Welcome to Madville Publishing’s website. The highlights here are for our most recent titles. Visit the Madville Bookstore to see all the books. We are currently featuring our March and April 2026 titles: Morning Edge of Midnight, by Earl S. Braggs, The Hummingbird War by Michael Simms, and A Jericho’s Cobble Miscellany by Tom Shachtman.
One of our favorite all-around authors has a new experimental novel coming out this month
* A Jericho’s Cobble Miscellany is a fictional saga of a New England village in a symphony of voices
* Echoes or, The Insistence of Memory Shachtman’s 2023 novel explores ancestral memory while he explores what it takes to make a living as a writer.
* The Memoir of the Minotaur – This book is a satire for readers unafraid of a rollicking good tale involving anatomically-complex beings, unforgivable puns, narrated by the champion serial killer of all time.
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The 2026 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize is Open for Submissions!
We will be accepting submissions to the Fifth Annual Arthur Smith Poetry Prize through September 1, 2025. This competition seeks full-length poetry collections by a single poet. Here is the important information about the competition: Deadlines and Prizes Competition Guidelines Our judge for 2026 is Kari Gunter-Seymour! Kari Gunter-Seymour is the immediate past Poet Laureate…
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Madville goes to Baltimore for AWP26
We’ve just returned from AWP, North America’s largest Conference & Bookfair for writers and writing programs. It took place in Baltimore March 4-7, 2026. We saw a lot of friends. There was comedy at our little corner of the book fair, as usual. It seems there was a rogue electric mobility device that was assigned…
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AWP Retrospective
It’s that time of year again, already–AWP!!! We feel like we are hanging on for dear life. Somehow we forget every year how fraught January and February are… no matter how carefully we plan and organize. What causes chaos at the start of the year? End-of-year bookkeeping is a beast. Royalty calculations, statements, and then…
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Arthur Smith Poetry Prize – 2025
“All six books [on the shortlist] had strengths, but I kept coming back to these two.”–Jeff Hardin
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Ovo – Cirque du Soleil
by Kim Davis I was invited to attend Ovo, a Cirque du Soleil show that is currently traveling around Texas. It is another instance of the cool stuff that can happen when you get to know and work with interesting people. The most important part of the publishing journey, for me, is the relationships I’ve…
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