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Mad Creek Books is the literary and trade imprint of The Ohio State University Press. With a mission to foster creativity, innovate, and illuminate, Mad Creek Books champions diverse and creative literary writing. A platform for artistic, daring, and innovative literary books—in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—books on the imprint will push boundaries, explore new areas, and generate new ideas. Mad Creek Books is a place for exciting literary work and publishes writers from all experiences and backgrounds, representing the true diversity of the literary landscape.

Book series on the imprint include Machete21st Century Essays (which includes the annual Gournay Prize), Latinographix, and The Journal Non/Fiction and Poetry annual prize series. We also publish books outside of these series. All submissions should come through Submittable, but for other queries about the imprint or series, please email madcreekbooks@osu.edu.


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New & Forthcoming Mad Creek Titles:

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Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

2022
Machete

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Con Papá / With Papá

Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and Illustrated by Nicky Rodriguez

2022
LatinoGraphix

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Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie

Frederick Luis Aldama
Ilustrado por Chris Escobar

2021
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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology book cover

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology

Edited by
Alex Hernandez
Matthew David Goodwin
and Sarah Rafael García

2021

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Like Love

Michele Morano

2020
Machete

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Don't Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen

Edited by Kristen Iversen and David Lazar

2020
21st Century Essays

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The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie

Written by Frederick Luis Aldama
Illustrated by Chris Escobar

2020
LatinoGraphix

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Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy

Edited by Matthew David Goodwin
Introduction by Frederick Luis Aldama

2020

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On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine

Sonya Bilocerkowycz

2019
21st Century Essays

Winner of the 2018 Gournay Prize

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Great American Desert

Stories

Terese Svoboda

2019

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Echo's Fugue

Desirae Matherly

2019
21st Century Essays

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Fear Icons

Essays

Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel

2018
21st Century Essays

Winner of the 2017 Gournay Prize

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Tales from la Vida

The LatinoGraphix Collection

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama

2018
184 Color llustrated pages
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Drawing on Anger

Portraits of U.S. Hypocracy

Eric J. García

2018
208 illustrated pages
$18.95 Paper
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Apocalypse, Darling

Barrie Jean Borich

2018
Machete

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Angelitos

A Graphic Novel

Ilan Stavans and Santiago Cohen

2018
128 color pgs
LatinoGraphix

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Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer

Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life

Alberto Ledesma

2017
103 color illustrations
LatinoGraphix

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Quakertown

Lee Martin

2017

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Through a Long Absence

Words from My Father’s Wars

Joy Passanante

2017

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Don't Come Back

Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

2017
21st Century Essays