The origin of Sunset Press can be traced back to a Thursday.

It was the day Illari Cuellar ‘21, Armiya “A” Shaikh ‘21, Trudy Wrona ‘20, and Emmy Roday ‘21 serendipitously met for the first time in Andrew Grace’s Introduction to Poetry seminar at Kenyon College. Over the course of a midwestern fall, they learned to love poetry, but more importantly, they grew to love each other. The four of them and Ben Weinman ‘21 met up every other Tuesday night to talk poems in Armiya’s living room, and in those golden hours of what they called “Workshop 2.0” the soul of Sunset Press was born.

Sunset Press is an ode to the collaborative nature of writing.  We work with our writers over the course of an academic year to workshop and build their stories from the ground up.  Our goal is to produce and publish creative long form texts written, edited, and designed by Kenyon Students and focus on emerging and underrepresented voices. We are Kenyon’s first and only student-run publishing press, but also so much more. At its heart, Sunset Press is the golden hour of writing, a creative space expanding on the page and beyond.