DOGSTAR PRESS IS AN INDEPENDENT LITERARY PRESS DEVOTED TO FICTION THAT DARES TO BE beautiful, unguarded, and true.
Everything we do stems from a single conviction: literature is not content, performance, or propaganda—it is the expression of the human soul, and it must be protected.
AS THE GUIDING LIGHTS OF MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING CONTINUE TO DIM,
many novels today reflect the impatience, emptiness, and hyper-politicization of the modern world that produced them,
prioritizing dogma, division, darkness, and virality over artfulness, depth, nuance, light, and transcendence.
DOGSTAR WAS FOUNDED TO OFFER WRITERS AND READERS a radiant home THEY CANNOT FIND ELSEWHERE:
A literary press devoted to beauty, sincerity, and 100% human fiction.
We are holding a lantern for writers and readers sidelined by today’s unrecognizable mainstream publishing machine. By publishing authentic and artful fiction that does not yield to external pressures, we are warding off the artifice and ideology that is destroying human literary art, We bring light into a dark world with novels underpinned by values that created the most enduring art in history: beauty, morality, hope, redemption, respect for life and the human spirit, the pursuit of truth and excellence, and the power of transcendence.
—F.M. DOSTOEVSKY
In a digital age that is compressing the life out of us, pulling us further from our souls and deeper into distraction, distortion, and division, literature infused with beauty, sincerity, and light is a lifeline, not a luxury.
Without novels and other art that encourage reflection and the search for meaning, a civilization will be dead inside: numbed by the algorithm, unable to think and feel deeply, and resigned to despair and destruction when all seems lost.
More than ever, we need novels that awaken our hearts and senses as they explore the comedy, agony, glory, mystery, and miracle of being alive. In Franz Kafka’s words:
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
Though the hour is late, we believe it is still possible to restore literature to its rightful role in Western society:
AN IRREPLACEABLE MAP OF human emotion and experience across time. A DEEPLY PERSONAL SOURCE OF refuge, wonder, hope, and illumination. A PATHWAY TO WHAT IS real and eternal.
ThE FiRST LIterary Press TO establish itself as 100% Human.
As machines invade every corner of our lives, AI-written and AI-assisted novels are slipping into the mainstream publishing system without disclosure. Literary gatekeepers remain silent, taking no action to prevent the dilution and erasure of the human voice.
Signposting books that are human-made—without AI interference—is the only way we can preserve the continuity of storytelling as a record of humanity and an eternal conversation about what it means to be alive.
Every Dogstar book carries our 100% human mark. Backed by our verification process, this is a pledge of creative integrity and a stamp of authenticity in a world full of illusions, efficiency hacks, and empty content creation, where it is harder and harder to distinguish what’s meaningful and real.
A new light in literary fiction: coming in 2026
DOGSTAR’S CALL FOR AUTHOR SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN EARLY 2026, WITH OUR FIRST TITLE PUBLISHING IN SEPTEMBER 2026.
Add your name to our waiting list and join our movement. Together we can preserve the power of literature, an irreplaceable light that reminds us what makes life worth living and fighting for.