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Results of the Landmark Prize 2019
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2019 Landmark Prize for Fiction! The Winner: The Teller by Karina Lutz How do friends and family respond to hearing the stories of #metoo? “The Teller” wends one possibility as it explores the role of friendship, recovered...
The Terror of A Trilogy (Or Stick With Me, Folks!) by Beth Kander
Before becoming a novelist, I was (and am) a playwright. Over the years, I’ve noticed something. A lot of playwrights strive for the ninety-minute show—technically a full-length piece of theatre, but one that plays out without interruption. No...
Inspiring Syn | The Story Behind Beth Kander’s Latest Novel
Inspiring Syn: We recently sat down with Beth Kander to ask her the inspiration behind her latest work, Original Syn, now available through our sci-fi imprint, Owl House Books. As an author and playwright, people often ask me “Where do you get...
Medicine by Frank LaRue Owen
Medicine by Frank LaRue Owen Winner 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize The look on your face is one I have seen in my own mirror. I know you didn't think you would feel this tired at this age but this is just a phase. You’re in-between...
The Bouquet of the Last Direction by Frank LaRue Owen
The Bouquet of the Last Direction by Frank LaRue Owen Winner 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize When the soul becomes unburdened it's like a new saddle on a fresh horse. Suddenly the trail feels right again, and the strong horizon line...
Back When – April 22, 1591 by Frank LaRue Owen
Back When - April 22, 1591 by Frank LaRue Owen Winner 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize I was sitting on a rough-hewn bench eating a meager meal in a small roadside saké shop. A large jar of saké sat in front of me. I ate, I...
Forest Bathing by Frank LaRue Owen
Forest Bathing by Frank LaRue Owen Winner 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize There is a way of entering the forest when the breeze of the trees becomes your guide when the cool gray-green days and humid blue-green nights become your own skin...
The Launch of The Vanguard Podcast
The Vanguard Podcast is a bi-annual podcast of Homebound Publications featuring interviews and commentary from those at “the forefront of creativity.” Each episode, we feature intimate conversations with artists, authors, musicians, innovators, and...
Redwing | A Poem by James Scott Smith
Redwing by James Scott Smith, from the collection The Expanse of all Things Red Winged Blackbird sang of the expanse of all things, of the sacred emptiness of plain spaces. I walked beneath his melodic teaching three mornings as if I needed to hear it again and once...
Glass Jar | A Poem by James Scott Smith
Glass Jar by James Scott Smith, from the collection The Expanse of all Things After the divorce and in the throes, I walked along the beaches of Southern California sunset after sunset. I collected stones and shells that I have kept in a hand blown glass jar I found...
Mystic | A Poem by James Scott Smith
Mystic by James Scott Smith, from the collection The Expanse of all Things If you are one the wild God wants for his own. If you are drawn into the silence, near the bottom, along the edges. If you have borne up under some great catechism and now are released...
One a Day by Gunilla Norris
an excerpt from Companions on the Way by Gunilla Norris There is no book that talks about spiritual and heart-full practices that does not include gratitude as central. It’s not hard to see that when we are given something, and truly receive it, our response will be...
To Be Thankful by Heidi Barr
I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. –Alice Walker an excerpt from Woodland Mantiou by Heidi Barr It was late fall the year that my daughter was eight months old and didn’t care for the practice of...
Wood Stove by Heidi Barr
an excerpt from Woodland Mantiou by Heidi Barr Two weeks ago, a lanky man and his assistant rambled up to the house bearing silver stove pipes and ladders and left two hours later as we gazed at our newly installed wood stove. We got it from a guy across the river...
The Mainstream: Going back to the Source
by Heidi Barr, author of Woodland Manitou I walk through the tall grass toward the place where the water bubbles out of the ground, cold as ice and clear as fresh air. To get here, you have to drive down a winding back road and pull off ot the side of it to...
Writing the Quotidian by Iris Graville
Writing the Quotidian by Iris Graville, author of Hiking Naked Quotidian. I read that word in an essay I critiqued during my first semester in my MFA program. I had to look it up. Ironically, it’s a fancy word for something that’s not, well, very fancy. ...
Walking into Words by Katherine Hauswirth
My own, simple theory is that walking “loosens” the brain, and also that its rhythm invokes a meditative state. Engaging the body and the senses in an outward journey gives us permission to let the mind wander, and to ultimately go deeper inward.
Letters from the Other Side of Silence | An Excerpt
Here’s the truth: Something happened on that volcano in Guatemala. I’m just not sure what. …Yes, Steve was in the lead and I was trailing behind and then it happened.
The Moon Reminded Me | Read the First Pages
In her luminous poems, Ellen Grace O’Brian manages to braid contemporary moments of everyday life with ancient spiritual teachings—the sight of a hummingbird’s red throat, bread on the table, a couple’s quarrel, a mother’s advice—become doorways into the divine...
Solstice | A Poem by James Scott Smith
Our latest poetic offering, Water, Rocks, and Trees, is now available in paperback worldwide. This is the debut collection of James Scott Smith. The book was given an Honorary Mention in the 2015 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. The praise has been pouring in for...
The Great Wheel | A Poem by James Scott Smith
Our latest poetic offering, Water, Rocks, and Trees, is now available in paperback worldwide. This is the debut collection of James Scott Smith. The book was given an Honorary Mention in the 2015 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. The praise has been pouring in for...
Dog by James Scott Smith
Our latest poetic offering, Water, Rocks, and Trees, is now available in paperback worldwide. This is the debut collection of James Scott Smith. The book was given an Honorary Mention in the 2015 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. The praise has been pouring in for...
Seeing the Past by James T. Powers
We're celebrating the release of Seeing the Past: Stories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright by James T. Powers. Look for the book on Amazon, B&N and Indiebound.org or order from the Homebound Publications Store. About the Book Milo Todd was not content with his...
Crimson | A Poem from Water, Rocks and Trees
We are pleased to announce the release of Water, Rocks, and Trees is now available in paperback worldwide. This is the debut collection of poet James Scott Smith. The book was given an Honorary Mention in the 2015 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. The praise has...
Upcoming Feature Events
06
Apr
Painted Oxen Book Launch
Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave, Reno, Nevada 89509 starting at 2pm. You are invited to spend the afternoon with local author Thomas Lloyd Qualls in celebration of the release of his award-winning novel Painted Oxen. rvsp on Facebook
06
Apr
Meet Press Founder L.M. Browning at PUBU 2019
For nearly three decades, IBPA Publishing University has been the indie publishing community’s must-attend networking and educational event. As a Board Member of the IBPA, Leslie will host several offerings over the conference. Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, 540 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 register
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