Womxn Writing Out Loud: November Books That Burn Bright
November isn’t just another month on the calendar. It’s a continuation of our 2025: Year of Womxn, a year dedicated to celebrating, amplifying, and defending womxn’s voices in literature. This month, the books we are releasing don’t just exist on shelves — they demand your attention, your care, and your conversation.
They are brave. They are unflinching. They are written by womxn who refuse to shrink for comfort, for convention, or for anyone else.
Here’s what’s landing this November:
HOPE by Sommer Schafer
A linked short story collection set in a small Alaskan island town called Hope. Here, people chase freedom, reckoning, and beauty amid danger — sometimes absurd, sometimes heartbreaking, always alive. Schafer’s prose is razor-sharp, her humor sly and biting, her emotional clarity impossible to ignore.
A story collection that doesn’t whisper. It demands you listen.
Publication Date: November 25, 2025
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Piecework: Ethnographies of Place by Amy Shimshon-Santo
This fierce collection of intergenerational essays shows how womxn, children, and communities shape culture, space, and possibility. From classrooms to neighborhoods to migrations, these stories prove that change is made collectively, creatively, and boldly. Amy’s work amplifies voices often ignored, highlights ancestral strength, and insists that art is a tool for justice.
Culture isn’t given. It’s claimed. It’s built. It’s ours.
Publication Date: November 18, 2025
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The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird by Kim Farrar
Poetry that refuses to bow to grief alone. This collection confronts loss, labor, disability, and hardship — and finds love, joy, and resilience flying right alongside them. Hummingbirds shouldn’t be able to fly, but they do. And we do too.
Poems that make sorrow a pathway for joy, for presence, for living fiercely.
Publication Date: November 11, 2025
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Access + Support for Womxn Writers
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This is a year of womxn. It’s a year of fierce reading. And it’s a year of supporting the voices that make literature matter.
Why this matters
We publish because womxn writers matter. Their voices, perspectives, and imaginings are urgent. They push the world forward, they challenge norms, they refuse to be contained.
This November, these books aren’t just gifts for your shelves — they’re declarations. They’re resistance, joy, and survival wrapped in prose and poetry.
Thank you for showing up. For reading. For believing that the work of womxn — in all its forms — is essential.
Unapologetically,
Unsolicited Press
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