April 8, 2025 is the official publication date for Pigeon Falls by Jeff Elzinga. We’re thrilled to have edited and published this compelling and important novel. You will want this one! Orders are shipped same or next day.
This spring, Water’s Edge Press collaborated with Madeleine Wattenberg’s Literary Publishing class to give students a hands-on experience with literary editing and publishing. In this blog post for Lakeland University, Alyssa Voigt wrote about this collaborative experience.
A new anthology of baseball poems will be published in the fall of 2025 by Waters Edge Press. The editors, Tom Erickson and Ed Werstein, hope to assemble 75 to 100 poems that celebrate the many facets of baseball, and show off the many ways baseball plays an important and rewarding part in many lives.
Do you have a favorite player or team? Did you play in Little League? Did you listen late at night to games when your team was playing on the west coast? Did you play stick ball on city streets? Do you remember the first major league game you attended? You get the idea.
Please send only one or two poems, in one Word document file, to: Ed Werstein at wersted@gmail.com .
You must put “Baseball Poems, (your name)” in the subject line.
Previously published poems are OK with proper acknowledgment.
Payment for an acceptance is one copy of the anthology. After publication, all rights revert to the poet.
We’re excited to share this news. Freesia McKee, Lynn Aprill, and Megan Muthupandiyan are the three newest authors at Water’s Edge Press. We will publish their chapbooks this spring. Stay tuned for more. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news.
from Water’s Edge Press in conjunction with Lakeland University
Some of you may know that before I became the editor of Water’s Edge Press, I taught high school English for nearly 27 years. Part of my teaching philosophy was the belief that we learn best by doing. We get better at writing by writing, for example. So when the opportunity arose to collaborate with Madeleine Wattenberg’s Literary Publishing class at Lakeland University on a chapbook series, I saw the prospect as win-win all around, for students, for teachers, for writers, and for my press.
The Calliope Chapbook series was named in honor the Greek goddess Calliope, muse of epic poetry. The first installment of three chapbooks to be published in the spring of 2025 will be open to emerging or experienced poets from Wisconsin only. Writers of the three selected chapbooks will be given a publishing contract with Water’s Edge Press, but must be open to working with student editors throughout the production and promotion processes.
If you are a Wisconsin poet not affiliated with Lakeland University and are interested in this unique and exciting opportunity, please visit the Water’s Edge Press website to learn more about the press and to read the call for submissions. The submission window runs from November 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025.
This hybrid publishing venture is not a contest. There are no fees to submit. There are no cash awards.
June 19, Water’s Edge Press will participate in the 2021 Maker Faire, held at Mead Public Library and City Green in Sheboygan, WI. According to the event website, the event is “the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth – a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness.”
Sheboygan Poet Laureate, Lisa Vihos, has also organized an Acoustic Cafe in association with this event that will feature many of the writers from Water’s Edge Press. They’ll read selections from their books and be available for book signing afterwards.
At the Water’s Edge Press table, visitors can learn about Dawn Hogue’s path to small press publishing. All of the books from Water’s Edge Press will also be available to purchase.
Please mark your calendars: June 19, 2021, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visit the event website for more information.
With the holidays quickly approaching (and with Covid keeping us all close to home), you are likely making your gift-giving list early. Books are the perfect 2020 gifts, inducing couch-cozy snuggling safely at home.
When you buy from us (instead of that huge online bookseller), you put more money in writers’ pockets.
Help us help our authors: buy books directly from www.watersedgepress.com/shop by December 14 using coupon code: HAPPY and save 10% on your total order.
Starting July 15, 2020, we are offering copies of The Distance Between Stars signed by the author, Jeff Elzinga.
Order yours today before our supply sells out. This offer is available only at Water’s Edge Press.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Distance between Stars, a story about DUTY, RACE, and national IDENTITY.
In an African country quickly sliding towards civil war, an American diplomat adrift in his personal life searches for an investigative reporter who has gone missing in the bush.
Ancestral
$25.00
A Hollow Bone
$16.00
Lamenting My Failure to Learn How to Tap Dance: And Other Missteps
$18.00
Something Novel Came In Spring
$15.00
Poems from the Winter House
$25.00
