Knew Downs
Knew Downs
A literary work unfolding through technology, memory, time, and identity, with room to expand into audio and digital forms.
Open project pageFiction · Audio · Cross-media
A studio for ambitious literary work.
International Small Press develops fiction, audio, digital, and hybrid works through editorial direction, design systems, and cross-media production.
What the studio is
International Small Press is a creative studio devoted to ambitious writing, voice-driven projects, and works that move between page, sound, and image without losing literary seriousness.
How we build
Development runs from early concept through final form — covering editorial direction, design systems, production, and cross-media expansion.
Catalogue
Featured Projects
Four active projects across literary fiction, poetry, and cross-media development.
Willamette Valley
Willamette Valley
A project rooted in landscape, labor, weather, and wine, attentive to texture, voice, and the interior life of a region.
Open project page唐诗酒
Drinking Poems of the Tang Dynasty
A bilingual anthology of Tang dynasty poetry with reimagined English variations.
Open project pageOne Rainy Season in Yunnan
One Rainy Season in Yunnan
A young American joins world-renowned Pu'er tea expert Robert Painter on a journey to a famous tea mountain in rural Yunnan — haggling with tea gurus, feasting with cigarette company executives, and uncovering a universal human truth underlying all cultures.
Open project pageFormats
What we publish
Fiction, essays, audio, and experimental editions. The site is designed so that future work can sit within a serious literary frame while still allowing room for voice, performance, music, and hybrid media.
In development
Work in progress
Several literary, audio, and cross-media projects are currently in active development. Selected works will be released through the studio as they reach completion, alongside excerpts, essays, and signature objects connected to each project's world.