Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit press and literary record label. Established 2016.

Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland, OR. Places like The Paris Review Daily and Poets & Writers have previously written about our creation and development and our books and records have been featured, reviewed, and called best of the year at outlets such as The New York Times, Artforum, The New York Times Book Review, Frieze, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books, among others.

Fonograf Ed. is distributed by NYU Press (print) and Asterism (audio).

We are a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).

Our mission

Fonograf Editions exists to take risks that push the boundaries of sound, text, and genre. We value the interdisciplinary, experimental, and unclassifiable, and we strive to bring to life works that resist, bend, and break expectations. We prioritize public access by making a component of each of our releases available for free to the public (such as streaming audio online) and by hosting multiple free community events each year.

Fonograf Editions

General call

From September 1st until November 1st, Fonograf Editions invites submissions to its annual Open Genre Book Prize contest.

The winning writer receives $1,500, a standard royalty contract, a 3 week residency at The Rice Place (residency will take place in June 2026), and 15 free copies of their book. The press may additionally accept other manuscripts for publication.

Judge: Brandon Shimoda 

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights, 2024), which received the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, in the Fonograf Ed. catalog, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the co-editor, with Thom Donovan, of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books, 2014) and, with Brynn Saito, of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymark

(Prose Poetry)

Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest

From September 1st until November 1st, Fonograf Editions invites submissions to its annual Open Genre Book Prize contest.

The winning writer receives $1,500, a standard royalty contract, a 3 week residency at The Rice Place (residency will take place in June 2026), and 15 free copies of their book. The press may additionally accept other manuscripts for publication.

Judge: Brandon Shimoda 

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights, 2024), which received the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, in the Fonograf Ed. catalog, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the co-editor, with Thom Donovan, of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books, 2014) and, with Brynn Saito, of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymark

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Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest