Hollowdeck Press, LLC is an independent, small literary press founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1994 by Max Regan. We are committed to sustaining, honoring, publishing and promoting creative work that investigates and expands the boundaries of prose, poetry, monologue, performance, spoken word, gender, identity, class, race, orientation, politics, physical ability and location. We work with a diverse range of people who are dedicated to the art of living as well as the art of writing.

Our commitment is to awaken the curiosity and passion of those who love to write. We believe in creating honest, skillful and non-competitive communities where writers support one another in bringing their work to life. The foundation of these grassroots writing communities is our desire to meet you where you are as a writer. It is our belief that writing is a practice as well as a craft. We encourage each individual to uncover the wisdom imbedded in their own imagination and experience. We believe that writers must be willing to write in response to and in conversation with the world around them and to find the unique work that honors their own voice. We believe that fearlessness, honesty, community, hard work and a big whopping sense of humor are the things that sustain the writing life.

As writers, we are called both to write and to create intentional lives in which our writing is always welcome. In other words, we believe that life is way too short to not write what wants and needs to be written.

Hollowdeck Press sponsors Writing Guilds for working writers in Boulder, Colorado, Baltimore, Maryland and Houston, Texas. We offer a variety of classes: on-going weekly classes, weekend classes, one-day classes, free classes, intensive labs, visiting artist seminars, on-line distance workshops and museum classes. We engage writers working in any genre: from memoirs to stories, novels to experimental texts and full manuscripts to the single, well-crafted poem.

We also offer private coaching sessions for writers who prefer to work one-on-one and content editing for those preparing manuscripts and texts for publication.

For writers who have a passion for travel, we offer annual two-week writing journeys to the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands and to Melbourne, Australia and Flinders Island in Tasmania.

Hollowdeck Press does not currently accept unsolicited submissions, but we do occasionally sponsor publishing projects, anthologies, exhibits and contests. For more information on our current projects, please go to our documents page.

If you would like to be added to or removed from our mailing and email list, please contact us. Our mailing list is never used for anything other than Hollowdeck and literary arts notices, and, needless to say, it is never for sale.

Occasionally a limited number of full or partial scholarships may be available for low-income students. When these are available for a specific class or semester, all students will be notified by email. If you are interested in donating towards a full or partial scholarship or award, please contact us.