About Us

We publish and promote great books of poetry every year. We are a small press in LA with a snappy look, dedicated to quality literature that is proud to be printed in the USA.  Since our inception in 2004 we have launched 155 titles and 85 ebooks.

We are grassroots, DIY, indie artists who believe that great poetry changes people for the better. We believe authors should make a living, and a way to do that is to create broad fan bases built from mandated touring, fair royalties and great-looking books. Our authors are captivating at live readings and are incredible on the page to read. 

We publish some of the top-selling, living poets in the United States.

To order in bulk email us at writebloody@gmail.com. 

Check out our sister company, Write Bloody UK.

Write Bloody UK is a brand new independent poetry publisher passionate about bringing the voices of UK poets to the masses. Founded by poet & publisher Fern Angel Beattie in 2020.

Write Bloody UK is committed to handling the creation, distribution and marketing of our authors; binding their words in beautiful, velvety-to-the-touch books and touring loudly with them through UK cities.

Check out our Sister company, Write Bloody North.

A new voice in Canadian publishing. Write Bloody North publishs groundbreaking voices and legends of spoken word to create innovative, fresh poetry books. Founded by Brad Morden.

 

Our History

Write Bloody Publishing was started in 2004 by traveling poet and former paratrooper, Derrick C. Brown.

After spending the mid 1990s and early 2000s book touring throughout Europe and the U.S., Brown realized the untapped potential in the contemporary poetry market for authors who were hitting the road reading in bars, theaters and clubs. Authors had to learn the art of building fan-bases by putting on entertaining readings.

Brown was seeing young, smart, page savvy poets, prose writers and poetry performers sell out shows, with only self-published, junky looking chapbooks available for sale. It seemed ridiculous and fateful that publishing houses — both mainstream or independent — hadn't signed on some of the best known- hardest working touring authors on the scene today.

Brown envisioned a publishing house that celebrated touring authors, a press that would give gorgeous, modern, ISBN-kissed books to those hard-working authors who rocked stages, crashed on couches and slept in vans.  It also had to take only the best authors and market them to the world with a solid distribution plan.

This has been the guiding philosophy of Write Bloody: Let the poets and authors who tour be the marketing; let this publishing house be the source for a movement.

Write Bloody is now partnered with authors of over 155 titles, who are working together to make this vision come true. Brown's background in the independent music and indie arts heavily influenced the look and feel of Write Bloody. Utilizing rock album designers and photographers, Write Bloody's look is as fresh, hard-charging and unapologetic as its writers are.

Write Bloody authors are diverse and out there — in small record shops and large colleges, in strange theaters and swampy bars — doing readings all across Europe, Australia and the United States. Going to a reading will one day be as common as going to the movies or to see a band and Write Bloody is currently paving the way. Our books are found in bookstores around the world from Guam to Berlin.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you would like to bring one of our authors to your town, or write one up in your magazine, blog or alt-weekly. If you'd like to do an article on our press, click contact us in the links on our home page. We would love to hear from you, and appreciate all that you do to help spread the word.

Write Bloody. Quality American Books.

Read More:

The Return of the Troubadours, write-up in Forbes magazine

Interview: Derrick Brown, sweet interview with our founder Derrick Brown about the power of poetry, at Paper Darts online

You Belong Everywhere—A Chat With Poet Derrick C. Brown & Filmmaker Stephen Latty, at U Want 2 GoGo

The Blood-Jet Writing Hour, Derrick Brown talking about Write Bloody and performance poetry on Blog Talk Radio

Write Bloody Lends a Hand to Local Poets, write-up in the Austin Statesman, local newspaper

Poet Derrick Brown Blends Rock N' Poetry, write-up in Boise Weekly

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