Writers House Press was co-founded in 1982 by a poet and student in the famed Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and by a novelist and Ph.D. graduate of the Workshop.

In the 1980s we published seven poetry books, one children’s book, one novel, and one play. In addition, we published Beginning Magazine. a magazine open to anyone but specializing on beginning and unknown writers.

After 1988, the cost of paper tripled and essentially put us out of business. With the advent of electronic books, we have resurrected Writers House Press and are publishing again. While we will focus on electronic books, we will publish trade paper books on occasion as resources permit.