Homestead Lighthouse Press is pleased to announce the launch of its new website on WordPress. Features include a list of all of the press’s titles, interviews with HLP writers, reviews of HLP books, and a news-and-events column. All these sections and more have been updated as well.
A nonprofit 501(c)(3) literary publisher, the name Homestead Lighthouse Press celebrates the work of Emily Dickinson, whose “Homestead” – known today as Emily Dickinson Museum – is the first word in the publisher’s name; and Virginia Woolf, who made the iconic lighthouse of her childhood summers the central image of her great novel To the Lighthouse, the second word in the press’s name. “These brilliant women writers mean so many things to me,” says HLP’s founding director and editor Robert McDowell. “In publishing, they mean excellence, imagination, wit, bravery, inspiration, magic, fun, and sheer beauty. Their spirits guide whatever HLP is and is yet to become.”
Emily Dickinson’s Homestead
Supporting excellence in literature, literacy, and educational literary programming, Homestead Lighthouse Press began publishing in 2019, when it released its inaugural titles: Secrets of the Trees, a novel by Alissa Lukara, and Selected Poems by Dennis Sampson. The high standards applied to producing those first two books continue to characterize the more than dozen other books, including poetry, fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction, that the press has issued, notes McDowell, co-founder (with poet Mark Jarman) of The Reaper magazine and Story Line Press, where he served 22 years as the publisher. (For the complete list of titles and authors, see the Books & Authors section of this website.)
As a nonprofit, independent publisher, Homestead Lighthouse Press depends on grants and charitable contributions. To support the work of HLP, please consider making a tax-deductible donation at the Support Us page.