City Works Press

City Works Press City Works Press is a literary, non-profit press, funded by local writers and friends of the arts. Our focus is on fiction, poetry, prose, and art.

The San Diego Writers Collective is a group of San Diego writers, poets, artists, and patrons dedicated to the publication and promotion of the work of San Diego area artists of all sorts. Our specific interests include local, ethnic, and border writing as well as formal innovation and progressive politics. The collective’s main focus is local, but we are open to occasional collaborations with wri

ters from around the world. City Works Press is a non-profit press, funded by local writers and friends of the arts, committed to the publication of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and art by members of the San Diego City College community and the community at large. While our institutional home is San Diego City College, the collective is not limited to City College faculty and students but rather is comprised of members from all over the region. Our purpose is to put out both first chapbooks by talented student writers and novels, creative non-fiction, and collections of short fiction and poetry by professional writers. We are not bound by commercial considerations nor are we looking to mimic the world of academic publishing. City Works Press is committed to creating a literary culture in a city where no press dedicated to the publication of local writing exists. We are a "collective" in that we all contribute part of the funds and labor that go into each publication and the money made from our sales goes toward the publication of subsequent books. Hence the press is based on an ethic of reciprocity. Each submission is reviewed by a group of people other than the author and is chosen for publication on the basis of its quality and whether or not it fits our mission of promoting innovative, progressive, ethnically diverse local writing.

San Diego City Works Press featured in Publishers Weekly:
09/03/2025

San Diego City Works Press featured in Publishers Weekly:

Indie collectives and co-ops are creating their own definitions of success—and finding their people.

04/26/2025

Come celebrate the twentieth anniversary of City Works Press along with the release of the anthology on Saturday, May 3rd at 5pm at the Centro Cultural de la Raza!

10/24/2024

City Works Press ready to celebrate 20 years of printing with publishing of third volume of anthology

San Diego City Works Press is proud to announce the release of a new book by Ella deCastro Baron:
10/24/2024

San Diego City Works Press is proud to announce the release of a new book by Ella deCastro Baron:

October is Filipino History Month! This Book Encourages Us to Dig a Little Deeper into what Filipino Culture and Values have “Imported” into American Livelihood

10/14/2024

This summer and fall, fires consumed California and much of the west. Extreme heat brought suffering and death across the country and the world, and we have, are, and will be seeing more disastrous…

https://www.jimmillerauthor.com/blog/posts/45201A virtual City Works Press reading from Paradise and Other Lost Places.
10/14/2024

https://www.jimmillerauthor.com/blog/posts/45201
A virtual City Works Press reading from Paradise and Other Lost Places.

On Monday, September 30th, 2024, I was invited to do a Zoom reading for Professors Hector Martinez and Paul Lopez and their literature and creative writing classes at San Diego City College. I'm excited to share the link here!

SD City Works Press is proud to announce the release of a new novel by Mel Freilicher:
10/03/2024

SD City Works Press is proud to announce the release of a new novel by Mel Freilicher:

An Interview with the Author

City Works Press is proud to release Jim Miller's latest book, "Paradise and Other Lost Places." You can buy it today by...
09/27/2024

City Works Press is proud to release Jim Miller's latest book, "Paradise and Other Lost Places." You can buy it today by clicking the link below.

"Philosophical, lush and gritty, this collection answers a central question: How much pain and sweetness can fit into one man’s life? This is life on the knife’s edge where the deep well of grief…gives birth to joy. Miller, gimlet-eyed, turns his lens to city streets, motels, cemeteries, union workers, histories of oppression. Climate change, Lahaina burned. But also: the deep green jungle, the cerulean sea, a flock of hens, a gospel choir. An On The Road travelogue to Maui, Tijuana, Toledo, Chicago, Montana, the Salton Sea, Detroit, L.A. and more, each place a bittersweet cocktail of love and loss. These poems are world-weary and world-loving: The world is burning faster and more furiously/than even our love can repair…but also know that/we are always becoming,/like the newly formed shoots/on the scorched banyan tree. Miller says it best: There is no describing the vast love that wells up in you when you find yourself in rapture with the stunning, naked radiance of the world."

--Kendra Tanacea, author of The Alchemy of Us

In this collection of poems, Jim Miller asks: “How much pain and sweetness can fit into one man’s life?” Miller’s Paradise and Other Lost Places looks at subjects as diverse as colonialism, war, na…

09/09/2024

Putting the pieces of the San Diego puzzle together

Come see Lindsay Hood tonight, 9/9 at 6:30 at the downtown Central Library:
09/09/2024

Come see Lindsay Hood tonight, 9/9 at 6:30 at the downtown Central Library:

It can take a catastrophic event to show us how many ghosts of the past still sit amongst us here in the present. COVID-19 forced us to turn the lights on in America’s version of our proverbial clo…

Come to the release of San Diego Stories on Monday, September 9th at 6:30 PM at the downtown SD Central Library. Click ...
08/26/2024

Come to the release of San Diego Stories on Monday, September 9th at 6:30 PM at the downtown SD Central Library. Click below to register today!

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