Welcome to Milltown

Milltown Press is a woman/veteran-owned independent publisher founded in Everett, WA in 2021. We seek to publish work that may not otherwise find a home in the literary world. 

As a tiny boutique press, we strive to publish one carefully curated title per year. Projects may include anthologies, guidebooks, graphic narratives, essays, stories, or anything else that excites us. If we have an open call, you will find it on our Submit page. 

Within our Milltown Classics imprint, we seek to find, redesign, and republish rare and out-of-print books that tell the stories of the people of the Pacific Northwest from a nontraditional lens and to give voice to those who have often gone unheard. 

We love history, especially the history of the Pacific Northwest—especially stories of strong, trailblazing women and resilient Coast Salish folks who have endured tremendous change in the midst of adversity.

We want to unearth important works that were ignored and underappreciated at the time they were written and share these works with a new generation of readers. 

Milltown Press was founded in a city that once had more than forty lumber, shingle, and paper mills lining its shores and was known as “The City of Smokestacks.” Today, not one mill remains. The city is reinventing itself. It hasn’t lost its blue-collar roots or its grit but is finding itself in the midst of a cultural renaissance. People are gravitating toward Everett for its emerging music and arts scene. The city is blossoming into something unimagined by its founders, but magnificent nonetheless. Milltown Press is about embracing your roots and honoring them for providing a strong foundation on which anything can be built, if only it can be imagined.

Mission statement:

Milltown Press strives to publish quality literary works that shine a light on the historical and contemporary experiences of marginalized individuals, and to amplify the voices of writers who have been ignored in an environment that has been traditionally dominated by narratives from the affluent white male perspective.