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Small Press Spotlight
Madras Press
Women & Children First is proud to be the first Chicago bookstore to carry the brand-new press: Madras.
There are a number of reasons Madras and Women & Children First are a perfect fit:
1. Madras Press publishes individually bound novella-length booklets. In other words, they're giving a venue to stories that are having a hard-time fitting into the short story collection/ novel binary that's become ubiquitous in fiction publishing. The format of their books provides readers with the opportunity to experience a story on its own, with no advertisements or unrelated articles surrounding it; it also provides a home for stories that are often arbitrarily ignored by commercial publishing outfits, whether because they’re too long for magazines but not trade-book length, or because they don’t resemble certain other stories. These are clumsy, ill-fitting stories made perfect when read in the simplest possible way.
2. Madras distributes their proceeds to a growing list of charitable organizations chosen by our authors.
3. Three of their first four books are by women.
Check out these lovely beings:
Aimee Bender's The Third Elevator
ISBN: 9780982525401
Paperback
48pp.
$7.00
Proceeds to benefit InsideOUT Writers
The Third Elevator is the story of a swan, a bluebird, the curious family they form together, and the mysterious elevators in the center of their village — one that rises into the sky, one that opens into a forest, and one that descends underground.
Rebecca Lee's Bobcat
ISBN: 9780887276279
Paperback
36pp.
$7.00
Proceeds to benefit Riverkeeper
Rebecca Lee’s Bobcat offers a tense, poetic, and emotionally harrowing account of a fateful dinner party in which couples at various stages of life and love intersect.
Trinie Dalton's Sweet Tomb
ISBN: 9780982525432
Paperback
104pp.
$8.00
Proceeds to benefit the Theodore Payne Foundation
In Sweet Tomb, Trinie Dalton tells the story of Candy, a candy-addicted witch who resents her inherited lifestyle. After a fire burns down her gingerbread house, she leaves the forest and ventures out in search of the excitement of a more urban environment.
Sumanth Prabhaker's A Mere Pittance
ISBN: 9780982525418
Paperback
120pp.
$8.00
Proceeds to benefit Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled
Sumanth Prabhaker’s A Mere Pittance transcribes a long telephone conversation between a young woman stranded in India and her older boss and partner across the world. As she relates to him the story of a metaphysical experience she endured, trapped beneath a fallen armoire in a strange hotel, their relationship becomes a creature all its own, beyond their control.
We're very excited about Madras Press here at Women & Children First. Stop into the store to browse the four titles in their first series. They're even better in person.
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