Anamot Press was set up in March 2020. Through the Poetry Streaming project, over 40 invited poets, publishers and writers shared queer experiences across borders and other stories on migration, ancestral grief, displacement, love and loss.
Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz
Published in 2023, Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz is a short story collection exalting and lampooning the queer experience while examining the sometimes surreal obstacles of marginalization. Jacob Budenz is a queer writer,…
The Fear of Large and Small Nations by Nancy Agabian
Published in 2023, The Fear of Large and Small Nations by Nancy Agabian is her debut novel. Written in gripping short stories interspersed with intimate journal entries and blog posts, the fragmented…
Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity by Kristin Anahit Cass
Published in 2024, Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity by Kristin Anahit Cass is a book of essays, stories, poems, quotes and images. In it, Cass poses the questions: What…
The Institute for Other Intelligences by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Published in 2022, The Institute for Other Intelligences by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is a work of speculative fiction and media theory about an imagined future where machine intelligences convene annually for curriculum…
Confluence: A Person-Shaped Story by Nyri A. Bakkalian
Published in 2022, Confluence: A Person-Shaped Story by Nyri A. Bakkalian is a novel about a trans-lesbian couple: an Armenian-American combat specialized cyborg and her Japanese cyberneticist spouse Isawa Kasu. Their intense…
Keepers of the Stones and Stars by Michael Barakiva
Published in 2024, Keepers of the Stones and Stars by Michael Barakiva is a fantasy YA novel about a group of five teens chosen by magical gems to save the world. With…
Azad Archives
Anamot Press was set up in March 2020. Through the Poetry Streaming project, over 40 invited poets, publishers and writers shared queer experiences across borders and other stories on migration, ancestral grief, displacement, love and loss.
The Roach by René Zadoorian
Published in 1990, In My Father’s Car by George Stambolian is one of the first, if not the first [*], short stories written about and by a gay Armenian-American.
Stambolian published the story in his Men on Men: Best New Fiction series.
The Future of Armenian Publishing is Queer
Watch the video of this event below! The International Armenian Literary Alliance hosted The Future of Armenian Publishing is Queer, a reading and panel discussion in honor of Pride Month, on Tuesday, June…