Ig Publishing

Among Ig's awards are a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for Damn Love by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, an Indie Next selection for Rachel Weaver's Point of Direction, a Sydney Taylor Honor book selection for Isabel's War by Lila Perl, a 5 Under 35 pick for The Hopeful, an ALA Notable pick in fiction for Missile Paradise by Ron Tanner, a Montana Book Award Honorable Mention for A Bloom of Bones, a Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlist Selection a 2018 CLMP Firecracker Award nomination for Empire of Glass, a Center For Fiction longlist selection for Restless Souls, a Great Group Reads selection for Unfurled. Ig's titles have been reviewed in The New York Times, Booklist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Oprah Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and many other places.

• Name — Ig Publishing • Founded — 2002 • Country — United States • Headquarters — New York City • Distribution — Publishers Group West (US) Turnaround Publisher Services (UK) • Keypeople — Robert Lasner • Publications — Books • Website — http: www.igpub.com

Ig was founded in 2002 with the release of Robert Lasner's novel For Fucks Sake. The press also released a series of Dive Bar guides to select cities – New York, Chicago and San Francisco – from 2002 to 2004. Ig also released several literary novels, including Grant Bailie's Cloud 8 and Richard Madelin's Careful! Inspired by the rise of the progressive political blogosphere, Ig began publishing political non-fiction, along with literary fiction. During this time, Ig also re-published several non-fiction classics, including Edward Bernays's Propaganda, Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders, and Empire As A Way of Life by William Appleman Williams.

Ig is particularly known for its literary fiction. In 2012, the press released The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets by Diana Wagman, which was named a Barnes and Noble Discover pick. In 2014, Ig released Point of Direction by Rachel Weaver, which was named an Indie Next selection. Ig has had multiple titles reviewed by prestigious publications including The New York Times, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist. Damn Love, a short story collection by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, received a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention in 2014. In 2015, Tracy O'Neill's The Hopeful was named a 5 Under 35 pick by the National Book Foundation. The press's fiction list has won several more awards since then, including the CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction in 2022 for Celeste Mohammed's Pleasantview, a novel-in-stories set in Trinidad.