Read an Ebook Week - Discounts Available

March 5-11, 2023 is National Read an Ebook Week! To celebrate, we're offering 50% off all FEP ebooks available through our Smashwords partner!

All single-title Street Smart Series novelettes, regularly $1.99, now only $0.99 each. All full-length titles (including DIG by Robert Paul Moreira; In Madison's Cave by Douglas Anderson; Jeremiah Hacker by Rebecca M. Pritchard; and Street Smart x 7: A Street Smart Series Omnibus), regularly $5.99, now only $2.99 each.

Happy ebook reading!

Prosper Mérimée' classic volume of "fakelore" is now available for the first time in its entirety, in English-language translation.

Purported to be a collection of folktales, ballad lyrics, and travel narratives compiled and translated into French by an anonymous traveler returning from the Balkans. Before long, though, it was revealed that both the stories and their “translator” were the fictional creations of a young civil servant, Prosper Mérimée, who would later become one of the most accomplished French writers of his generation. In these dramatic tales of love, war, and encounters with the supernatural, Mérimée has given us both a treasure trove of “fakelore” and a satirical portrait of a self-appointed expert blissfully unaware of how little he understands the cultures he claims to represent.

Songs for the Gusle will be published on March 21, 2023 and is now available for pre-publication sales ordering.

Frayed Edge Press is now on TikTok, sharing our press news, new releases, and participating in #BookTok communities.

Give us a follow if you're on TikTok, too -- our handle is @frayed.edge.press!

More social media links for Frayed Edge Press can be found on our website header and footer, and on our Linktree links.

​Robert Paul Moreira's mixed-genere collection DIG has been reviewed in HIVE Indie Book Reviews!

"From the start, it’s exceedingly clear that Moreira has a distinct, unique voice that the reader will either deeply love or abhor in its entirety. This concise manner of storytelling mixes modern individual culture with mythological and literary references in such a way that nearly raises a middle finger to the occasional snobbery of contemporary literary fiction and sets Dig apart from the very first. That is to say, this read was like nothing I’ve read before, and diving into it felt akin to a fully submersive dip in the strangest of pools."

Read the full review here!

Find out more about DIG!

​"Dig is a gritty literary collection whose diverse entries concern finding one’s place within a family, a culture, and a country."

DIG by Robert Paul Moreira garners four stars in Foreword Reviews. Read the full review on their website.

Learn more about the book on its webpage, including options for print and ebook purchase.

​Forthcoming -- Pre-Order Now for 20% Off

Now together under the same cover for the first time: all seven numbers of Frayed Edge Press’ Street Smart Series of Short Fiction—novelette-length works featuring contemporary urban settings, well-drawn characters, and engaging plots.

Stories include contemporary noir, coming-of-age, police procedural, and three stories featuring anarchists. Pre-publication sales pricing available now-- see the publication page for details.

Publication Date: November 15, 2022.  Physical Description: 6x9; 210 p.; pbk.

Now Available!

DIG by Robert Paul Moreira is now available from Frayed Edge Press!

This mixed-genre collection collection of short stories, microfiction, hybrid fiction, and drama features Latinx characters who are often caught between cultures, DIG explores themes of physical and emotional violence, human relationships, and the weight of politics, history, and culture on individuality and identity.

​“Robert Paul Moreira is the most original voice coming from our nation’s southern border.”
 --Brian Allen Carr, author of Opioid, Indiana

Read the press release and visit the book page for DIG to learn more!

Pre-Order Now!

Pre-publication sale pricing is now available for Robert Paul Moreira’s forthcoming collection, DIG. Mixed-genre, short stories, flash, and drama combine in what American Book Award winner Stephen D. Gutierrez calls “a fantastic read--moving and comic and tragic, and infused with earned hope.” 20% off pre-publication sale pricing is available now through October 10, 2022. 

DIG
Book description: 6x9, 185 p.
20% off sale price: $14.40
Publication date: October 11, 2022
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PRE-ORDER NOW!

Now Available as Ebooks!  Street Street Smart Series #6 -- "Make the Bear Be Nice", by Stephen St. Francis Decky and Smart Series #7 -- The Day is Gone, by Shelonda Montgomery, are now available as ebooks! In addition to the usual availability on Amazon Kindle, we've expanded our ebook offerings onto new platforms -- including Apple iBooks, Kobo, B&N and more! Use the links on the book pages or search by ISBN on your favorite platform! Look for more FEP titles coming to a wider variety of ebook platforms soon!

August is Women in Translation Month! 

Frayed Edge Press is happy to present a variety of under-represented world literature, translated for the first time into English. Check out our Translation page for new and forthcoming translated works from our press.

