Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (2025)

We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of multi-genre anthologies, art and comic books, drama and performance books, and more published in 2024 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of fiction,poetry,children’s books, andnonfiction as well.

Multi-Genre Anthologies

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (1)Solstice: A Winter Anthology (Volume 3)

Devil’s Party Press | January 1, 2024

This anthology edited by Terri Clifton includes writing by Renee Rockland, Alberto Ambard, Jill Wooddell Aller, Kim Hoey, Patricia Esposito, and more.

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (2)Music in the Halls: The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington DC by Bernard Jankowski

Regal House Publishing | January 2, 2024

Through vignettes, essays, snapshots, portraits, and poems, Music in the Halls “brings to light the visceral and emotional nature of childhood poverty and trauma and how it not only impacts a student’s ability to learn but also how it restricts their ability to live a full life.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (3)When a Woman Tells the Truth: Writings and Creative Work by Women Over 80

Many Names Press | May 4, 2024

This anthology features fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art by women in their 80s and 90s, reflecting on topics such as “sadness, grief, learning new things, adventure, romance, and activism.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (4)A Mouth Holds Many Things

Fonograf Editions | May 14, 2024

Edited by Jyothi Natarajan and Dao Strom and collecting hybrid-literary works from thirty-six women and nonbinary BIPOC writer-artists, A Mouth Holds Many Things “illuminates and expands the interstitial spaces where text blends, blurs, and morphs with visual and other media.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (5)Thriving: An Anthology

Exsolutas Press | June 4, 2024

Edited by Rhonda Rosenheck, this anthology of poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography explores how “human thriving comes about through awareness, truth-seeking, persistence, reframing, faith, questions, forgiveness, humor, generosity, and by cherishing the relationships that nurture us.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (6)The Feminine Voice of Malta: il-Leħen Femminili ta’ Malta Maltese

IHRAM Press | June 15, 2024

Curated by Bridget Reaume, this bilingual anthology of works in Maltese and English “captures the raw and poignant experiences of Maltese women throughout history, published in the midst of a crucial, cultural turning point.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (7)Beacon Radiant

great weather for MEDIA | July 22, 2024

Beacon Radiant is an anthology “of poetry and short fiction by established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (8)En otra voz: Antología de literatura hispana de los Estados Unidos

Arte Público Press | August 31, 2024

Originally published in 2002, the updated and revised edition of this multi-genre collection contains “newly discovered texts, many by women whose work was even less available than their male contemporaries, and complete versions of masterpieces” by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, Luis Valdez, and Tomás Rivera.

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (9)A Very Indian Christmas: The Greatest Indian Holiday Stories of All Time

New Vessel Press | September 10, 2024

The essays, stories, poems, and hymns in this anthology capture “the distinctive flavor of Christmas in India and in the Indian diaspora,” featuring works by Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Khushwant Singh, Rabindranath Tagore, and more.

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (10)Language Arts by Justin Allen

Wendy’s Subway | September 10, 2024

Incorporating various genres, the works in Language Arts “touch on themes of music and subculture, African diasporic language, visual art, and more.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (11)The Garden-Variety Grimoire: A Literary Anthology

The Words Faire | September 30, 2024

Edited by Tobi Brun, this anthology of multi-genre speculative works features writing by Grace Gibbons, Eliza Scudder, Isabella Bromberg, and more.

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (12)A Ukrainian Dictionary of War by Ostap Slyvynsky

Translated from the Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney and Taras Malkovych

Lost Horse Press | October 15, 2024

In a dual-language format, this multi-genre book presents Slyvynsky’s efforts as a “wartime lexicographer, carefully collecting and compiling a dictionary of witness to Russia’s invasion and war against Ukraine.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (13)Connecticut Literary Anthology

Woodhall Press | October 22, 2024

Edited by Victoria Buitron, Summer Tate, and Christine Kandic Torres, this anthology has “constellated together the best poetry, nonfiction, and prose from Connecticut writers.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (14)José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas by José Martí

Seven Stories Press | October 22, 2024

This anthology of the writing of Martí features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (15)Best Spiritual Literature

Orison Books | December 3, 2024

The ninth volume of this annual anthology, edited by Luke Hankins, Nathan Poole, and Karen Tucker, seeks to “collect the finest spiritually engaged writing that appeared in periodicals in the preceding year.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (16)Tales from the Kitchen

The Writer’s Workout | December 3, 2024

The stories in this anthology—featuring Marie Anderson, Juliette Beauchamp, Carson Calkins, and more—reflect on how “food can bring people together or tear them apart.”

