Very short books.
The press
General Workshop Press is a reinvention of the chapbook, the small single-work booklets that emerged in 16th-century Europe and were carried from town to town by itinerant peddlers called chapmen.
Other arts have always made room for the small. The snapshot. The three-minute song. The ten-second video. Fiction can fit there too. And where the others are often fleeting, ours are made to be kept.
Our books
Our books are mostly single story chapbooks. The stories can be just one page or they can be up to 10 pages in length. Sometimes they can be just a couple of sentences.
Some can be very short collections of two or three little stories. Some are special editions where we can break the rules.
The authors
The authors bring a diverse and different point of view in creating very short stories. They may be just starting out but we know that they will all have incredibly bright futures, and General Workshop Press is their platform for experimenting and to launch.
New releases
Read
Starting July 8, 2026 you can find our books three ways.
Order online through our site. Pre-orders will open up on June 1st.
Subscribe for annual plan where you will receive one book a month for the whole year. Set it once and it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
We will be at your local bookstore soon. Stay tuned.