April 8, 2025 is the official publication date for Pigeon Falls by Jeff Elzinga. We’re thrilled to have edited and published this compelling and important novel. You will want this one! Orders are shipped same or next day.
We’re happy to announce that we’ve signed Franco Pagnucci and will publish his collection of poems, Again The Red Fox.
Franco Pagnucci, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, has published storytelling books for teachers and students as well as six volumes of poetry: Breath of the Onion: Italian-American Anecdotes (2015), Tracks on Damp Sand (2014), a chapbook Imprints of Your Tires on Damp Sand (2012), Ancient Moves (1998), I Never Had a Pet (1992), and Out Harmsen’s Way (1991).
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We’re excited to welcome Wisconsin poet Joan Wiese Johannes to Water’s Edge Press. We will publish her collected poems Lamenting My Failure to Learn How to Tap Dance: And Other Missteps in fall of 2023. Johannes is a member of Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and is well known through her many previous publications, her work with poets and poetry, as well as numerous awards. Read her bio on our authors page.
About this new collection, Lisa Vihos, poet laureate of Sheboygan, WI says “Johannes guides us through the missteps of youth, adulthood, and old age, culminating in being “on the right foot.” This collection will leave you “yearning to step out on that proverbial limb” with the poet, who gives us daring movement in every poem.”
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Congratulations to Catherine Young, whose book Geosmin was selected as a finalist for regional poetry in the 2023 Midwest Independent Publishers Association Midwest Book Awards.
“This year’s finalists represent the best of the best in Midwest publishing,” said Jennifer Baum, the association’s director. “We are proud to honor these authors and publishers for their outstanding work,” she said.
Gold winners will be announced in person at the Midwest Book Awards gala held on June 17, 2023 at Open Book in Minneapolis. Renowned book critic Mary Ann Grossmann is set to keynote the event, which is open to the public.
We’re excited to announce that Kathleen Serley’s collection of poems, Statements Made in Passing, will be released by Water’s Edge Press in the spring of 2022. The poems arise out of the poet’s sharp observation of people and things near her own door.
Kathleen Serley, a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, is a lifelong Wisconsin resident, enjoys the way retirement has opened her days to poetry. Her poems have been published in The Solitary Plover, Volga River Review, Verse Wisconsin, Red Cedar and Verse and Vision where she won an Artists’ Choice Award.
Stay tuned for more about this book in the coming months. If you are not yet subscribed to our newsletter, please fill in the subscription form today. That way, you’re never out of the loop.
Daniel Smith spoke with Pam Jahnke, host of the Mid-West Farm Report (Madison, WI) about poetry and farming and how they intersect in his book Ancestral. Click here to listen.
Jeff Elzinga, author of The Distance Between Stars, will meet with the Sheboygan chapter of the American Association of University Women to read and discuss his novel.
Monday, October 4, 6 p.m.
First Congregational Church
3rd and Bluff, Sheboygan, WI
There are no Midwest literary Olympics, but if there were, Jeff Elzinga would be on the medal stand. His novel, The Distance Between Stars, was a 2021 finalist for literary fiction from Midwest Independent Publishers Association, and now we proudly display his well-earned bling on the cover.
Order your copy with silver award seal today.
The Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) has selected The Velocity of Love by Kathryn Gahl for Outstanding Achievement for 2021. See the full list of poets and fiction writers selected by WLA for recognition for books published in the past year.
Congratulations Kathryn!
Dan Smith will be reading at Arcadia Books, Spring Green, Wisconsin, Sunday August 22, 2021 | 3:00PM – 4:00PM. Prior to the event, James Bohnen of Arcadia spoke with Smith about Ancestral and Smith’s writing process.
You can buy your copy of Ancestral from us prior to the event or in the store on the day.
Ancestral
$25.00
A Hollow Bone
$16.00
Lamenting My Failure to Learn How to Tap Dance: And Other Missteps
$18.00
Something Novel Came In Spring
$15.00
Poems from the Winter House
$25.00
