Pinchpenny Press

"I washed thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw." -- Anne Bradstreet

About five times a year the Pinchpenny Press (PPP) editorial board publishes chapbook-size books written by Goshen College students, faculty members or friends of the college. Normally published in editions of 100, the books are sold primarily on campus for $3 to $8 each. The Pinchpenny editorial committee consists of two GC English department faculty and five students including the Horswell Fellow.

• To order a PPP book, contact the English department at
• Full listing of PPP titles
• How to publish a PPP book

Faculty advisers are Beth Martin Birky () and Skip Barnett (

Pinchpenny Press books are:

• of high literary quality.
• low priced, so all can afford to enjoy them.
• printed and bound with at-hand resources.
• attractive in their visual design and illustration.
• published using volunteer student labor
• written and sold with the authors involvement in all stages of the publishing process.

The most widely sold Pinchpenny Press books include:

• Lon Sherer, Practicing: A Liturgy of Learning.
• Cynthia Hockman, Returning Home.
• Don Marquis, The Search for Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz.
• J. Lawrence Burkholder, Sum and Substance.
• Vic Stoltzfus, Church-Affiliated Higher Education.
• Kyle Schlabach, The Cow in Science Hall and Other Goshen College Folklore.