We are excited to announce that to expand the aesthetic range of our publications, we have launched an imprint, Salon des Refusés! Borrowing the name of the 1863 exhibit of artists rejected from the prestigious Paris Salon, which included such luminaries as Manet, Pissarro, Rousseau, and Whistler, Salon des Refusés champions projects that, for various reasons, have remained unseen—those deemed too strange, too unmarketable, those chronically rejected, those overlooked because of the competitive nature of publishing, and those simply abandoned. It is our conviction that literary artists working outside the margins of the expected expand our aesthetic consciousness by showing new possibilities of subject, genre, and form, and that these new possibilities often don’t reside in the complete, polished, or immediately comprehensible. We rescue brilliance from limbo and the dustbin, knowing the rejections of yesterday become the exemplars of today.
Our first three titles, forthcoming fall of 2026, are Landfill by André Le Mont Wilson, Études for the Image, or The Cinder Path by Zach Savich, and As Wind Rounds Sandstone, as Ice Sections Schist by H. L. Hix. Pre-order your copies or get them all here in one bundle, Salon No. 1.
