Backwoods Literary Press publishes and supports writing by people rooted in or shaped by rural places—especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant, disabled, and working-class writers whose stories are often erased or spoken for. Your donation helps ensure rural life is documented in its full complexity, by the people who know it firsthand.

Donations support our workshops, open mics, readings, and pay-what-you-can virtual programming. These spaces matter because many powerful stories live with people who haven’t always been told they belong on the page—or in literary rooms at all. Your support keeps those doors open.

This work is both archival and forward-looking. We document stories so they aren’t lost, and we share them to shape how rural places are understood now and in the future. Donations help sustain our annual anthology and allow us to grow carefully into new publishing and programming, without compromising our values.