About Big Yes Press: Book Publishers of Poetry
BIG YES PRESS is a multi-format independent publisher. We are fair producers of fabulous books by terrific poets and authors. Big Yes Press was founded to support diversity and integrity within the poetry community.
About BYP
BYP books
Caroline Goodwin’s second book with Big Yes Press, Madrigals, is available for purchase by contacting Caroline at caroline.goodw@gmail.com. It is also available on Amazon. Caroline’s stunning poetry is accompanied by her stunning collage art. Hannah Stein’s newest book, WORLD IN COSTUME is available for purchase by contacting Hannah at hannahstein923@gmail.com
WE work together because we love to!
Big Yes is small, but the need for poetry is BIG. Founded in 2012, BYP produces print-run books that fit in the hands of readers where ever we find them. BYP publishes authors who share human experience through poetic voices anchored in craft.
Big Yes Press is a proud member of Community for Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Read more about CLMP at https://www.clmp.org/about/what-we-believe/
We are volunteer poets and writers. Along with guest editors and proof readers, we steer each book. Sylvia Aranda of Oakland, California designs BYP books. Kansas City Book Manufacturing prints books. Distribution is through author/poet's events, independent bookstores, small press distributors, and Amazon.
BYP poets blaze trails.
BYP poets are in this world making a difference: Caroline Goodwin, a two-time author with Big Yes Press, was a William Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and San Mateo County Poet Laureate. Nonagearian Hannah Stein published her latest book with BYP. Enid Osborn served as Santa Barbara County Poet Laureate. Sylvia Alcon’s Turning is now a choral arrangement performed in the UK and France. Lauren Henley’ second book, Starshine Road, won the Perugia Press Prize. Dian Sousa served as San Luis Obispo County Poet Laureate. Paula Lowe’s MOO was a finalist for the International Book Award in Poetry. Jonathan Maule won the Academy of American Poets Contest at Cal Poly University.
poets & writers.
BYP picks manuscripts that pull us inside the writing. If you are interested in BYP’s publishing and submission process, please visit our submission/contact page to follow the query process. If you are sending mass queries, BYP is likely not your publisher.
readers.
PLEASE BUY BOOKS FROM POETS at readings, events, independent book stores, and online. This website gives you direct contact information because somehow, soon after publication, discounting vendors seem to have books to compete with the author’s selling of her own work! Understand that when you buy from the discount vendor, the poet is not paid a cent! Please buy books from authors, not resellers! All BYP poets retain their copyrights and keep 100% of the profits from the sale of their books. Buying books DIRECTLY from poets is the best way you can support the writing arts.