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COPPER MILLPRESS
From the editorial desk

Notes toward a press.

Writing, observation, and the questions behind the publishing program.

A palm tree and forest silhouetted against an orange and blue sunset at Copper Hill
Sunset at Copper Hill.
The founding question

What counts?

An editor’s note

A farm ledger tells you what sold. It has less to say about a mill that sits idle between harvests, the work that keeps a hillside from washing away, or the things a farmer learns by walking the same ground for years.

Copper Mill Press began with that gap. It’s a question a novel can ask as well as an essay can. Who gets to say what a place is worth? What disappears from the record when we count only what changes hands? We’re interested in work that follows a question like that far enough for the reader to see something they had passed by.

Read a piece from the field, or see how that question shapes the press’s list.