Congratulations to Angela Jackson-Brown on her 2021 Alabama Library Association Poetry Award for her poetry book, House Repairs, published by Negative Capability Press in 2018. The Alabama Library Association’s literary merit awards are selected each year for five different categories and showcase the best Alabama-born writers.

In the most deeply personal writing of his long career, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the life and work of his wife Nancy, who died of leukemia in 2018. Partly the memoir of a vibrant marriage, Live As If… tells the story of Nancy’s work as a public school teacher, principal, and professor during a time of education under siege. “It’s a story of what can go right,” Gaillard says.

Negative Capability Press is delighted to announce the publication (August 2020) of SUSAN MARTINELLO’s book, Little Gears of Time, a family saga, a story of generations, of mothers and daughters that make the past walk into the present.

Carlos Dews' novel, Hush follows four women who marry into a single family, imagining how they cleave together despite war, poverty, and prejudice, to redirect their lives and find hope. Read more in his press release.

There’s a lot I could say about The Diary of Kaspar Hauser. I know the book came into the world after a dear friend of mine, perhaps in 1993, persuaded me to watch a famous Werner Herzog movie, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. I also know that I started to pen the first idea of my work two years later, in June 1995. I recall how the movie’s sequence of events replayed in my mind, and I began to write, in verse, lines which in fantasy I attributed to the main character

The 34th issue of Negative Capability Journal: The Body in D[ist]ress, edited by Sue Brannan Walker and curated by Megan Cary, features 41 talented poets, writers and visual artists from around the world approaching the topic of the body in a variety of perspectives. Negative Capability's first full-color issue will provide you with a visual experience and thoughtful conversation on the body in d[ist]ress.

Negative Capability Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming 34th issue of our Negative Capability Journal: The Body in D[is]ress. Our first full-color issue will feature 39 talented poets, writers and visual artists