Seven Stories Press

About Seven Stories Press

Seven Stories Press is an independent New York publisher founded in 1995 by Dan Simon, known for its mix of politics, literature and children's books, and for first publishing Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents (1998).

Simon had earlier run Four Walls Eight Windows, which he started in 1984 as an imprint of Writers and Readers and incorporated as an independent company in 1986 with John Oakes. He named his new house after the seven Four Walls authors who followed him: Octavia E. Butler, Annie Ernaux, Gary Null, Project Censored, Charley Rosen, Vassilis Vassilikos and the estate of Nelson Algren.

First editions from Seven Stories include Butler's Parable of the Talents (1998), which won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Fledgling (September 2005), her final book published in her lifetime; Gary Webb's Dark Alliance (May 1998); and Kurt Vonnegut's essay collection A Man Without a Country (September 2005). It also publishes Noam Chomsky (9-11), Angela Davis (Are Prisons Obsolete?), Howard Zinn and Greg Palast. Annie Ernaux, one of the founding seven, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.

The house remains independent. It added the Spanish-language imprint Siete Cuentos Editorial in 2000, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers in 2012 and a UK company, based in Liverpool, in 2016, and in April 2025 it made its first acquisition, Two Dollar Radio of Columbus, Ohio.