Florida-based boutique press publishing new fiction, poetry & non-fiction that will leave an unfading impression. 


Bridge Eight Press is an independent boutique press in Jacksonville FL publishing a small catalog of book titles and the online (formerly print) Bridge Eight Literary Magazine. We consider every submission we receive, but look for bold pieces that serve the literary community and community-at-large by delivering a sense of lyrical urgency and authorial authenticity.

Caleb Michael Sarvis

Riley Manning

Grace Lanoue

Bridge Eight

From the editors:

Riley: “I like a story that eats its young.”

Grace: “I like a story that makes me forget I’m sitting on the toilet while I read it.”

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Jeff Bond's stories can be found in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Carolina Quarterly, Sequestrum, Epiphany, Bridge Eight, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City, where he was for many years a staple of Manhattan daylife as a Happy Hour bartender. He also creates and edits video. jeffbond.nyc. 

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Jeff Bond's writing is usually funny or sad; often both. His stories can be found or is forthcoming in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Carolina Quarterly, Sequestrum, Epiphany, Bridge Eight, and elsewhere. He also creates and edits video, including music videos for rock icon Nancy Wilson and punk legend Richard Hell. For many years, Jeff was a staple of Manhattan daylife as a Happy Hour bartender. He recently finished a draft of a two-act stage play, a drama about suicide, grief, and blame. (It's hilarious.)

Epiphany bio

Instead Lodge 49’s plans are done by people left desperate from the perpetual weight of late stage capitalism. But often these plans, with all their chances for a better life, are put on hold in order to help one another.

Alchemy and Afternoon Beers: The Beauty of Lodge 49

Margo. Elmer. Sunshine. Pee Wee. Everyone meet Wispy. Oh, you too, Milkshakes. Good boy. The dogs swirl around him, making terrific sounds. Wispy is welcomed, and wants to smell the kitchen garbage can.

Sunshine

Earthbound is about causality, how a simple act, a child at play, can offset a chain reaction of events.

Earthbound

Blossom is about a sudden breakup, a prolific potted plant, and the all-consuming grief of a bachelor with an epic case of cabin fever.

Blossom

"Now she could feel her hope, like a butterfly who leaves behind uneaten portions of its cocoon, making its escape."

Log Cabin

The Bat

My Father Recovering

Paralysis

The novel is committed to the multiplicity embedded in “no one way,” and it depicts a wide range of non-heteronormative relationship configurations. There are no straight white characters here.

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