Partner With Us

H&H works with our partner organizations to create beautifully designed and thoughtfully curated individual chapbooks and chapbook series. Over the course of our collaboration, H&H will meet one-on-one with writers to provide constructive feedback on submissions and guide all stakeholders through the editorial and production processes on the way to publication. Please reach out to Linda Gallant at linda@theheadandthehand.com if you are interested in exploring opportunities to publish your story.

Our Partnerships

toho publishing

Hindsight is a collection of work centered around the trauma of 2020. In conjunction with Toho Publishing and guest editor and educator Quinn D. Eli, H&H hosted a writing workshop designed to act as a platform for eleven writers to capture their experiences of the pandemic. The result: A haunting visitor. Trekking South to play a blues concert. Writing during a plague. A brother’s death and a sick mother. A postapocalyptic crew charged with “taking care” of pets. Reckoning with racial trauma, ancestral guiding spirits, a peek into Miami’s beating corazon, and a nonfiction account of coping with chronic pain. These are stories of the sediment that rises—in a violent surge of reckoning—and settles in patterns never imagined until we look back in wonder, horror, and hope.

The Clay Studio

Making Place Matter is an ambitious exhibition, symposium, and publication that will inaugurate H&H's most recent partner's newly built home and community-focused art studio in South Kensington, set to open in spring 2022. We are honored to be the publisher of the exhibition catalog in which "place" takes on critical importance; building a resonant conversation between clay, artists, and audiences in The Clay Studio's new gallery, Making Place Matter will be organized around the complex meanings of place in our contemporary social conversation.

The Venceremos Brigade

The Venceremos Brigade Chapbook Series is a collection of essays written by members of the Venceremos Brigade (VB) about the multigenerational interplay of activists experiencing the politics and culture of Cuba. VB volunteers—aka, brigadistas—have led annual political education trips to the island since the civil rights era, and now The Head & The Hand is proud to partner with the VB to bring this chronicle of solidarity to print. Learn more and publish the collection.

Tree House Books

Tree House Books’ mission is to grow and sustain a community of readers, writers, and thinkers in Philadelphia. Founded in 2005, their vision is to make sure that every child has access to books and every opportunity to fulfill their dreams and explore their passion. We have created a donation station at the bookstore for community members to donate their used children's books and regularly hold drives.

Blue Stoop

Blue Stoop is a unifying force in the local literary community, and offers inclusive programming that prioritizes lifting the voices of writers of color, queer and trans writers, writers of all genders, writers with disabilities, and working-class writers. H&H is honored to act as the bookseller for some of the amazing programs and readings Blue Stoop has hosted throughout Philadelphia, including events with Kristen Arnett, Tommy Pico, Liz Moore, and Sarah M. Broome.

Friends of H.A. Brown Elementary School

H&H celebrated a major victory with neighborhood partner Friends of H.A. Brown Elementary School (FHAB) in 2020 with the award of a $20,000 grant from the Keystone Communities Program (KCP) for revitalization of the school library. In coordination with the East Kensington Neighbors Association (EKNA), FHAB will purchase over 1,000 high-quality, in-demand titles as well as a modern integrated library system, Destiny, giving H.A. Brown’s diverse student body broader access to books that reflect and celebrate their backgrounds, inspire their pursuit of knowledge, and bring a positive impact to classrooms, the school, and thus the community as a whole.

Philly Goat Project (PGP)

In this original production, adapted by 2021 Pew Fellow Brett Robinson, H&H worked with the Philly Goat Project (PGP) to take the iconic Three Billy Goats Gruff fairytale and transform it into an interactive play performed by both humans and (you guessed it) goats called The Philly Goats Gruff! Robinson, H&H, and PGP updated the story to feature Philly-centric characters, and plot twists with this amazing organization created to provide opportunities for urban residents to connect to nature in a dynamic and novel way by using goats. PGP is our country’s first city-based multi-service goat program, providing grazing, animal assisted therapy and wellness events, environmental and educational experiences and community engagement opportunities across many platforms.