Founded in 2018, Monday Night Press publishes chapbooks of poetry and prose by past contributors to the online journal, Monday Night (2001-2021). Each chapbook is produced in a limited quantity with a hand-stitched spine.
See our Catalog for a full list of chapbooks available for purchase.
Staff
Jessica Wickens (editor-in-chief) is a founding member of Monday Night and a poet whose work appeared in many online and offline spaces. For the past fifteen years, she has generated correspondence poetics with a network of poets including co-authoring with Della Watson the collection Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow & Benjamin Letters from Mission Cleaners Books. Her chapbook Things That Trust Us was published by Beard of Bees. She studied at the University of Chicago and California College of the Arts and is currently based in Richmond, CA.
Sharon McGill (design & production), is also a founding member of Monday Night. Her fiction and book reviews have appeared in Opium, New Letters, Harpur Palate and numerous other venues. She lives, writes, draws, and designs in Washington, DC, and her website is sharonmcgill.com.
Valerie Witte (copyeditor) is the author of a game of correspondence (Black Radish Books) and a number of chapbooks. She is currently collaborating with Sarah Rosenthal on a project related to the work of dancers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Their chapbook The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow was published by The Operating System in 2019. Valerie is a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School, and for eight years was a member of Kelsey Street Press. Read more about her endeavors at valeriewitte.com