We're proud to be part of the effort to allow women writers from all countries to be read in English, and we salute the the work of women translations in helping to bring many of these works forward.

Celebrate Women in Translation Month by reading a translated woman author, or reading the work of a woman translator! 

Forthcoming in October, 2022!

​This cross-genre collection of short stories, microfiction, and drama provides a kaleidoscope of modern human experience—from navigating fraught romantic relation-ships and definitions of masculinity, to dealing with the pull of family ties and the struggle to make one's way in the world. 

​Featuring Latinx characters who are often caught between cultures, DIG explores themes of physical and emotional violence, human relationships, and the weight of politics, history, and culture on individuality and identity. 

​Robert Paul Moreira earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas Pan American, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the editor of ¡Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latina/o Baseball Fiction (2013) and author of the story collection Scores, winner of the 2016 NACCS Tejas FOCO Fiction Award.

Summer Special! While Supplies Last!

Sticker set measures 4x6 inches and contains four main stickers and several smaller, snacky ones! Perfect for decorating your computer, phone, or book cover. Commemorates the "story within the story" of the summer kiddie blockbuster -- Make the Bear Be Nice!

"Make the Bear Be Nice" Book description: 5x7 inches; 45 p., 3 b&w illustrations Price: $6.50
A homeless teen working nights cleaning movie theaters at a South Jersey cineplex forms an unlikely friendship with a former high-school classmate and his sister. Their relationship—as well as his relationship with his estranged father—culminates with a chaotic uprising during a screening of an annoyingly ubiquitous summer blockbuster kids’ movie.​  BUY NOW!

Happy May! Celebrate Short Story Month with novelettes from Frayed Edge Press' Street Smart Series!

Seven short fiction titles featuring contemporary urban settings, well-drawn characters, and engaging plots. 
​These handy, pocket-sized reads are perfect for commuting or reading in one sitting! 

You can find them all at:
https://www.frayededgepress.com/street-smart.html

​Frayed Edge Press is now open for submissions in all categories! Submit your manuscript proposals for fiction, poetry, or non-fiction from April 15 - June 19, 2022.

Send us your writing "on the fringe"! 

For more information, see our Guidelines at: https://www.frayededgepress.com/guidelines.html

Saturday, March 26, 2022 -- FEP Author Meet & Greets all day at AWP 2022!

Join us at Table 568 in the Main Exhibit Hall of the Philadelphia Convention Center. Meet:

• Stephen St. Francis Decky, author of "Make the Bear Be Nice" - and pick up a free sticker set!
• Bryant O'Hara -- author of The Ghettobirds poetry collection
• Rebecca M. Pritchard -- author of Jeremiah Hacker: Journalist, Anarchist, Abolitionist
• Robert P. Helms -- co-author of "Down and Out in Paris, With Cat" and co-translator of "Full Fare"
  

For more information on all our offerings, see:
https://www.frayededgepress.com/books.html

Frayed Edge Press will exhibit at the AWP 2022 Conference in Philadelphia from March 24-26, 2022.

​Discount prices on all books and come meet some of our authors in person on Saturday, March 26th -- all day!

For more information and the full schedule, see: ​https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview/2022_PHILADELPHIA

Frayed Edge Press author Bryant O'Hara is featured as one of the "Literary Interviews" in the September, 2021 issue of the Blue Mountain Review.

Learn more about Bryant's writing process and literary influences, as well as what he's been reading lately in the interview with Lee Furey found here: issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/bluemountainreviewseptember2021/42

Bryant is the author of The Ghettobirds, a collection of speculative poetry published by Frayed Edge Press earlier this year. Learn more and get your copy here: ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/ghettobirds.html

Two new numbers in Frayed Edge Press' Street Smart Series of Short Fiction are coming in November!

#6 - "Make the Bear Be Nice" by Stephen St. Francis Decky launches on November 2, 2021 and is available at a special pre-sale discount price now! Both poignant and funny, this story concerns a homeless teen working nights cleaning movie theaters at a South Jersey cineplex. He forms an unlikely friendship with a former high-school classmate and his sister, while also struggling to come to terms with his estranged father. The story culminates with a chaotic uprising during a screening of an annoyingly ubiquitous summer blockbuster kids’ movie.​ 

#7 - The Day is Gone by Shelonda Montgomery launches on November 9, 2021 and is also available at a special pre-sale discount price now! In this story, a Chicago family’s lives are disrupted when two young brothers and their friend discover the body of a local store owner in a ditch. The children are so used to seeing violence in their neighborhood that they don’t bother telling anyone. When their mother finds out, it sets in motion a plan to move the family to a safer neighborhood. Complications arise when their father loses his job and abandons them, leaving their mother to ensure the safety of the family on her own.  

 Read more about all of the Street Smart Series titles here!