Website
Type Of Publisher
Press
Genres Published
Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Cross Genre Hybrid, Audio, Autobiography Memoir, Drama, Environment Nature, Essays, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Horror Thriller Suspense, Humor, Interviews, Mystery Crime, Political, Regional, Sci Fi Fantasy Speculative, Translation, Visual Art
Year Established
2026
Address
Minneapolis, MN
Name
Mike Alberti
Title
Director
Email
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Lost Kite Editions (LKE) is an independent, nonprofit publisher of literary poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and ephemera based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We champion writing that is original and visionary, urgent and insurgent. Our books seek to reshape the literary landscape by creating space for voices and literary practices that have been constrained, erased, or overlooked. LKE grows out of a longstanding partnership between writers incarcerated in Minnesota prisons and non-incarcerated writers affiliated with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Since 2011, we have collaborated to publish the work of incarcerated writers in both internal mediums and public venues of national reach. In 2023, we published American Precariat: Voices of Exclusion, a first-of-its kind anthology of essays curated by incarcerated editors, which featured such notable writers as Kiese Laymon, Kao Kalia Yang, and Lacy M. Johnson, and Valeria Luiselli. In 2026, we extended this model by launching Lost Kite Editions as an independent press. Our unique editorial process integrates editors whose lives have been directly impacted by the carceral system and editors whose lives have not. The books we publish are similarly integrative: we welcome submissions from writers with a variety of experiences whose work expands the way we see and understand the world. In prison, a “kite” is a message, often a note handwritten on a piece of paper and then folded and passed between people. It’s a way to communicate a need, a question, a plan, or a matter of urgency. Lost Kite Editions seeks to elevate messages and the messengers that have yet to find their readers.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
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