Nomadic Press supports and provides venues for artwork across all media and disciplines by both emerging and established artists. Nomadic Press' goal is to guide writers and artists through a supportive and connective process and to offer each artist the opportunity to have their work(s) presented in beautiful, carefully edited, and curated publications and community events. We strive to juxtapose myriad voices and visions in ways that are surprising and complementary.

Nomadic Press publishes an annual cohort of 10 chapbooks, full-length books, organizing handbooks, and collaborative anthologies. As part of Nomadic Press' mission to stimulate conversation among eclectic voices, Nomadic Press seeks out and encourages the translation and publication of non-Anglophone voices.

The Nomadic Press events and locations in Oakland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Xalapa serve as small performance, workshop, and informal gallery spaces for visual, musical, literary, and performing arts. These virtual or in-person spaces serve as gathering spaces for our writers, artists, readers, viewers, neighbors, and fellow travelers. In addition, Nomadic Press virtual or in-person pop-up events around the US and beyond offer artists across the nation/world opportunities for creative fellowship.

The name "Nomadic" is an homage to the organization's original inspiration: artistic encounters created by physical and conceptual movement between locations, matter, ideas, and intentions—the movements of life.

White supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country, including every state, county, city, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy.

We are works in progress, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect, and we are always trying to be better.

Nomadic Press events are active, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities.

Direct and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, or misogyny whether in the content of one's reading or in one's interactions with members of the community. If, after being called in privately for a mediation, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader's access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e., instances of sexual predation, violence, or threats of violence), we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger.

We are community in progress. We must be better, always, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else.

In pursuit of equity within the artistic landscape, we at Nomadic Press believe:

• community and art are created in response, and in relation, to the world

• art is integral to political landscapes

• in building space where difference is celebrated, not only tolerated; where intersections can be explored with the goal of creating an inclusive environment, particularly for those persons who have been excluded from the arts due to class, race, nation of origin, gender identity, sexuality, and/or disabilities

• in guiding writers and artists through supportive and exploratory processes that aim to decolonize language and artistic theory and praxis. This is done through active and discursive community engagement and networking