“Since planting its roots in 2012, Stanfill has grown Forest Avenue Press into the woodland of critically praised fiction it’s known as today.” - Morgan Nicholson, Eleven PDX
"A woman of tireless love for literature and writers, and a leader in her community." - Ramiza Shamoun Koya, author of The Royal Abduls (Forest Avenue Press) Without her, there’s just a bunch of shitty condos around a bookstore.” - Tabitha Blankenbiller, author of Eats of Eden: A Year of Food and Fiction (Alternating Current)
She makes me want to be here, even if it’s just in spirit. She is a lighthouse, a porch light, always showing the way. “Anytime I see Laura Stanfill, she is a smiling, brilliant, supportive light embodying everything I miss and love about community. And she creates a stand of writers, a community, because she connects everyone she meets.” - Kate Gray, author of Carry the Sky (Forest Avenue Press) She is such sun that she helps you take root and become something perennial, something called a novelist. She is such gale force winds, she spreads your book into every crevice of the country, into people's hands and eyes and hair. She is such steady rain she seeps into your story, the characters of your story, and grows them, nurtures the conditions for your characters' growing. “Forest Avenue Press is Laura Stanfill is a force of nature. I’ve watched her take the women-powered Portland press to national distribution, each act of business done with sterling quality and panache.” - Leigh Anne Kranz, KBOO radio “The founder and publisher, Laura Stanfill, defies natural law with her energy and ever-presence at literary events, and seems able to balance (and savor) the beauties of business, motherhood and art-she writes magical realism that is the real deal. And we see them work themselves silly to do the best for both.” - Oregon Writers Colony “We can’t say enough positive things about Forest Avenue Press. “A bedrock of Portland’s literary community.” - Magnify As a writer of color, I can speak from personal experience when I say that I have felt heard and seen by her her dedication to spreading voices that contribute in a positive way to literature of today is reflected in her sincere, constructive feedback for writers and selfless promotion of excellent work.” - Zaji Cox, author and dancer “Laura has shown fantastic support as a person who goes above and beyond to lift voices, especially of those often marginalized. Authors who are familiar with our catalog will be given priority in the submissions process. Unagented submissions are welcomed once a year through Submittable. If you’ve written a manuscript that nobody else could have imagined, because it’s so centered on your individual way of looking at the world, then it might be a Forest Ave book. Many of our titles blend genres in playful, unexpected ways.
We prize novels that are beautifully crafted and are spun into being via the author’s lived experience. On the editorial side, we prioritize BIPOC, queer, and neurodivergent voices. Our authors have earned prestigious awards and praise from top newspapers and trade journals, including The Washington Post, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Foreword Reviews, and The Oregonian. Literary Arts honored us with two publishing fellowships. Reedsy named Forest Avenue a best independent press for 2022. We’ve chosen to incorporate hope and whimsy and possibility into our catalog, seeing joy as a necessary balance to the hardships of living. Since its 2012 founding, Forest Avenue has become known for publishing books that surprise and delight readers. Our titles are distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West. Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction on a joyride (and the occasional memoir).
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