We are an author-driven publishing house that devotes our energy to nurturing fresh, cutting-edge, and literary voices. The genres we cover are vast—fiction and nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and anthologies, all of which collectively focus on current affairs and politics, counterculture, music, history, memoir, literary biography, religion, and philosophy.

Featured Authors

Annabelle Gurwitch

author of "You're Leaving When?"

Natashia Deón

author of "The Perishing"

S. Kirk Walsh

author of "The Elephant of Belfast"

About Counterpoint Press

Counterpoint Press was created in 2007 through the acquisition of three notable independent presses: Counterpoint, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press. In January 2008, the company began publishing two imprints, Counterpoint and Soft Skull Press. In 2016, Counterpoint merged with the independent publisher Catapult.

Counterpoint books are distributed by Penguin Random House.

Visit our other imprints at Catapult Book Group
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