Awards

2021 Poetry Book Awards - Long List:
Grocery List Poems by Rhiannon McGavin

2020 International Latino Book Awards - Winner, The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award: Hermosa by Yesika Salgado

2020 International Latino Book Awards - Finalist, Poetry:
How to Pull Apart the Earth by Karla Cordero

2019 San Diego Book Awards - Winner, Best Published Poetry:
How to Pull Apart the Earth by Karla Cordero

2019 International Book Awards - Finalist, Poetry:
How to Pull Apart the Earth by Karla Cordero

& Press.

“The merger of indie presses Black Ocean and Not a Cult into a new publishing group offers new path for competitive small-press publishing in the digital era.”
- Forbes

“Why Publisher Not A Cult Is Opening A Los Angeles Bookstore”
- Forbes

“A Drive for Beauty”: A Conversation with Daniel Lisi and hollis hart, the Co-Founders of Not a Cult Media
- Los Angeles Review of Books

“Poet Yesika Salgado blew up on Instagram. Now her books are breaking literary boundaries”
- Los Angeles Times