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Subito is an Italian adverb that translates to "immediately," "right away," or "suddenly."

Subito Press is housed in the University of Colorado’s Creative Writing Program, which has an experimental “tradition” going back to the mid 1970s and at one time supported both the Fiction Collective Two and Black Ice Books.

In the spring of 2006, the press was conceived “suddenly” and with a sense of urgency by CU’s Creative Writing Faculty, with the intent of bringing both our program and our students closer again to the throbbing pulse of experimental literature. To support these goals, Subito was founded as a teaching press. Hence Subito’s first four books were produced through the collaborative efforts of the 2007 Graduate Publishing Workshop, under the expert guidance of Tim Roberts, partner of CU faculty member Julie Carr and publisher of Counterpath Press. The year 2007 was also the debut of the Subito Innovative Writing Contest.

In 2008, the directorship of the press was taken on by Professor Elisabeth Sheffield. Under her directorship, from 2008 through 2010, with the help of an exceptionally talented and energetic cohort of CU graduate MFA students, Subito published seven more books and was awarded an $18,000 Innovative Seed Grant by the University of Colorado. From 2011 up until the pandemic of 2020, the press continued to thrive under the direction of Professor Noah Eli Gordon. During Professor Gordon’s directorship, Subito published twenty-five more titles by emerging and established writers of innovative poetry, fiction and hybrid writing.

Following the pandemic and Professor Gordon’s death in 2022, Subito lay fallow for two years, until 2024 when Professor Sheffield began the effort to revive the press with the help of recent MFA graduate Rachel Wood. Together, Sheffield and Wood proposed a new publishing workshop for undergraduates, to be taught by Wood, centering on the publication of the winner of the new Stephen Graham Jones Horror Novella contest. In support of this venture, Professor Jones not only agreed to judge the contest (in addition to giving it his imprimatur), but also to fund an annual $1,000 prize for the contest winner. Additionally, the Graduate Publishing Workshop and Subito Innovative Writing contest were rebooted in 2025/2026.

Once again, Subito Press is up and running, with gorgeous, urgently new publications both in print and forthcoming.

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