SILVER CURRENT PRESS
IPublishers of Literary Fiction · Philadelphia · MMXXVI
A current of letters drawn from the literary deep.
An independent house devoted to fiction that rewards the patient reader — books made slowly, with conviction, in the lineage of Joyce and O’Connor.
Our Mission
Silver Current Press exists to publish literary fiction with the patience and care it deserves. We work slowly, edit closely, and design our books to last. We honor the lineage of Joyce and O’Connor — writers who trusted their readers. We believe the finest books are made by hand, by people who love them, for readers who will keep them.
II · The House
Three Offices, One Press
The Editor’s Hand
Publish
We acquire fiction that earns its sentences. Each title is shepherded from manuscript to bound volume with deliberate care, never haste.
The Workshop
Edit
Our editors read closely, in the Maxwell Perkins tradition — querying with respect, cutting with reluctance, championing the writer’s own voice.
The Long Bench
Champion
We place our authors in the hands of readers who will sit with them — booksellers, librarians, and the unhurried critic who still believes in the form.
IV · The First Three
In Production
Mia Bambina and Other Stories
Short fiction set among working-class Italian-American families — daughters, mothers, brothers, and the uncomfortable knowledge that turns a household. In the lineage of O’Connor, with a music of Mulhern’s own.
InquireThe Weight of Small Mercies: Selected Stories
A second volume of short fiction — selected stories drawn from twenty years of magazine and journal publication. The undertow of small kindnesses, the steady accumulation of what we owe each other and rarely repay. A companion to Mia Bambina, and a quieter book by inches.
InquireHow to Analyze Literature, Second Edition
A revised and expanded handbook for serious readers, drawn from twenty years in the classroom — newly augmented with chapters on contemporary short fiction, close reading, and the long sentence.
InquireFurther projects in research — Crossings, 2601, and Candy — are listed in the full catalogue.
V · The Silver Current Journal
A Quarterly of Letters
Forthcoming
Essays on craft, conversations with writers and booksellers, and reading notes from the editors. The inaugural issue is in preparation.
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