Art Books and Illustration

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (17)Days by Brian Calvin

Flood Editions | February 20, 2024

Days presents pencil drawings made by Calvin over the course of a year that include “glimpses of family life, cubist portraits, drafts for sculptures, abstract compositions, and comic cartoons.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (18)Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation

Haymarket Books | September 3, 2024

This collection of “more than 200 full-color infographics is a vivid portrait of Israeli settler colonialism and the Palestinian struggle for freedom.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (19)To Washington Park, With Love: Documentary Photographs from Summer 1987 by Rose Blouin

Haymarket Books | September 10, 2024

The black-and-white photographs in this book capture “the events, people, and landscape of Chicago’s Washington Park during the summer of 1987.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (20)Depeche Mode: Live by Dennis Burmeister and Sascha Lange

Akashic Books | October 1, 2024

This book is a “visually stunning journey through four decades of international touring that captures the magic of Depeche Mode live.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (21)The Orchard by Susan Weiss

Green Writers Press | October 15, 2024

Created between 2020 and 2022, Weiss’s photographic study “speaks to the many moments of the pandemic cycle and allows the viewer to ponder those complex times and reflect on the feelings expressed.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (22)

From a Basement in Seattle, the Poster Art of Brad Klausen by Brad Klausen

Akashic Books | November 5, 2024

According to Publishers Weekly, this book of poster art is “a must-have for any music fan, artist, or aspiring graphic designer.”

Comic Books

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (23)Northwood Meadows: Moments by Andy Chang

Read Furiously | May 7, 2024

Drawn in Chang’s “signature hybrid style of Sunday comics meets Japanese manga,” Northwood Meadows “tackles pop culture, politics, sports, food, and, of course, friendship.”

Drama and Performance

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (24)404 Not Found by Lucas Baisch

53rd State Press | June 10, 2024

404 Not Found is “a twisting, twisted work of intricacy, density, and despair netted in kidnap, virtual utopias, upended borders, and Freddy Krueger cosplay.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (25)Hotel Room Trilogy: Three One-Act Plays by Barry Gifford

Seven Stories Press | August 6, 2024

This trio of one-act plays depicts “the spooky, strange, and tragic passage of guests through the same New York City hotel room (number 603).”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (26)Meronymy by Rachel Jendrzejewski

53rd State Press | August 27, 2024

In Meronymy, Jendrzejewski “builds a space in which to reckon with memory, loss, intrusion, and overflow amidst the cacophonic practice of living in language together.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (27)The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S. by Sibyl Kempson

53rd State Press | December 1, 2024

This narrative drama “reinvents as many versions of the Frankenstein author Mary Shelley as there are definitions of the word ‘Gothic.’”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (28)No President: A Story Ballet of Enlightenment in Two Immoral Acts by Kelly Copper, Pavol Lîska, and the Nature Theater of Oklahoma

53rd State Press | December 5, 2024

In this “story ballet” originally written and performed by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, “a small but successful security company staffed with former actors has been hired to protect a certain precious theater curtain—and whatever mystery it conceals behind it.”

Hybrid/Other

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (29)Feather Rousing by Rebecca Meacham

Black Lawrence Press | March 26, 2024

This hybrid of historical fiction and personal memoir “nests in the spaces between caretaking and grief, secret and spectacle, recollection and imagination, global anguish and private joy.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (30)A Roll of the Dice by Stéphane Mallarmé

Translated from the French by Jeff Clark and Robert Bononno

Wave Books | April 16, 2024

Clark’s presentation of “one of Mallarmé’s most well-known and visually complex poems” is “typographically radical, mirroring the dark mystery of Mallarmé’s poem.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (31)The Naif by Valerie Hsiung

Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024

According to Poupeh Missaghi, The Naif is “an abstract painting made of words and sentences and punctuation or lack thereof, a distant memory whose skin you get to touch and feel as you attempt to find your way through its centers and peripheries.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (32)Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll by Silvestre Pantaleón Esteva

Translated from the Nahuatl, Spanish, and English by Jonathan D. Amith

Deep Vellum | May 7, 2024

This trilingual book—presented in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl—“beautifully recounts a Nahuatl version of Brer Rabbit, one of the most widespread tales of both the Old and New Worlds.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (33)Memory’s Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Worden

Empty Bowl Press | May 15, 2024

Edited by Bob Francis, Memory’s Vault “offers a retrospective look at a powerful piece of public art and a community’s responses to it.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (34)Dionysos Speed by Rainer J. Hanshe

Contra Mundum Press | May 31, 2024

Written as “a burst of epigrammatic sequences,” this book is “an act meant to give birth once again to dissonant desire through the powers of the dice throw.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (35)Moonlight Over Sea Trees by Edgar Heap of Birds and Michael Maxwell

Burrow Press | June 28, 2024

This book—containing visual art by Heap of Words and Maxwell as well as an artist talk and three essays contextualizing their works—explores “the ways both artists engage with the natural world through abstraction.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (36)Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Graywolf Press | July 9, 2024

First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is “a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (37)Diary of a Hunger Striker and Four and a Half Steps by Oleh Sentsov

Translated from the Ukrainian by Dmytro Kyyan and Kate Tsurkan

Deep Vellum | August 13, 2024

This two-book volume includes Sentsov’s account of his 145-day-long hunger strike in a Russian prison, and his collection of short stories.

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (38)From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song by Stephen Koch

Et Alia Press | September 17, 2024

This book of 30 portraits and profiles features “a wide cross-section of inspirational creatives with the common thread of ties to a state in the American South with a deep musical heritage.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (39)Drowning Girl by Kurt Cole Eidsvig

Unsolicited Press | September 24, 2024

According to Michael Davis, the writing in Eidsvig’s experimental debut “synthesizes the aesthetics of pop art with street-level romantic minimalism, bound together in a worldview apprenticed at once to visual arts, poetry, fiction, and screenwriting.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (40)No Ship Sets Out to Be a Shipwreck by Joan Wickersham

EastOver Press | September 24, 2024

Wickersham’s hybrid collection is “a poetic and philosophical meditation ignited by a beautiful, frightening, mysterious object: the seventeenth-century Swedish warship Vasa, which sank only minutes into its maiden voyage.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (41)PUTINOIKA by Giannina Braschi

FlowerSong Press | September 27, 2024

Inspired by the ancient Greek tragedies, PUTINOIKA is a “multi-genre epic about frenzy and plague in the era of Putin and Trump.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (42)Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk

Meekling Press | October 1, 2024

This is an “exquisitely genre-ambiguous” book “about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (43)Arctic Play by Mita Mahato

The 3rd Thing | October 8, 2024

This work of poetry and graphic narrative “conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition for navigating the climate crisis and its sorrows.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (44)The Kármán Line by Daisy Atterbury

Rescue Press | October 15, 2024

This hybrid collection “glides between off-planet simulations, uranium mining, queer erotics, military rockets, galactic zones of avoidance, and settler logics to arrive in the ‘outside of outside.’”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (45)Dafne Phono by Nour Mobarak

Wendy’s Subway | October 22, 2024

Published here alongside libretti and an essay by Anahid Nersessian, Mobarak’s “multimedia and multispecies reimagining” of the first opera, Dafne, “splinters the opera’s Italian libretto.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (46)The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn

Rose Metal Press | October 23, 2024

This memoir about progressive vision loss “shapeshifts between lyric essay and prose poetry and traverses the divides between lived experience, history, and scientific knowledge.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (47)Distant Story Blue by Magdalena Louise Hirt

Sea Crow Press | November 5, 2024

This book “takes readers along this journey with poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, interwoven, stretched, and pulled like the lines of a taunt sail.”

Art, Drama & More of 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (48)Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts by Heid E. Erdrich

Trio House Press | December 4, 2024

This collection of poems and reflections “explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich’s artistic collaborations with Twin Cities choreographers, visual artists, digital artists, and others.”

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