Almost Perfect Press is a micro-publisher specializing in hand-bound, small-batch publications featuring emerging writers and artists, and other short texts. My business model is anti-capitalist and community-driven. I aim to present books as neither content not commodity, but as handmade objects created with mindful intention and care. All of my books are entirely hand-bound. From sewing to trimming, I don’t use any industrial machinery or processes.
There are no curatorial restrictions on what I publish. I’m interested in works of poetry, prose, comics, drawing, photography, and works that play with (and beyond) these genres. I hope that by allowing emerging artists and writers the platform to take risks and publish experimental works, together we can re-imagine what the book form can contain.
The signature book from Almost Perfect is an 8.5 x 5.25 in. chapbook, with about 40 pages, colored endpapers and a kraft cover. However, I am also interested in custom projects. Please let me know if you are interested in working together, whether you have a chapbook-length work or something else in mind.
Playhouse Android’s Lament on the Ice Moon Galatea, by SJ Powell
"Playhouse Android’s Lament on the Ice Moon Galatea" is a novella about androids navigating the world outside of what they were built for.
SJ Powell is a speculative writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their work is concerned with non-human being(s), strange intimacies, and worlds that are not our own. They are a member of the hotbed artist collective. Their stories can be found at sjpowellwrites.cargo.site.
52 pages, 5.25 x 8.25 in.
The Diamond Sutra
Translated by A.F. Price and Wong Mou Lam
The Diamond Sutra is one of the fundamental texts in Mahayana and Zen Buddhism, and one of the most accessible. It is also one of the earliest examples of a block printed book, and was printed for “universal free distribution” in China in 868.
40 pages, 5.25 x 8.25 in.
Intermezzi, by Varun Ravindran
Intermezzi is a chapbook of poems, many of which are experimental in form and take music as a subject.
Varun Ravindran was born in Chennai, India, and lives in Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in publications including Denver Quarterly and Kenyon Review Online, and a book of poetry is forthcoming from Baobab Press.
40 pages, 5.25 x 8.25 in.
Pittsburgh for Palestine: Poetry, Prose and Photography for Liberation
The works in this chapbook were submitted by members of the Pittsburgh community in support of Palestinian Liberation.
A percentage of the sales of this book will go to individual GoFundMe campaigns for Gazans.
44 pages, 5.25 x 8.25 in.