Important Notice

On Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026, at 4:39 a.m., we received notice via email from our print-on-demand and distribution service (Amazon KDP) stating, “We are terminating your account effective immediately because we have found activities in your account trying to manipulate our services.” All FutureCycle Press titles in both paperback and Kindle formats were summarily removed from Amazon and its sister site, Goodreads, which housed our 274-title catalog. We maintain that we have strictly adhered to all platform guidelines and suspect this removal is the result of an error by an automated system or an outside actor over which we have no control. Despite our immediate and repeated outreach, standard support channels have not provided specific evidence or a human response. We are told only that this decision is final.

  • Escalation: We attempted to escalate a formal appeal directly to Amazon’s executive review teams to bypass the automated systems and reinstate the titles. It soon became clear that our director’s personal account had become entangled with the press account, suggesting data corruption on Amazon’s servers. Although one KDP email contained the hopeful remark, “this is a case I have had to forward through to our back office teams,” the subsequent “to protect your privacy” non-responses to our emails from either account do not give us confidence anything will ever be done.

  • Contingency Planning: We evaluated the logistical requirements of reformatting and migrating the entire catalog to alternative print-on-demand and distribution services, a time-intensive process for a small staff, and also began to consider creative ways not only to protect but to add value for our authors. See our Director’s open letter of August 11, 2026, for our process, decisions, and plans going forward.

What Authors Can Do

  • Contact Us: First, read the open letter linked above, then email us directly at and tell us what you want to do: (a) hang in there with us as we fight to keep your work alive or (b) have us take your book(s) out of print, destroy any production files, and release you from your contract.

  • Next Steps: We will migrate the paperback books mainly in the order we hear from our authors, but our book prize winners, Good Works projects, and Selected Poems titles will be done first. The ebooks must be reformatted and will not be done until the paperbacks are secured. If we do not hear from you, we will keep your book in print as originally contracted unless we later receive different instructions. As stated in your contract (if you’ve lost it, see our sample contract), you can write us at any time and request we take your book out of print. No hard feelings if that’s what you decide is best for you.

Below is what you would normally see on the homepage of FutureCycle Press.

Poetry

We publish contemporary poetry books and anthologies in English. Our list is eclectic, our intention to capture the spirit of our time through the vital art of poetry. For fifteen years, we awarded the annual FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize with honorarium for the best original volume of poetry published by us. Our Selected Poems series highlights contemporary poets with a substantial body of work. Our Good Works projects—anthologies to benefit charity—showcase individual works. In short: We are a small press determined to look like a big one.

Quality

Some of the best poets writing today are represented in our catalog. We collaborate with our authors to make our titles the best they can be, and we do take our editorial role very seriously. We pride ourselves on our skill and the care we give the books we publish—in both print-on-demand and digital editions.

Availability

In a world where poetry is both ubiquitous and unlikely to be profitable, we strive to keep our titles in print and widely available. Poetry matters so much, we believe, that we give away all of our titles free in digital format on a rotating basis! Both we and our authors have worked very hard on these books, and we want everyone to be able to read them.

Submissions

Please review our guidelines before submitting your work. Our downloadable PDF Guide for Authors, essential reading for those whose book manuscripts we accept, is a window into our approach and process. The Guide answers many questions those considering submitting to us may have. (We only accept submissions through Submittable, and only for what we are asking for at any given time, so please understand that any non-compliant submissions must be ignored.)