Welcome to Front Porch
Welcome to Our Porch, Find A Chair…We Are Glad You’re Here!
Anything new is always exciting, but it’s especially exciting when you can blend tradition and the things you love most with something new.
As a writer, I’ve always wanted a place where other writers could come together in one space and tell their stories. Whether they be a novelist, a poet, a historian or an essayist. What better place than a porch?
And so, Front Porch was born. Perhaps, you might say, it was built.
Too many good ideas and too many good works are never seen because many talented and gifted writers and wordsmiths can’t break through the subtle and not so subtle barriers that exist between the talent that writes and the structure that publishes. Sometimes those barriers keep amazing stories from the reading public, stories that could have educated, entertained and inspired.
It is for those very reasons that Front Porch was conceived. Here, talent is appreciated for its inspiration, for its power to move others to emotion and action.
The world, in its broadest sense, creates an intricately interwoven fabric of ideas, cultures, beliefs, traditions and ways of life, all of which provide something for someone. We welcome ideas and stories from all walks of life.
All people have a story to tell and Front Porch exists to help them tell those stories.
Front Porch is a place where unlimited imagination is welcomed to sit a spell and spin a yarn, tell a tale and allow the others gathered on the porch to hear it. Whether fictional or factual, whether the work is a novel or a serious history thoroughly researched, the story has an audience on Front Porch.
Like a physical porch, our publishing house is designed to grow and expand to accommodate more visitors and new and creative ways to tell stories and share ideas.
On Front Porch, we will share many fascinating stories and storytellers, concepts and characters, folklore and fiction, history and heritage, characters and context. In time, it is our goal to grow, but not just grow Front Porch for its own sake but, more importantly, for the sake of its visitors, for the folks sitting in the chair on the porch with a story to tell or a book to read.
Just as a physical porch has an architect or a builder, our Front Porch does as well. I’d like to introduce you to our architects, our builders. There are three of us.
I’m John Talbott. The concept of this space, this place in the world, as Front Porch was my idea, my concept, my dream. I wanted a place for thinking people to gather.
It would still be just an idea without the other architects of this Front Porch, and those amazingly talented people are Ana Philibert and Ulises Santamaria. I am indebted to them both.
I will start with Ana and her unfathomable vision and talent. It has been Ana’s hard work and dedication that has brought this entire concept into reality, into something that works. What you see on your screen before you is due to Ana’s amazing talent for designing and creating something that isn’t even there yet, but which she brings to life. Ana approaches each challenge and each opportunity with remarkable insight. Her work as Creative Director is key to the presentation of everything we do at Front Porch.
Then there is Ulises, whose energy and enthusiasm are contagious! The research and investigation that Ulises has conducted into the world of modern publishing has enabled all of us to better understand our challenges and our opportunities. Ulises has brought to his role as Communications Strategist an understanding of who our audience is and how best to reach them. Front Porch is better equipped to provide for its readers and writers because of Ulises.
Collaboration is a story of its own. Talented people coming together to create is a big part of what Front Porch is really about and we hope to demonstrate that very simple concept in time.
Stories come from everywhere and from places in our heart and places we’ve never heard of just yet, places waiting to be discovered.
Welcome to Front Porch, an independent publishing house rooted in contemporary Southern literature.
We are committed to celebrating the progressive spirit and evolving identity of the South, honoring the diverse voices, perspectives, and stories that shape its literary landscape. We believe in being rooted in place and identity, creating books with care, and cultivating an authentic community.
As you learn more About Us, and explore our site, you'll see that this porch has grown beyond our initial idea. It’s becoming a vibrant space filled with conversations and new initiatives. We are thrilled by the thighs we are developing, from the diverse group of readers and writers part of the Front Porch Circle, to the topics and stories shared in our Blog, and the future activities that will help us bring people together and become part of our Community.
