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All book sales support POP’s ability to create and host low and no-cost programs and resources available to local writers. Thank you!

First a dream, then a book — twice! POP’s dream was to publish local stories. And whenever we put out the call for submissions, area authors rise to the challenge. We hope you love these stories as much as we do.

Read more about each book and find the link to purchase, below!

  • Published April 2023
    Anthology, Paperback
    $4 for Kindle, $8 for Paperback
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    2O23 INTERNATIONAL FIREBIRD BOOK AWARD CIRCLE OF WINNERS - 1st for Anthology

    There's a boundary between ordinary and extraordinary, and when we're lucky or wise or brave enough to move beyond it, something wonderful awaits.

    Join 30 authors as they explore transcendence in this original collection of stories, essays, and poems.

    Experience a firetide, a nighttime fishing adventure, a beloved dog’s passing, a wingless flight, and the ache for a drink.

    Meet Nai the Dragonfly, a star child, a caretaker, a man in bear’s clothing, a tall dark stranger with a birthmark, a curmudgeon and a puppy, a Tea Leaf Reader, a French couple, a strange old lady, and a woman discovering herself.

    Walk beneath a Hunter’s Moon, climb a cliff, trek the Appalachian Mountains, wander Big Sky Country, read messages from Heaven, and more.

  • Published April 2022
    Anthology, Paperback
    $2 for Kindle, $4 for Paperback
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    Meet thieves, a dragon, a tender talking shoot, a lost girl, purple hyacinths, a chimera, tomato hornworms, a pine tree, and four generations of violent men. Explore the secret of a scar, a new life story, roots of bitterness, an unexpected love, a spell, a world reborn, death, life changes and choices, facades, and new beginnings.

    An anthology brimming with local Arizona voices, Roots, Shoots, and Blooms runs the gamut from flash fiction to creative nonfiction, and poetry.

    Take a minute, pick a seed, enjoy the read.

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