DOGSTAR PRESS IS THE FIRST PUBLISHER TO ESTABLISH ITSELF AS 100% human.
We are an independent literary press devoted to publishing literary fiction that dares to be beautiful, unguarded, and true.
Our call for author submissions will open in Spring 2026, with our first title publishing in September 2026.
IN A MODERN
AGE THAT IS COMPRESSING
THE LIFE OUT
OF US,
technology and politics are pushing us farther from our true selves, purpose, and potential.
As algorithms plunge us deeper into distraction, distortion, and division, literature and other art forms underpinned by beauty, sincerity, truth, and light are a lifeline, not a luxury.
WE ARE PROTECTING LITERATURE AS AN exclusively human ART FORM.
Dogstar was founded to safeguard literature from artifice, ideology, and external pressures that erode it as the expression of the human spirit.
Clearly signposting books that are human-made—without AI interference—is the only way we can preserve novels as the eternal conversation about what it means to be alive.
—F. M. DOSTOEVSKY
Without art that encourages reflection and the search for meaning, a civilization will be numbed by the algorithm, unable to think and feel deeply, and apathetic to our shared humanity.
More than ever, we need immersive novels that awaken our hearts and senses as they explore the comedy, agony, glory, mystery, and miracle of the human condition.
In Franz Kafka’s words:
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
A NEW LIGHT IN LITERARY FICTION, LAUNCHING IN 2026.
Add your name to our waiting list to support human art and protect literature as an exploration of our shared humanity.
