What Matters Most

Community Partner Spotlight: Women's Prison Book Project

Brianna Reed — 02/18/2025

Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Our mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

As a publisher, we join in thoughtful partnerships to “build an engaged community” around the books and authors we publish. Sometimes partners are community organizations, libraries, or independent bookstores who host readings with the authors we publish. And sometimes our partners are organizations with connections to specific communities of readers that we may not otherwise reach through bookstore, digital, library, or other traditional publishing channels. One such partner is the Women’s

Concord, MA —

In Person: Helen Whybrow and Shilpi Suneja at Concord Art Center

Join Helen Whybrow and Shilpi Suneja at the Concord Art Center for the inaugural Independent Press Prose Reading Series. An introduction of the press and its mission will be followed by a reading and discussion of their works. Books will be available for purchase through the Concord Bookshop.