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Our Mission: Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because we believe that science and the humanities are natural companions for understanding the human experience.

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John Rolfe Gardiner discusses his literary career and shares the stories behind North of Ordinary with Potomac Review and One Story.

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Recent & Forthcoming Titles

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Bellevue Literary Press is a small press in New York that publishes books about the intersection between the arts and sciences. It’s fascinating. Their books are just gems. It’s hard to find a Bellevue Literary Press book that, for me, doesn’t work.

— Nancy Pearl, KUOW’s The Record

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How extraordinary that a place like [Bellevue Literary Press] exists: a literary nonprofit not bound by algorithms and bottom lines, but committed to seeing into the soul of things, to placing in our hands that which may help us better fathom one another and the world.

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Award Winning Titles

Full of speculative daring though firmly anchored in the tradition of realism, Tim Horvath’s Understories explores hypothetical cities, shadow puppeteers, and the imaginary travels of a library book—blending the everyday and wondrous to contend with age-old themes of loss, identity, and the search for human connection.