Independent LGBTQ+ literary press
Out of the closet.
Back in print.
The books that helped shape our queer culture — recovered, introduced and reissued as Modern Editions.
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The Imprint
Out of print shouldn't mean out of reach
OutWrite Books is an independent publisher with a singular purpose: to bring back the literary works that shaped queer life and let them speak to modern readers.
The author’s text stays as written. What we add is around it: a fresh introduction, editorial framing and notes that give a modern audience what it needs to read the book on its own terms — in a design made for reading rather than for the archive shelf.
The list is small and deliberate. Titles are chosen for literary quality, for their significance to the record, and for what they still say out loud.
1896
First edition recovered
232
Pages, newly set
01
Modern Edition forthcoming
The premise
Returned for the readers who need them now.
Queer readers meeting the record for the first time — in print, unabridged, on their own shelves.
The writers of the queer canon meet the audience they were always writing toward — their descendants
Catalog · Modern Edition No. 1
Print & ebook
Love's
Coming‑of‑Age
Edward Carpenter
Edited & introduced by Tomas Figueroa
First published in 1896, Love's Coming-of-Age is Carpenter's bold, lyrical argument for reimagining how people love — written openly about same-sex love at a moment when doing so carried real cost.
More than a century later the radical hope still burns. This Modern Edition restores the text, adds a new introduction, and returns the book to general readers.
Available in print & ebook
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