Questions And Answers
About The Ship
What Are You??
We are artists first and do a ton of things across form. A pirate ship. And also a press. Or, what we like to call a ‘pressductions’. Strict form doesn’t always matter, but quality Art sure does!
Who Are You?
To get a sense of our staff and authors consult the publications page and the vault!
Read The Map
Where you can find more of our theater, music, and multimedia projects tend to go. Think more moving image over the written word.
Sometimes portions of plays and scripts can be found there, too!
The Open Seas is where regular writing, blog posts from the esteemed Crow’s Nest, author publications, and new projects go up. Some for a limited time before they get shuttered down to the watery depths of the waves and you can only find them in…The Vault!
Where the buried treasure is, of course! Get our books, plays, verse-novels, poetry collections, and other really cute merch for fans of everything literary and sea-themed.
On The Horizon
We open for submissions at various points during the year. We primarily work around and during a regular production schedule. So, for sometime in 2026 we are hoping to open for novella/novelette submissions.
We sure do! We don’t have submissions open for them right now, but we do have some pretty exciting ones on the roster for the future that are currently in the works. We also reach out to people rather frequently asking if they have work they would like to entrust our publishers with— and of course, depending on how much time we have to edit for the quarter.
We are looking for all the awards a small indie press can nominate. We are ALWAYS looking to break down barriers in art spaces so that talented, unrepresented voices may have recognition– so can you!
No, but we do tend to keep that theme for The HLK Quarterly and The Crow’s Nest. Then again, maybe said theme does tend to show up in our works quite often—call it our white whale, if you will.
Buried Treasure
Our store is called the Vault- take a look here!
No worries, email us at westofcanon@gmail.com. We are pretty good at helping with these things.
You can still e-mail at westofcanon@gmail.com! We love to help!
West Of Canon is staffed by people with disabilities and severe health issues- if you have not heard from us in three weeks or more, please do call us again to make sure we have not succumbed to the agonies!
Additionally, sometimes things happen and orders will not be shipped out perfectly on time. Do not email less than two weeks past a late date, and please, contact your local postal service first. If a book is lost in the mail, there is not much we can do but we urge you to reach out to your local post for a refund if possible.
Please note we sometimes need to take a break or hiatus for various health and life reasons. Notice will be given in advance when possible. We are all rowing our own little boats and sometimes we need to take a breather.