by Anna Wagner
Reproductions of 48 original dog artworks by Anna Wagner, risograph printed by Anna Tararova/Empress Editions. Dog Book charts Anna’s journey as she fostered and raised dozens of dogs, and was forever changed in the process. Artworks include drawings, prints and sculpture and were inspired by interactions with dogs of all kinds, both real and mythical.
27 double-sided pages, risograph printed on archival cardstock. Spiral bound, 8” x 10”. These books cost $13 each in material costs, and we’re selling them on a sliding scale (shipping included).
by Anna Wagner and Sloane Cutflower Allen
Limited edition, 4-layer screen print on 100 lb black archival cover (the final layer is glitter). Text and calligraphy by Sloane Allen, art and printing by Anna Wagner. A poem about longing and magic and death; a view into the tomb of the beast of myth. 11 7/8 × 15 3/16. It shimmers (like unicorns).
by Anna Wagner and Sloane Cutflower Allen
A psycho-poetic odyssey into Spring Green, Wisconsin’s most haunted location, The House on the Rock. Through original scratchboard drawings, poetry, and collage, Anna and Sloane attempt to convey the horrifying subjective truth of the greatest and most terrible American tourist attraction.
by Sloane Cutflower Allen
A sequence of ekphrastic poems that engage with the medieval European religious art/tomb sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Art.
16 pages. Cover design by Anna Wagner.
Nothing Beneath Ornament
by Sloane Cutflower Allen
A short sequence of ekphrastic poems responding to works like “The Color of Pomegranates,” the Gormenghast trilogy, “Onibaba,” “Death Styles,” and more. 5.5x8.5 inches, 10 pages. Stapled.
by Sloane Cutflower Allen
A zine of poems exploring themes of shifting gender identity, as well as shifting concepts of language and humanity in the anthropocene. 20 pages, risographed cover. Cover and interior images by Anna Wagner.
by Anna Wagner
11x14” Risograph, printed by Anna Tararova/Empress Editions.
“We ONLY print under Duress.” Duress Press is dedicated to printing and disseminating unclassifiable writing, limited-run prints, and other detailed maps of the underworld. Founded by ashen scrivener Sloane Cutflower Allen and enigmatic necromancer Anna Wagner, Duress Press started as a project to review the best restaurants in Hell but has since expanded to printing chapbooks and stuff like that. Duress Press was awarded the 2025 Duress Press Award for Excellence.
Sloane Cutflower Allen, cofounder, editor-in-chief
Anna Wagner, cofounder, creative director
contact us at sloaneallenstudio@gmail.com
And you sat, Sisyphus, on your rock: The bright lyre of Orpheus was enough to make even Sisyphus pause in his eternal task.
We’re looking for poetry and short-form writing that struggles against the manifold oppressions and degradations of Hell (a crumbling empire). Unendurable is a space for the writing that contextualizes your eternal, ironic punishment, and maybe even attempts to wring some dignity out of it.
Unendurable