New Book September 2018: Rust Belt Arcana
Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds By Matt Stansberry with Illustrations by David Wilson People have used Tarot [...]
Blue City, Red State: Call For Submissions
Blue City, Red State is forthcoming anthology from Belt Publishing, to appear in October 2018. We’re collecting essays about living blue in a red state—whatever that means to you
A New Book By Cleveland Teens, And Belt’s Publishing Services
Over the past few months, Belt Publishing has been working with Lake Erie Ink: a writing space for youth, to produce a book. Home / Away from Home: A Collection of Writing By Cleveland Teens will be available June 2.
Making Music in Buffalo
Our story begins with a chance meeting in Buffalo at Nietzsche’s. It was a winter Sunday afternoon in 1988 and both of our groups were scheduled to play together.
The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye: A Pittsburgh Story
Coming in November 2017 from Belt Publishing, Meredith Meyer Grelli's The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye: A Pittsburgh Story is [...]
Forthcoming in 2018: The New Old Town: Early Gentrification in Chicago
The story was the same in Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago: once-booming cities had started to shrink. Historic neighborhoods [...]
Coming in 2018: Folktales and Legends of the Middle West
Joe Magarac, the Pittsburgh steelworker who was born inside an ore mountain and squeezed out rails between his fingers. Hiawatha, the man-god who conquered the King of Fish and founded the Iroquois Nation. Coyote, the trickster of the Great Plains.
Announcing In the Watershed: A Journey Down the Maumee River
For several years, Ryan Schnurr watched media coverage of Lake Erie algae blooms with a growing sense of unease. [...]
The Past and Present of the Fiction of the Midwest (Wherever That Is)
A few years ago I noticed something about my favorite works of contemporary fiction set in the Midwest: they were all set in the past.
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Belt Publishing is thrilled to announce the newest addition to our Notches series: What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte.
Eleven Works of Midwestern Fiction for the Trump Era
No one book is going to explain what happened in the Midwest to help turn the last presidential election to Donald Trump. No stack of books is going to do it, fiction or nonfiction.
Praise from the New York Times
Today's New York Times praises our latest book, How To Speak Midwestern, calling it a "dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside [...]