Indie Press Month 2027
IPC is excited to celebrate our fourth-annual Indie Press Month in March 2027! We’ll be providing marketing assets for bookstores, libraries, and indie publishers to help promote indie press awareness, in addition to a list of promotional titles from IPC member presses for brick-and-mortar displays and digital promotion on websites and social media.
indie press month timeline
september-november
IPC members sign up for indie press month and submit their titles
Bookstores sign-up for the Indie Press Month display contest ; bring titles into store
december-january
IPC, Ingram & publishers will promote Indie Press Month titles
Bookstores sign-up for the Indie Press Month display contest ; bring titles into store
Libraries sign-up for the Indie Press Month display contest; bring titles into library
February
IPC, Ingram & publishers will promote Indie Press Month titles
Bookstores receive Indie Press Month bookmarks at Winter Institute
Librarians bring titles into the library and/or identify what indie press titles you have in your existing collections
march
Publishers: Post Indie Press Month promotional titles on social media and tag @indiepubs; re-share bookstore and library posts featuring your titles!
Bookstores: Indie Press Month in-store displays and events! Post to Instagram and tag @indiepubs
Libraries: Indie Press Month displays and events! Post to Instagram and tag @indiepubs
April
Display contest and co-op marketing winners are announced in Shelf Awareness
Bookmark bundles will be available to stores for pick-up at Winter Institute. We’re sorry we don’t currently have the ability to mail bookmarks to individual stores.
How to Participate
Sign-up!
Bring Indie Press Month promotional titles into your stores! (Airtable and CSV list below)
Starting planning your in-store display! We'll make marketing assets available for you in February!
Post your displays and/or a cool slide deck/reel about Indie Press Month on Instagram during March.
Tag us on Instagram @indiepubs (tagging us in the caption copy doesn't count; we won't see the post unless you tag us properly!)
Tag the indie presses your display features (optional but advisable!)
The IPC and participating publishers will amplify your posts
Don’t have social? That’s ok! You can still join the display contest.
For bookstores without social media: Submit photos/videos of your display by March 15 to indiepubsmarketing@gmail.com
Get ready to win! Winners and runners up will be announced in Shelf Awareness in early April.
$500 + custom bookmarks for the winning display by an independent bookstore
$100 for runner up
$50 co-op for first 25 instagram posts
Indie Press Month Display Contest for Bookstores
Questions, ideas, marketing asset requests?
Let us know at info@indiepubs.org!
*IPC currently only uses Instagram. If you want to post a TikTok, please do, but for the contest post we’ll be focusing on Instagram. Reels are welcome! Additionally, make sure you tag us in the photo, not just in the caption, or we might not see your post!
2026 Winners & Co-Op Recipients
First Prize:
Under the Umbrella Books, Salt Lake City, UT
finalists:
Aaron’s Books, Lititz, PA
Postcard Bookshop, Portland, OR
Arvida Book Co., Tustin, CA
Co-Op Recipients:
Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA
The Head and The Hand, Philadelphia, PA
Magic City Books, Tulsa, OK
The Winchester Book Gallery, Winchester, VA
Schuler Books, West Bloomsfield, MI
Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT
Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Page 1 Books, Albuquerque, NM
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Square Books, Oxford , MS
City Lit Books, Chicago, IL
Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, KS
Bobzbay Books, Bloomington, IL
Honest Dog Books, Bayfield WI
Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA
Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC
Main Street Books, Lafayette, IN
Tomorrow Bookstore, Indianapolis, IN
Prologue Bookshop, Columbus, OH
Whatsit Books, Albemarle, NC
for IPC Member Presses
Indie Press Month is a program of Indie-to-Indie, a partnership with The Independent Bookseller.
Special thanks goes to our 2026 supporters:
