by Mark Tardi. Cover art by Małgorzata Myk. (29 pages, paper, staple-bound. Toad Press, 2026. $6.00)

 

 

 

 

LOOPHOLES will be available mid-August, and IN BLOOM will arrive mid-September, but you can pre-order today on Asterism! Learn more and reserve your copy at asterismbooks.com/publisher/toad-press

 

 

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

The Meat Market

The Meat Market

by Shaheen Akhtar and Mashiul Alam

translated from the Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya

23pp, paper 

Toad Press, 2019. $5.00 

cover art by Liton Sarkar

You can purchase a copy of The Meat Market at Asterism.

Shaheen Akhtar is the author of five novels and four short story collections. In 2004, her novel Talaash won the Prothom Alo Book of the Year award. The English translation of Talaash (The Search, trans. Ella Dutta) was published by Zubaan in New Delhi in 2011. Akhtar was presented with the Sera Bangali 2014 award in the field of literature by India’s leading Bengali news channel ABP Ananda. She received the Akhteruzzaman Elias Katha Shahitya Puroshkar for her novel Moyur Shinghason and the Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar for fiction. Her work has been translated into English, German and Korean.

Mashiul Alam was born in northern Bangladesh in 1966. He graduated in journalism from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow in 1993. He works at Prothom Alo, the leading Bengali daily in Bangladesh. He is the author of a dozen books including Second Night with Tanushree (a novel), Ghora Masud (a novella), Mangsher Karbar (The Meat Market, short stories), and Pakistan (short stories). His short story “An Indian Citizen in Our Town” (trans. Shabnam Nadiya) was published in Words Without Borders’ 2013 Bangladesh feature.

Shabnam Nadiya is a Bangladeshi writer and translator in California. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2012. Her translation of Moinul Ahsan Saber’s novel The Mercenary was published in 2018 (US edition), and Shaheen Akhtar’s Beloved Rongomala is forthcoming, both from Seagull Books. She has published her own work and translations in journals such as Joyland, Gulf Coast, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Wasafiri, Five Chapters, Bengal Lights, and The Missing Slate, as well as various anthologies. She is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Steinbeck Fellowship.