The Story of Bowen
Bowen started as a small, independent press driven by the love of exceptional stories and high-quality craftsmanship. Our mission is to provide expert service to proven and promising writers. We bring ideas to life in print through our unique dedication to the power of the written word in the digital age. Bowen partners with talented writers who appreciate the personalized attention only a small press can provide. We offer small-town craft for your big ideas.
Our Recent Books
A Prairie Song: Poems
Aaron Chase Eddington
Building on his well-received book of poems A Willow Grows Aslant a Brook, Aaron Chase Eddington continues to explore the finely observed life in A Prairie Song. Written in the style of classic modern American verse, the poems in A Prairie Song celebrate a life well-lived—and the many forms that a well-lived life can take. […]
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A Willow Grows Aslant a Brook: Poems
Aaron Chase Eddington
“It’s true: not all good things / harmonize, but sometimes, / sometimes / they do.” Drawing its title from Gertrude’s description of Ophelia’s death in Hamlet, the original poems in Aaron Chase Eddington’s A Willow Grows Aslant a Brook focus on the beauty inherent in tragedy and offer a hopeful, redemptive view of loss and […]
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Eldorado, Iowa
Amy Weldon
The year is 1875, and a young physician’s wife, Sarah Archer, is settling into a new life on the Iowa frontier, expecting her first child. A survivor of the Civil War, she wrestles with troubling memories of her childhood on her family’s Alabama plantation. As Sarah struggles amid anger, love, and the inherited lies of […]
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The Lost Gospel of Darnell Rabren
John Calvin Hughes
Young Darnell Rabren is lost and confused in Mississippi, and he and his friend, Judson Walker, are on an epic quest to discover the meaning of life. Darnell knows a lot, but there’s a lot he doesn’t know, and his misadventures with Judson across the swampy South will leave you as delighted, bewildered, and incredulous […]
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Delirium: Poems
Coty Poynter
In this carefully curated collection of original poems, Coty Poynter explores the experience of absence, disappearance, and loss. The people around us possess great power over us, and Delirium addresses that phenomenon with empathy and beauty. In this labyrinthine fever dream of stages on life’s way, there is always more than meets the eye. Insomnia, […]
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I’m Just Saying: A Book of Poetry
Aaron Dunn
In I’m Just Saying, his first book of poems, verbal artist Aaron Dunn explores the potential of our shared use of language. His work often suggests multiple meanings through first-person reflection on events, memories, and personal struggle. Through these honest, empathetic, challenging, and interactive poems, he seeks to inspire us all to discover meaning in the […]
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The White Nights: Pages from a Russian Doctor’s Notebook
Boris Sokoloff and Ian Ona Johnson
Boris Sokoloff, a doctor in Russia during the tumultuous years of the Russian Revolution and a survivor of the infamous Butyrki prison, has a remarkable story to tell. During his fascinating life he encountered nearly every major political and cultural figure in Russia between 1917 and 1920 and was an eyewitness of or participant in […]
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American Absurd: A Work of Fiction
Pierre Schlag
Mr. David Madden lives in L.A. He’s an ordinary man. Every day, he gets up and drives to work. Only he never gets there. Instead, he drives from here to there, from Westwood to Santa Monica, Santa Monica to Venice . . . and so on. It seems he’s always just going from point A […]
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