Pepper Hill Press
Pepper Hill Press began as a reading series and letterpress project based in Orange County, California, and is now expanding the scope of its mission.
We are a scrappy book publisher committed to paying our authors and offering our readers fresh voices and perspectives.
We are currently seeking novel manuscripts for publication in late fall to winter of 2024. If you've got something too exciting, strange, or experimental for traditional publishing (yawn), we'd love to read it.
ABOUT
Pepper Hill Press began as a reading series and letterpress project based in Orange County, California.
We are a small but might operation looking to publish our very first novel fall to winter of 2024.
Andrew Beckner (he/him/his)
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Andrew is a writer, professor, and printmaker. His work has most recently appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sky Island Journal, and Landlocked, among others. His chapbook “Every Tomorrow, You” was published by Bottlecap Press in 2023.
He lives in Orange County, California, where he co-hosts Write to Read: An Orange County Reading Series and teaches English and creative writing.
Danielle Shorr (she/her/hers)
Editor
Danielle is professor of disability rhetoric and creative writing with an affinity for wiener dogs. A finalist for the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Non-fiction and nominee for The Pushcart Prize in Creative Non-Fiction and Best of the Net 2022, her work has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Driftwood Press, The Florida Review, The New Orleans Review and others.
Liz Harmer (she/her/hers)
Editor
Liz Harmer is from Canada, and has been teaching in Chapman's creative writing program since 2019. Her debut novel, The Amateurs, a speculative novel of technological rapture, was a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award. Her award-winning essays, stories, and poems have been published widely, and her second novel, Strange Loops, was released in 2023. She writes about love, madness, motherhood, and religion and is at work on a memoir about mental illness.