Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
Marsa Press, Between Shores
An independent publishing house rooted in Egypt and the Mediterranean, based in Lisbon, and open to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary translation submissions.
- For
- Writers and readers of Mediterranean and diasporic literature
- Worth noticing
- Its first three books are framed as arriving from different directions and sitting awkwardly on their expected shelf.
Field notes
Marsa describes a deliberately small initial list, with each of its first three books positioned as coming from a different direction. The visible catalog includes Tamaji Adams's Echoes of Equilibrium, a science-fiction mystery involving a space-station murder, Jawhara Salem's comedy noir Do Not Delete, and Inji Borai's nonfiction book The Interaction Rule. The site also provides an open-submissions path and separates its publishing work from Marsa Nights and Letters sections.
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