Lenny Press Indepedent Publisher, Publishing Poetry and Books for Writers
Lenny Press is an independent publishing company for writing, poetry, books, and music founded by Lenny and focused on themes of existentialism, hope, despair, and human nature.
We are committed to helping writers (and ourselves) review, edit, format, design, print, publish, and distribute various publications. We are looking to create opportunities to fund publishing for writers with limited resources.
For inquiries & submissions please contact lenny@lennypress.com
Thank You
FAQ
Who is Lenny?
Lenny was born at the Nexus of the Universe, 1st and 1st in Manhattan, NY—then grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. And has since traveled quite a bit. Lenny is amorphous; Lenny is vast; Lenny is nameless. A local pizza shop inspired the moniker.
Being Lenny takes a certain je ne sais quoi, that is undefined, but can be indicated by things like eating too much pizza, drinking at odd hours, chain smoking, a penchant for dive bars, wearing sunglasses at weird times, wearing wigs or strange hats, cutting your own hair, rejecting portions of reality, getting sober the hard way, feeling like you got hit by a car and maybe you did because you were jaywalking while wandering the streets at 3am writing unintelligible graffiti, usually not taking a book to the bar, but writing one instead. It is all a Lenny balance of extreme independence, times of lacking function for basic tasks, neediness, addict-level determination and ‘I am what I am’ attitude.
Lenny believes without destruction you can’t have good creation; and Lenny will destroy themself if they got nothing else. And Lenny would believe, conformity via safety is already a form of self-destruction—so go out and steal your life back!
Lenny is an anarchist in their mind. Or in their mind is there anarchy? Lenny will always be trying to figure it out. Lenny survives, against the odds, by any means necessary. Lenny lives forever. When one Lenny dies another is born.
In a dog-eat-dog world, Lenny is the dog that eats and the dog that is eaten.
How do I submit my writing to Lenny Press?
Please email lenny@lennypress.com. Thank you.
Who’s involved in Lenny Press?
Tonna Betta, Larry Lawrence, Troy Wennet, Weston “Wes” Wittry, and Joe Woods.
Why?
Lenny first emerged as a post-punk jam band in Brooklyn, made up of a few friends that like to make music, write, and design things. Members are now dispersed to Detroit, Seattle, and Estonia. Since we had been writing for a long time individually and a bit together, we started to question: where does this work go? Knowing it shouldn’t live forever in our own notebooks or computers and wanting to publish, Lenny Press came to be. We’d rather spend time writing, designing, and working with other writers than shopping around to publishers, so we made our own publishing company in the DIY spirit of the punks that we are. It’s a platform for publishing work that may not otherwise be published.What is Lenny wearing?
Probably old black jeans, boots, a plain t-shirt, a homemade jacket, and a self-embroidered hat.
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