CHILDREN’S
written by Jean Craighead George
illustrations by John D. Dawson
introduction by Jane Goodall
“I write for children,” said Jean Craighead George. “Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am too. So I tell them stories about a boy and a falcon, a girl and an elegant wolf pack, about owls, weasels, foxes, prairie dogs, the alpine tundra, the tropical rainforest.
POETRY
Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman
Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of two boundary breaking soul sisters, Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman, who have sharpened their art as a tool to expose injustice, channel hope into vision, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible.
PLAYWRITING
Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival
The plays featured in this book grew out of the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, an annual event in which the Whidbey Island retreat’s unique blend of communion and solitude, invigorating conversation and thoughtful reflection, good food and radical hospitality create an environment where playwrights can do their best work.
SHORT STORIES
Jack and Margaret Huyler
Many Jackson Hole residents remember Jack and Margaret Huyler’s ‘First Full Moon in August’ storytelling campfires. Many do not know that those storytelling sessions were recorded. After several years of painstaking efforts, these recordings have been transcribed into written form.
POETRY
Ruth Forman
Whit Press, in partnership with Hedgebrook, is proud to present this magnificent new collection of poetry from highly acclaimed writer and poet Ruth Forman.
BUSINESS
Kay Sprinkel Grace
A Whit Press Special Project
In order to help ensure a healthy nonprofit sector, Whit Press is proud to partner with world-renowned development consultant, Kay Sprinkel Grace to present The AAA Way to Fundraising Success.
POETRY
A W.H.E.E.L. Anthology
The Women of WHEEL have filled this anthology with poetry as honest, powerful and thoughtfully written as anything being published in American Letters. These women tell not only their own stories, but the larger story of homelessness as well.
POETRY
Uchechi Kalu
This first collection of poetry from Nigerian born poet Uchechi Kalu contains the fire and immediacy of a true witness for justice. Whether she is speaking outrage to Shell Oil in her native Nigeria, or to the personal pain of a brother lost — Uchechi’s powerful voice emerges with a rare clarity and grace.
POETRY, ESSAYS & NARRATIVES
Edited by Andrew Himes with Jan Bultmann and others
Voices in Wartime is an anthology comprising poetry, essays, and narratives based on interviews conducted for the film Voices in Wartime. Its 240 pages contain not the words of politicians or pundits but rather, active-duty soldiers, veterans, torture victims, war correspondents, the families of the disappeared and the dead, poets, peace activists–compelling responses of “unique, individual human beings” to the experience of war.
POETRY & STORIES
Edited by Claudia Mauro
In Praise of Fertile Land is a unique nonprofit publishing project – a feast of poetry and stories uniting the voices of our neighbors, our kids and our finest poets and storytellers. This anthology honors the people, places, and labor of our fertile lands.
SHORT STORIES
Edited by Amy Bonomi
To Come To Light provides a unique emotional, spiritual link for the professionals who research and treat chronic illness, and the actual patients and caregivers who experience those illnesses. The unifying thread through this collection is the fusion of fiction, poetry and medical practice, a genre recently classified as narrative medicine: literary explorations that absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and experiences of others.
AUDIO
In October 2001, Whit Press produced a benefit reading/recording of literary work celebrating the energy and resilience of New York City in the weeks following September 11th 2001. Seattle writers were asked to select and read some of their favorite work about New York City.
POETRY & STORIES
Based on the model developed for In Praise of Fertile Land, Whit will work with civic and private conservation organizations and the public to create an anthology of literary work which inspires awareness, appreciation and protection of urban trees and our remaining forest lands.
The written word holds a particular power to communicate both intimately and forcefully to individuals, young and old, of diverse backgrounds and literacy levels, key environmental issues vital to our region. This project will seize upon the region’s dedicated reading audience in order to educate and empower our love for our arboral neighbors, and the critical role they play in the region’s history and quality of life.
Whit Press will create The Trees Project in support of local, grassroots nonprofit community organizations which identify and protect threatened trees and forests, locally, regionally and interationally. Whit Press will identify nonprofit project partners with a demonstrated capacity to directly support the critical work of preserving trees and arboreal habitat in the Northwest.
MURIEL RUKEYSER