The dominance of the “The Big Five” publishers (Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Macmillan) may seem unlimited, but small, alternative publishers still exist and offer innovative options to authors. Join us and learn about some right here in Massachusetts!
Representatives of Concord Free Press and Galiot Press, two regional small presses, will discuss the current publishing landscape and their philosophies on contemporary publishing. They will also share insights and improvements to traditional publishing that they’ve discovered during their quests for innovation.
In 2008, Stona Fitch founded the Concord Free Press, a revolutionary publishing house that publishes and distributes original novels throughout the world, asking only that readers make a voluntary donation to a charity or person in need. The novels, short story collections, photo books, and essays published by the CFP have inspired more than $5.5 million in generosity. Praised by critics and readers, Stona’s own novels are published widely. The New York Times choose his latest novel, Death Watch (2023, Arrow Editions) as its top Summer Reading thriller. His crime novel, Dark Horse (2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), is the second novel in his Boston-based crime series – published under the pen name Rory Flynn. The first novel in the series, Third Rail, has been optioned for television.
Anjali Mitter Duva is an Indian American writer, editor, and publisher who was raised in France. She is a co-founder of Galiot Press and a former fiction editor at Solstice Literary Magazine. She is the author of Faint Promise of Rain, which won a William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and she has been a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. She co-founded and runs the Arlington Author Salon, and is also a co-founder of the Indian kathak dance non-profit Chhandika. Anjali was educated at Brown University and MIT.
Henriette Lazaridis is the author of Last Days in Plaka (a Good Morning America Buzz pick), Terra Nova (which the New York Times called “ingenious”), and The Clover House (a Boston Globe bestseller). A first-generation Greek/American, she earned degrees in English literature from Middlebury College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Pennsylvania. Her essays and articles have been published in Elle, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is co-founder of Galiot Press, an innovative new publishing venture, and runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece. An avid athlete, Henriette writes about athletic and creative challenges at The Entropy Hotel on Substack.
This is a hybrid event.
Zoom link will be sent to all registrants an hour before the program starts.
