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Vitreous by David Ray Vance "Part 1934 medical text, part Keatsian reflection, this is the logical offspring of the long-awaited meeting of science and art.
- Mary Jo Bang

The Midlife Crisis of
Dick and Jane
by Nin Andrews

Best of Diagram #2 by Ander Monson A wide array of never-before-seen schematics chosen for their strangeness and beauty. This is a bizarre, sometimes funny, profound and always intense collection.

Poppy by Austin Hummell "Taut with the voice of many close-held wisdoms, Austin Hummell's POPPY is laced with a brilliant restraint and an odd humility. He traps the feral, injured thing and tames it just enough to examine the damage, then sets it back again, free. Hummell is a master of extremity, and of beauty too.
-- Lucie Brock-Broido

All I Can Truly Deliver by Matt Vadnais "There is the world and then there is the world. In his 'Cover Stories,' Vadnais uncovers the paradox of 'realistic' fiction. One need not go out and bring 'em back alive when one has the more inventive terrain of the library."
- Michael Martone

Del Sol Press seeks to publish exceptional work by both new and recognized writers, as well as republish literary works that we consider extremely significant and that have gone out of print. Our approach is eclectic, but our emphasis is on original, unique, and accessible work WITH AN EDGE. As such, we eschew noncommunicative forms (language poetry rip-offs, Finnegan's Wake imitations, and so forth) and genre fiction (unless exceptional).

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Michael Neff / Publisher and Editor
Michael Neff is the founder and director of WebdelSol.Com and it's affiliate non-profit projects, including Del Sol Press. He is a writer, editor, and an artist. He publishes several literary magazines including In Posse Review, 5_Trope, Perihelion, and La Petite Zine, and is also the editor-in-chief of Del Sol Review. His own work has appeared in several journals including North American Review, Mudlark, Conjunctions, The Literary Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Quarterly West.

Katie Jean Shinkle / Managing Editor
Katie nags Michael when he hasn't lived up to DSP standards.

Currently, DSP is NOT taking unsolicited submissions, synopses, or outlines in any form, however, query letters and all other communications, including requests for review copies can be sent to dspress [at] webdelsol.com (replace [at] with @).

In your query letter, please include a bio, publishing history for this project (if any), and other previous publications.

Poetry queries should be sent to dsp-poetry@webdelsol.com. Expect at least two weeks for a reply.

For poetry manuscripts, especially: though we don't require manuscripts to include a lengthy list of publications, most of the authors we are interested in have published poems in a variety of literary magazines.

Our advice is to examine the type of work we publish. Our poets and authors are unique and accomplished writers. We would never consider any type of literary work that is not exceptionally original and well written.

Address (not for unsolicited ms):

Del Sol Press
2020 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Ste 443
Washington, DC 20006