Atelier26 Books

Atelier26 Books is an independent publisher in Portland, Oregon that exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. We believe that reading is far more than just another form of consumerism, that books are not static objects but living, thriving conveyances of human expression, thought, and emotion. We believe in literature as contemplation, conversation, and provocation, and that books can foster community and cultural vitality. Finally, we believe in the reality of a literary public — writer, publisher, bookseller, librarian, teacher, reader — and we celebrate the dynamism and mystery of this public. 
 
Atelier26 is the publisher, most recently, of M. Allen Cunningham's new novel PERPETUA'S KIN, a multi-generational story about the residual effects of war, which was named one of the Most Anticipated Novels of the season by New York Magazine, and a Favorite Summer Read by The Oregonian. In 2021 we will publish DIG ME OUT, the debut by Breakout 8 writer and Berlin Prize Finalist Amy Lee Lillard.

Other Atelier26 titles include:
Margaret Malone's debut short story collection PEOPLE LIKE YOU, Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and recently named by Powell's Books as one of 25 Books to Read Before You Die.
 
Woody Skinner's debut short story collection A THOUSAND DISTANT RADIOS, Semi-finalist for the PEN/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction. Set throughout the American South, A THOUSAND DISTANT RADIOS is a collection of brilliantly bold, indelible, occasionally larger-than-life stories that explore the passions and compulsions at the heart of American identity. 

Distinguished poet Sidney Wade's BIRD BOOK, a playful and sublime collection of verse in praise of all things avian.

In 2019, Graywolf Press publisher Fiona McCrae selected Atelier26 to receive an Oregon Literary Fellowship for publishers (sponsored by Literary Arts).