Snake Nation Press provides an informative, non-threatening venue for writers to submit their work in the midst of an often chaotically diverse publishing world. Over the sixteen-year history of the Press, the staff and volunteers have found great satisfaction in forging personalized editorial relationships with both emerging and established writers. The Snake is committed to keeping an honest and open dialogue with authors and to furthering the literary arts on a local and global scale. Many hours of volunteer labor and the electronic resources of the Web have allowed a small press to help present many new literary voices to the world-wide community.

The editors of Snake Nation Press look for manuscripts that concretely render the writer’s actual and imaginative experiences. We publish writing that both newly interprets life in its everyday reality and that opens the reader’s eyes to internal landscapes that have not yet been envisioned. We believe that good writing fortifies a belief in the value of human life and effort, but above all the work must connect intuition and experience to cast a spell of surprised recognition that shocks the reader with what was thought to be familiar.

Many of the writers published by Snake Nation Press have received major literary prizes such as the Pushcart, the Juniper Award, the Hemingway Short Fiction Award, the Walt MacDonald Prize and many others. Poetry published by Snake Nation Press has been reprinted and anthologized by leading publications.

Snake Nation Press is a 501(C)3 Literary Arts organization. The Press has been publishing Snake~Nation~Review since 1989.

You can read more about the Snake on the history page.