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Introducing The Shortish Project
Celebrate the short novel!
Explore 500+ acclaimed short novels from the past 200 years (with 250 from the last 20 years) (and 50+ from the last year alone).
Publish your own!
Ready to join the party? All styles & genres welcome. A new open-door publishing program, in paperback and ebook, available at the Project and booksellers everywhere.
A new sister project. Now in beta. With early-bird discounts. Check it out!
Now in our 10th year, Outpost19’s award-winning list of fiction and nonfiction books continues to grow. New titles coming this Fall!
our latest | available now
“Brilliant, imaginative, and woven from the real and gauzy strands of a rich inner life, Fred Leebron‘s THE NEWS SAID IT WAS is a masterful book of disillusionment and wonder.” – Ada Limon
Outpost19 | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
coming fall 2023
Thirteen Question Method by David L. Ulin, a breathtaking remake of the classic noir novel.
Rooted 2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction, edited by Josh MacIvor-Andersen. “Messy, symbiotic, beautiful.”
Master Lovers by David Winner, a twisted puzzle of fascism and fraud revealed through a beloved great aunt’s early sexual history.
Anything You Recognize by Daniel Mueller, a new joy-filled collection of short fiction hailed as a “masterclass in the short story.”
Disappearing Debutantes by Meg Pokrass and Aimee Parkison, a remarkable collection of flash fiction exploring women who “become strange in hopes of being loved, being listened to, being understood, and being seen.”
Gad’s Book by Dylan Bassett, a brilliant debut novel tracking the seduction of a young novelist by a group of charismatic activists. “A masochistic delight.”
Stay tuned for more!
ten years!
keep exploring…
more novels, memoirs, biographies, short fiction & essays | explore our full list
Short-ish | full list
Short novels + extended essays. Powerful + acclaimed.
“A furious, darkly comic fable for this precise American moment” – J. Robert Lennon
“A tense and timely love story that probes the disastrous gulf between class and technology” – Ben Marcus
“Endlessly inquisitive… a worthy addition to the canon of messy, strange, and keen women” – Kirkus Reviews
“The Jim Jarmusch of Central Oklahoma zoo-fiction—contemplative and dreamy and in awe of the strange.” – Benjamin Warner
our books + authors in the media
