About Impassio Press
Impassio Press (www.impassio.com) is an independent literary press devoted to publishing a variety of fragmentary writing and a mix of genres, with special emphasis on establishing journals, diaries, and notebooks as a valid literary art form (as valid as the established, accepted forms of novels, short stories, poetry, etc.). Impassio Press brings a new dimension to publishing by recognizing, honoring, and uniting a range of fragmentary writing, and providing a place where new or silenced voices can be heard.
Impassio was a member of the Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN), the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA), and Book Publishers Northwest.
Types of fragmentary writing published: Journals, diaries, notebooks; letters; fiction in diary or letter form; aphorisms; essay-fragments; short poetic prose; philosophical fragments; vignettes. In-house Impassio also publishes anthologies of fragmentary writing.
First title released: March, 2002
Past wholesale distributors: Partners/West and Baker & Taylor
 Founder/Publisher
Olivia Dresher—Impassio's founder, editor and publisher—has been reading, writing, collecting, and publishing fragmentary writing for decades. She was the founder of the Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks Collection for the library at the Richard Hugo House literary center in Seattle for its first few years in operation (beginning in 1998), and is the editor of two anthologies: In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing, and (with philosopher Victor Munoz) Darkness and Light: Private Writing as Art. She was the co-founder and director of the Life Writing Connection, and was the founder and editor of an online magazine of fragmentary writing, FragLit. Her book of fragments, A Silence of Words, was published in 2019.
Submission Guidelines
NOTE: We are currently not accepting new submissions; our publication
schedule is filled until further notice.
Impassio Press publishes writing that is insightful, daring and original, including:
- journals/diaries/notebooks
- letters
- philosophical essay-fragments
- aphorisms
- poetic prose fragments
- vignettes
- fiction in diary or letter form
Olivia Dresher, Editor
Impassio Press
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