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.

III · Editorial Offices

Services & Rates

Manuscript Evaluation$650
Developmental Editing$0.030 / word
Line Edit$0.025 / word
Copyedit$0.022 / word
Proofread$0.015 / word
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IV · The First Three

In Production

Mia Bambina and Other Stories

James Mulhern

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.

Hardcover·In editorial preparation

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The Weight of Small Mercies: Selected Stories

James Mulhern

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.

Hardcover·In editorial preparation

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How to Analyze Literature, Second Edition

James Mulhern

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.

Trade Paper·Criticism & Pedagogy·In editorial preparation

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Further 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.

About the Journal

VI · Currents

A Literary Gathering Room

A drawing-room of letters from the literary deep.

From the Currents

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 1904

Enter the Currents

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