Passengers Literary Press publishes breathtaking, necessary work from new and marginalized poets — and supports them through workshops, mentorship, and an unflinching commitment to art that matters.
Passengers Literary Press, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2020 and based in Saint Augustine, Florida. We provide a platform for artists whose work challenges — and perhaps offends — the prevailing norms of a structurally oppressive society.
We began as an online and fully-voiced literary and visual arts publication. Today our energy lives in our workshop series: monthly, online gatherings on Zoom that put working poets in generous, critical conversation with each other.
To publish, support, and elevate the work of new and marginalized poets and visual artists whose voices the literary mainstream tends to overlook.
A literary culture where being weird, being honest, and being marginalized are not obstacles to being read — but reasons to be.
From four-week workshops to a fully-voiced archive, every program is built to take new poets seriously.
Four or eight Zoom sessions with assigned readings and exercises between meetings. Direct, generous access to your facilitator throughout.
Five volumes of online and fully-voiced literary and visual art — readable, listenable, and viewable in our complete archive.
Limited-run books and print issues from our publishing years — the work that moved us most, on paper.
Conversations and recorded readings — because some poems insist on being heard, not just read.
Long-form conversations with the poets and artists whose work we've published over the years.
Critical, generous engagement with new books from independent and small-press poets.
Real notes from poets who've sat at the table with us. Names abbreviated with permission.
Going into the workshop I just hoped to come out with a poem or two published. By the end, I didn't really care if any of my poems were published, because Zac pushed me to write poems that I felt proud of — that felt like me writing at my newfound best. The ability to create an environment that welcomes being weird and compassionate with my desire to write my heart out was a truly life-changing experience.— Jordan T.
The Passengers Journal workshop was a lottery-ticket-winning experience for me. I was able to receive feedback and guidance in a positive, inclusive, respectful setting, allowing me to see the revision process in a way I couldn't have possibly experienced outside of this workshop.— Anne Marie W.
As an emerging poet lacking formal training, the four workshops gave me a grounding to develop my work, a platform to share, and an open exchange of ideas. In a year of unprecedented uncertainty, pain, and loss, the Passengers Workshop has been a beacon and an anchor.— Rebecca F.
Aaron Wallace's workshop was insightful, challenging, and engaging. Through detailed editing and organic collaboration, I learned more about poetry and possibilities within the medium than I have in any other setting.— Belle M.
Not only was I part of a community of poets — a safe haven these days — but I found a creative space where my work as a writer was pushed to new levels. The editors set a tone that was encouraging, but also critical for the sake of the work itself.— Megan R.
Apply to a workshop. Read the archive. Send us a question. Every voice matters here — especially the ones the mainstream isn't listening for.
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