“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.
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Sloane Cutflower Allen, cofounder, editor-in-chief
Anna Wagner, cofounder, creative director
contact us at unendurablejournal@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