Frayed Edge Press author Stephen St. Francis Decky will read from his new novel, Werewolf Movie, at the Philadelphia Small Press Night event on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd.

The event will feature Philadelphia small presses and authors and will take place at the Philadelphia Barnes & Noble store at 1708 Chestnut St., beginning at 6pm

For more information, see: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-write-stuff-small-press-night-on-december-2nd-at-6pm-tickets-1835298560399 

"If the movie Clerks (1994) was a horror story, Decky’s novel might be it." --Kirkus Reviews

Stephen St. Francis Decky's new novel, Werewolf Movie is now available! Light horror meets the 1980s’ underground music scene in South Jersey and Philadelphia. Strange deaths, poltergeist activity, and mysterious wounds evoke a creeping dread—mixed with humor--perfect for fans of Donnie Darko or Twin Peaks.

Get you copy now! There's also a special deal when you purchase Werewolf Movie along with Decky's novella, "Make the Bear Be Nice"! 

See ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/werewolf_movie.html for all the details!

“Silence was her sanctuary—until it became her sentence.”

She stayed silent to protect a friend. Now silence may kill her.

1830s America. One girl. One lie. One prison where silence is weaponized.

Psychological suspense meets historical truth.

E.B. Moore's historical novel Silent Cauldron is now available!

And, if you missed E. B. Moore's other FEP novel, Loose in the Bright Fantastic, there's a bundle deal still available for savings when you order both!

Read more: ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/silent_cauldron.html

Just in time for spooky season!

Werewolf Movie -- light horror fiction from Stephen St. Francis Decky -- launches October 21, 2025. But you can pre-order your copy at a 20% discount NOW!

"Decky weaves a (wildly fun) cautionary tale about what you would do to make your dreams come true."--Molly Pohlig, author of The Unsuitable

"A creepy good read..."--R.A. Bolo, author of Down and Out in Paris, with Cat

Silence her crime, silence her punishment.

A girl mistaken for a boy. A crime she didn’t commit. A prison that speaks only in shadows. Based on true conditions at Eastern State Penitentiary.

E.B. Moore's Silent Cauldron is now available for pre-publication orders at 20% off the list price. Pricing good through Sept. 29, 2025.

And, if you missed E. B. Moore's other FEP novel, Loose in the Bright Fantastic, there's a bundle deal available for savings when you order both!

Read more: ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/silent_cauldron.html

Rife with revolutions and references, Hester L. Furey’s House of Jars stares unflinchingly into the scrying pool of post-modernist exploration. Close examination reveals a time-shy collection that cobbles together unlikely subjects to deliriously incredible effect. As a student of literature looking towards a career as an archivist myself, it’s exciting to see Furey’s “archivally based academic work in literary history” (Furey, v) mesh with poetry in what I feel is an incredibly successful effort to “preserve overlooked nuances of 20th century human experience.” (vi)

From Monica Robinson's review of House of Jars in Compulsive Reader

​"...House of Jars is the work of an intelligent and insightful mind. This collection should be fruitful for anyone searching for their own ecstatic truth in the detritus of the 21st century, especially if they enjoy historical rabbit holes and unexpected connections." -- ​C.M. Crockford, Broad Street Review

Winter in Bellapalma, the comic novel by Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe, is now available as an e-book! 

It follows the exploits of a community of expatriates living off-season in a small Italian fishing village: their lives, loves, and interactions with the locals, including involvement in a dispute between the fishermen and the town fathers who wish to promote the tourist industry.

A shorter, lighter read than most of Bjørneboe's work, it nonetheless invokes social commentary with concise portraits of various personality types and the inevitable collision of values in modern life between greed/progress and traditional ways of life.

​How To Tie & Untie Mist
Price: $14.00 pbk.
Literature, Poetry
​6x9; 73 p.
ISBN: 9781642510638 (pbk.)

Frayed Edge Press was recently featured in a series on independent presses in Philadelphia, appearing in Billy Penn, the online magazine for Philadelphia's Public Broadcasting Station, WHYY.

"Small presses have a long history in Philly. In fact, publishing is one of the city’s oldest industries. Just three years after its founding, the city already had its first printing press. And by the end of the 18th century, Philadelphia had become the center for book printing and publishing in the entire country, surpassing New York and Boston."

Frayed Edge Press Publisher Alison Lewis answers questions about press activities and what it's like to be a small independent press in Philadelphia. 
​https://billypenn.com/2025/03/20/small-publishers-frayed-edge-press-alison-lewis-qa/ 
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Frayed Edge Press is honored to announce that Blessed Hands: Stories is one of only seven books named to Kirkus Reviews' list of Best Indie Literary Fiction of 2024.

Consisting of short stories by Frume Halpern originally published in the mid-20th century New York Yiddish press, the full collection has been gathered here for the first time, translated into English by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, a poet, writer, and Yiddish literary translator.

Learn more about this important title and how to order it at:
​www.frayededgepress.com/blessed_hands.html 

20% Off Pre-Publication Orders!

House of Jars: Poems by Hester L. Furey is now available for pre-publication orders at a 20% discount!

House of Jars weaves together three sequences of poems: the journey of a character called Skeleton Woman through a mental health crisis triggered by menopause and environmental illness, the stories of a pantheon of modernist doctor-writers whose mental health struggles changed their writing, and the Conjuring Moses cycle. 

