Welcome to Madville Publishing’s website. The highlights here are for our most recent titles. We have many more titles, and you can see them all here: The Madville Bookstore. We are currently featuring our January 2026 titles: Curious Men: Lost in the Congo, by Bob Kunzinger; and Dreaminations by Jianqing Zheng.

January 2026
January 2026
January dreams, adventure, nature…

We offer two titles in January that feature nature in profound, yet different ways Bob Kunzinger’s memoir, Curious Men: Lost in the Congo, tells a coming of age story, and an adventure story. In the end, it is the story of a young man’s lifetime.
 
Jianqing Zheng brings his unique voice to his new collection of haibun or tanka prose poems centered on man’s place in nature. Dreaminations.

Curious Men
Dreaminations
Dreaminations: Prose Poems by Jianqing Zheng. Light modern font is overlaid in white over a photograph of a Joshua Tree in silhouette against the setting sun. Photo by Jianqing Zheng.
Curious Men: Lost in the Congo by Bob Kunzinger. ethereal text is overlaid in clouds above a photo of the Allegheny River. Overlaid over the one river is a map of the Congo River basin.


Madville publishes approximately 24 titles per year, and all submissions are carefully selected. When we are open for submissions of any sort, you will find out about it here.


Madville Publishing is a 501(c)(3)
Nonprofit corporation.
We publish poetry, creative nonfiction, literary essays, memoir, literary fiction, and a little bit of fantasy. Read more…

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