With her sharply-written starred review ofThe Shipikisha Club in Foreword’s March/April issue, Meg Nola introduces us to the remarkable Mubanga Kalimamukwento, a five-time author and University of Minnesota PhD student (Gender, Women... Read More

Residual / Tisa Bryant / Nightboat Books / Softcover $19.95 (272pp) / 978-1-64362-296-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Darin S. Cape, Author of Zicky: Wrath of the Rat King / At Foreword, we’re always excited to hear the backstory of a new publishing company, and today’s interview with graphic-novel publisher Shawn... Read More

“I know this sounds glib, but I don’t think of literary writing as communication so much as I think of it as making art with language.” —Maya Jewell Zeller, author of Raised by Ferns Glib or not, thank you Maya Jewell Zeller for... Read More

The Shipikisha Club / Mubanga Kalimamukwento / Dzanc Books / Hardcover $27.95 (298pp) / 978-1-938603-75-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel The... Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Traverse City, MI — Foreword Reviews is implementing a new PDF-First submission model for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, reflecting an industry shift toward sustainability, transparency, and... Read More

Traverse City, MI, March 5, 2026—Foreword is pleased to share the finalists for the 2025 INDIES Awards. This year’s submission pool was exceptional, and our editorial team faced a challenging task in selecting the books that would... Read More

The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human / M. Darusha Wehm / Goldsmiths Press / Softcover $12.95 (224pp) / 978-1-915983-46-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Suffused with supreme empathy, M. Darusha Wehm’s The... Read More