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  • Congrats to our Shirley Jackson Award Winners

    We are delighted to share that two Meerkat Press publications were winners of the Shirley Jackson Award this year. Pinch us please. We hope you’ll checkout these amazing books: Winner | Best Collection Winner | Best Novelette More

  • 2020 Awards (so far)!

    It is that time of the year and we are already blown away at the showing from our 2020 catalog! * means final results in! VELOCITIES : STORIES by Kathe Koja (story collection) | *Bram Stoker Award Finalist, This is Horror Award nominee, *Locus prelim ballot THE ATTIC TRAGEDY by J. Ashley-Smith (novella) | * […] More

  • Paula Guran Reviews Velocities by Kathe Koja for Locus Magazine

    Paula Guran at Locus Magazine reviewed Kathe Koja’s Velocities in the November issue of the magazine. Locus magazine is definitely worth checking out if you aren’t already subscribed. The stories are exquisitely written … An excellent assemblage by a virtuoso writer. LOCUS MAGAZINE | PAULA GURAN More

  • Booklist Reviews Kathe Koja’s Velocities: STORIES

    Booklist weighed in on Kathe Koja’s stunning new collection: VELOCITIES: STORIES and we loved what they had to say! “Koja’s stories are at their most superb where they study the strength in bodies perceived as delicate or fragile … Koja explores the misunderstood and the dark in twisting and often experimental prose.” -BOOKLIST More

  • NB Magazine Gives Kathe Koja’s Velocities 5 stars

    NB Magazine’s Linda Hepworth gives Kathe Koja’s new collection, Velocities: Stories 5 stars! “The consistent thread which links the stories is the author’s eloquent and elegant prose. I loved the myriad ways in which she used language to create a variably-paced rhythmic cadence to her narrative, something which made reading feel like a seamless pleasure […] More

  • Blog Tour for Velocities: Stories by Kathe Koja

    Welcome to the VELOCITIES Blog Tour. We are thrilled to be releasing Kathe Koja’s new collection in Paperback, ebook and audio formats. Kathe Koja is as good as it gets and we are happy to say we’ll also be reissuing her classic THE CIPHER in print in September. We hope you’ll join us on the […] More

  • KIRKUS SAYS VELOCITIES BY KATHE KOJA IS AN IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION

    Kirkus reviewed Kathe Koja’s new collection VELOCITIES: STORIES and called it an impressive debut! It was an insightful read and we hope you’ll take a moment to check out the full review! VELOCITIES | Kirkus Reviews Thirteen dark fantasy stories feature tortured characters whose lives are drastically changing-or will soon end-in Koja’s ( Under the […] More

  • Presenting the Cover for Kathe Koja’s Velocities

    We are so excited to reveal the cover for Kathe Koja’s second collection, VELOCITIES. This collection rocks and so does the cover! This brilliant book will be released April 2020 and we can’t wait. Scroll down for a reading from The Marble Lily from the Kathe. In the meantime, be sure to sign up for […] More

  • Meerkat Press Signs Two Book Deal with Kathe Koja

    It’s Women in Horror month and we can’t think of a better time to announce that Meerkat Press will be publishing two works by master of horror Kathe Koja in 2020. The first book, Koja’s second short fiction collection, Velocities, is dark, disturbing, and heartfelt. It includes thirteen stories, including two never before published, all […] More