About Big Yes Press: Book Publishers of Poetry
BIG YES PRESS is a multi-format independent publisher. We are fair producers of fabulous books by terrific poets and authors. Big Yes Press was founded to support diversity and integrity within the poetry community.
BYP is small but the need for poetry is BIG!
Founded in 2012, BYP has produced many print-run books.
We work with guest editors and proof readers. Sylvia Aranda of Oakland, California designs BYP books. Kansas City Book Manufacturing prints books. BYP also makes books available as print on demand. Distribution is through author/poet's events, independent bookstores, small press distributors, and Amazon.
Big Yes Press is a proud member of Community for Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). https://www.clmp.org/about/what-we-believe/
BYP poets blaze trails.
Caroline Goodwin’s second book with BYP, Madrigals, is available at caroline.goodw@gmail.com. Goodwin’s poetry is accompanied by her collage art. She is a two-time author with Big Yes Press, was a William Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and served as San Mateo County Poet Laureate.
Hannah Stein published her final book with BYP. Enid Osborn served as Santa Barbara County Poet Laureate. Sylvia Alcon’s Turning is now a choral arrangement performed in the UK and France. Lauren Henley’ second book, Starshine Road, won the Perugia Press Prize.
Paula C. Lowe’s MOO was a finalist for the International Book Award in Poetry. Jonathan Maule won the Academy of American Poets Contest at Cal Poly University. Dian Sousa served as San Luis Obispo County Poet Laureate.
poets & writers.
If you are interested in BYP’s publishing and submission process, please visit our submission/contact page to follow the query process.
Be advised that BYP is not currently reviewing manuscripts.
If you are sending mass queries, BYP is likely not your publisher.
readers.
PLEASE BUY BOOKS FROM POETS at readings, events, independent book stores, and online. This website gives you direct contact information because somehow, soon after publication, discounting vendors can compete with the author’s selling of her or his own work! Understand that when you buy from the discount vendor, the poet is not paid a cent! Please buy books from authors, not resellers! All BYP poets retain their copyrights and keep 100% of the profits from the direct sale of their books.
Buying books from poets is the best way you can support the writing arts.