Check out the latest Hobo Camp Review, marking 16 years in publishing! https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2026/01/hobo-camp-review-interview-with-michele.html
Roadside Press’s very own editor/publisher Michele McDannold is interviewed. It begins…
Hobo Camp Review Interview with Michele McDannold
A note from HCR Editor James Duncan: Of the many indie press editors I’ve worked with over the years, Michele McDannold has always stood out for her relentless enthusiasm for the poets she publishes, the unending encouragement and excitement, the effort to get them reviews and blurbs, to get their books and voices and faces on social media, to make a world with more and better and grittier and honest poetry. She’s an absolute tornado of awesome and I’m happy to share this Q&A with you. Seek her work, and she’ll tell you to seek the work of so many other cool poets. Do so!
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You’ve been involved with the indie small press world for a long while, and in recent years you started publishing poetry, fiction, and essays under Gutter Snob Books and Roadside Press (among others). What inspired you to begin these presses? Zygote in my Coffee/Tainted Coffee Press, Red Fez Publications, Punk Hostage Press… there’s a pretty long list of free-wheeling organizations that inspired me. The DIY Press. The Literary Underground. I’ve always had a healthy love of books. Combine that with all the talent I found in the small press, and I just had to wonder what I might be able to contribute as a publisher. Plus, all these little presses that promised to publish my chapbooks kept shutting down! It seemed like a good thing to obsess over. Little did I know, this would be a lifelong obsession.
READ THE REST OF THE Q&A at https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2026/01/hobo-camp-review-interview-with-michele.html
