Banner depicting blood vessels making up two young women's faces, facing one another. The book cover for Stephen Paul Wren's poetry pamphlet "Blood Women." A text box reading "Poetry In Blood. Stephen Paul Wren taps the blood in his veins to create a

Banner depicting drawn men's clothing including work and casual wear as well as a hospital gown. The book cover for Chris Campbell's "Why I Wear My Past To Work" poetry collection. A text block reading "Oh hey, Expectation; Meet Life! Chris Campbell'

Banner depicting stylized watercolor pansies with the book covers of Claude Moore's poetry collections, "In Response" and "Cut: En Medias Res." Text block reading "Queer Rebellion. Claude Moore's poetry cuts as it responds with an unwavering and intr

Banner depicting red and blue Japanese-inspired background. The cover of A. Trujillo's "A Hunter's Dream." A text block which reads "Let us Prey. A. Trujillo’s exciting debut novel journeys to distant lands in search of monsters and discovers trans s

Colorful mountain background with star-filled sky. Book cover of S. Preston Duncan's "Blood Alluvium" poetry collection with text block reading "An Autograph From Starlight. That's how novelist Tom Robbins describes S. Preston Duncan's poetic world.

Banner image featuring colorful Atlanta Skyline with book cover of Andrew Forrest Baker's "Lesser Gods & Demons" with a text block reading "When the World Ends... Andrew Forrest Baker's climate catastrophe novel explores the nature of found family an

Banner depicting a green background with floral elements. The floral covers of "HEX Magic" "HEXual Awakening" "Great HEX" and "HEX, Blood, & Ritual" - the first 4 books in Andrew Forrest Baker's HEX'd Series. A text block which reads "Witchy Queer Po

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Founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2023, PARLYAREE PRESS is dedicated to publishing writing that expands, reveals, and interrogates the mainstream. We seek out fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that exists in the liminal space between what was and what will be.

The cant of circus performers, freaks, queers, and thespians, Parlyaree is the invented language required to tell the stories of those othered, to keep their secrets, to keep them safe. It is a polyglot of experiences that may only be told in one’s own voice. Parlyaree—as an invented language—borrows from what was to create something new.

That is what excites us at Parlyaree Press. Stories that transform; essays that reimagine; poetry that takes us behind the stanza to the core of our being and back again; language that plays as much as it conveys.

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