Plain View Press gives contemporary voice to a far-flung community of humane and passionate writers and readers.

Plain View Press is a 36-year-old issue-based literary publishing house. We have published over 350 titles presenting the work of almost 500 national and international writers. We publish contemporary literature — poetry, fiction, memoir and nonfiction.

"Despite evidence that relentless violence has taken root worldwide, there is hope and there are artists to show the human face of it."

Susan Bright, Poet/Publisher, 2010

Plain View Press is a community of writers, artists, readers and activists who, together and individually, do amazing work. If you're already a PVP writer or artist, you and your readers can now add reviews to your title entries in our Zencart.

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New Releases Spring 2013: One for the Money, Two for the Sluice by Albert Noyer, How Therapists Dance by Dane Cervine

Coming Soon! Alchemy of Desire by Daianlee Valie, After Building Snow Forts by Esteban Colon, and Ring of Fire by George Keithley.

New Releases Nov 2012
Carl, Willi and Blanche by Barbara de la Costa, Sojourn at Dusk by Eve Ottenberg, Heading Toward Silver Dust by Martha Deborah Hall, and Isabelle's Dream by Madelline Hermann.

New Releases Jan/Feb 2012
Bursting With Danger and Music, The Fear of Love, The Hide of My Tongue, Lessons from the Borderlands, Manzanita Seed, The News Factory, The Nun, port of call, The Putneyville Fables, The Rescuer's Path, While the Blanket Is Short Learn to Curl Up, Sleepwalkers

New Releases Oct/Nov 2011
At Work in the Bridal Industry, Going to the Well: A Mother-Daughter Journey, Nothing Left to Lose, How Far Tomorrow, One Amber Bead, Pacharan Dreams

Releases June 2011
Days Like These, Flame Dancer, Alabama Light & Power Co, Some Days: Poetry of a Psychotherapist

Releases April 2011
Augustus, The Ghosts of Glorieta, Just a Few Feathers, King of the Wild Suburb, Layla, The Way Home, Wind in the Aspens

Releases Jan 2011
Bend, Break, Inside Out: Poems From the Lives Of Five Accomplished Women, Middle-East Mezze, No Father Can Save Her, Of Jibaros and Hillbillies, Pola: The Mysterious Communications Of a Gone Woman, Prayers of the Shaman, Uncle Feygele, Wheelchair Samurai 

Releases Fall 2010
Elemental, Looking Up At the Bottom Line, Ode To Fragile, Night Call, Rhapsody For Lessons Learned Or Remembered, Soul Proprietorship: Women In Search Of Their Souls, Ishtar's Songs: Iraqi Poetry Since the 1970s

Releases Summer 2010
Additions and Subtractions, The Art of Folding, Body and Echo, Born With a Rusty Spoon, Bye Bye Blackbird, Conspiracy Of Leaves, Maternity Labyrinth, A Matter Of Happenstance, Meet Me At the Met, Paul Bunyan Lives! and Other Tales From the Natural World, Red Has No Reason, Secret Weeping Of Stones, Selfhood and U.S. Democracy, Strange Conveyances, The Spoken Body, What Pearl Harbor Wroght, Wind Came Running

Releases Spring 2010
Some From Zacatecas, Rendered Invisible, Making Gumbo In the University, Not Every Woman Swooned, Saints & Cannibals, Some Women's Lives

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