Mission — St. Expedite Press

St. Expedite Press is a micropress based in New Orleans. We publish books with the conviction that certain works deserve not only to be read, but to be kept—to remain in circulation across time, memory, and return. Our commitments are clarity, care, and endurance.

We understand publishing not as content production, but as custodianship. Our aim is to preserve texts that might otherwise disappear, and to cultivate writers whose work benefits from real editorial attention, moral seriousness, and long-form development. We proceed slowly, deliberately, and with an awareness that lasting cultural weight is not produced at the speed of trend.

Orientation

Our editorial philosophy begins with a simple premise: literature matters when it has density. When it resists disposability. When it bears consequence.

We view art as a practice of redimensionalization—an effort to restore depth, gravity, and meaning to a world increasingly flattened by speed, spectacle, and abstraction. Where contemporary culture hollows experience into surface, literature can reopen volume: psychological, historical, ethical, and formal.

The exhaustion of postmodern irony has not left a vacuum; it has revealed an older obligation—the obligation to form, coherence, and the courage to confront reality without disguise. We favor work grounded in structure, intention, and moral presence.

What We Do

St. Expedite Press organizes its work around four enduring aims:

To produce boutique, reliable editions of texts that merit long-term preservation and steady readership.

To provide rigorous editorial development for emerging writers, offering seriousness, discipline, and durable literary credit.

To sustain and extend the tonal, historical, and metaphysical continuity of Southern writing.

To publish fiction and criticism grounded in modern seriousness: work shaped by form, clarity, and consequence rather than fashion.

Why We Exist

Much of contemporary publishing privileges velocity, novelty, and constant turnover. We take the opposite position. We believe that slow, careful editions—printed in modest numbers—can accumulate influence over time.

We trust that readers still seek books made with intention, and that writers still need institutions that treat literature as something more than marketable material.