Civil Coping Mechanisms

Civil Coping Mechanisms (CCM) is a DIY kind of press. Why not do it our way? Innovative fiction crossing any and all boundaries to share its vision. Innovative community of similar-minded artisans and auteurs. What only matters: offering a space for the innovation and experimentation so sorely shamed and disregarded as unmarketable by the major and indie presses too busy selling the next celebrity memoir, paper-thin creative nonfiction spine of lies, the wax-intellectual pursuits of yet-again the same vision wrapped in newer trim, or the same regurgitated genre-fiction and prose you’d expect would have become stale by now. No wonder the publishing industry flounders while other entertainment industries report record numbers and new-inventions. The printed word need not slacken at a time when what’s read is more likely plastered to the digital page. Oh yes, we rant. This is our place. We’ll do as we damn well please. This press is a place for coping with the contemporary ennui of the modern literary artist. You need not fret. Your work shall stretch out its wings and flutter as far as its desire. FICTION: We’re looking for work so conceptually or aesthetically innovative it simply can’t be published anywhere else, fully embracing the surreal, the avant-garde, the postmodern. Work in alternative genres is encouraged. We want literary objects infused with “otherness”: so new, so different, that they renovate our notion of what literature can be.