We are excited to announce that Islandport Press and Books-A-Million are collaborating on the Wicked Good Book Club, which aims to...

In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..

By Dean L. Lunt In the 1970s, Frenchboro remained a relatively poor island fishing village eight miles at sea that, given the era's...

Le Mans, West Virginia, Michigan all stops on a wild ride from barefoot to boardroom. Yarmouth, Maine (Oct. 11, 2022)—In a new memoir,...

A great many roads surrounding Grand Lake Stream are best negotiated in first gear.

Marpheen Chann will celebrate the release of his memoir, Moon in Full, on June 15 at Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland.

From Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. by Earl Brechlin Acadia National Park sprawls across nearly fifty thousand acres on Mount Desert...

An excerpt from Blue Summer by Jim Nichols Tampa, 1995 We’ll start at that low point: a trailer park in Tampa, Florida. It’s early in the...

Silence and Blue Summer, two Islandport Press novels set in Maine, have both won gold in their categories at the 2022 IPPY Awards.

Marpheen Chann’s memoir Moon in Full, a contemporary coming-of-age story, is slated for release on June 21

From Evergreens by John Holyoke For years, “camp” has existed as a strictly seasonal retreat, with all the attendant perks, anda few...

By Earl Brechlin Like much of Puritan New England, Maine has always held a fascination with the devil. There was no better way to ward...

By Phuc Tran America. Patriots. Refugees. Immigrants. Citizens. Love it. Leave it. Go back to your country. There is tension in my family...

Ruth Moore’s 1962 gritty novel Second Growth is now back in print for the first time in nearly five decades.

Trudging the last half-mile of steep uphill while pulling the sled and groceries was less fun.

Charlie and me had a nice, quiet Christmas, just the two of us. (As a cashier down to the A&P, I’m on the front lines,

The week of December 5 was hectic. The Christmas rush was beginning to crowd a busy work week with too few hours spent chasing too many task

It was my idea to put a lighted tree on top of our seventy-foot Harvestore silo.

I keep a gratitude journal all year, just like Oprah. Every day I write down at least five things I’m grateful for.

You know how it is on the coast, my friend, when the weather is brittle cold, and the breaking dawn is painting the sky with colors of pink