Books published by Thirty West Publishing House

In the aftermath of her first serious long-term relationship, the book''s protagonist, a 22-year-old woman caught in the loop of a dead-end data entry job, takes a trip out of the city to collect her thoughts and visit her friend, Sidney, at her hometown. Every year, Sidney throws a loosely-defined "festival" in which she invites her wide and widely-varied circle of friends to stay in her family''s empty house for a long weekend of debauchery. This time, however, she''s looking for a distraction, and she finds it in the form of Jay, a 40-something manual laborer who wastes no time in prying into her various emotional and existential burdens.

The debut poetry collection by Anthony Desmond, Martyrs of a Certain Belief wraps the self at the stake and blows the flames asunder. Prominent, melancholic, and colorfully despondent, this collection wants to be loved, even when the last page is burned from existence.

Keep Her In Your Mouth, Steph Castor''s 2nd full-length poetry collection, is a series of snapshots from a different kind of love poet. Retracing the past year in the life of a self-proclaimed bonne vivante, KHIYM is a mediation on food, sex, travel, and relationships-a reminder to stay present, have a hunger for new experiences, lean into fear, have an unabashed lust for food, embrace adventure in intimacy, and hold onto those rare folks of pure gold. Similarly to I Love You Is Back by Derrick C. Brown, The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson, and If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird.

Better Bones is a collection of lyrical hybrid stories that focuses on the way the body holds memories, desires, and self-destructive tendencies. The pieces combine real-life landscapes, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to Long Island, as well as childlike mythical places, as the narrator moves backward and forwards, through childhood to adulthood, in order to make sense of their surroundings and decisions."Better Bones wallows in the after. It explores longing and nostalgia and finds in them beauty broken down. Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is the Leonard Cohen of burnt tongues and broken sidewalks-of digging through desire and eating with dirty fingers. Heartfelt and sensual, Better Bones unravels and coils around you one ruined piece at a time."-Daniel DiFranco, author of Panic Years"Say Comyns and Carrington plotted a miraculous high five-Better Bones would break through their palms. An ouch to peel and tweeze, even tease. To deny the opportunity of familiarizing yourself with Canarella is to suffer an extraterrestrial score of deprivation. This is the other side of real life. It has everything: hardball comedy, sweets, and blood."-Barracuda Guarisco, author of Narwhal/Red Dolphin & Uncomfortable Music

The first issue of Tilde for 2020, read over 30 contributors in poetry. fiction, and creative nonfiction. Featuring Adam McOmber, Brendan Walsh, Rachel Nolan, Amber D. Tran, and more. Cover photo by Rebecca Goodman.

Following her successes from All the Ghosts We’ve Always Had, critically-acclaimed flash fiction writer, Jules Archer, returns to the dinner table with Little Feasts, her debut short story collection. The stories are a table-long buffet of femininity, a lying tree, childhood innocence, toxic masculinity, and a 20-pound cast-iron skillet. Works within have been featured in Five:2:One, SmokeLong Quarterly, Maudlin House, PANK, and more.