ABOUT

NINETENTHS Press is part traditional curatorial project and part meditation on the inevitability of failure and loss. Often times it feels like 90% (or more) of the things we attempt end up not working out, are rejected, just fall short, less than satisfy. Some failures are preventable, others necessary. Some are personal, others societal, but most are calcifying explorations on the way to the truest versions of ourselves. While we are looking for art and writing that border on experimental, we hold a special place for biographical accoutrements that focus on the foundational instances in our lives that are oft overlooked in our obituaries. We desire for these dips into the underbelly of living and making to act as a collective group therapy; to dial up the empathy, tune out the ego, access the flow state, get out of the head space of “never enough” and do, do, do.

We publish non-fiction literature and art that isn’t afraid to tell the truth, whether spoken through whimpers or wails. Send us marks made with a touch of the absurd, the call of the holy fools, the vision of mystics and iconoclasts. While we do not shy away from the transgressive or the erotic, we firmly do not support any work that holds hate toward marginalized identities. We strongly encourage under-represented creators to be loud.

Our journal, NINETENTHS Quarterly, an imprint of NINETENTHS Press, is published 4 times a year.

Our press will open to chapbook submissions shortly. Please check back soon.

We also publish anthologies, including NINETENTHS Teen,
and e-zines, including Lit Obit and This Site Is Under Construction,
which are rolling submission single author/single issue projects.

MASTHEAD

HOLIDAY NOEL CAMPANELLA

C.B. BROOKS

Collectively, your editors have

Been afraid of clowns and midnight house fires, refused to be potty trained until age 4, been kicked out of 2nd grade, believed they had a pet cockroach that lived in their ear, cursed out the mall Santa Claus, believed in Santa for way too long, went to reform school, gotten kicked out of reform school, didn’t succeed at a suicide attempt, was a Mathlete, dropped out of high school, dropped out of college, changed their major 5 times, had their high school crush become their step-sibling, paid for two abortions, had their house surveilled by the DEA, been broken up with in an email while studying abroad, ended an engagement, missed an international flight home twice, almost died from Giardia while hiking in the Gila wilderness, studied clowning, played music to empty rooms, had to cover up a bad tattoo, been estranged from a parent, been sued, stayed in a relationship too long for the weird sex, didn’t get into a relationship for a decade, taken a plethora of anti-depressants, openly wept while drinking colonoscopy prep, went to prison for weed, drunkenly pooped in a bathtub, soberly pooped on the floor, spitefully pooped in a sink, lost friends, made enemies, received 90% more rejections than acceptances. We hope you feel you are in good company.