Thirdhand Books promotes experimental writing with core commitments to the lyric, which is equipment for exploring the nature of human experience at the limits of language. We’re interested in hard-to-classify hybrid work that challenges poetic conventions for representing selfhood, especially from emerging and marginalized writers. We look for books that are open in several directions at once, as a field is open but not infinite, a fold. Folds are territories for the flourishing of small communities. We seek work that prioritizes communion over communication as a broadcast technology—that is to say, the two-way work of tradition instead of the one-way transmission of statements made with certainty. Our books carry something in them that has passed through many hands, something tarnished and strange, not sure of its origins, but sure at any rate that it has weight and that it can be held out for the taking.
Thirdhand Books is an imprint of Bull City Press.
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Kylan Rice, editor
Kylan is the author of two collections of poetry: Name & Earth (Bench Editions, 2026) and An Image Not a Book (Parlor / Free Verse Editions, 2023). A third collection, Cloud on Page Opposite, is forthcoming from Free Verse Editions in 2027. Kylan is an assistant professor of English at Utah State University and lives in Logan, UT.
Lindsey Webb, editor
Lindsey is the author of Plat (Archway Editions, 2024), a New York Times best poetry book of 2024, and two chapbooks. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, and Iowa Review, among others. She is a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Grinnell College.
Gracie Fife, editorial assistant
Gracie is a sophomore at Utah State University, where she studies business management and creative writing, with an additional interest in folklore.
Anne Schill, editorial assistant
Anne is a graduate instructor and master’s student in creative writing at Utah State University. Compelled by the intersection of written and visual forms, she has worked with the international Hechyeomoyeo art collective, Hoek Art Studio, and various literary magazines.
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Thirdhand Books is currently accepting submissions. During our open reading periods, we welcome unsolicited book-length poetry manuscripts (48-80 pages). Please use our submission manager to send a Word or PDF version of your manuscript along with a cover letter and biographical note. Our response time is about 5 months.
You may also query us at 3rdhandbooks@gmail.com. Please do not send manuscripts via email.
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