“The work Furey's doing in her House of Jars poem cycle is her most sophisticated and ambitious yet."--Steve Davenport, author of Bruise Songs

6x9;  vii, 73 p.  ISBN: 9781642510591
Publication date: Dec. 3, 2024 - Pre-order now!​

Frayed Edge Press is pleased to announce that Blessed Hands: Stories by Frume Halpern, translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, has been recognized in two categories at the 2024 CIPA EVVY Awards.

This collection of compassionate and affecting short stories were written by Halpern, an immigrant living in New York in the early to mid-20th century. They first appeared in print in Yiddish-language newspapers and have been thoughtfully translated into English by Taub.

Blessed Hands: Stories has been awarded the GOLD (First Place) medal in the Women's Fiction category, and the SILVER (Second Place) medal in the Religious/Spiritual Fiction category.

​The CIPA EVVYs™ is one of the longest-running book award competitions on the Indie publishing scene, and is sponsored by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA), along with the CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation (ELF). The EVVY Awards recognizes excellence in high-quality, independently published books and books from small presses. 

Frayed Edge Press is proud to announce that Blessed Hands: Stories, by Frume Halpern and translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, has been named a finalist in two categories of the CIPA EVVY Awards: Women's Fiction and Spiritual/Religious Fiction. 

The CIPA EVVYs™ is one of the longest-running book award competitions on the Indie publishing scene, and is sponsored by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA), along with the CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation (ELF). The EVVY Awards recognizes excellence in high-quality, independently published books and books from small presses. 

Congratulations to Yermiyahu Ahron Taub for this recognition of his translation work! We're excited to hear the results on September 19th!

"Do Not Misunderstand Me" The Collected Radical Addresses to the Unity Congregation (1888-1891)
by Hugh O. Pentecost; edited by Robert P. Helms

Now available! These politically and socially radical addresses were originally given to Pentecost's Unity Congregation, which he started in late 1887 after breaking with mainstream Christian denominations. The texts of the addresses were subsequently published in Pentecost's journal, Twentieth Century, and are collected here for the first time. They concern social justice issues which are as pertinent today as they were in Pentecost's time: poverty, income inequality, the death penalty, education, child labor, women's rights, and more. ​An introductory essay and extensive footnotes from editor Robert P. Helms add important context for these addresses.​​
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Price: $45.00 (pbk.)
​ISBN: 9781642510560 
​7X10; 833 p. 

"Do Not Misunderstand Me" The Collected Radical Addresses to the Unity Congregation (1888-1891)
Hugh O. Pentecost; edited by Robert P. Helms

These addresses were originally given to Pentecost's Unity Congregation, which he started in 1887 after breaking with mainstream Christian denominations. The text of the addresses were subsequently published in Pentecost's journal, Twentieth Century, and are collected here for the first time. They concern social justice issues which are as pertinent today as they were in Pentecost's time: poverty, income inequality, the death penalty, education, and more.
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Price: $45.00 (pbk.)
Sale - 20% Off Pre-Publication Orders $36.00 
​ISBN: 9781642510560 
​7X10; 833 p. 
Publication date: August 27, 2024

The Ghettobirds, the Elgin Award-nominated volume of science fiction poetry by Bryant O'Hara is now available as an ebook! 

“The Ghettobirds is populated by a wild array of sf-steampunk-Weird characters—symbionts, biohackers, swarm robots, and a mechanical chimera—all of whom combine into a “badass boombox” of a poetic choir. Bryant O’Hara’s book is happily infected with the “Virus Riddim,” and it will infect you, too.”
--Lesley Wheeler, author of The State She’s In and Unbecoming

See all your buying options here: ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/ghettobirds.html

All Frayed Edge Press ebooks will be available at 25% off list price for the month of July, when bought through our partners at Smashwords!

You can find the complete list of Frayed Edge Press ebooks available through Smashwords here:
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www.smashwords.com/profile/view/FEP2022

Grab some summer reading now -- and save!

Now Available as an Ebook!

Daniel Hales' ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English is now availabe in ebook format! 

​Hales demonstrates an irrepressible wit, a musician’s ear, and a command of language that propels us past expectations to the very threshold of wonder." - William Waltz, editor of Conduit & author of Zoo Music

Hales is smart and agile with words, and funny in ways both outright and sly." - Trish Crapo, The Montague Reporter

Learn more here:
https://www.frayededgepress.com/como-hacer-preguntas.html

Now Available! The Flying African

Areg Azatyan's surreal novel following the travels of an unnamed narrator throughout the continent of Africa is now available!

This episodic journey of 54 days spent in 54 countries reveals insights into the history and people of Africa, while challenging the narrator and the reader to the discover psychological truths within ourselves.

​Read more here!

The Flying African -- Areg Azatyan's surreal novel depicting fifty-four days of adventure and learning on the African continent will be published for the first time in English by Frayed Edge Press on January 30, 2024.

Now through January 29, 2024, the book is available to pre-order, at 20% off the list price!

​​“I really enjoyed the book opening and was intrigued and amused by the different chapters. I loved...the quick way I was drawn into encounters with strangers and little mysteries.”--Olivia Hetreed, Screenwriter [Girl With a Pearl Earring]

“Azatyan has a distinct talent with a playful sensibility full of probing questions...I look forward to following his work.”--Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker and scriptwriter.