Map of the Old Santa Fe Trail
April 2025
Madville in Spring
A Musical Murder Mystery and two sumptuous poetry collections

The Streets of Nashville by Michael Amos Cody, Flowers of the Heavens by Joyce Compton Brown, and Drum the Double Sun by Daniel Manuel Mendoza.

Santa Fe Trail

This is a special, limited edition hardback with music CD of songs recorded by Michael Martin Murphey. Can you help us reach our goal of 400 preorders before the launch date?

Wild West Women Collage by Bob Boze Bell
pen and ink drawing of a rider on a horse from the shoulders up. The rider wears a windblown hat and has fringes on his ponch like a vaquero type of cowboy.
Front cover of Santa Fe Trail: Chasing the Big West superimposed over a bright background - same as the cover. You can see a UFO flying over a pink Cadillac in t desert on one side and a wagon train on the other. There's a QR code to buy the book. White lettering says Limited edition Music CD by Michael Martin Murphey included.
March 2025
March 2025
Oh, to be “Other”

We offer two titles in the month of March that speak to being different, or “other.” Wayne Caldwell’s novel, Shadow Family, tells an adoption story from the 1950s. Steven T. Moore speaks to his experience of often being the only Black person in the room in his poetry collection, The Horizon Never Forgets.

The Horizon Never Forgets: Poems by Steven T. Moore. Bright yellow painging with a lot of texture shows a desolate road tith leaning power poles the only things in sight apart from the road which looks like it may be swallowed by sand.
Shadow Family by Wayne Caldwell. Front cover shows old black and white photos in no particular order with no particular person highlighed. Over that is a red box with the title and author name in cream color.
The Green Mage and Windkeep
Here be dragons! Yes, and wizardry

Check out our first fantasy series! All three volumes available in paperback, ebook, AND audiobook.

January 2025
Madville Poetry
3 poetry collections for Jan & Feb 2025

Amanda Chimera by Mary B. Moore, (This was the winner of our 2024 Arthur Smith Prize for Poetry), O Lucky Day by Patricia Clark, and The Tears of Things by Catherine Hamrick.

2024 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize Winners

Art Smith Poetry Prize 2024 We are running slightly behind schedule with this, but we are thrilled to announce that...
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AWP25 Recap

Once again, we have Luanne Smith to thank for sponsoring our trip to the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing...
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Madville’s 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Time for the 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations. Our editors weighed in and these are their favorites.
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Frankfurter Buchmesse 24

We went to Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s largest book fair, and gathering of publishing companies and agents.
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Help Appalachia

This Help Appalachia post came when Kim had just returned from a trip to the very area hit by Hurricane...
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Midwest Book Review likes The Monosexual

We have a new review of The Monosexual by Midwest Book Review. (Have we mentioned Midwest Book Review lately? We...
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     Arthur Smith Poetry Prize (2025)

The Arthur Smith Poetry Prize will open again for submissions on June 1, 2025. We find it hard to believe...
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Wild Wind – we know who’s in

Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron...
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London Book Fair 2024

Six Madville Books went to the London Book Fair Our friends, Jade and Wilnona, the "And I Thought Ladies," took...
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Appalachian Studies Conference

Our Madville poets did a fabulous job of representing us at the 47th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference The theme was,...
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