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The Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition is open to self-published, independently published, and small press books in nearly every genre. One book will take home our top honor, with finalists, longlisted titles, and notable books featured in the December/January awards issue of Shelf Unbound.
The deadline is September 30. Don’t miss your chance to get your book in front of our editors and readers.
In this interview, we sit down with Akane Araki & Jesse Kirkwood, Author and Translator of Murder at the End of the World.
By Sarah Kloth Eight books censored, imprisoned, or written their way out of a prison cell, and how translation became the place they survived. Behrouz Boochani wrote his memoir
In this interview, we sit down with Shane Jesse Christmass, author of Xerox Over Manhattan.
In this interview, we sit down with Thomas Bunstead, translator of The Depopulation.
Each issue we feature a new bookstagrammer, highlighting some of their amazing work. This time we catch up with @BurningCauldronFitness
By Sarah Kloth Women writers, translated into English in 2026, whose books cross languages, break form, and reclaim the stories only they were positioned to tell.
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