Call for Submissions: LGBTQ Anthology
Announcing an anthology of LGBTQ stories from the Midwest and Appalachia, to be published in Fall 2020 by Belt Publishing.
The Marrow of Tradition: An Introduction
From the introduction to a new edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition," published by Belt Publishing.
The Damnation of Theron Ware: An Introduction
A fresh take on Harold Frederic's nineteenth-century novel.
Ida Tarbell and the Spirit of Reform
By Elizabeth Catte How Ida Tarbell came to write The History of the Standard Oil Company—her landmark 1904 muckraking exposé [...]
Beyond Good and Bad: A Conversation with Connor Coyne
By Kelsey Ronan On September 22nd, Flint native Connor Coyne will launch a novel twenty-two years in the making. The [...]
Seven Years In Indianapolis — An essay from ‘Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left’
From the forthcoming Belt anthology “Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left.” By Allison Lynn When I [...]
Hey Minneapolis! The Minneapolis Anthology Call for Submissions
Belt Publishing will be compiling an anthology of essays about Minneapolis in 2019 as part of our City Anthology Series. [...]
Belt Publishing Announces Belt Revivals
[A letter from the publisher] I spent the bulk of the 1990s in graduate school, reading novels, mainly American ones, [...]
Midwest Architectural Journeys: Call For Contributors
Belt Publishing will be publishing an anthology of essays about Midwestern architecture in 2019. Alexandra Lange, architecture critic for Curbed [...]
Introduction To Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology
This book is an extension of our friendship; an extension of our ongoing work. To start, we are longtime friends — since third grade. We have known each other for decades. In fact, our first collaborative activist effort was in sixth grade.
Radical Suburbs by Amanda Kolson Hurley, A New Book from Belt Publishing forthcoming in 2019
We all think we know what the suburbs are like: affluent, conservative, orderly, and a bit dull. To describe a [...]
Introduction To The Whiskey Rebellion And The Rebirth Of Rye
Opening a whiskey distillery was a lark for our family, an idea inspired by a bout of wine drinking while visiting family ice vineyards on a trip to Canada. We are not a family of barflies. We are a family that loves great food and drink, history, and our region of western Pennsylvania.