Archway Editions was a publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2019 by Chris Molnar and Nic Nicoludis, and run with senior editor Naomi Falk as the literary imprint of powerHouse Books, distributed by Simon & Schuster.
History Archway Editions was created to publish "more off-beat, hard-to-market work — like Ishmael Reed's The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda", as described in Brooklyn Magazine. Their books were excerpted or covered in BOMB, Bookforum, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and more. In 2024, The New York Times wrote that Blake Butler’s Molly "is in its fourth printing and has become an unexpected hit for Archway Editions, its small Brooklyn-based publisher". In September 2025, the staff posted a letter online announcing that the entire staff stepped down, including Molnar, Nicoludis, Falk, and publicist Mia Risher.
In 2026 the staff announced a new imprint, Enigma Editions, distributed by Penguin Random House through MIT Press. The first slate of authors from Enigma will include Ishmael Reed, Linda Yablonsky, and Carlos Reygadas.
Publications The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ishmael Reed (2020) - Drama Unpublishable, ed. Chris Molnar and Etan Nechin (2020) - Fiction/Poetry/Non-fiction Acid Virga, Gabriel Kruis (2020) - Poetry NDA: An Autofiction Anthology, ed. Caitlin Forst (2022) - Fiction Bimboland, Erin Taylor (2022) - Poetry cokemachineglow, ed. Clayton Purdom (2022) - Non-fiction Life Among the Aryans, Ishmael Reed (2022) - Drama Famous Hermits, Stacy Szymaszek (2023) - Poetry First Reformed, Paul Schrader (2023) - Drama Runes and Chords, Alice Notley (2023) - Poetry/Art Highway B: Horrorfest, Brantly Martin (2023) - Fiction Randy, Mike Sacks (2023) - Fiction Stinker Lets Loose, Mike Sacks (2023) - Fiction Archways 1, ed. Chris Molnar and Nic Nicoludis (2023) - Fiction/Poetry/Non-fiction Molly, Blake Butler (2023) - Non-fiction Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts, Claire Donato (2023) - Fiction/Literary The Slave Who Loved Caviar, Ishmael Reed (2023) - Drama Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can't Relax, charles theonia (2024) - Poetry Plat, Lindsey Webb (2024) - Poetry Void Corporation, Blake Butler (2024) - Fiction/Literary Last Poems, John Farris (2025) - Poetry/Art The Mystery of Perception, Lynne Tillman and Taylor Lewandowski (2025) - Non-fiction Such Times, Christopher Coe (2025) - Fiction/Literary Little Pink Book, Olivia Kan-Sperling (2025) - Fiction/Literary
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