2024 Maine Literary Awards Finalists
We are pleased to announce that two of our 2023 titles were named finalists for the 2024 Maine Literary Awards: We're Going Home by...
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Marion F
Apr 252 min read
Wicked Good Book Club May Pick
The May pick for the Wicked Good Book Club is the psychological thriller Sunrise and the Real World by Martha Tod Dudman, and the meeting...
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Marion F
Apr 12 min read
Wicked Good Book Club April Pick
The April pick for the Wicked Good Book Club is Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore. The meeting at the South Portland Books-A-Million will take...
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Marion F
Feb 272 min read
Announcement | Wicked Good Book Club
We are excited to announce that Islandport Press and Books-A-Million are collaborating on the Wicked Good Book Club, which aims to...
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Nicole L
Jan 23, 20232 min read
Marilyn Moss Rockefeller in Conversation with Susan Conley at Left Bank Books
Rockefeller’s Mountain Girl an Inspired ‘Rags-to-Riches’ Memoir January 20, 2023—Marilyn Moss Rockefeller, a Camden-based writer,...
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Piper
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Rockefeller Recounts Her Spirited Journey from Appalachia to Maine
Le Mans, West Virginia, Michigan all stops on a wild ride from barefoot to boardroom. Yarmouth, Maine (Oct. 11, 2022)—In a new memoir,...
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Piper
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Gerry Boyle set to author final two Jack McMorrow crime mysteries
Islandport Press and author Gerry Boyle have reached an agreement for two new Jack McMorrow mystery titles.
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Nicole L
Sep 2, 20227 min read
"Dear Maine" Nine Months Later
Dear Maine was released in December 2021 to an outpouring of support. The book, written by Morgan Rielly and Reza Jalali, recounts the...
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Nicole L
Aug 18, 20222 min read
"Spoonhandle" Donated to WHRL Book Group
Just up the coast from Bar Harbor on Narraguagus Bay, there is a small town called Milbridge. With a population of 1,375 people and...
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shannonloehr
Aug 1, 20222 min read
"Dear Maine" Photographer to Present Work at St. Lawrence Arts
Award-winning visual artist Lilit Danielyan will present her art at St. Lawrence Arts in Portland on August 9.
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Piper
Jul 12, 20222 min read
Ed Crockett to Present at 17th Annual Periscope Awards
Edward Crockett will serve as the guest author and award presenter for the 17th Annual Periscope Creative Writing Contest on July 28.
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Piper
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Author Ron Currie Jr. Joins Islandport as Editor-at-Large
First Book Project Scheduled for Release in November 2022 June 17, 2022—Award-winning author Ron Currie Jr. has joined Islandport Press...
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shannonloehr
Jun 15, 20222 min read
Islandport Novel Wins Silver at the Foreword Awards
“Silence” recognized for excellence in the War & Military Fiction Category June 16, 2022—Silence, an Islandport Press novel set in Maine,...
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Piper
Jun 9, 20222 min read
Marpheen Chann to Celebrate Release of Memoir in Portland
Marpheen Chann will celebrate the release of his memoir, Moon in Full, on June 15 at Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland.
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Piper
May 11, 20222 min read
Classic A Countryman’s Journal Back in Print
A Countryman’s Journal, writer Roy Barrette’s observations of the quiet, simple life in small-town Maine, is being reissued.
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Piper
May 11, 20222 min read
Two Islandport Press Novels win IPPY Awards
Silence and Blue Summer, two Islandport Press novels set in Maine, have both won gold in their categories at the 2022 IPPY Awards.
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Piper
May 3, 20222 min read
A Modern Day Tale of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Fitting In
Marpheen Chann’s memoir Moon in Full, a contemporary coming-of-age story, is slated for release on June 21
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Piper
Sep 26, 20212 min read
Fourth Moore Novel Reissued by Islandport
Ruth Moore’s 1962 gritty novel Second Growth is now back in print for the first time in nearly five decades.
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Piper
Nov 13, 20202 min read
New Book to Highlight Maine’s Immigrant Community
Islandport Press is pleased to announce that it is working with authors Reza Jalali and Morgan Rielly to publish a book exploring the remark
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Piper
Nov 10, 20203 min read
Reopening the Legendary Penobscot River
From the Mountains to the Sea, a new book written by Peter Taylor and published by Maine-based Islandport Press.
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