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Wayfarer Books is a trans-owned independent press. We publish writers from marginalized communities and we build our list with deep editorial care, dignity, and craft. In a time when these communities are being targeted and erased in public life, your support is a practical way to keep their work in print, paid, and widely read.
Independent publishing is one of the few places where marginalized voices can remain visible without being diluted. When public pressure rises through bans, intimidation, deplatforming, economic violence, indie publishers feel it first.
Your support helps us pay writers and contributors, keep books in print and discoverable, and maintain a trans-owned platform that refuses erasure.
Buy Books Directly
Direct purchases are the most immediate way to support a trans-owned, independent press. They help us pay writers, fund production, and keep our list brave and sustainable.
Buy direct: 10% off with code STAYLIT10 + free shipping on orders over $40.
Make a One-time Gift
One-time gifts help cover the real costs behind each title: editing, design, printing, author copies, and outreach so a book doesn’t get lost or silenced.
Support Wayfarer Magazine
The magazine is where emerging work finds its first home. Subscribing, reading, and sharing helps us keep publishing new voices and paying contributors.
Be a Wayfarer Ambassador
Want to support beyond giving? Join our seasonal street team—a small group of readers helping a trans-owned press keep marginalized voices visible and widely read. You’ll receive early access, a sharing toolkit, a unique community code, and store-credit rewards when your code is used…and more!
Share, Request, Review
If giving isn’t possible right now, this helps more than you think: recommend a Wayfarer title, request us at your library, or leave a review where you bought a book.
Bookstores, Educators, Libraries
We love partnering with people who place books in readers’ hands. For events or bulk orders, we’ll make it easy and personal.
we are on native land.
Wayfarer Books is based in the San Juan Mountains near Mesa Verde, on the lands of the Ancestral Pueblo, the Southern Ute, the Mountain Ute (the Weenuchiu), the Diné (Navajo), and the San Juan Southern Paiute Nations. We honor the generations of Indigenous communities who have lived in, stewarded, and maintained these lands for thousands of years. We recognize that this land was taken through colonization and displacement, and we acknowledge the ongoing presence and contributions of Indigenous peoples, past, and present. As a company rooted in stories and knowledge, we commit to listening, learning, and supporting Indigenous voices, sovereignty, and wealth redistribution.