PenBridge Press is an independent publishing house founded on the belief that literature is an act of remembrance — and resistance.
We publish fiction and nonfiction born from exile, displacement, trauma, survival, and transformation. Our books move across borders of language and geography, carrying memory, loss, resilience, and the quiet strength of lived experience.
At the heart of our work are voices often pushed to the margins — migrants, women, the silenced, the displaced, and others whose stories challenge dominant narratives.
We believe literature is not merely art, but a space where history breathes, wounds speak, and identities are reclaimed.
To give a home to voices that refuse to disappear.
To build a literary space where memory is preserved, silences are broken, and storytelling becomes a bridge between personal truth and collective history.
We value literary integrity, ethical storytelling, and depth over commercial trends.
We believe both fiction and nonfiction are essential tools for preserving memory, questioning power, and expanding whose stories are heard.
Gloria Yazdani
Essmat Sophie
Avin Rostami
Kaziwa Salih
Gelayoul Salamelahi
Negin Wakili
PenBridge Press is guided by a diverse and dedicated Advisory Board comprised of writers, scholars, translators, and cultural practitioners whose work reflects our mission to publish literature that resists erasure, bears witness to lived experience, and challenges dominant narratives.
Our Advisory Board brings together critical insight, ethical rigor, and deep commitment to literary and cultural justice. Members are selected for their engagement with issues of memory, displacement, gender, identity, trauma, and social transformation — all central themes to PenBridge Press’s editorial vision. They advise on curatorial direction, editorial standards, and community engagement, and they help us expand our understanding of literature as an act of remembrance and resistance.
We are grateful to our advisory members for lending their time, expertise, and vision to shape the Press’s work and support authors whose voices deserve attention, amplification, and care.
At PenBridge Press, publishing is not limited to ownership of a title — it is an act of curation, collaboration, and cultural continuity. Alongside our own publications, we showcase and promote selected works from authors and presses whose commitments resonate with our mission: to preserve memory, confront erasure, and amplify voices shaped by displacement, trauma, and resistance.
By bringing these works into dialogue within our platform, we help sustain a literary ecosystem where history is not forgotten, where silenced narratives find readers, and where aesthetic and political commitments can travel across borders of language, discipline, and geography.
This approach allows us to build bridges between literary communities, and to expand what publishing can mean for writers working from the margins. For us, the value of a book is not determined by where it was produced, but by the truths it carries and the worlds it refuses to let disappear.
PenBridge Press is an independent publishing house committed to fiction and nonfiction that explore memory, experience, and the complexities of human life.
We believe literature is not merely art, but a space where history is examined, voices are preserved, and meaning is continuously re-imagined.
We welcome submissions in fiction and nonfiction, including novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, and hybrid works.
We are particularly interested in writing that engages with memory, place, identity, and lived experience, and that approaches storytelling with care, depth, and originality.
PenBridge Press is an independent publishing house seeking submissions in fiction and nonfiction that demonstrate literary depth, originality, and a strong, thoughtful voice.
We are interested in work that engages with memory, experience, history, identity, and the complexities of lived reality—without being confined to a single geography, culture, or genre.
We welcome submissions in the following categories:
We are open to both emerging and established writers.
We value writing that is:
We are particularly drawn to work that resists simplification and allows complexity to remain intact.
Detailed submission instructions and timelines will be announced on our website.
At PenBridge Press, we believe literature matters when it listens closely— to memory, to silence, and to voices that refuse to disappear
