From board books for toddlers to hardback books for elementary students, these must-read books explore important topics that are relevant to our current times. Some cover difficult issues such as racism, money, and death and others touch on personal growth topics such as leadership, confidence, and grit. Find the right book for your budding bookworm with these parent-approved and kid-tested titles.

We are a nonprofit publishing collective dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry. We produce beautiful and compelling books by Pacific Northwest poets; our mission is to offer writers in the region a shared-work publishing alternative.

Open Reading Period July 1 - July 31. $1000 stipends available to selected poets/editors!

Bebe Montoya is a writer and interdisciplinary artist in Portland, OR. Bebe makes zines the old-fashioned way—with scissors, glue sticks and a heavy-duty stapler. Her essay collections explore mental health recovery, outer space, pragmatic socialism, the virtues of having a dumbass sense of humor and leftist community dynamics in the age of social media. In addition to making zines, Bebe practices ceramics, songwriting, risograph printmaking and illustration.

Find her work at bebemontoya.com or on Instagram, @bebemontoya_

The Parkers live in Beaverton, Oregon, and are the owners of Believe In Wonder, a youth focused publishing entity dedicated to promoting imagination, inspiration, and positive thinking in kids and adults alike. In a time where social pressures and injustices threaten to take away our ability to dream of a better future, we hope to promote endeavors and education that uplifts and inspires, as well as provides creative outlets for the young and young at heart. We have an emphasis on bringing these opportunities to underrepresented communities and their allies, but we hope our work and message is embraced by many.

Berm is a contemporary arts magazine based in Portland, OR.

Broccoli is a publisher of unusual delights. From cannabis to mushrooms, snails to flowers, Broccoli's artful books, magazines, and printed goods are designed for countercultural dreamers who love nature.

Sending scouts deep into the Portland, Oregon literature and arts scene, Buckman brings together the city’s sharpest and presents them to the greater world. Delivered with grit and cunning visuals, the printed medium is very much alive in Buckman.

Conjunction Press is a zine micropress run by Portland-based artists and writers Karah Kemmerly and Carolyn Supinka. Conjunction publishes zines, comics, writing prompts, poetry, and art every solstice and equinox.

Caitlin Cook, otherwise known as "cooklin comics," is a 26-year-old writer and cartoonist based in Vancouver, WA. In her flagship project, ANHECOMICS, she explores the nuances of clinical depression through short graphic narratives based on interviews she conducts with anonymous people. Her other projects touch on themes such as growing pains, asexuality, and Christian fundamentalism.

First Matter Press is a 501(c)(3) non-profit press in Portland, Oregon founded in 2018 to dissolve publication barriers for first-time poets and genre-breaking writers.

We amplify local voices while empowering authorial ownership. With 20 titles available or in production, our annual releases center community and craft by inviting authors into a creative cohort where they crystallize manuscripts in dialogue with editors, fellow writers and collaborate with featured artists on original cover art. Our authors maintain 100% copyrights and sales royalties of their published work.

We are committed to practice bias-awareness, inclusion and equity. We encourage submissions from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse authors.

Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland, OR. We exist to take risks that push the boundaries of sound, text, and genre. FE values the interdisciplinary, experimental, and unclassifiable, and we strive to bring to life works that resist, bend, and break expectations. We prioritize public access by making a component of each of our releases available for free to the public (such as streaming audio online) and by hosting multiple free community events each year.

We publish Pacific Northwest writers, translators & cartoonists along with European, Latin American, North African, Asian & Australian, everyone published multilingually (3—11 languages). PNW writers find an international audience they wouldn’t otherwise have. We bring to PNW communities cultural gossip from NYC, Barcelona, Athens, Kolkata, Zagreb & Vilnius. We’ve done this for 20 years, with emerging generations of PNW, European, Eastern European, & Asian writers & cartoonists. Traffic flows both ways: PNW writers & cartoonists get contacts, get to translate European artists & get published by European & Asian presses; foreign writers & cartoonists get published here.

Isla Whitaker is an author, print artist and book-maker. Her work explores music, fantasy and the occult. She plans to release a series of comics on these subjects starting this summer!

Kitchen Table Magazine is a voice for inclusive food culture.

Small Press is where the good stuff comes from.

Microcosm publishes and distributes books and zines that help readers empower themselves to change their life, then the world. Our interest span wide, including punk, bicycling, witchcraft, mental health, healthy relationships, train-hopping, vegan cooking, marginalized histories, feminism, outsider art, queer erotica, and beyond.

Octopus Books is a small independent poetry press that began in 2006. It publishes anywhere from 0-? books a year.

Overcup Press is an independent book publishing company based in Portland, OR. Our press specializes in non-fiction titles on these subjects: literary nonfiction, art, travel, design, architecture, music, and epicurean titles.

Since 2011, Perfect Day has published one book of creative nonfiction per year (or so).

Pile Press is an alternative publishing collective for women + non-binary creatives with a focus on local and small batch printing practices.

We will be opening rolling submissions (soon) for a new little print project under the Pile Press name. It is open to any and all writers who are Oregon residents. More info coming soon!

The Poet Heroic is a podcast and small press publishing house founded and hosted by Timothy Arliss OBrien.

We celebrate all writers and uphold the belief that anyone can be a poet.

Submissions are always open and previously published pieces are welcome.

Shrine13 is a production house and creative association dedicated to hand-bound books, zines, and mixed media art publication, documentary and experimental film and video, experimental music, and live performance.

University of Hell Press is an indie press based in Portland, Oregon, that publishes irreverent and thought-provoking works across all genres.

"Denting the world with words, one incendiary book at a time."

zines + things is a literary zine press publishing tender, atmospheric works from Portland, Ore.

If you like what we're making, visit us online at zinesandthings.com or on Instagram at zinesandthings.