Small Press Points

In 2000, at the dawn of digital publishing, Erin Elizabeth Smith founded Sundress Publications (sundresspublications.com) in Knoxville, Tennessee. At the “tender age of nineteen,” eager to find a home for her online literary journal, Stirring, but unsatisfied with the design of the few existing free hosting platforms, Smith decided to buy the domain name for Sundress Publications and offer it as an umbrella site for other literary journals she admired. The ethos that guided Smith twenty-five years ago remains now that Sundress has grown into a book publisher: “We as small presses should not look at the rest of our community as competition, but as inspiration, as friends, and as collaborators in the art that we make and promote,” she says. The print arm of Sundress Publications began operations in…

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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, March/April 2025

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