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Lost Lake Folk Opera Covid-19 2020 Special Issue $12.99 – Purchase online Writers reflect on Covid-19, the border closings, quarantines, lockdowns; George Floyd and the aftermath of peaceful protests hijacked by riotous smashers, looters, arsonists; U.S. Census work in Boston, Buddhist meditation in Bali, and so much more. FEATURING EmilioContinue Reading

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In: 2020, Delta Eddy, New Releases, Sparks, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Delta Eddy Sparks $17.95 – Purchase online Full disclosure: I knew Delta Eddy when she was Gary. The dedicatee of her elegy “Student,” Anthony Piccione (d. 2001), who is a central presence in Sparks, was an English Department colleague and close friend of mine. Delta writes, “I keep / walkingContinue Reading

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In: 2020, Ghosting, New Releases, Steve McCown, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Steve McCown Debut Collection Ghosting $17.95 – Purchase online When Steve McCown finally gathered together the pages for this book he was probably a bit surprised to realize he had been a poet for the better part of his life. What possessed him all those years? A courage and curiosityContinue Reading

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In: 2020, Deb Pitton, Lost Lake Folk Art, New Releases, No One Left Behind

An Unexpected Educational Adventure at Machu Picchu Deb Pitton $17.95 – Purchase a print copy online. Professor Deb Pitton led a group of education and healthcare students to Peru and Machu Picchu in 2010. When rain swelled the mountain rivers, flooding downstream villages, the group was trapped and struggled toContinue Reading

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In: 2019, GL Smit, Lost Lake Folk Art

  GL Smit $17.95 – Purchase a print copy online. “Truth with a twist is funnier than fiction.” GL Smit’s stories are often poignant, always wry, and they walk the fine line between memoir and fiction with humility and wit.Continue Reading

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In: 2019, Konnie Ellis, Picnic in Venice, Rocket Science Press

  Konnie Ellis $17.95 – Purchase a print copy online. Italy! A century ago, E.M. Forster’s heroine in his novel A Room with a View faints dead away when she witnesses a gangland killing in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria. But slowly the vivid otherness of Italy teaches this outwardly conventional English girlContinue Reading

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From deep inside the Polar Vortex – the Dark Ice of the Moon, Winter 2018-2019 issue.   Featuring Short plays by Lee Gundersheimer & Emilio Regina John Torgrimson from Guantanamo—On Asylum. & Jon Welsh inside the State Funeral of George Herbert Walker Bush Nametag Peggy by Dan Butterfass Looking forContinue Reading

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In: 2019, Lake Zumbro Forever, Lost Lake Folk Art

Lake Zumbro Forever   Hardcover copies are available from Lake Zumbro Forever board members, Mazeppa, Minnesota.   A collectable photobook and narrative history of Lake Zumbro, the Zumbro dam, the neighborhoods that grew around the lake, and the future of Lake Zumbro, its water, its wetlands and its residents.Continue Reading

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Use the menu to browse our complete index of titles, new releases, best sellers, coming attractions and a complete index of Shipwreckt publications.Continue Reading

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Watch interview with Tom Driscoll on KSMQ Public Television “Off I-90”   Winona Daily News interview with Tom Driscoll   Interview with Tom Driscoll in the Fillmore County Journal – a rural southeast Minnesota weekly   Read about Shipwreckt Managing editor and CEO Tom Driscoll on Minnesota Public Radio’s The Thread.Continue Reading

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Shipwreckt Books For media and business inquiries. Shipwreckt Books Publishing Company 153 Franklin Street Winona, Minnesota, 55987 contact@shipwrecktbooks.com For submissions, please follow guidelines and use our upload portal. Unsolicited submissions received via snail-mail or contact email will not be accepted. Continue Reading

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Shipwreckt no longer accepts paper submissions.   Lost Lake Folk Opera – Submissions are CLOSED for Volume 10, United We Write. LLFO v10, Submissions ARE open From November 1, 2025 – March 1, 2026, FOR V11 – LLFO United We ACT All one-act plays issue.  Tom Driscoll, Managing editor.  By submitting toContinue Reading

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Shipwreckt Books offers comprehensive creative development and editorial services. We assist authors with their manuscripts by enriching and elevating writing style, focusing on the narrative – fiction or non-fiction – expanding and/or cutting when it’s necessary. Our guaranteed publication workshops – intensive individual writing projects conducted by accomplished writers andContinue Reading

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In: Lost Lake Folk Art, Lost Lake Folk Opera, Rocket Science Press, Uncategorized, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Submission Guidelines Please select the correct imprint for your submission and look over specific guidelines for each imprint at the Submittable portal below. Rocket Science Press for fiction, literary as well as genre novels and short story collections. Lost Lake Folk Art for memoirs, family stories, bio, essays as wellContinue Reading

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In: 2018, Ashyer, Index of Titles, James Petrillo, Rocket Science Press

An epic fantasy by James Petrillo $18.95 – buy a print copy online The last Immortal King of Ashyer has fallen, bringing down the wrath of the dragons: fiery horrors from the sky who have subjugated the races of Ashyer for a thousand years. But there is a new wayContinue Reading

