DOGSTAR PRESS IS THE FIRST PUBLISHER TO ESTABLISH ITSELF AS 100% human.
We are an independent literary press devoted to publishing literary fiction that dares to be beautiful, unguarded, and true.
Our call for author submissions will open in Spring 2026, with our first title publishing in September 2026.
IN A MODERN
AGE THAT IS COMPRESSING
THE LIFE OUT
OF US,
technology and politics are pushing us farther from our true selves, purpose, and potential.
As algorithms plunge us deeper into distraction, distortion, and division, literature and other art forms underpinned by beauty, sincerity, truth, and light are a lifeline, not a luxury.
WE ARE HOLDING A LANTERN FOR WRITERS AND READERS SEARCHING FOR beauty AND authenticity IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMS.
Dogstar was founded as a safe haven, protecting literature from artifice, ideology, and external pressures that erode it as an expression of the human spirit.
We publish novels underpinned by values that have created the most illuminating art in history: beauty, morality, hope, curiosity, redemption, the hero’s journey, respect for life and the human spirit, the quest for truth and meaning, and the power of transcendence.
WE ARE PRESERVING the human voice AND LITERATURE AS AN exclusively human ART FORM.
As machines invade every corner of our lives, AI-written and AI-assisted novels are slipping into the publishing system without disclosure, diluting and overwriting the human voice.
Clearly signposting books that are human-made—without AI interference—is the only way we can preserve novels as an irreplaceable record of humanity and an eternal conversation about what it means to be alive.
Every Dogstar book carries our 100% HUMAN seal.
Backed by our legally-binding verification process—and other elements that deepen the human connection between authors and readers—this seal is an author’s pledge of creative integrity.
In a world full of illusions, efficiency hacks, and empty content creation, it is a promise of authenticity for readers who believe literature can only be conceived and crafted by human beings.
—F.M. DOSTOEVSKY
Without art that encourages reflection and the search for meaning, a civilization will be dead inside: numbed by the algorithm, unable to think and feel deeply, apathetic to our shared humanity, and resigned to despair and destruction when all seems lost.
More than ever, we need novels that immerse us, awakening our hearts and senses as they explore the comedy, agony, glory, mystery, and miracle of the human condition.
In Franz Kafka’s words:
