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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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 no longer accepts paper submissions.   Lost Lake Folk Opera – Submissions are OPEN from November 3 – 30, 2026, for Volume 11, With Hope Comes Responsibility. NO SHORT PLAYS, PLEASE. We are currently overflowing with one-acts. Tom Driscoll, Managing Editor.  By submitting to any Shipwreckt Books imprint, includingContinue Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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