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In: 2018, Anne Muccino, Index of Titles, Red Bricks, Rocket Science Press

Love and treachery in the old southwest by Anne Muccino $17.95 – buy a print copy online Red Bricks, the debut novel by Kansas City writer, Anne Muccino, is set in the desert southwest circa 1930. JT Swain is just seventeen when he loses everything that matters to him, hisContinue Reading

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In: 2018, Best Sellers, Index of Titles, Lost Lake Folk Opera, V5N1 Poets Laureate Issue

Special Poets Laureate Issue to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Folk Opera  30 Stellar Contributors, including 6 past & present poets laureate $11.99 – buy a print copy online Poets Laureate Joyce Sutphen • Minnesota Poet Laureate. Four Poems of the Road. Ken McCullough • Winona Poet Laureate. The Bear Husband – JohnContinue Reading

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In: 2018, Nicole Borg, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Nicole Borg $17.95 – buy a print copy online. In her debut collection, All Roads Lead Home, Nicole Borg convinces us that poetry is the way our most important experiences may be best understood. Her voice has resonance and clarity, speaking not just for herself as woman, mother, wife, teacherContinue Reading

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In: 2017, Dan Coffey, Index of Titles, Rocket Science Press

Dan Coffey Playwright, director and actor, Dan Coffey known for his work with Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater and portraying memorable characters like Dr. Science. Dan lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. $9.00 – Print copies available online.   Glass Eater is a wild, satiric hybrid, a book Hunter S. Thompson and KurtContinue Reading

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In: 2017, Index of Titles, J.P. Johnson, Lost Lake Folk Art

J.P. Johnson Debut short story collection $17.95 – Buy a print copy online A whirling mix of short fiction, Convoluted Tales looks at every aspect of life in the Upper Midwest through a lens warped slightly by the bizarre, the ironic and tragic. J.P. Johnson is a semi-retired real estateContinue Reading

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In: 2017, Arguments & Negotiations & All that Matters - expanded edition, Index of Titles, Lost Lake Folk Art, Pixie Youngdahl

Pixie Beadrin Youngdahl Urista In memoriam – Pixie passed in August 2018 This expanded edition of Pixie Youngdahl’s 2013 cancer survivor’s memoir includes Legacy Letters to ancestors as well as family photos. Buy a print copy online $15.00 “Pixie Youngdahl, the author of The Timeless Café, now takes you downContinue Reading

Domestication by Rob Hardy

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In: 2017, Index of Titles, Rob Hardy, Up On Big Rock Poetry Series

Rob Hardy Poet Laureate Northfield, Minnesota  $17.95 – Buy a print copy online Available at Content Bookstore in Northfield Amazon Reviews— Carrie L. writes: In these beautiful, reflective poems, Domestication is a collection to be savored. As I read each poem, the words of Rob Hardy’s generous, intimate introduction resonated.Continue Reading

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In: 2016, Index of Titles, Larry Johnson, Lost Lake Folk Art

Larry Johnson $17.95 – Buy a print copy online    Drafted during the Vietnam era, Larry Johnson filed for conscientious objector status and served as an Army medic in Germany, carrying no weapons. The life-long peace activist from Golden Valley, Minnesota, answered JFK’s call in 1961 and hiked 50 miles.Continue Reading

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Shipwreckt Managing Editor Tom Driscoll offers advice to authors who want to break those onerous grammar rules in the June 2016 PEN newsletter. (www.pensite.org)  Continue Reading

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Molly McDonald reading in Ames, Iowa   $12.99 – Buy a print copy online What critics are saying about Empty like a Pocket. “Molly McDonald has emptied her pockets for us, and — inverted and convoluted in the fabric of her poems — they’ve become little black holes, revealing truthsContinue Reading

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In: 2016, Green Blade, Green Blade 2016 Edition, Index of Titles

The annual literary magazine of the Rural America Writers Center, Plainview, Minnesota, published through a special partnership with Shipwreckt Books.   $9.00 – Buy print copies online Green Blade 2016 Contributors: Peter Allen Jill Krase Justin Watkins Jennifer Jesseph Tom Driscoll CJ Jacobson Nancy Hengeveld Steven Vogel Craig Falkum ElliottContinue Reading

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Eat My Words Bookstore Minneapolis, February 6, 2016 $10.99 – Buy a print copy online © 2016 Shipwreckt Books and 49 Windows Communication Special Black April Issue Contributors U Sam Oeur Morgan Grayce Willow Lee Henschel Jr. Thuy Pham-Remmele Kathryn Kysar Ken McCullough Phan Thanh Tam Dan Coffey Paul PedersonContinue Reading

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In: 2015, Index of Titles, Lost Lake Folk Opera, V3N2 Rural Economic Development - Winter Sun

Special Winter Sun Issue Featuring the Rural Economic Development Roundtable held in Plainview, Minnesota, on December 1, 2015. With Rochester and Mayo Clinic’s Destination Medical Center promising to alter the dynamics of small communities throughout southeast Minnesota, four individuals active in growing sustainable rural economies weigh-in on a wide range of issues.Continue Reading