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Calaca Press is a Chicano family-owned small publishing house dedicated to publishing and producing unknown, emerging, and established progressive Chicano and Latino voices. With a commitment to social justice and human rights Calaca Press strives to bring about change through the literary arts. From poetry and the spoken word to fiction and creative non-fiction Calaca Press is determined to showcase authors from a community that has been marginalized and pushed to the side in literary circles, and in the real world, for far too long. Understanding the need for historical continuation Calaca Press is committed to continuing the tradition of the Chicano and Latino presses and publishing houses of the 1960's and 1970's that flourished due to community support and the need to have our stories told.
Since 1998, Calaca has published 26 titles (18 books/chapbooks and 8 spoken word CD's).
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The Red CalacArts Collective, a project created by Calaca Press in 2003, is a multi-disciplinary arts and activist organization that focuses on creating, publishing, producing, and presenting Chicano, Latin American and indigenous related art focusing on issues dealing with human rights and social justice.
The Redz organize annual events including Dia de la Mujer Internacional and Dia de los Muertos among many other projects such as Calacas contra la Guerra and the Guerrilla Chapbook Series. Their latest project: Vuelos Literarios: A Red CalacArts Writing Series begins in July 2008 with This Poem Called My Body: A Creative Workshop for Young Female Writers facilitated by Olga Angelina García.
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Coming soon from the Redz: BOLIVARTES: A Cultural Committee in Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution.
