Preserving worlds through words.
If all of death—from myth and religion—could speak, what would it teach us about the afterlife? A man who takes his own life, after an act the public deems irredeemable, searches for answers about himself in the world of the living and the dead.
Awatum focuses on front-facing academic titles, literary fiction with experimental themes, tradefiction driven with strong narrative and world-building, and non-fiction with distinctive voice.
AWATU
For a better world
An experimental world
Much is lost without experimentation. Don Quixote became the first by breaking the rules, and the Divine Comedy’s allegory changed the way we see the afterlife—we want the same. We are genre-breaking.
A transfomative world
Great books, love them. Transformative ones haunt. They stay with you, change you, after you have left the page.
An inclusive world
Representation saves lives. It is not a surface value for us—it is a necessity. We publish voices overlooked by the canon and the marketplace.
A wackier world
No trends. No conservatism. No fear. The world doesn’t change by staying the same, and neither does the literary world. Let loose. For the weirdoes. For the inner child. We publish what feels like trouble.
