Parlor Press LLC is an independent publisher and distributor of scholarly and trade books in high quality print and digital formats. It was founded in 2002 to address the need for an alternative scholarly, academic press attentive to emergent ideas and forms while maintaining the highest possible standards of quality, credibility, and integrity. The Press’s primary goal is to publish outstanding writing and scholarship in a variety of subjects for a broad range of readers. We value excellence, innovation, accessibility, creativity, and wit. We support the rhetorics of marginalized voices and groups consistently and equitably.
The Press is managed by scholars and specialists in their respective fields, presently covering 17 book series, from initial peer review through production, distribution, and marketing. There are presently over 500 Parlor Press authors and another 75 developing new book projects. Parlor Press books have won numerous national awards as the best books in their respective fields. We have plans underway for growth into film production and distribution, journal and magazine publishing, graphic storytelling, art curation, and other areas of production enabled by emergent digital printing, publishing, and dissemination technologies.