Empty City Press (est. 2007) is dedicated to literature that challenges and responds to the culture that surrounds it; our work is our lives, and we can ask nothing less of it. Dedicated to the proliferation of Speculative and Alternative Literary Fiction, Poetry, and radical Non-Fiction, the press utilizes a strict DIY/Punk model that places considerable power in the hands of producers (that is, writers, artists, and musicians), so that every book published is a fully collaborative experience between authors and the press–from design to fulfillment, from readings to special editions. Empty City Press is led by Goddard alumnus, Keith Backhaus, and works primarily with book-length manuscripts, though the second volume of our semi-annual anthology The Grey Alley will be open for submissions in summer 2016. For more information about the press, their books, and submissions, please visit their website.