Passager Books

Passager Books is an American nonprofit literary publisher dedicated to writers over 50. Passager publishes a semiannual journal featuring poetry, short fiction, memoir; books by writers who have been published in the journal; and a weekly podcast. The press is based in Baltimore, Maryland and was founded in 1990 at the University of Baltimore by creative writing MFA director Kendra Kopelke. Passager is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It awards The Henry Morgenthau III Prize. Passager hosts live and Zoom writing workshops and readings. Passager and its writers have been the subject of stories in the Baltimore Sun, WBJC-FM, The Washington Post, JMore Living, Women Over 70, Erickson Tribune, The Beacon Newspapers and The Poet and the Poem.

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