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*Underground Voices*
Categories	Novels, novellas, memoirs, poetry chapbooks, short story chapbooks, e-shorts
Publisher	Cetywa Powell
Country	United States
Language	American English
Website	undergroundvoices.com

Underground Voices is an independent American book publisher. Originally started as an online literary magazine in 2004, it expanded into a small press in 2009. In 2013, it became an independent book publisher.

Awards and recognitions

Work published has been awarded or received honorable mention in the following:

2026 The BookFest Awards^[1]
2016 Finalist, 19th Library of Virginia Literary Award^[2]
2015 Finalist, Beverly Hills Literary Award^[3]
2014 Notable Indie Book, Shelf Unbound^[4]
2014 Finalist, International Book Awards^[5]
Dzanc Books 2008 Best of the Web^[6]
2007 Pushcart Prize XXXI Best of the Small Presses Anthology - Special Mention^[7]
storySouth Million Writer's Award 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009^[8]^[9], 2010^[10]

Select books by Underground Voices

Church of the Last Lamb by Joseph Hirsch (2025; paperback 978-0998892382)^[11]
Petroleum Transfer Engineer by Richard Klin (2018; paperback 978-0998892337)^[12]
The Good Dead by Al Sim (2017; paperback 978-0998892313)
Super Sport by Ralph Bland (2017; paperback 978-0998892306)
The Pull of It by Wendy J. Fox (2016; paperback 978-0990433170)
Miraculous Fauna by Timmy Reed (2016; paperback 978-0990433156)
The Beginning Things by Bunny Goodjohn (2015; paperback 978-0990433163)
West by Whitney Poole (2015; paperback 978-0990433132)
The Demon who Peddled Longing by Khanh Ha (2014; paperback 978-0990433118)^[13]
Faulkner & Friends by Vicki Salloum (2014; paperback 978-0990433101)
The Collector of Tears by Michael C. Keith (2014; paperback 978-0983045670)
Red Moon District (2013; paperback 978–0983045663)
From the UV Files (2012; paperback 978-0983045632)
Hotel Oblivion (2011; paperback 978-0983045625)
Last Train To Noir City (2010; paperback 978-0-9830456-0-1)
Chewing The Fat (2009; paperback 978-0615314754)

Select shorts from Underground Voices e-book series

Inferno by Jim Meirose (2017)^[14]
Five Words That Can Cripple a Man by Max Mundan (2016)^[15]
The Top Floor by Vince Reighard (2015)^[16]
Hard to Learn. A novella by J.S. Kierland (2015)^[17]
The Lightning Tree by Erin Pringle-Toungate (2015)^[18]

Past contributors

Authors

Zdravka Evtimova^[19]
Margarita Engle^[20]
Wendy J. Fox
James Brown (Los Angeles Diaries^[21])^[22]
Jack Micheline^[23]
Andrew Coburn (Edgar Award nominee for the novel Goldlilocks^[24])
Michael C. Keith
Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story, Be More Chill, Teen Angst? Naaah...)^[25]^[26]
Cami Delavigne^[27]
Nancy Weber (The Life Swap)^[28]

Poets

Cortney Davis^[29]
Patricia Fargnoli^[30]
S.A. Griffin
Lyn Lifshin^[31]
Tony O'Neill (Down and Out on Murder Mile, Digging the Vein^[32])
Charles Plymell
Linda Ravenswood

Artists

Chris Anthony
Alessandro Bavari^[33]
Jeremy Caniglia
Ben Goossens
Misha Gordin^[34]
Michal Macku^[35]
Mark Parisi (Off the Mark comic panel)

References

External links

[1] Meanwhile, Here in Austin awarded First Place - "Nonfiction - Travel - Self Discovery" Category

[2] 2016 Finalist, 19th Library of Virginia Literary Award

[3] 2015 Finalist, Beverly Hills Literary Award for JS Kierland's short story collection

[4] 2014 Notable Indie Book, Shelf Unbound for Khanh Ha's "The Demon Who Peddled Longing"

[5] 2014 Finalist, International Book Awards Archived 2014-10-20 at the Wayback Machine

[6] Dzanc Books 2008 Best of the Web for short story, "Casa de Serenade" by Zachary Amendt

[7] Short story, "Jimmie Fitz, Bette Davis and a Christy Mathewson Episode" by Don Fredd

[8] Sean Hayden's short story, "The Face" - storySouth Million Writer's Award Notable Story, 2009

[9] Zachary Amendt's short story, "Marvelous Time Starving" - storySouth Million Writer's Award Notable Story, 2009

[10] Mitch James, short story, "The River. The Town. The Dead." - storySouth Million Writer's Award Notable Story, 2010

[11] Kirkus Reviews Church of the Last Lamb Book Review

[12] WAMC Northeast Public Radio talks about Richard Klin's novel, Petroleum Transfer Engineer

[13] Foreword Reviews The Demon Who Peddled Longing Book Review

[14] Inferno by Jim Meirose (2017)

[15] Five Words That Can Cripple a Man by Max Mundan (2016)

[16] The Top Floor by Vince Reighard (2015)

[17] Hard to Learn. A novella by J.S. Kierland (2015)

[18] The Lightning Tree by Erin Pringle-Toungate (2015)

[19] Zdravka Evtimova's short story, "Big Wet Oil Cloth" - Dec, 2009

[20] Margarita Engle's short fiction, "Tattoos" - Sep, 2004

[21] Los Angeles Diaries

[22] James Brown story, "The Screenwriter," in Underground Voices, Nov, 2007

[23] Jack Micheline story in Underground Voices, Oct, 2009

[24] Goldlilocks

[25] Short story, "Nose" by Ned Vizzini, published by Underground Voices April, 2007

[26] Short story, "Felipe and the Archaeologist" by Ned Vizzini, published by Underground Voices July, 2009

[27] Cami Delavigne interviews Metallica June, 2004

[28] CTInsider.com Author Nancy Weber releases "Ad Parnassum"

[29] "A Way to Honor Life". NPR. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022.

[30] Patricia Fargnoli poetry published by Underground Voices, May, 2010

[31] Poetry by Lyn Lifshin published by Underground Voices Oct, 2004

[32] Digging the Vein

[33] Alessandro Bavari

[34] Misha Gordin

[35] Michal Macku

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