Cetera Press

Cetera Press is the book-publishing imprint of Cetera Magazine, dedicated to literary fiction, speculative work, poetry, and other work shaped by emotional consequence.

Our first release, All Our Bright Ruins by Jon Negroni, introduces the imprint’s central concern. Of ordinary people enduring broken systems and finding small, stubborn forms of light.

All Our Bright Ruins

Publication Date: November 10, 2026

A man feeds a stray dog beneath a bridge. A nurse keeps an emergency ward alive through a blackout. A driver waits for one more fare in a town gutted by layoffs. A girl stands under stadium lights while history performs itself around her.

In All Our Bright Ruins, Jon Negroni gathers stories of labor, loneliness, faith, family, tenderness, and survival. There are no heroes in this story. But there are people. People who keep working, caring, watching, cleaning, feeding, driving, teaching, and holding on after the world has already failed them.

Quiet, intimate, and deeply attentive, the collection finds brightness in the last place most would expect. In the fragile human acts that make ruin bearable.