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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 2d

Happy pub day to Lex Orgera!

-Agatha-

This is not just a book about the body but a profound exploration of what it means to inhabit one.

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 6d

More great news! Congratulations to Karen Rigby (JackLeg Press) and all the incredible finalists! What a joy to celebrate this vibrant literary community — we ❤️ being part of it!

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 9d

We are so proud to see these great JackLeg titles featured here!! Thank you @bookshop.org 🔥💪❤️ bookshop.org/lists/short-...

Short Story Standouts

Check out these gripping, funny, and exciting short story collections & anthologies!

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 13d

We are so proud and happy for David!!!

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to David Welch and the editors @jacklegpress.bsky.social! 🥳

Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 13d

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for 2025 CHIRBys!!! Congratulations to all of our finalists 🥳🥳🥳

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Lex Orgera @crowandthepoet.bsky.social · 16d

This is from the poem “Agatha at Dawn” in AGATHA. The poem begins, “& then we’re trying / on the molecules / of sainthood, delivering / ourselves to the gods / of caffeine.”

AGATHA is officially out in the world Oct 13 from @jacklegpress.bsky.social

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 16d

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 16d

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 16d

It takes the whole community!

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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 18d

…& check out @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social’s books in our @bookshop.org : bookshop.org/beta-search?....

BIO: Chloe N. Clark is the author of COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES, PATTERNS OF ORBIT & more. Her short story collection EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE is forthcoming from @jacklegpress.bsky.social.
#ExpoContributor

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 19d

One of our awesome editors, @re-ari.bsky.social featured in @literaryheist.bsky.social 🔥💪
www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...

I’m Finally Writing about Karl Ove Knausgaard - Literary Heist

How Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work stacks up against his greatest hits. I fell under the spell of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard...

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 29d

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Authors Interviewing Characters: Allison Cundiff - Women Writers, Women's Books

Hey Pickpocket by Allison Cundiff When Frances White, a trauma ICU nurse, flees the United States after a traumatic family event, she finds herself in the most remote place possible: a fishing villag...

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Sep 15

Live today! Happy pub day to Allison Cundiff! On sale everywhere. “Beautifully done, rings true psychologically, as good-humored as it is deep and real.”
—Neal & Betsy Delmonico, publishers, Golden Antelope Press & Blazing Sapphire Press

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Sep 12

Great review from our Mamaging Director! brooklynrail.org/2025/06/book...

Xavier Le Clerc’s A Man With No Title | The Brooklyn Rail

Fathers and sons part ways across a distance that binds them. If the son is a writer, the father’s world turns into a word. A Man With No Title, a 2022 work of nonfiction by Xavier Le Clerc, out now f...

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

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WomenWriters @womenwriters.bsky.social · Sep 9

NEW TITLE in our library! HEY PICKPOCKET by Allison Cundiff www.amazon.com/Hey-Pickpock... @jacklegpress.bsky.social

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you for the L + J day shoutout! ❤️

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.thedailystar.net/books-litera...

The imperfect art of leaving

In a recent conversation I had with a well-regarded photographer about his longitudinal study on a subject, he talked about Sufism and the structure of the raagas in classical music where a single ref...

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Aug 31

Congratulations!!

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Aug 30

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Bristol Vaudrin (she/her) @bristolvaudrin.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime.

#20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers + publisher's name.

Publisher: @jacklegpress.bsky.social

16/20
#litfic

Cover of Hey Pickpocket by Allison Cundiff

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Aug 24

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAYS are for book covers ❤️ Contributor @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social has a cover reveal for their forthcoming book EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE from @jacklegpress.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/bOusSjV

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Aug 23

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JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · Aug 23

Beautiful cover by Danika Isdahl!🔥🔥🔥!

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