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Plain View Press is a 35-year-old issue-based literary publishing house. We have published 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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3800 N. Lamar, Suite 730-260
Austin Tx. 78756

If you have a matter of immediate concern, please email support.

To have your manuscript considered for publication, visit Submissions.

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

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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We Have News!
Plain View Press will be at AWP in Chicago at the end of February. Please come visit, meet our authors, and see the recent releases.

Please join us Jan 15 at Bookwoman for a reading in remembrance of Susan Bright

Plain View Press is working to resolve certain legal and financial issues and put the press on a stable path with exciting new oportunities. Submissions will reopen under a new structure once we complete the many details in this transition.

Contributions to the press will help to publish high-quality carefully-selected books of poetry or prose that fit within our purpose. Want to donate?

House Resolution 176 in honor of Susan Bright
WHEREAS, Susan Bright made a lasting impact in the lives of countless people through her dedication to literature and to myriad worthy causes, and those who were privileged to share in her love and affection will forever hold her close in their hearts....

Poet's Tree at Zilker Park,
in honor of Susan Bright
"It is said that the thirst of Earth's
great trees calls water
from depths which are invisible
causing springs to flow"
-- Susan Bright

Author Kudos

Layla by Celine Keating, published in June, 2011, from Plain View Press, was chosen by both HuffPost and Poets & Writers as a must-read book.

Richard Troxell's book Looking Up At the Bottom Line has been sent to every congressional and senate representative and to the mayor of every state!

If you are a PVP author, send your author news to support for periodic updates.

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