Preserving worlds through words.
What is common with publishers is to produce diluted works for the layman. But this is a missed opportunity.
Sometimes, academia forgets we were, too, once laymen.
It was when someone gifted us information that we became knowledgeable.
So, we plan to do the same. And you can’t do that with watered-down titles.
What sets us apart?
Why do you publish
academic titles?
Academia provides privileged access to information. The public is not always fortunate to engage deeply with information due to—just plainly put—the struggles of life and the oversaturation of information. So, what happens? We get an approach to knowledge that misses each other. We're changing that.
Who are we?
An indie press centering world-changing narratives with timeless design, comprehensive author management, and transparent author-audience relationships.
Brought alive through preservation, much like the epic of Gilgamesh through the Akkadian language, Awatum focuses on preserving narratives that change the way we see the world.
perserving worlds
with words
AWATUM
Preserving Worlds With Words
One of our oldest recorded epics once existed solely through oration. The black-headed people of Sumer began passing down their folklore and religion through speech. Once Sargon of Akkad conquered the Sumerian city-states, and Sumerian, as a language, slowly died out, Akkadian became the main language.
Through an act of conquering, the oldest epic was preserved. An unholy act brought a literary evolution that gave rise to Iliad, the Odyssey, the Mahabharata, the Icelandic Sagas, Beowulf, and The Divine Commedia. Language has preserved our greatest epics and stories. And we intend to do the same—not through power, but through the heart.
Our catalog reflects a wide range
of forthcoming titles that focus
on keeping needed narratives
alive that help see the
world better.
We are creating a meeting place for academia to reach out and the public to reach toward. Our aim is to preserve stories from becoming lost. Lost from marketing trends, lost from constricted creativity, lost from low author royalties, and lost from dominant publishing tastes. At Awatum, we’re taking a different approach for a different world. An experimental one. A transforming one. An inclusive one. A wackier one. A better one.
