Madville Publishing: A Hub for Unique Literature

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.

May 2026

Lunar Literature

We offer two titles in the month of May that speak to astronomical ideas. Michael Amos Cody’s novel, Avalon Moon, is a spooky Southern Gothic. Allen Stein’s poetry collection, Arts and Sciences includes poems about the heavens as well as other sciences as well as poems about the arts.

Avalon Moon

Arts and Sciences

Avalon Moon by Michael Amos Cody. white text over a painting in blue tones. A man holds a torch under tall trees. Eyes glow in the distance, and the figure of a woman crouches unseen on the bough of a tree above the man's head. There is a quote by Ron Rash: “A story that has the dark and haunted feel of an old-time Appalachian ballad.… An exceptional addition to the genre of Southern Gothic fiction.” — Ron Rash, author of Serena

April 2026

April 2026 is Tom Shachtman Month!

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.

A Jericho’s Cobble Miscellany

saga of a New England village in a symphony of Voices

Echoes or, The Insistence of Memory

Ancestral memory in the DNA of a young writer.

Memoir of the Minotaur by Tom Shachtman - front cover shows the shadow of Asterion, the Minotaur in his labyrinth with a red silken cord leading to a distant light above. The book cover also shows two awards medallions

The Memoir of the Minotaur

The champion serial killer of all time welcomes 21st-century souls to Hades.

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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