Sheryl Monks, editor & writing coach


Sheryl Monks is a publisher and the managing editor of Press 53, an Indie book publisher in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and a BA in English from Salem College. Her own stories have earned recognition and awards, including a Northwest NC Regional Artist's Project Grant, the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, and finalist nods in literary contests sponsored by Backwards City Review and VERB: An Audioquarterly. Sheryl's stories have appeared in RE:AL — The Journal of Liberal Arts, Backwards City Review, and Southern Gothic online. She is the author of two books: Travel North Carolina: Going Native in the Old North State, 2nd edition, and Ghostly Lighthouses from Maine to Florida. Currently, she is writing a novel. In addition to her work at the press, she leads a variety of writing workshops and coaches other writers.

To learn more about Press 53, visit our website.


Freelance Services and Workshops:

For coaching or freelance consults, email sherylmonks@aol.com.

*Personal coaching for writers (editing/critiques)
*Writing workshops
*Book marketing/publicity consults

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Press 53 does not offer editorial or marketing services to anyone except its own authors.


New Titles from Press 53:

Angels, Thieves & Winemakers by Joseph Mills--NOW AVAILABLE!
Springtime on Mars by Susan Woodring--NOW AVAILABLE!
Stories from the Afterlife by Quinn Dalton
Surreal South edited by Pinckney & Laura Benedict
The Crazy Garden by E.A. Bagby
Three Versions of the Truth by Amy Knox Brown
Move Over, Mountain by John Ehle
The Species Crown: A Novella and Stories by Curtis Smith
Searching for Virginia Dare by Marjorie Hudson
It Comes to Me Loosely Woven by Beebe Barksdale-Bruner
The Free Men by John Ehle
The Light Within: A Travel Log of India by Joseph Anderson
Somewhere During the Spin Cycle by Joseph Mills
Wake Wake Wake by Valerie Nieman
Croatan by Doug Frelke
The Land Breakers by John Ehle
Stories in the Old Style by Al Sim
Epic Cures by Tom Sheehan
Whiskey Nipple by Doug Frelke
You Can't Meet Jesus Wearing Sneakers...by Kevin Watson

Coming Soon from Press 53:

Swimmers in the Sea, a novel by Denzil Strickland
Brief Cases, Short Spans: Stories by Tom Sheehan
Visiting Hours, an anthology edited by Dan Wickett
Land of Amnesia, poems by Joseph Bathanti
Versus, an anthology edited by Josh Woods
Surreal South II, edited by Pinckney and Laura Benedict
Parlous Angels, stories by Ed Southern





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Stories from the Afterlife (Press 53, 2007) by Quinn Dalton


Springtime on Mars: Stories (Press 53, 2008) by Susan Woodring





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