A STRANGE OBJECT

A Strange Objectis an imprint based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to publishing surprising, heartbreaking fiction alongside thoughtful works of nonfiction. We're talking about books that haunt and inspire us—big work that engulfs, that takes risks, that bucks form, that builds warm dwellings in dark places.

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Welcome to A Strange Object

Hello! You may know us as the Austin-based independent press focused on fiction. In 2019 we joined the nonprofit publishing house Deep Vellum as an imprint.

We are thrilled to be able to continue our mission of publishing original voices in fiction (as well as the occasional stellar memoir or brilliant but hard-to-categorize nonfiction) alongside Deep Vellum's powerful list of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic novels, photography, and translated literature. Deep Vellum's works in translation span fifty-three languages, and its authors hail from seventy-five countries. DV actively invests in creating and supporting a diverse literary culture here in Texas. We couldn't be prouder to join such a cosmopolitan, humane, and visionary organization.

Some notes on our books!

Out from A Strange Object in March 2025, Ethan Rutherford's North Sun brings together an adventure story, a harrowing sea voyage, and a shocking tale of environmental exploitation and predation.

Wei Tchou's Little Seed is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Autobiography! By turns meditative, searing, and defiant, the memoir is a twining story of family and ferns, of mental illness and Asian American identity.

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At A Strange Object we believe in the subtle art of subtraction. We're pressing mute on the noise of publishing and increasing the signal and the strange.

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[Side note: Writers, we love you, but we are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts at this time.]