Fernwood Publishing's Spring 2026 season features discussions of status, authoritarianism, and reclamation. Writing has been difficult for our authors during this time of multiple fires and heartbreaks, but these books demand the transformation that is within our grasp. They demand the political will to transform oppressive bureaucracies clinging to the status quo that serves so few of us. And they show us how possible it is to change our social structures for collective benefit.
We’ve been here before, and in this season we learn from struggles that came decades before ours. They weren’t perfect, and they still aren’t, but participating in them anyway builds alternatives one pilot project at a time. Perhaps education still seems too slow a way to enact social change when compared to direct action, but this season’s books show us that both strategies have a place. We need everyone, in every stage of life and even in death.
