Type Of Publisher
Press
Year Established
2023
Address
9030 Seward Park Avenue South Unit 213 Seattle, WA 98118 US Minor Outlying Islands
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Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
About Watershed Press
Watershed Press was founded by Paul E. Nelson, Jason Tetsuzen Wirth, and Adelia MacWilliam in 2023 to support their first publications, Cascadian Zen, Volume One and Two, a carefully curated collection of poetry, essays, interviews, art, and photography from the bioregion of Cascadia. The founding editors live and work in the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish, specifically, the Duwamish, and the Cowichan. Our publications include Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from the traditional and unceded territories of many nations in the bioregion of Cascadia, and elsewhere, who have stewarded these lands from time immemorial. We foster compelling work by a wide range of voices allied deeply with place and sustainable and Indigenous approaches to navigating the ecological and political harm of the Anthropocene in the bioregion of Cascadia. We’re committed to poetries, and stories that have been traditionally suppressed and distorted by colonization. We want to make room for all marginalized voices, including writing at the aesthetic margins, and believe in speaking truth to political power with compassion. We practice collective decision making in all our dealings at an institutional level. We are committed to offering works that do not compromise art for fashion or commerce. We mirror the act of attention essential in creating radical poetry and prose in our publishing process. To quote Robert Bringhurst: The Old World and the New are not two regions marked reliably on maps.
The Old World is wherever indigenous traditions are permitted to exist.
The New World is wherever such traditions are denied and a vision of human
triumph is allowed to take their place. The Old World is the self-sustaining world
– worldwide – to which we all owe our existence. The New World is the synthetic,
self-absorbed, and unsustainable one – also worldwide – that we create. – From: A Story As Sharp As a Knife
Please Identify The University Or Organization
Cascadia Poetics Lab
Do You Accept Unsolicited Submissions?
No
Author Payments
copies
Distributors
Ingram Spark
Do You Have Any Cover Letter Advice?
Please tell us how your work is relative to our mission statement.
What Do You Look For In A Submission?
We will be looking for work that is place-based and tackles the complex spiritual, environmental, and social issues that arise when a writer sends their imagination across the land and its fraught history.
What Advice Do You Have For First-time Submitters?
I would advise any author interested in publishing with us to take a close look at our mission statement.
Do You Have A Favorite Unsolicited Submission Discovery Or Anecdote?
Not yet.
Who Is Your Ideal Reader?
Our ideal reader is interested in environmental issues and promoting decolonization.
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