Indie Spirit Southern Pulse Nashville, Tennessee
Founded 2026Nashville, TennesseeOne book on the list
We publish literary fiction and narrative nonfiction — voice-driven work shaped by place, memory and the quiet moments that make up a life. Writing that does not need to shout to be heard.
ENP·001 — our first book
The first book
“The baby was still alive when Hollis Koker found her stuffed inside a hollow log on the side of Little Black Mountain, screaming into the dark.”
A fierce Southern novel about inheritance and redemption, the wages of faith and the cost of love, and the fragile, stubborn hope that survives when nearly everything else has been taken.
“A mesmerizing novel about the stubborn endurance of hope.”Independent Book Review
“Richly cinematic. Immersive small-town America novel boasts riveting sense of place.”BookLife
What we publish
A press this size cannot outspend anyone, so it competes on attention instead: one book given the years it was written for, rather than a season on a list of forty.
We are not open to unsolicited manuscripts at the moment, and we say so plainly on the submissions page rather than leaving a form open that nobody reads.
Booksellers & librarians
Any bookshop can order Where the Heathen Rage. For terms, galleys, jacket art or an author appearance, write to the press and a person answers.
The press list
A few emails a year. New books, publication dates, and the one thing a small press can offer that a big one cannot: you will hear it from the people who made it. This is also where an opening for submissions is announced first.